If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious ****.

Actually, I am going on 1992 experience. I'll pack some nylons and chocolate bars for barter instead.

 

Originally Posted by Quadancer
So if you leave Germany they will rescind the law...?


So maybe if you didn't hate helmets there wouldn't BE a law...?

 

Helmets suck moose *****...

 

Whatchit BP.... PC patrol will be on ya like flies onna gut wagon......

 

I think there are three distinctions here, not two.

Old school bikers. My respects - I grew up with you folks but never had a bike. I know you well.

New bikers. Grats on the new bike. Hope it sticks and you love it.

Posers.

Tats, beards and long hair/shaved heads etc, have meaning, and most importantly life stories, usually of hardship associated with them. These stories are not incidental but usually go all the way back to childhood and have become the core of the old school biker; you cannot acquire that by shaving your head, getting a fresh tattoo and putting on a pirate outfit, and that is worth saying.

Those things are badges of a life you didn't live and while imitation is the sincerest form of flattery your imitation of these (what have become) symbols cheapens them somewhat.

I don't perceive malice, and I know the old schoolers are just being nostalgic and trying to preserve their past culture, but you can't turn back the clock. The good 70's music was killed by the invasion of new wave but there's nothing we can do about it and we can't turn back the clock - or shoot them - there's too many.

So, I think that going forward you can just be yourself and not try to wear badges that don't belong, or be someone you're not. I'm new to riding, and I wear a jean vest with no badges, and nothing with the name Harley Davidson on it - I Just happen to ride an RKC with my wife and we're having a blast. I'm not much tougher than I used to be but I've learned to picnic like a muthaf0kker. The biker folks at the biker hang out that I've met are awesome people, and I even ran into an old lost friend and his new wife.

Live and let ride, but don't be a poser.

 

They, too, suck moose *****...

 

why bring up and offend moosses? I understand if you had something against elks or even f.o.e.

 

HEY Bra, when was the last time you saw a moose in the tri- state area..... cept at closing time

 

Oh man and you say I have knack for proper wording ?

 

When you're sporting beer goggles, there are no moose...