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Do you consider yourself a biker or a Motorcyclist
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PsychoBikerBen
Psychotic Artworker. RIP
I'm a newt......
but I'm getting better.
but I'm getting better.
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EdCBRCastrol
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Well you've got me confused!!!
I'm having a personality crisis now.
Spose i'm a motorcyclist really cos i havent been riding long enough to be a died in the wool biker, and also i only ride for pleasure, never as a necessity.
Ben, i think i'll join you for a few beers at the bash cos i'm intrigued as to what the people you hang out with and the people you have crossed have got to do with your love of your bike???
Totally confused now, looking forward to the beer though
:beer: :-:
I think i might have sussed it, Down to earth ordinary people are bikers,but........
Posh t**ts like Bert are motorcyclists.
I'll change my plea to guilty of being a biker if you dont mind!!!!
I'm having a personality crisis now.
Spose i'm a motorcyclist really cos i havent been riding long enough to be a died in the wool biker, and also i only ride for pleasure, never as a necessity.
Ben, i think i'll join you for a few beers at the bash cos i'm intrigued as to what the people you hang out with and the people you have crossed have got to do with your love of your bike???
Totally confused now, looking forward to the beer though
:beer: :-:
I think i might have sussed it, Down to earth ordinary people are bikers,but........
Posh t**ts like Bert are motorcyclists.
I'll change my plea to guilty of being a biker if you dont mind!!!!
Samster
chamon motherf*cker
Crackin' thread Wolfy....................
What was it that Dr Maz Harris once said?
"Riding bikes has got me into more than a few scrapes over the years.
I've got wet, cold and both wet and cold on them. I've pushed them for miles, cursed and sworn at them, bruised my knuckles on them, been in constant debt because of them, fallen off them more times than I care to remember and been arrested on them.
I have also derived unimaginable pleasure from riding them, made many close friends through their ownership and seen sights and experienced things I would never have encountered if I had taken my father's advice, waited the extra year and bought a car instead."
What was it that Dr Maz Harris once said?
"Riding bikes has got me into more than a few scrapes over the years.
I've got wet, cold and both wet and cold on them. I've pushed them for miles, cursed and sworn at them, bruised my knuckles on them, been in constant debt because of them, fallen off them more times than I care to remember and been arrested on them.
I have also derived unimaginable pleasure from riding them, made many close friends through their ownership and seen sights and experienced things I would never have encountered if I had taken my father's advice, waited the extra year and bought a car instead."
Bubba
Registered User
Me's a biker
I agree with Ben. If riding the bike is the be all and end all of yer life then thats your choice!
However, if you consider yourself to be a biker then thats what you are. I had to be reminded that not only do I own a car but can also drive one the other day. My car is sitting in the road looking very neglected. I dont think weather conditions make you a biker either. I was out there in Fog and snow before and after christmas and every time I was thinking "F%ck this, I need my head examined". Berts a motorcyclist cos of them freaky leathers!!!
I agree with Ben. If riding the bike is the be all and end all of yer life then thats your choice!
However, if you consider yourself to be a biker then thats what you are. I had to be reminded that not only do I own a car but can also drive one the other day. My car is sitting in the road looking very neglected. I dont think weather conditions make you a biker either. I was out there in Fog and snow before and after christmas and every time I was thinking "F%ck this, I need my head examined". Berts a motorcyclist cos of them freaky leathers!!!
PsychoBikerBen
Psychotic Artworker. RIP
DR Maz Harris
R.I.P.
Where ever ya ended up - Ride Free.
EdCBR - I'll be happy to get plastered @ the bash & reminisce
R.I.P.
Where ever ya ended up - Ride Free.
EdCBR - I'll be happy to get plastered @ the bash & reminisce
birdinflight
Registered User
I would say that...........
Derek is a biker........
He only drives a car if he really has to. Goes to work on his 400 everyday in the pouring rain and gets totally ratty if he can't get out on the bike at the weekend.
He doesn't live the life of some of you guys, that is he doesn't drink and sadly his music tastes include the Beach Boys and STatus quo
But for somebody who cannot do without his bike, has bike pictures everywhere, has a room totally full of bike clobber............then I would say he is a biker.
As for me.............hmm?
Derek is a biker........
He only drives a car if he really has to. Goes to work on his 400 everyday in the pouring rain and gets totally ratty if he can't get out on the bike at the weekend.
He doesn't live the life of some of you guys, that is he doesn't drink and sadly his music tastes include the Beach Boys and STatus quo
But for somebody who cannot do without his bike, has bike pictures everywhere, has a room totally full of bike clobber............then I would say he is a biker.
As for me.............hmm?
birdinflight
Registered User
PsychoBikerBen
Psychotic Artworker. RIP
Now there's a thing
Why not get folks to post earlies recorded piccies of themselves in their early biking days - Ya know,all looking like young puppies & ready to take on the world?
Should be a giggle . what dya reckon ?
Why not get folks to post earlies recorded piccies of themselves in their early biking days - Ya know,all looking like young puppies & ready to take on the world?
Should be a giggle . what dya reckon ?
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fat bert
Guest
You cheeky beggars~~
Just because "Motorcyclists" wear decent leather, boots gloves etc AND ride for pleasure rather than neccesity
DOESN'T MAKE US ANY LESS WORTHY!!
I ride my bike whenever I can - I aint prepared to risk NCB and bodily discomfort just to maintain the "Biker" image
The music you like.....the "ale" you drink.....the lifestyle you adopt.....the wealth you amass......
has got phook all to do with it !!!
We ride bikes therefore we are bikers
Now piss off and leave me alone - I'm having a BAD DAY
btw as for bodily discomfort.......wait till the bash Barmy Ben - I'll show you what "bodily discomfort" is when I kick your ass
Just because "Motorcyclists" wear decent leather, boots gloves etc AND ride for pleasure rather than neccesity
DOESN'T MAKE US ANY LESS WORTHY!!
I ride my bike whenever I can - I aint prepared to risk NCB and bodily discomfort just to maintain the "Biker" image
The music you like.....the "ale" you drink.....the lifestyle you adopt.....the wealth you amass......
has got phook all to do with it !!!
We ride bikes therefore we are bikers
Now piss off and leave me alone - I'm having a BAD DAY
btw as for bodily discomfort.......wait till the bash Barmy Ben - I'll show you what "bodily discomfort" is when I kick your ass
Wolfie
Is a lunp
Bikers are not better than Motorcyclists.
My Dad is a motorcyclist and he is a better bloke than i ever will be.
I consider myself a biker, because of the music, the lifestyle that i have led and still do so,(only more slowly now!), not because i ride a bike as often as i can, or that i can fix / rebuild one.
I know 'bikers' who have never owned a bike.
Bikers have and do ride all sorts of bikes, and so do Motorcyclists, i think being a biker is really an attitude/lifestyle and not just about bikes.
Motorcyclists are not just the sam brown dayglo vest etc, they are also the bloke who goes to the TT and Rides around it at a 110mph average lap.
Agree with ben that this is a hard one to answer.
What ever you consider yourself to be you will always have respect from me for riding a bike, what you choose to do with that respect is up to you.
My Dad is a motorcyclist and he is a better bloke than i ever will be.
I consider myself a biker, because of the music, the lifestyle that i have led and still do so,(only more slowly now!), not because i ride a bike as often as i can, or that i can fix / rebuild one.
I know 'bikers' who have never owned a bike.
Bikers have and do ride all sorts of bikes, and so do Motorcyclists, i think being a biker is really an attitude/lifestyle and not just about bikes.
Motorcyclists are not just the sam brown dayglo vest etc, they are also the bloke who goes to the TT and Rides around it at a 110mph average lap.
Agree with ben that this is a hard one to answer.
What ever you consider yourself to be you will always have respect from me for riding a bike, what you choose to do with that respect is up to you.
PsychoBikerBen
Psychotic Artworker. RIP
Hook , Line & Sinker.
Berty awakens........:} :} :}
Berty awakens........:} :} :}
birdinflight
Registered User
Er, just wanted to say.........
that isn't really me up there.....................:blush:
that isn't really me up there.....................:blush:
I reckon you guys are just about right.. I spose I would call myself a biker. Like Ben and Wolverine says, its the music, life style, and loads of other little things..
Like looking back over 38 years of riding, headbanging, leather jackets covered in studs, mods and rockers fights, larffing at your mates funeral cos you know thats how he wants it to be after outriding his coffin, like spending more time fixing old shite than riding..........................
Then there are the other bits that go for both columns:
The joy of going the long way home..
Of cleaning that crud off and seeing it gleam again...
Of opening the garage door on a summers morning and getting a HUGE buzz out just of seeing the bike sitting there..
Of making the bike your own with various mods
Of sitting back and admiring a job well done when you have been working on it
Of the great company you find wherever you go
The fact that you are a member of an exclusive club..
Christ, I could go on 'waxing lyrical' for ages, but you will all start throwing up !
There is a difference twixt the two.. but it is a subtle one, and most likely based in personal subjectivitey rather than any real world reasons...
Like looking back over 38 years of riding, headbanging, leather jackets covered in studs, mods and rockers fights, larffing at your mates funeral cos you know thats how he wants it to be after outriding his coffin, like spending more time fixing old shite than riding..........................
Then there are the other bits that go for both columns:
The joy of going the long way home..
Of cleaning that crud off and seeing it gleam again...
Of opening the garage door on a summers morning and getting a HUGE buzz out just of seeing the bike sitting there..
Of making the bike your own with various mods
Of sitting back and admiring a job well done when you have been working on it
Of the great company you find wherever you go
The fact that you are a member of an exclusive club..
Christ, I could go on 'waxing lyrical' for ages, but you will all start throwing up !
There is a difference twixt the two.. but it is a subtle one, and most likely based in personal subjectivitey rather than any real world reasons...
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Fodder
Guest
I'll probably get a slagging off for this, but what the hell. I'm sorry to say that a large percentage of people who ride motorcycles get right up my nose nowadays, well, not so much get up my nose as leave me disappointed somehow. Yes, sorry, I'm a biker by my own definition, one of those whose always ridden, used to out in a gang (until they all got married and bought cars!), used to build chops in the seventies, enjoyed having the rest of society look down its nose at me etc etc......
The new, fashion concious, reborn and weekend warrior breeds of motorcyclist seem to have lost touch with that indefinable spirit of biking. That spirit first touched me before I was at road legal age and, when legal, gave me a sense of freedom, friendship and well-being that has never left me. I love to ride, it is so good for my soul.
There are still quite a few people around who I'm sure feel the same way. However, simply the fact that only about fifty percent of the motorcyclists I see on the road bother to flash, wave or nod gives some indication that currently biking is probably suffering some form of sad malaise........trendiness possibly....It's a good job that it's the actual riding that keeps my soul together and spirit high.
The new, fashion concious, reborn and weekend warrior breeds of motorcyclist seem to have lost touch with that indefinable spirit of biking. That spirit first touched me before I was at road legal age and, when legal, gave me a sense of freedom, friendship and well-being that has never left me. I love to ride, it is so good for my soul.
There are still quite a few people around who I'm sure feel the same way. However, simply the fact that only about fifty percent of the motorcyclists I see on the road bother to flash, wave or nod gives some indication that currently biking is probably suffering some form of sad malaise........trendiness possibly....It's a good job that it's the actual riding that keeps my soul together and spirit high.
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mikew
Guest
at the risk of the inevitable ribaldry .....
..is there something in between the two choices??
Cos I love my bikes (maybe just not the current one as much), love being out on 'em, enjoy for the most part meeting other bikers/motorcyclists, but...............
there is a lot I don't do that would probably put me in the "biker" category if I did (if you follow me here...), e.g. I do track days, ride most of the year round, do the continental blasting or the run to the local chippy with the lads and ladies, even been known to stop for a broken down rider, don't mind getting piss wet through, chase lesser machinery through the twisties etc etc etc,
but I don't do ... things like the Isle of Man (waste of petrol if you ask me, but you didn't so....) Bulldog Bash and the like, don't wear a sam browne, do wear dark visors (yeh ok so I'm a wowdy webel :}) don't drink to excess, and try not to stack me bike everytime I get me leg over it.
So help me out here. I do have a definite "attitude readjustment" when the old lid goes on, and am not adverse to kicking the effin wingmirrors of of some oik who carves me up.
Biker or Motorcyclist, dunno myself,
but as Ogri says "Stuff everything, I've always got me bike"
perhaps it's an age thing !!!!
mike
..is there something in between the two choices??
Cos I love my bikes (maybe just not the current one as much), love being out on 'em, enjoy for the most part meeting other bikers/motorcyclists, but...............
there is a lot I don't do that would probably put me in the "biker" category if I did (if you follow me here...), e.g. I do track days, ride most of the year round, do the continental blasting or the run to the local chippy with the lads and ladies, even been known to stop for a broken down rider, don't mind getting piss wet through, chase lesser machinery through the twisties etc etc etc,
but I don't do ... things like the Isle of Man (waste of petrol if you ask me, but you didn't so....) Bulldog Bash and the like, don't wear a sam browne, do wear dark visors (yeh ok so I'm a wowdy webel :}) don't drink to excess, and try not to stack me bike everytime I get me leg over it.
So help me out here. I do have a definite "attitude readjustment" when the old lid goes on, and am not adverse to kicking the effin wingmirrors of of some oik who carves me up.
Biker or Motorcyclist, dunno myself,
but as Ogri says "Stuff everything, I've always got me bike"
perhaps it's an age thing !!!!
mike
1200Pete
Registered User
I think maybe a Motorcyclist is some one who can live without a bike even though he may enjoy riding it.
He is some one who may take the car or may take the bike.
He is some one who if it's tipping down at the weekend will do something else.
He is some one who has all the right gear and his wife's gear is matching.
I know a biker gets a bad feeling inside when he has no bike.
He is some one who will take the bike at every opportunity.
He is some one that if is raining he is either out there in it or staring blankly out of the window whilst banging his head against the glass.
He some one who wears the gear to do the job.
And I must agree with Ben that a life of booze, drugs and crime helps. :beer: :-: :shooter:
He is some one who may take the car or may take the bike.
He is some one who if it's tipping down at the weekend will do something else.
He is some one who has all the right gear and his wife's gear is matching.
I know a biker gets a bad feeling inside when he has no bike.
He is some one who will take the bike at every opportunity.
He is some one that if is raining he is either out there in it or staring blankly out of the window whilst banging his head against the glass.
He some one who wears the gear to do the job.
And I must agree with Ben that a life of booze, drugs and crime helps. :beer: :-: :shooter:
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Jack
Guest
I just ride bikes I never considered myself a biker or motorcyclist etc.
In my youth biker's were the 1%ter wankers Motorcyclist were the all year round riders but it seems there is no difining line these days.
Some people ride bikes for pleasure some for the image and even some as a job (the lucky bastards).
It seems it is only us that are part of the motorcycle world that can tell the difference or even cares, to the none educated in this wonderful past time we are all tared with the same brush.
Jack
In my youth biker's were the 1%ter wankers Motorcyclist were the all year round riders but it seems there is no difining line these days.
Some people ride bikes for pleasure some for the image and even some as a job (the lucky bastards).
It seems it is only us that are part of the motorcycle world that can tell the difference or even cares, to the none educated in this wonderful past time we are all tared with the same brush.
Jack
birdinflight
Registered User
straight from the horses mouth.........
or Dereks.........he says.....he definatley did not go with Petes ideas of drink, drugs and crime, but he agrees with the definition.........a biker is someone who lives and breathes bikes......
To sum it up I shall quote the immortal lines from the much revered OGRI ......
A BIKE IS FOR LIFE, NOT JUST FOR SUNDAYS
or Dereks.........he says.....he definatley did not go with Petes ideas of drink, drugs and crime, but he agrees with the definition.........a biker is someone who lives and breathes bikes......
To sum it up I shall quote the immortal lines from the much revered OGRI ......
A BIKE IS FOR LIFE, NOT JUST FOR SUNDAYS
