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What do you find most appalling about bike culture?

The noise. Definitely the noise-- the crazy, roaring, pointless noise of exhausts designed specifically for gratuitous noise pollution. There is absolutely no reason to make that kind of a racket, especially when people are trying to sleep. Only truly rude, inconsiderate jerks would ride something that loud, in public, around pedestrians and homes. And no, it's never helped me notice you in traffic, it just startles me half to death when you're lanesplitting where I can't see you, and you blip that thing when you're already three feet from my ear. Hope I don't accidentally jerk the wheel of the moving van the next time that happens.

That, and the people who are actually proud of doing stupid illegal shit on public roads. That's even more offensively rude, with some serious disregard for the rest of the human race (including the good parts).
 
Guys who try to prove themselves on their bikes. We'll go on rides to back roads I've done hundreds of times and they take off at the beginning since it's all straights. I go about the speed limit, and by the second turn I'm past them.

Or worse yet, when they try to keep up with me (or other guys faster than me), and when I come around a turn 15 seconds later I have to pull over and wait 2 hours because they've crashed.

It's not a race, you're not invincible, and if you think you're that good and you're wearing jeans, you probably aren't.
 
The whole MACHISMO aspect of the sport. You know, the stereotypical bad boy, tough guy, (irresponsible) speed racer, I'm faster than you, my cock is bigger than yours, mentality.
 
I got to go with Cranium on this one.

Noise is the biggest thing right now.

I live in Martinez near Center 1/2 a mile up from the California Grand at the bike trail stop sign.
It never fails. Almost every other night there is some asshat on a M/C using the stop sign as their own personal drag strip Christmas tree.
I've heard Harleys and sport bikes do it and it's so bad I can't hear my wife talking to me when we are in our back yard 2 houses away from the stop sign.

It's insane. This above all things is what is going to shut down motorcycles. All it takes is just the wrong person to be woken up at 2am and have them be a politician.

Here is an email that I got from AMA after asking them about the excesive noise issue after watching this vid:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEOVWGIzKEI&feature=channel_page
Then this one was put up on youtube a little while later:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl5-xl-Q2NQ Of course the handlebar measuring looked a little off.

Actual email response from AMA:

Thanks for your email to AMA. Perhaps the best way to provide AMA's position on excessive sound is found on our website, here -
http://www.amadirectlink.com/legisltn/positions/sound.asp

and also this interview with Rob Dingman -
http://www.amadirectlink.com/news/story.asp?id=609

Thanks for your help!
Peter Horst
 
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TheRiddler said:
Guys who try to prove themselves on their bikes.
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well, I do that too. For example, I come to complete stops at stop signs without putting my feet down. I can ride 100 miles of twisties without using my brakes. And I've never crashed.

Unfortunately, the only person who's really impressed by this kind of e-p3n0r boasting, as opposed to the more usual kind, is me. :(
 
ThermalStone said:
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Harley riders make fun of Jap cruisers.

Outlaw biker culture and the chopper are on the way out as the hip thing for posers to emulate. Custom sport bikes with garish paint jobs, ghetto stickers, hidden license plates, and no mirrors are on the way in.
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From my own biased observations, a large majority of HD riders just hate on anything that is not HD.
Choppers I don't seem see much of until I get out to the suburbs and country.

Where I live in Berkeley, and spending a lot of time in Oaklamd, its the baggers the rappers have latched onto. They are incredibly loud, horribly garish, and very expensive. All the stuff rappers hold so dear.

As for the blinged out sprotbiles, isn't that just kinda a south bay thing? I never see them on the road. I was under the impression that the sprotbiles are no longer in favor and that it is the baggers that are preferred now.

If there is anything I find appalling about motorcycles, it would have to be getting parking tickets for parking on the sidewalk. Srsly lame. :teeth
 
1) Excessive, unnecessary noise- I know some bikes can't help being a bit loud, but revving constantly down a residential street at 11pm with the hand motions of a 13yr old boy who's found a porn stash and a quiet closet makes you a douche

2) "Who'd you ride here with?" Your mom.

3) Getting passed WAAAAY too close for comfort on the highway when there's plenty of room. You've got the whole slab, why scare the poop outta me by trying to buzz up my exhaust??!!
 
coddswaddle said:
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3) Getting passed WAAAAY too close for comfort on the highway when there's plenty of room. You've got the whole slab, why scare the poop outta me by trying to buzz up my exhaust??!!
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Hella. I was on the freeway one day, holding steady 70mph, very lite traffic, and some brat in a t-shirt buzzes me in MY LANE easily doing 80mph or more. Why? I mean seriously why?
 
1) Idiots driving, im asian myself but i get scared of riding next to older female asian drivers... Not a racist, obviously... but about 3 of the 5 times i was cut off it was a female asian driver not even bothering to signal or look into the next lane. I guess i can be more carefull riding... The other two were some poser ass guys in their donk cars "hoo riding" down the freeway, saw me- just didnt give a fuck.

2) The cost of gas, nothing beats 9-10 dollar fill ups.

3) The everday motorcycle salute to everyother person on a motorcycle.
 
For me it has been, is and always will be a lack of courtesy. When you get down to it everything everyone here has mentioned is linked to it.

Loud exhaust - OK asshat, we hear your penis is small. Now be a good boy put a muffler on it unless it's a track only bike and then it shouldn't be on the street anyway.

Not moving over - Sure you are in front of me while lane sharing, but you're not going between the cars and I want to, please move over and allow me to do so. I would do the same for you. This also goes for ANY vehicle that travels in the #1 lane when they should be... you know "slower traffic keep right"

Buzzing traffic - Sorry traffic wasn't going fast enough for you. So what if I was alone in the #3 lane, I might have moved and then where would you (and probably me) be?

Road stunters - No, it really isn't your world...

I could keep going but I think you all get the general idea.
 
9rPilot said:
Beat me by 1 minute!
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It took you one minute to type in "*$s"?

I typed the above in 15 seconds!

[edit, and it took me two weeks to read this thread!]
 
+1. Very funny... and so true.


vaara said:
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It's funny, though... there's a definite V-Strom sub-subculture too. To really fit in, you have to farkle your bike to the max. At the very least, you should have tip-over guards, aftermarket seat & suspension, hand guards, multiple outlets for GPS, heated clothing, etc., and of course top- and sidecases. And you must have a passionate opinion about whether the 650 or 1K is better. And you have to be a conservative old white gun-owning dude. Which all means I'm about as welcome on the Stromtrooper forum as a fart in church. :p
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Carlo said:
It took you one minute to type in "*$s"?

I typed the above in 15 seconds!

[edit, and it took me two weeks to read this thread!]
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Add a year to that! (original post was in July 2008)
 
vaara said:
well, I do that too. For example, I come to complete stops at stop signs without putting my feet down. I can ride 100 miles of twisties without using my brakes. And I've never crashed.

Unfortunately, the only person who's really impressed by this kind of e-p3n0r boasting, as opposed to the more usual kind, is me. :(
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That's impressive :thumbup
 
Loud pipes indeed.......

The problem is with these anti-biker bikers with their anti-bike bikes trying to doushefy and yuppitize bikers til we all be riding anti-bikes in formation wearing jack boots. They're nothing more than closet scooterphiles who yearn for the orderliness of a plastic kitchen appliance; yet, are unable to fully break out of the closet to embrace their scooter fantasies because they don't want to jeopardize the faux manliness they've constructed through their "motorcycles". You see them during protest marches in front of Honda headquarters in Japan chanting & demanding that Honda executives BRING BACK THE PACIFIC COAST!! And here on the homefront, like the Nazi Youth, they turn on their own to impose their vision of an orderly & standardized procession. Thems are the ones you gotta watch out for.
 
You can find their parents these days at town hall meetings shouting down their elected rep's and anyone who wants a real dialogue on health care at the congressional district level.
 
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