Generalizations about specific riding groups and barf

Tudd Smithers

Tudd Smithers

Life is not fair
No type.

Blind_Io said:
I'm not even sure the stereotype into which I would fall. I'm not a Harley rider, I'm not a sport bike rider. I don't stunt (hell, I don't even know how). Even my riding jacket is only about 60% leather over thick denim. I wear a full face helmet, even in states that don't require one (Utah).

I guess you could stick me in with the new riders since I don't have that much time under my belt and I ride what some consider to be a starter bike (because it's so cheap).

I completely agree with what has been said here. I feel like I have more in common with anyone on two wheels than I do with anyone on four. When I'm riding I get The Wave from most other riders, no matter what they are on, and I return in kind. Yesterday I was lane splitting through rush hour traffic in The Maze behind someone on a sports bike - he moved into an empty space and let me pass. He didn't have to do that and I wasn't riding his ass, but it surprised me that a high end sports bike would want to slot in behind a slower (and much older) cruiser. It just shows that you can't make any assumptions.
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I'm with you man, I ride a Buell Ulysses and a Husqvarna SMR. They stick out like a sore thumb in any parking lot. I think that keeps me from being stereo typed, or just typed as a whack-o.
I do love the bikes and that's what draws me to this place. I thank you all for making it what it is.
 
killah_tofu

killah_tofu

team damn azn™
Roundboy said:
UBOB TMU TCBY GTS TCK RBK

ROUND UNIT!!!!!

Dennis you are one helluv a guy. I like your enthusiasm and your love of the Game...Keep it up and you might just win a ROUNDIE!!!

hahhaha
Seriously though....

This is my Motorcycle.

There are many like it, but this one is MINE.

My Motorcycle is my best friend. It is my life.

I must master it as I must master my life.

My Motorcycle without me is useless. Without my Motorcycle, I am useless.

I must ride my Motorcycle true.

I must ride straighter than my enemy who is trying to pass me.

I must pass him before he passes me. I will...

My Motorcycle and myself know that what counts on the street is not the wheelies we ride,

the noise of our exhaust, nor the smoke our tires make.

We know it is the laptimes that count. We will win...

My Motorcycle is human, even as I, because it is my life.

Thus, I will learn it as a brother.

I will learn its weaknesses, its strengths, its parts, its accessories,
its lines, and its powerband.

I will ever guard it against the ravages of weather and damage.

I will keep myMotorcycle clean and ready, even as I am clean and ready.

We will become part of each other. We will...

Before God I swear this creed.

My Motorcycle and myself are the defenders of my country.

We are the masters of our enemy.

We are the saviors of my life.

So be it, until there is no enemy, but PEACE.
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truer words were never spoken (or typed.) whatevz...:twofinger
 
Mad Mac

Mad Mac

Well-known member
That was sweet poetry Roundboy. Man and his machine, may never the two be parted. My helmet is off to you.
 
blackOnblack

blackOnblack

back to black
I think people have such a bad thought of sport bike riders because those are the people that usually tend to piss us off on the road and we fly past them. I am for the most part a very safe rider, but there is that occasional (more like daily) person who tends to do something completely RETARDED to where I don't want to be riding next to, behind, or even remotely close to them.... and for that reason I'll probably get labeled a "stupid motorcycle rider" by the person in their cage on their cell phone changing CD's...
 
Ed.

Ed.

Banned
fuck all that, ride your own bike the way you want, if you want to park it under a car, do it. Shiney side up, do that to.:twofinger
 
dgb

dgb

it's clean now
DirtyD said:
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.
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I believe it because I am one of them.

The blanket generalizations that I see most often in crash threads, where a stupid decision by the rider lead to injury or death, that Everyone has given in to the urge to open the throttle all the way or that We've all done something stupid is simply not true.

There are riders who are responsible 100% of the time.

I enjoy motorcycling, and I understand the risks associated with participating in it, but I have too much to lose, too many loved ones counting on me, to not make it home by doing something stupid.
 
budman

budman

General Menace
Staff member
The Best of BARF Forum is up and going in the clubhouse..

If you have suggestion for addition threads please PM the mod's in the forum and they will review..! Don't let old... good threads die.


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itsmrjames

itsmrjames

try again fucker
good points.. but i get bummed when people really press the luck.. that shit just makes my mom sick and scared knowing im out there. its hard not to think of harley guys hangin it up at the ol' ok trailer co-ral at the end of the night and sport riders tryin to drag knees into every turn and so on.... just be aware that everyones actions lump us together in the publics eye.. ever had a cop say YOU people need to slow down...?
 
egrep

egrep

Serious Business
In the last several weeks I've had occasion to pull along side scooters, fully dressed hogs and even three wheel rotax powered thingies at stop lights.

Each time I've been very friendly and complimentary to their POS^H^H^Hmotor and made sure they knew I considered them to be the same family as me, riders.

It was clear that all of them really enjoyed that. Makes my day!
 
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AceT100

Well-known member
I ride because I enjoy the freedom of not being in a car..... :thumbup

I found this group, and have met a few good people, went to several coffee meets, with a VERY diverse group of people & bikes! :wow

Ride what you like, how you like, and when you like....BUT.....If your gonna do stupid shit...please don't do it near me.... :rolleyes

Just my :2cents

Oh...and by the way......

GREAT THREAD
 
ThumperX

ThumperX

Well-known member
Wednesday I infiltrated a scooter ride in the city. I REALLY wanted to ride with them they were full of mirth!! Like little 2 wheeled fairies.

I mean it this way "...collectively, wee folk, good folk, people of peace, and other euphemisms)[1] is the name given to a type of mythological being or legendary creature, a form of nature spirit, often described as metaphysical, supernatural or preternatural."
 
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kYLEMtnCRUZr

Well-known member
Is it me, or did all the "Bros" trade in their white lifted trucks for streetbikes?

Hwy 17 + a hot weekend = a lot of douchebag riders that have no respect for the mtns/2wheels.
 
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