Long Fork Harley-Davidson Chopper
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I'm not real big on categorizing people into adversarial groups, and I don't want to start any arguments here, but if I had never ridden and/or owned a chopper, even in my distant past, I'd never refer to myself as a "biker." Back in my day, a full club patch wasn't needed to qualify as a biker, or at least I was never challenged about it on the weekend camping runs and/or at Sturgis that I attended regularly when I was riding one of my chops with patches on my vest making reference to being a biker, like, "Biker for Life" or something like that. Choppers were a kind of right of passage back in the day, kinda like putting thousands of miles riding a rigid frame was, or having ape-hangers or long pull-backs or going without turn signals or front fenders. I fulfilled all my rights of passage long before I turned 30, which is why I can ride a Twinkie today and not feel insulted by someone denigrating them as something less than a biker's ride. LOL
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