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Why the starbucks hate?

Starbucks + Sportbike = Poser ?

  • Yes

    Votes: 94 58.8%

  • No

    Votes: 66 41.3%
  • Total voters
    160
  • Poll closed .
half breed said:
1. Guy who wears all the cool gear & parks his bike strategically .
2. Guy who has huge chickenstrips , new gixer 1000 & stalls it in the lot .
3. Guy who has well worn leathers , pucks , track shredded tires , bad ass duc , gets his coffee & sits alone in the corner looking surly .
4. Group of sport bike chicks , club affiliation logos who meet there every sat morning .
5. Two big fat guy's on hogs , leather vests who like to cruz the blvd.
6. Guy wearing shinny white tennis shoes , baggy low jeans polishing his new cbr in the lot .
7. The fat middle aged couple on the full dress goldwing with stereo & intercom.
8. Group of total mad max beat down bike riding , rodent affiliation guys ( of course the like cole coffee )
9. Stunters
10. Dykes on bikes

common denominator : we all like to ride bikes
common denominator 2 : were all posers

especially if you've ever looked at another rider & judged them for not fitting in to what you think is cool ...... I've done it . So in the end , who really gives a fuck where you get your coffee , what , how you ride or what your wearing ..... just shut up & ride :teeth
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Very good half breed :thumbup:thumbup
 
xshixy said:
ANyone know the name of the coffee spot in gilroy next to Best buy by the wallmart??? That spot has some of the Best coffe I have had in along time.
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It might be Its a Grind. Not from Gilroy but I know they have one. They have one in Reno and it is the best coffee I have ever had. It took me a couple of months drinking starbucks(cause thats the only thing close in napa) to get used to it. Still every time I go back to Reno I'm reminded of how bad starbucks is compared to its a grind.
 
Oneup said:
It might be Its a Grind. Not from Gilroy but I know they have one. They have one in Reno and it is the best coffee I have ever had. It took me a couple of months drinking starbucks(cause thats the only thing close in napa) to get used to it. Still every time I go back to Reno I'm reminded of how bad starbucks is compared to its a grind.
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It is "Its A Grind" I worked at the Costco for a while, and they did kick ass coffee....there's one in Campbell/Saratoga also
 
AceT100 said:
It is "Its A Grind" I worked at the Costco for a while, and they did kick ass coffee....there's one in Campbell/Saratoga also
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OMG there is WHERE!!! Thats the one I was talking about Man there coffee is the best coffee I have every had outside of my house. where is it I live off Saratoga ...
 
Var said:
if you wear knee pucks that you didn't scrape yourself then you're a poser.
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If I use a set of knee puck someone else scraped but then I scraped over his scrapes would I still be a poser?

and alot of people joke about it but does anyone really know somebody that used old pucks for the "look"?
 
RedAnt said:
Dunno why but watching someone sit around drinking $5 coffee while tippy tapping away on a laptop in public makes me want to mace them.
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heres why...because you can do that at home

starbucks coffee sucks. i only go there if its after 8pm since its the only coffee place open late night
 
Ya know what?

I missed out on the whole latte VS cappucino VS Americano debate... guess it was because I was out RIDING last night. Imagine that...

And for the record, REAL women do multiple Espresso shots at a drive-thru espresso kiosk. Straight. Back to back. And then get back on the road. Too much pavement, not enough daylight to f*** around posing...

bb
 
Happy Hornet said:
+1 for Cole Coffee if you're going to hang out and drink coffee with your buds.
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Still Royal as far as I am concerned. But yeah, good coffee.

Who has time to hang out at coffee shops anyway? That was a luxury I had to give up a long time ago.

Its like I hear that the average American watches 8 hours of tv a day. WTF? Thats a full time job with no days off and no benefits.
 
half breed said:
1. Guy who wears all the cool gear & parks his bike strategically .
2. Guy who has huge chickenstrips , new gixer 1000 & stalls it in the lot .
3. Guy who has well worn leathers , pucks , track shredded tires , bad ass duc , gets his coffee & sits alone in the corner looking surly .
4. Group of sport bike chicks , club affiliation logos who meet there every sat morning .
5. Two big fat guy's on hogs , leather vests who like to cruz the blvd.
6. Guy wearing shinny white tennis shoes , baggy low jeans polishing his new cbr in the lot .
7. The fat middle aged couple on the full dress goldwing with stereo & intercom.
8. Group of total mad max beat down bike riding , rodent affiliation guys ( of course the like cole coffee )
9. Stunters
10. Dykes on bikes

common denominator : we all like to ride bikes
common denominator 2 : were all posers

especially if you've ever looked at another rider & judged them for not fitting in to what you think is cool ...... I've done it . So in the end , who really gives a fuck where you get your coffee , what , how you ride or what your wearing ..... just shut up & ride :teeth
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So the numerator is . . . 42?


:laughing
 
bte320 said:
Hey, I revel in my indie-ness! I'm going to have an indie wife and then raise little indie children, and they will listen to The Kinks, Velvet Underground, and Bob Dylan while we all dance around in a circle holding hands and watch Napoleon Dynamite.

The coffee sucks anyway. :x
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No problem with that. I own an indie coffee shop in Salinas. And I totally agree that the coffee stinks at *$'s. My coffee is way better than that swill.
 
their coffee has gone down hill and i haven't bought a cup in some time, but do go there to meet up for rides :teeth
 
ST Guy said:
I generally try to avoid Starbucks because their corporate ethic is cut-throat. They use their huge resources to open up coffee shops next to or across the street from mom and pop operations and put them out of business. Not cool. So I don't go to Starbucks.
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I just read an article online (SF Gate) about this. The facts don't play out the way you've laid them. Multiple owners of 'indie' coffee shops reported that having a *$ open near them resulted in substantial increases in sales for the 'indie' shop.

It seems that several factors come into play. First is the increase in foot traffic. Second is the 'hey, I don't want to support the megabucks corporation, I'm going to get my caffeine fix at 'indie' from now on. Third is the 'poop...the line at *$ is really long...I'll try this quaint 'indie' shop instead since there's hardly anyone in there' factor.

I was somewhat skeptical of this story so I asked at the little indie coffee shop near my studio. Yup, their business doubled after *$ opened two doors away.

YCoffeeShopExperienceMV
 
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