All this hate on new riders
#101
10-21-2012, 10:01 PM
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I'm happy so many can buy so much stuff, whether they sell it or not.
Personally I don't want to ride dirty, unshaven, wearing old clothes that don't give any protection along with a crappy helmet on an old, vibrating POS with a carburetor and camp out with lousy facilities (if any) and noisy neighbors.
But not everyone likes chocolate ice cream, right?
Personally I don't want to ride dirty, unshaven, wearing old clothes that don't give any protection along with a crappy helmet on an old, vibrating POS with a carburetor and camp out with lousy facilities (if any) and noisy neighbors.
But not everyone likes chocolate ice cream, right?
#102
10-21-2012, 11:23 PM
This **** still goin on in here? C'mon already. There is no international or interstellar or trans universal brother hood of friggin motorcyclists. It's bullshit and you guys know it...
Don't matter if you been riding 20 years or 20 minutes...a guy, say from NY doesnt like a guy from MA just because...that's all...JUST BECAUSE.
That's How it is... A west coast guy riding for 60 years hates an east coast guy riding for 60 years....
Trying to rationalize your differences here for how many days now? This **** is priceless..
We label people that's what we do... You're different? You suck. That's how the friggin world is...
Old bikers hate new bikers, poor bikers hate rich bikers, southern bikers hate northern bikers, country bikers hate city bikers. And so on and so on...And vise versa of course.
This is all natural and has been going on since before you and I were here...and will still be goin on when we're gone....
So Like some one else said earlier eff em...just do what you do. Because really, no one gives a **** what you or I think anyways .
Don't matter if you been riding 20 years or 20 minutes...a guy, say from NY doesnt like a guy from MA just because...that's all...JUST BECAUSE.
That's How it is... A west coast guy riding for 60 years hates an east coast guy riding for 60 years....
Trying to rationalize your differences here for how many days now? This **** is priceless..
We label people that's what we do... You're different? You suck. That's how the friggin world is...
Old bikers hate new bikers, poor bikers hate rich bikers, southern bikers hate northern bikers, country bikers hate city bikers. And so on and so on...And vise versa of course.
This is all natural and has been going on since before you and I were here...and will still be goin on when we're gone....
So Like some one else said earlier eff em...just do what you do. Because really, no one gives a **** what you or I think anyways .
Screw hatin'.
#103
10-21-2012, 11:57 PM
Elite HDF Member
The only aspect weight has for a new rider, or an experienced one, is braking distance and low speed maneuvers. Anything else?
#104
10-22-2012, 07:38 AM
Grand HDF Member
Haters gonna hate. It's a self esteem issue usually.
Only cure is medical marijuana.
33 yrs in FD/EMS and never had a weed OD. 10,000 alcohol,coke and heroin OD's
Only cure is medical marijuana.
33 yrs in FD/EMS and never had a weed OD. 10,000 alcohol,coke and heroin OD's
#105
10-22-2012, 07:41 AM
Seasoned HDF Member
#106
10-22-2012, 07:59 AM
Seasoned HDF Member
I agree with Then Came Bronson, that people should start out on a smaller bike than an FLH, when they start. Many people on here disagree.
I have been riding 8 years/40k miles. I still consider myself a new rider. Just not a novice.
#107
10-22-2012, 08:17 AM
Club Member
If I had ridden anything but the small light 250 stinkwheel I owned my first 6 months riding I would have killed myself , got into enough trouble as it was . A thousand pound whale first bike is shear ego & stupidity .
#108
10-22-2012, 12:16 PM
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It is funny how he doesn't help anybody pick up his own bike. WTF?!
#109
10-22-2012, 12:21 PM
Don't act like an idiot and you won't be treated like one.
95% of the people who ride motorcycles, regardless of brand, are cool to hang, talk, listen, etc. to when you meet them in person. Be it at a gas stop or sitting around a campfire. Nevertheless, there is always the 5% who seemingly desire to inform you what a biker, mechanic, captain of industry, or whatever they are. They are easily identified, and they are just as easy to avoid. Naturally, this is only my view of the world, and yours may be different.
95% of the people who ride motorcycles, regardless of brand, are cool to hang, talk, listen, etc. to when you meet them in person. Be it at a gas stop or sitting around a campfire. Nevertheless, there is always the 5% who seemingly desire to inform you what a biker, mechanic, captain of industry, or whatever they are. They are easily identified, and they are just as easy to avoid. Naturally, this is only my view of the world, and yours may be different.
#110
10-22-2012, 01:09 PM
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What I find totally screwed is the tendency for these spanking new riders with zero skills outside of a suit or office buying the largest heaviest bikes they can . What is with that ? At their usual age you'd think some kinda common sense would be there ............
Common Sense in Today's world? ...
Don't act like an idiot and you won't be treated like one.
95% of the people who ride motorcycles, regardless of brand, are cool to hang, talk, listen, etc. to when you meet them in person. Be it at a gas stop or sitting around a campfire. Nevertheless, there is always the 5% who seemingly desire to inform you what a biker, mechanic, captain of industry, or whatever they are. They are easily identified, and they are just as easy to avoid. Naturally, this is only my view of the world, and yours may be different.
95% of the people who ride motorcycles, regardless of brand, are cool to hang, talk, listen, etc. to when you meet them in person. Be it at a gas stop or sitting around a campfire. Nevertheless, there is always the 5% who seemingly desire to inform you what a biker, mechanic, captain of industry, or whatever they are. They are easily identified, and they are just as easy to avoid. Naturally, this is only my view of the world, and yours may be different.
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