Hasnt anyone at MCN noticed that many modern bikes are also clothed in plastic panels and look like aliens I dont care what anyone rides, as long as they are nice folk and not twats in matching leathers going on about their Kawashitty ZZXDRY6541100 doing 180mph outside a school!
Obviously the journo in question knows nowt about scooters, so just did a Clarkson and slagged them off with his witty remarks.
Ridinhigh, sounds like me and thee are of the mind, and era. My first bike was a BSA 250 C11G. I call myself a motorcyclist, i now ride a Silverwing 600 and it does everything i want it to.There are ocassions when that little devil sits on my shoulder and says,"these idiots don't know how to ride, go on give them a run". This happened last week when three bikes passed me on a bypass(they were speeding, i wasn't). On thier backs was written "Sons of Anarchy".When we left the bypass and hit the A road i caught them up,That little devil got on my shoulder and said" go on, You know you want to" so, i overtook them just before the bends, they bottled out at eighty on the bends, i let them catch up with me when i proved my point(to myself anyway).I don't really care what anyone else calls me or thinks of what i ride,at our time of life we are content in ourselves and don't need labels, or names printed on our clothing.
maxi scoots, to those who have ridden one " no explanation necessary", to the average biker, " no explanation possible".
Dont you just like being that bit different though, Ive had bikes for 30 years, and the sunday ride-out chat at biker meets bores me shitless. Id much rather be on a ugly bunch ride-out, watching ZZG ride round a pub in his underpants on his mana at closing time.!!
Im not a gynecologist, but I dont mind taking a look.
Me n Su go to bike meets and chat to ppl without problems, I usaualy get asked questions and several bikers sit on my scoot to try it out as they didnt know scoots went up to 650 !!.
I still nod at bikers, 10% nod back, so I'm happy
There’s always tittle tattle about road tests being biased, or influenced. What’s your take on it?
Just not true. You can’t lie or pay lip service to a manufacturer in a road test. MCN is very professional and as road testers we’re unhindered by pressure from manufacturers or advertisers. We state our opinions truthfully which you must realise are just that – our opinions, which may differ from the next man along, and the man after that.
Before I joined MCN, like most people I had preconceptions about this issue, but it simply doesn’t happen.
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
I think I've told the story about Box Hill one Sunday:
Me on the Burger 4 and two students on Yammy 125's.
Day Two of a five day so we get to ride a little further, immerse the newbies in a bit of bikin' kulcha.
Standing behind some forty-something balding fat Geezer with his Gixxer thou, race exhaust, chicken strips, matching blue and white Dainese leathers, Kushitani gloves, AlpineStars boots and of course race-replica Arai, watching a bunch of Surrey-HD `Sons of Accountancy` types riding-in:
"Fuckin` poseurs...!" he exclaims
Cue three people falling on the floor laughing. I actually spilled my coffee.
The fact is, most motorcyclists are simply weekend warriors. when I first started riding we laughed when the average annual mileage for a biker in the UK dropped from 20,000 to 12,000 miles a year. Today it's well under 3,000. I see half a dozen rainandshiners now. Three on maxis. Then the weekend sunshine comes and all of a sudden: Hundreds of crotch rockets. How anyone thinks perched on a razor blade looking like you're giving birth or taking a dump is `cool` is beyond me.
Fuckin' poseurs
No door is closed to an open mind.
Except a closed door, which a mind can't open, but even a stupid hand can.
irev wrote:.......
Standing behind some forty-something balding fat Geezer with his Gixxer thou, race exhaust, chicken strips, matching blue and white Dainese leathers, Kushitani gloves, AlpineStars boots and of course race-replica Arai, watching a bunch of Surrey-HD `Sons of Accountancy` types riding-in:
I dont care what anyone rides, as long as they are nice folk and not twats in matching leathers going on about their Kawashitty ZZXDRY6541100 doing 180mph outside a school!
