So.....Are You a "Biker" or a "Rider" ?

pitblue/kz wrote:

ive got a question- is the early 90s zrx considered a member of the z family?

What does that have to do with fat nasty scooter trash? :laugh: :laugh:

For those old enough to remember, back in the 60's and 70's the term "Biker" was somewhat different... The coming of the Hells Angels into society awareness, Woodstock and the Hells Angels being security :blink: , Billy Jack movies and of course as mentioned Easy Rider....

It was a cultural freak out from the IBM clone to revolutionary long hair and facial hair, LSD music :ohmy:.... Leave it to Beaver Moms to hip huggers, braless, uninhibited sex and unfortunately... Hairy Arm pits! :X

Now days who knows the difference... I've witness this myself, on my jap bike in a crowd of HD weekend warriors... Talking their smack about Jap bikes...

Of course I just shrug and think to myself, anytime you want to 1/4mile for pinks a-hole let me know...

Well after hearing enough of their BS, I ask them about their displacements, compressions, bore and stroke, jetting, gear ratios you name it... The riders who had been opening their pieholes STFU & don't say a word now, the bikers speak proudly for discussions on their rides....

NOTE: Not all HD owners are asswipes...

The bikers regardless of owning a HD will come up and say "Whoa, is that a KZ-900 and go cool, I remember that bike back in the 70's... That was one fast rocket ship of a ride".... and then ask what I have done with her...

I look at it this way these days...

Bikers are owners of their rides, regardless of what they ride American, European or Japanese, learn as much as possible of their rides internal workings and operations, work on their rides tweaking, tuning and keeping their girls in tip top operations and fix them when they have to.

A rider is just that, a RIDER....

Just my 2 worthless cents worth...

OMR

excellent points in my favor sir OMR

Like my bro used to say.
"Anyone can do an eyepoke."
"But ya gotta be a real Stooge to know the block!".

Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck! She didn't know it was a toitle!

:ohmy:

oh and by the way i have a devil's head tattoo

(youtube)

rider!

PLUMMEN wrote:

How did you know I've been trying to OD on Clint westerns of late?

I have ridden all kinds of bikes and even tested HD products for a while. I have owned cruisers and sport bikes, three wheelers and dirt bikes. I have rode to bars, and crossed state lines. I have tatoos and piercings. I wear my gear, although i didnt always wear a helmet all the time. I not only ride them, I work on them. I live, eat, sleep and poop them. When My wife asks me if I'm searching for porn on the computer, she's asking if I'm looking at bike stuff:woohoo:

as far as a title - when you guys figure it out, would you let me know when i get back, i'm going for a ride

Peace

:lol:

trianglelaguna wrote:

biker

Sorry, i dissagree :silly: :lol:

Motorcyclist

I wear gear because I don't like unnecessary pain, I work on my bike because I'll take busted knuckles and experience over being broke, I modify my bike because its never quite right, I ride my bike for the sound of the exhaust reverbing off a canyon wall, the feeling of pushing a 30 year old bike towards that mythical 100mph, and checking corners for lizards and rocks.

I do the same on my dirtbike and love riding it for the feeling of the back tire sliding out on a corner, going up hill with a foot off the peg to avoid the big rock that pings the peg while trying to keep the rpm's up, and the view from the tops of the mountains that jeeps can't climb.