March 1, 2012 8:38 AM PST
As Edgewalker put it, Attitude is the dividing line between real people and those that pose or wannabe. I ride for my own enjoyment of the highway and country. I don't worry about what bike anyone else chooses to ride. I give respect to those that earn it. Everyone starts out a newbie at some point. They learn to survive through hard lessons or quietly disappear from the streets. Time and experiences have changed my outlook on life and I have survived. I don't judge those about me, but befriend only those who return my respect. Bikes and the road are my life now that I am free to ride as I please. Respects to all who read this and I hope to meet ya'll out there on a bike.
I have to agree with you about the attitude! I am so excited about learning to ride. It has been a wild almost 2 years. I am still learning and have goals to meet this coming season. But I dont cut others down. My husband and I always joke about doing a social experiment..... we have a couple of small towns nearby that is the focal point of two different bike days. There has been some controversy over what bikers are like: -- To show the two communities what kind of people really ride bikes, it would be fun to host a bike day as ususal ( with the cut-offs, leathers, do-rags, boots and various bikes, etc) then have everyone come back the next week and be in their everyday work attire on the bikes instead. It would show people that us bikers are more than just someone who "dresses the part" . But we might just be your next door neighbor, teacher, lawyer, Doctor or even on the police department payroll. We are all just people who enjoy riding/ and owning bikes of all kinds. (the way of dress is just an extra bonus to our outstanding personalities!!!
Also, leathers, rain gear, helmuts, gloves , boots , jackets are part of road safety and or comfort!
Ride on, Ride safe!!! And Be happy!!!
I am proud to be part of the biking family!!!! Poser or NOT!!!!
March 1, 2012 10:46 AM PST
.... Bitchy complains that our home "decor" is "Early Harley Davidson!".... I say if a Linkert is 65 yrs old...its an antique! Nail it to the wall... etc.... Thanks for the opportunity to get this off my chest TD...later...wooly
March 1, 2012 2:53 PM PST
IF US BIKER TYPES ARE SO MEAN AND NASTY AND SCARY AND TERRIBLE WHY DO KIDS IN CAGES ALWAYS WAVE TO US WITH A SMILE ON THEIR FACES????? Hehehehehehe!!!
March 2, 2012 2:48 AM PST
Because they haven't learned yet Jetman... but they will!
March 2, 2012 3:11 AM PST
LOL Wooly, was happy to help.
Mean and Nasty?! Who'd a thunk it..I am as nice as pie, but then poser here....lol...I hope the kids just ignore that little learning curve!
March 2, 2012 3:12 AM PST
You all have some really good comments here!
Thanks!
March 2, 2012 3:15 AM PST
You all have some really good comments here!
Thanks!
We're posers... it's all we got!
March 2, 2012 3:17 AM PST
LLLMMMAAAOOO!!!
March 3, 2012 3:28 AM PST
I'm glad others sit and stare at their bikes. My wife is jealous some-times. Of course I love her more.
Lets get this quite clear here...lol...when you say of course you love her more...lol...did you mean the wife or the bike?????
Come On LuckyChucky answer my damn question!!! ...lol... I want to know if its the wife or the bike you love more...lol...that is not very clear in what you wrote...lol...
March 4, 2012 11:07 PM PST
I was told twenty plus years ago when I started to ride my own that I would NEVER be a biker because I didnot have balls... My replly ply was " You be a biker and I will be some one that rides a motorcycle"
As far as poser I think I fit the list...LMAO
Have harley shrits from almost ever state I have rode to, A few from countrys I have been to. Yep on the assless chaps, only because the high light my best feature. I perfer the skull caps, have tested in torando winds and those things do not blow off, have had them to 110mph and do not move. But I am just a poser, want to be I know nothing about actually riding a bike.
March 5, 2012 12:36 AM PST
March 5, 2012 2:57 AM PST
Welp, I may be the biggest "poser" of all, see'ins as I don't even have a bike ATM.
But I DO have:
A pair of prescription Ray-Ban "Terminator" sunglasses (for ridin' only)
T-Shirts up the ying-yang (almost all, motorclothes) from where-ever I've been
Do-rags, in three colors -turquoise, black, and black & turquoise
a half-helmut that's twenty years old (covered in stickers) the favorite one says DOT (LMFAO)
My Main Leather (30 yrs old-Branded at the 50th Anniversary of Bike Week)
My fringed Jacket w/Roses
My fringed chaps
The formerly mounted, fringed, & braided handlebar grips (Tweek'sTrademark)
Two pairs of leather riding boots (One H-D) the other Kmart(lol)
My H-D Nose pickers (fingerless gloves)
Various and sundry nick-nacks,coffee mugs, blankets, and other such Harley-Davidson monickered memorabilla
A pet Gerbil, named Harley
And my former Holiday Inn name tag..."Harley" (no kiddin'They all called me that when they saw how I got to work.
Some of the stuff doesn't fit anymore. With age comes gravity. But I can't make myself part with a thing.
It was bad enough having to sell "Blue", so long ago. And then havin' "Vader" ride off, well....
But if any, or all of that makes me a poser? Then call me POSER. I've been called worse.
Ride Free
TWEEK
March 5, 2012 3:20 AM PST
I see I am in very good company, good company at that. Now I do not feel so bad about being a poser.....LOL
Today my baby is sitting right outside of the building I work in. Parked illegally of course, but then thats what us posers do...lol She is right up on the sidewalk, where I can keep an eye on her. You know those college students, they love sitting bikes that are not theirs...lol