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"Can you still make fun of poles?"

Rather depends on who you listen to. The South Pole doesn't seem to care but I hear the North is still somewhat sensitive about such issues.

Arsenalfan

Real bikers are the ones who hold doors open for Ladies, who are as excited about passing through a bit of rain as they are about taking a deep breath as they pass by a morning dew drenched pasture at 2 o'clock in the morn. Are those who are concerned for others. Real bikers ride, living each day to its fullest, and look forward to each new day's dawning and each evening's dusky colors. Smiles at strangers, compassionate gestures. They possess that elusive trait of being able to show the comfort they have within their own skin to others, thus allowing those around them to share in their blissful state of being called life.

PS re Pat's post: Dark brew? Bring it on!

Young's Double Chocolate Stout. A dark, ruby coloured stout, almost black from a distance. A distinctive chocolate flavour with a smooth and velvety finish. Delectable. Chased with a Taddy Porter and followed with passionate kisses from the missus.

...will stop to help ANYBODY on the roadside who needs help.
...won't kill some ignorant SOB for pulling their ponytail.
...can change their own tire/tyre.
...can laugh at themselves for not putting their feet down at a stop sign.
...will remember their dead brothers.
...know when they've had enough to drink, lock the bike, or let someone sober ride her home!!!

later, Tom.

...are frequent contributors to this website. They love motoring on two wheels so much that when they're not astride their Triumphs/HDs/Hondas/Ducatis/Suzukis/Yamahas/
Kawasakis/Nortons/BSAs/Vincents/Indians/Victorys/etc.(sorry if I've left out one of your favorites), they just have to write about their love of this sport.

Dwight

In the same vein, found this on the net; Looks to be written by closet yuppie Harley riders, but there are a couple of truisms and some I don't agree with .....

You Might Be A Yuppie Biker If:

If you drink cappucino instead of beer.

If you cant figure out why the battery on your new bike won't stay charged.

If your trailer has more miles on it than your bike

If your leathers still have creases

If you don't ride your bike to work because it scuffs your penny loafers.

If you move your bike and the grass is brown under the wheels.

If your tatoos wash off.

If you have doubled the weight of your bike with bolt on chrome.

If you have never kick started a bike before.

If you buy bikes as investments.

If you refer to your bike as your "toy".

If you wear a full face helmet

If you wear a helmet

If you wear earplugs

If you really believe that there are bikes that come customized from the factory

If the last time you went to the Harley dealer you came home with golfballs and a toilet seat

If your Harley shirt has a coller

If its not fun to ride unless someone sees you

If you don't ride in the rain

If you can't find your oil filter

If you think any motorcycle is too loud

If your poneytail comes off with your cap

If you leave your garagedoor open just so people can see your bike

If you need a biker lingo book

If your a HOG member and think your an outlaw

If you think a wrench is a bitchy woman

If when you buy your bike you start calling everyone "bro"

If you stop 30 miles from Sturgis to unload your bike so you can ride in

If you think the models in the catalogs are what bikers are suppose to look like

If you worry about what bikers are suppose to look like

If you read VQ

If other people you consider bikers scare you

IF you paint your office nick-name (like EasyRider or Bad-******) on your Bell open face helemet.

You know you're a yuppie biker if you paid for your new FXSTC in 24 months or less.

You know you're a yuppie biker if you complained about the "smell and fumes" near the back of your last group ride.

You know you're a yuppie biker if you won't ride unless it's a group ride.

You know you're a yuppie biker if everyone on your last group ride works at your law firm, or plays golf with you.

You know you're a yuppie biker if you've ever said "Isn't it too cold/wet/hot/dry/dark to ride?"

You know you're a yuppie biker if the only reason you have a scooter is because your brother is C&W singer Doug Stone and he gave you his old hog.

you carry a cam-corder instead of a knife

If your saddlebags have a special pocket for your cell phone

You read this page & say hey I do that!

Your only scoot has been a Knucklehead & u don't even know what that is.

You put newspaper under your scoot to catch da drippins.

When u pull in da driveway you hit da button on da garage door opener (hmmmm not a bad idea)

Other bikers at da bar say, "who's that?"

Bikers check out your scoot & say man dat boys got way to much money!

If your jeans have a crease.

If your jeans are clean, in fact, if any spot on you is clean.

You take your scoot in fer an oil change.

You think fringe is a mandantory accessory on your leathers.

You try to look like a biker.

You try to act like a biker.

You've ever stopped at a red light & forgot to put a foot down (sober).

You run into the bros & they say hey lets go here & u have to call home to check first.

You belly up to the bar and ask for a Heineken

The only time you've thrown up is when you've had the flu or just had too many veggie fajitas

You've never been in a fight with more than one of anything

You think brown sugar is something that goes into Mom's cookies

Your leathers shine

Your boots cost more than you spend on gas in two months

You think a chain is sumpin you wear around your neck.

You think a missing link is a human race thing.

You think a wristpin is sumpin you wear on your wrist.

If bikers give you a nickname something like PUD and u think its cool.

If you have lil eagles on all your clothes.

If you read this page & get pissed!!!

The two most important items in your toolkit are gojo and a manicure kit.

You think that's actually a *suntan* that makes real bikers so dark-skinned.

When your scoot doesn't start, your first thought is "how do I get it to a shop?"

You ride a Harley and drive a toyota, bmw, lexus, etc, ad nauseum...

You might be a yuppie biker if you're reading this page and taking notes on how to be more like a real biker.

A real Biker is not always a woman riding behind her man!
A real biker may be someone's mom!
A real biker don't ride with a female rider and at the first stop tell her "Hey, you ride really well for a woman" (Has happened to me)
Sorry, needed to add a female view.
Cindy

Cindy,

Don't be sorry. You're right-on!('60s jargon)

Dwight
(and...ride on)

I actually had a friend ride with me for the first time and told me that I rode really well for a woman. I slapped him and he still didn't get it.
Cindy

Cindy,

Well.....I don't know about resorting to violence, now.

You see, all my wife Judie has to do is give me that "look" when I say/do/act the fool. It usually gets the point across quite effectively.

Dwight
(but then again, I'm pretty quick on the up-take)

(oh oh.....I just got that look again)

Real bikersd just can't seem to leave theie bikes stock. Too many improvments to make it "yours" and to suit your own riding style/usage.

"I actually had a friend ride with me for the first time and told me that I rode really well for a woman. I slapped him and he still didn't get it"

Oh boy, your mean. Stay away from VT people, man beaters on the loose.

Whos seen the new Mercury (Ford Escape) tv advert. Guy in the passenger seat makes a comment about women drivers, so his driver throws him out in the rain...very funny.

Real men/bikers know when to shut the hell up.

Arsenalfan

just don't tell me I ride "Good for a woman" and no man beater here. We have a small motorcycle repair place and I make sure that any new man who enters the domicile that they understand that.

I do like the commercial! I didn't know what it was for!

Real bikers are commedians!

....make sure their dates (girls) are 18 or over
....have a flask of whisky in their toolkits
....have owned at least one Harley or Triumph in their lifetime (Indian, Norton, and some other non-Japanese bikes are acceptable substitutes)

Backporch865

Knows the best part about riding in the rain.... you dont have to stop and Pee

Yeah, you should've said: "And you ride pretty good for an a$$hole! Charlie

1. Will not rip off another ride for he too experiences the joy of the ride.
2. Will also acknowledge that the other guy is a total stranger to you...You know nothing about him except that he rides, he could be a saint or a hardcore sinner, a good friend or a backstabbing weasel. But for THAT ONE MOMENT the two of you are equals, brothers in the road, both daring fate to knock you off your high horse, the whole time knowing that you are winning so far.....While those bikes are moving, nothing matters outside of the road and your machine. Whatever differences you may have, at least one part of your existence is the same....You understand completely just that one little part of the other guys being. And it can't hurt to acknowledge that.........

To be a real biker we have to join a club like this right?
http://nh.craigslist.org/mcy/148994292.html
Dill

Looks like someone is trying to start another club like the Hamsters.

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... fall off now and again....or is it just me?

all this falderal all about what makes a "real" biker? Most is just so much BS. Stereotypes are a dime a dozen and they entail everything from what bike is "real" to what attire is being worn..or a specific lack of certain stereotypical attire as in chaps, boots, helmets, lack of helmets etc.

A biker is anyone who rides, has ridden recently, who rides only on weekends, who rides Triumphs, Harleys, Hondas, Yamahas, Suzukis, Nortons, Moto-guzzis, Beemers, Italian, German, Merican, British, Japanese et al.

If you lIKE to ride, have ridden in the past and dream of it again,,,,,if you have 1000 miles or a 100K on the odometer...than you qualify.

If you ride to work in street shoes twice a week cause its the only oppurtunity you have......you are still a biker as long as you savor the experience.

Being a biker really is an equal oppurtunity endeavor.

to all those who really think they must attach some "qualifications" ......well as the Brits would say...

"bugger off"

Wait a tick.... am I agreeing with you?!?! I think I am...

Well it's bound to happen once in a while

My buddy and I were talking about this over the weekend as his neighbor rode by wearing a leather vest with nothing under it. When he got home, 5 minutes later he had a regular T shirt on, but when he was out on the bike, had to be "in uniform". so funny.