Generalizations about specific riding groups and barf

[Butch]

I need to do further research to evaluate Budman's post.

I need to ride a Harley on the Hana Highway.
I need to to some stoppies on something other than my mtn bike.
I need to drink heavily at Applejacks...
and sleep in th bushes?

Budmam, can i borrow your motard?

LET'S RIDE!!!


err, good post.

 

[Mike T]

If I see another motorcyclist on the road, no matter what their ride, I instantly conclude that I have more in common with that person then any driver on the same stretch.

If I do something stupid, I've just cemented in driver's minds every reason they have to feel they have nothing in common with me.

Stefan

very nice Stefan....and you too Budman! :thumbup to both...

 

[codger]

great post. I think most of the criticism of groups here is done in
good humor. I dont think there are any real haters here i believe its more venting in the company of like minded people than anything else.

 

[Roundboy]

so everybody is a comedian...


Dennis...I can't take credit for that...it is the "My Rifle (The Creed of a United States Marine)" -- Maj Gen WH Rupertus

I just switched out a few words here and there for Motorcycles.

This is my rifle this is my gun this is for fighting and this is for fun.

 

[tuxumino]

Barfers are all the same, they're all different.
trying to label, pigeon hole or stereotype the members of this board is truly impossible, just as it should be for anything that starts it's name with Bay Area.

on the other hand riders are trully all the same, they like to ride: if you didn't, you wouldn't.

 

[BigCorySBFMC707]

so everybody is a comedian...


Dennis...I can't take credit for that...it is the "My Rifle (The Creed of a United States Marine)" -- Maj Gen WH Rupertus

I just switched out a few words here and there for Motorcycles.

This is my rifle this is my gun this is for fighting and this is for fun.

that was cold though, you even bashed stunnas in your poem , lol

 

[xgambit]

but yes, i am against stereotyping bikers. because of the fact that we wear helmets, we sometimes treat each other the same way cagers treat each other simply because of the anonymity of not seeing, literally face to face. if we could all remind ourselves that the rider on the sportbike, or harley, or BMW is just like yourself. that the rider in the icon field armor vest and open faced nazi helmet and the guy in tank top, shorts and flip flops are, underneath, the same flesh and blood as the weekend racer in full leathers with scraped knee pucks.

We might all ride the roads differently, but we all ride the same roads.
















































except for yamaha riders, we all know theyre either gay or a girl.

 

[BigCorySBFMC707]

but yes, i am against stereotyping bikers. because of the fact that we wear helmets, we sometimes treat each other the same way cagers treat each other simply because of the anonymity of not seeing, literally face to face. if we could all remind ourselves that the rider on the sportbike, or harley, or BMW is just like yourself. that the rider in the icon field armor vest and open faced nazi helmet and the guy in tank top, shorts and flip flops are, underneath, the same flesh and blood as the weekend racer in full leathers with scraped knee pucks.

We might all ride the roads differently, but we all ride the same roads.
















































except for yamaha riders, we all know theyre either gay or a girl.

Your comment on the bmw riders with the gray jumpsuits had me rolling yesterday when I saw two on the commute home. I never noticed it until you said so, lol

 

[iehawk]

Why do BMW riders wear the funny gray jumpsuits with the reflectors and a gray flip face helmet?

Not true. I wear a pair of jeans or cargo pants, a leather jacket, and a Scorpion helmet.

And I wave at everyone out there.

 

[RhythmRider]

I don't like stereotypes, because they mask the people behind them. However, stereotypes wouldn't be stereotypes if they weren't applicable. While you can't just generalize that all Ruff Ryders are delinquents, you can recognize that the group carries that image for a reason. So please, by all means, admonish stereotyping. Everyone deserves a chance to show their true selves. But don't get confused between stereotypes and well-deserved reputations.

 

[Roundboy]

that was cold though, you even bashed stunnas in your poem , lol

no no by all means Stunt and Stunt well my friend.... i think you got my words twisted

I was saying that it's not all about "what we do" ...just that "we do it"......and I said the wheelies "WE" ride....I do em to big C.

I'm all about those who stunt...shoot... it's entertaining risky and something that not everyone can perfect...it's an ART form in my book same as being albe to hit better and better lap times or draggin a knee

Prime example: I enjoy watching Nasty puts that big beast of a Harley with full dressings in the air that is fucking sick!... or watching the trials riders do crazy shit unimaginable or Portformance (Matt) throw a Green ex 250 (GEORGE!!!) up 12 going down steep ass Gough st. in the city...

 

[BigCorySBFMC707]

no no by all means Stunt and Stunt well my friend.... i think you got my words twisted

I was saying that it's not all about "what we do" ...just that "we do it"......and I said the wheelies "WE" ride....I do em to big C.

I'm all about those who stunt...shoot... it's entertaining risky and something that not everyone can perfect...it's an ART form in my book same as being albe to hit better and better lap times or draggin a knee

Prime example: I enjoy watching Nasty puts that big beast of a Harley with full dressings in the air that is fucking sick!... or watching the trials riders do crazy shit unimaginable or Portformance (Matt) throw a Green ex 250 (GEORGE!!!) up 12 going down steep ass Gough st. in the city...

I hear you. That is what I am all about, I try to do it all. I havent done the track yet, it is in the cards some day. As soon as I talk myself into believing that I will wear some leather pants, lol

 

[Ironbutt]

I think of myself involved in the sport as a whole. Teaching, wrenching, moto-x, trail riding.. My whole life revolves around motorcycles. (shh.. my gal thinks it revolves around her)

It's so much easier on yourself when you finally get off the hater bandwagon and just ride your damned bike..

I used to stereo type at one point and I probably still do now and again but it just means your insecure about yourself or your skills. Or you don't have enough information to form a good opinion.

 

[DirtyD]

I've learned recently that I have almost nothing in common with some other riders. Just because we ride, it doesn't make us comrades. I like to wave to all the riders I see, but I know that riding is possibly the only thing we have in common. Some riders don't speed... ever... do you believe that? It's true... really. Seriously. I'm not kidding.

 

[sammmy]

:cool

 

[chopkins]

Indeed

So your saying that everybody is different, but somehow the same, but different, humm.

That maybe if everybody just relaxed, let go of the things that excite them, it would be a better place, humm.

I say, hate an individual and when appropriate, kick the crap out of him

Hating people you don’t know only shows you have no wisdom or self control.

 

[nazgulnarsil]

but individuals are generally fine. it's groups of people that are assholes.

 

[moto-rama]

Not in the last two decades (honestly!) but I have:

ridden a Vincent while wearing only a pair of skinhead boots all the way from the Mormon Temple to Berkeley while moderately intoxicated on various things, at about 3 AM and no one dared me to do it
:blush
ridden a monster (3 gears) wheelie up Telegraph Ave on a '67 Spitfire and was sober at the time
:cool
raced from LBL to Grass Valley (and back) on Grizzly/Skyline on a regular basis
:teeth
played chicken with the east bay regional park rangers on a dirtbike then they got helicopters

buried the tach on an '82 GS1000SZ for about three straight minutes, in fourth gear on hwy four, at four in the AM on the fourth of July but the speedo only went to 80 mph so who knows how fast that was
:burnout
been extremely critical of others who have done things not even half as ridiculous as the above, but only after I became a BARF member and started wearing a one piece aerostich and white Arai helmet
:x
replied to many threads that I shouldn't have.....

Thanks for the reminder that I am alive only because I am one lucky MF
:barf

 

[BMW187]

Why do BMW riders wear the funny gray jumpsuits with the reflectors and a gray flip face helmet?

Hey, I resemble that remarkteeth

 

[slowpoke]

So I can still talk about Ducati riders, right?:confused