Attitude towards bikers

**j_redley** · 3rd February 2007, 19:23

Right, so personally I've never been one of the people who had a problem with bikers out on the road, however... having just recently sat my bike licence and now riding relativly regularly, of course the parents and girlfriend found out. I'm 21. My girlfriends words "If you wanted to kill your self, why not just go jump off a bridge" and my mother said something to equally the same effect. Why is it that so many people look at bikes as being dangerous like that? Obviously if in an accident you could get hurt more, but this attitude that Im planning on getting my bike licence just to kill myself is so damn annoying!

**Chisanga** · 3rd February 2007, 19:26

Life is a constant battle against the ill-informed

**Ixion** · 3rd February 2007, 19:29

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Why is it that so many people look at bikes as being dangerous like that?
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Perhaps because they are dangerous like that?

**James Deuce** · 3rd February 2007, 19:47

Don't worry about it. Tell them underarm deodorant causes breast cancer, or something similarly pithy. (It does)

Get a pair of stockings and fill the foot up with mince and then whack it on the driveway for a couple of minutes and when they ask what you're doing, tell them you always wondered what a treadly rider's butt would look like if they fell off at 60 km.hr.

**doc** · 3rd February 2007, 20:04

Originally Posted by j_redley

Right, so personally I've never been one of the people who had a problem with bikers out on the road, however... having just recently sat my bike licence and now riding relativly regularly, of course the parents and girlfriend found out. I'm 21. My girlfriends words "If you wanted to kill your self, why not just go jump off a bridge" and my mother said something to equally the same effect. Why is it that so many people look at bikes as being dangerous like that? Obviously if in an accident you could get hurt more, but this attitude that Im planning on getting my bike licence just to kill myself is so damn annoying!

It's the rebel in you man, you have the gene that makes you different, just remember to feel sorry for the kids in the cages that wave to you as you go past they have the same feeling poor sods don't know what they are heading for. You know the ones that wave then get smacked by mum for waving. Your'e a bad influence.

**Nasty** · 3rd February 2007, 20:29

Originally Posted by j_redley

Right, so personally I've never been one of the people who had a problem with bikers out on the road, however... having just recently sat my bike licence and now riding relativly regularly, of course the parents and girlfriend found out. I'm 21. My girlfriends words "If you wanted to kill your self, why not just go jump off a bridge" and my mother said something to equally the same effect. Why is it that so many people look at bikes as being dangerous like that? Obviously if in an accident you could get hurt more, but this attitude that Im planning on getting my bike licence just to kill myself is so damn annoying!

At least you didn't get my dad's line "why didn't you just go and buy a harley!" (my sistgers accident was on one of those) ... hmmmm

**BUNGY** · 3rd February 2007, 20:42

I got the same attitude from my parents when I first started talking about getting a bike. Personally I feel safer on a bike than in a cage because im more aware of my surroundings. Sure you could give up biking, get a cage and tomorrow be in a head on crash where you slowly burn to death because the cage has crumpled in around you. Life is dangerous.

**terbang** · 3rd February 2007, 21:16

Riding bikes is bloody dangerous..! Read an article the other day about a guy who died choking on his morning coffee. Fark the poor bastard missed out on his toast. Should have stayed in bed, safer that way.

**Insanity_rules** · 3rd February 2007, 21:25

Life itself is terminal....You never make it out alive.

My old's were pretty good about me and bikes. My wife is brilliant, she wouldn't be my wife if she wasn't. Love me, love my bike (quote from a wise fellow KBer).

Just tell them you love them but I gotta do what I gotta do. Keep riding buddy.

**Chickadee** · 3rd February 2007, 21:35

Yep there definitely seems to be a stigma that bikes aren't safe, but at the end of the day, shit happens to people whether they're in a cage, on a bike, a bicycle etc.

If you wear the gear and ride safe - you're doing your bit. It's the wankers in cars that drive around not paying attention that you have to watch out for, keep your dickhead radar on at all times when riding (think - has he/she seen me?). I personally think Bikers are more switched on to hazards etc as we think about these things, unlike most roadusers.

**onearmedbandit** · 3rd February 2007, 21:41

Riding bikes never did me any harm.

**Grub** · 3rd February 2007, 21:46

Originally Posted by j_redley

Why is it that so many people look at bikes as being dangerous like that?

Coz they are ...

If you think like that, there's a better chance of stying right way up. It pays also to think that every car driver is out to get you .... coz most of them are

**Ixion** · 3rd February 2007, 21:51

Originally Posted by terbang

Riding bikes is bloody dangerous..! Read an article the other day about a guy who died choking on his morning coffee. Fark the poor bastard missed out on his toast. Should have stayed in bed, safer that way.

You've gotta be joking. Have you seen the statistics for where people are when they die. More people die in bed than anywhere else! It's the most dangerous place you can be. Actually very very few people indeed die on a motorbike, very improbable indeed. It's once they're OFF the motorbike that it gets dicey.