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Some technical assistance for ya....

Probably have to get some real biker lessons from Jesse James.

first off, ya ain't a real biker unless yer bike is stolen.

Real bikers are a rare breed. Harley riders are a dime a dozen.

I take it ya'll don't like Harleys....

Yeah. I know several "bikers" that haul their Harleys to a spot near Sturgis, unload them and ride into town acting just as tough as the real bikers. HA!

They own bikes but are a not even in the same ball park with 1% bikers

Very true but they like to think they are.

People like them make me tempted to sell my Harley

Why would anyone want to be or even pretend to be a 1%er? Not like that's anything one should want to brag up.

yup i know a few banditos, their not the kind of people you would want to emulate.

Used a bad choice earlier saying 1%. I would call Birdie a "biker" and he is in no way a 1%er. and damn sure not a Sunday afternoon fat yuppie harley rider playing biker [bleep].

If you can't laugh with them, laugh at them. What said is true. On the other hand, HD makes bikes you can travel on, and get parts anywhere if needed. I can't say that for my Triumph.

One guy I know said he didn't like meeting himself every time he went around a corner.

I know of some guys who went to Sturgis and got temporary transfer tattoos, that would really embarras me.

One friend and the neighbor both have Road Kings with the Screaming Eagle stuff--around 6 or 8 more horses, but something like 30 or 40 pounds more torque at mid range.

That is what we call RUB's - Rich Urban Bikers

I know all about how to become a real biker. I watched 'Wild Hogs' with Tim Allen & John Travolta.

Rode for 30 years and then sold my last bike a few years after my son (was born about 5 years ago). There are some pretty undesirable folks in ALL types of 'bikers' but by and large MOST folks regardless of type are genuinely good folks. The video does absolutely characterize one of the less desirable (and frankly more amusing) subsets. Generally though, they buy the bike, it sits in the garage, the wife female dogs at them for it taking up space and not getting ridden, and then they sell it after a few years with very little mileage. That's the lucky ones. The unlucky ones straighten out a curve in the first 1,000 miles and wind up leaving others behind or eating through a straw.

Well hey, thanks

Maybe I WAS a biker, or something close, for more'n a decade bikes were my only means of transportation. Thats how I met and courted my wife (and some other girls before that )

Ain't sure how to define the term. One things for sure, motorcycles have to be a central focus in your life, but thats stating the obvious. There probably oughtta be a miles/hours per year requirement too, more'n a few Harleys sit for months at a time and/or just get ridden to the bar once a week.

No one doubts that 1%ers are bikers, so maybe a Harley is required.


Actually, the COOLEST bikers I have met were old guys, independents, maybe formerly of an outlaw club. Old guys with nothing to prove, no axes to grind, been there done that, and most often been on and rebuilt the same bike for years.


Weren't a whole lot of them though.

Birdwatcher

I know how you feel. I am even tempted to sell my quite warm and useful black leather jacket so as not to be lumped into the same pot as all of the yuppie harley riders who try to look and act like a 1%'er. I have been around enough 1% guys and know enough about them to know that I want nothing to do with emulating them. I am finally old enough to not wish to pretend to be anything that I am not. I am who and what I am be decisions I made and divine providence. What is the point of pretending otherwise? My toughness and masculenity is defined in other ways. Ways that I am proud of.