Biker Infighting

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creampuff

6,511 posts

142 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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A lot of bikers have an overinflated opinion of their own riding ability. Probably because they think, "oh it's so dangerous man, everyone on the road is out to kill me, I'm so good I never make mistakes, everyone else is an idiot." They are happy to met out tut-tuts or head shakes to other bikers, when really it is their own riding which is also just as st.

John D.

17,701 posts

208 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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Renn Sport said:
Lol...

Bunch of blokes discussing bikes. There is bound to be some assholes. Some people who are know it all's and can't agree to differ on a point. Others are just rude because of the medium of the forum allows them to be so.

Then you get the guys who have a aloofness because they have managed to get into the fast group after doing a gazillion track days. So cannot be wrong ever and deliver their words with a condescending arrogance that irks the most patient among us..

You also have folks who have so much time on their hands they can post every 30 seconds. Or have the energy to pick fights and carry it on forever.

The most annoying are the guys who think they are funny and every post they make should be read in some manner where whatever they say is interpreted as funny or serious depending upon their mood. Dare you misinterpret their musings as you have to take a load of st off them.


I just stay away from those chaps and just try to enjoy the forum talking about bikes. You get dragged in but you need to sometimes drag yourself out.
Very good.

bass gt3

10,186 posts

232 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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Esceptico said:
....but judging by many threads in here (the one about GSs being a recent example) this doesn't seem to be the case with true vitriol being reserved not for non-bikers but for those fellow bikers that don't ride exactly the same types of bikes or dare to enjoy biking in different ways.
Personally, I don't think you've really grasped the dynamic here in BB. There's very little vitriol, rather robust opinions.
If you look at the scarce Moderator intervention here compared to many other sub forums, it's clear that what might appear to outsiders as slanging matches, actually isn't.
Remember that a large number of people know each other in real life so what can seem as unruly or vitriolic is banter, albeit with disagreements.
Once you've been here a while, you'll get the hang of it wink


Biker's Nemesis

38,534 posts

207 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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mitzy said:
TT Tim said:
Like most groups there's a clique on BB, many of the jokes are in-jokes or long standing ribbings, between just a few posters.

T
Come along to the track day on the 15 August there will be 17 people the majority of them I wont have met before, but sure they will become friends
Its not a Clique its because people have met face to face and become really good friends
Many times I have gazed into your eyes while rubbing Fleegles leg under the table at breakfast.

twizellb

2,774 posts

211 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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Biker's Nemesis said:
mitzy said:
TT Tim said:
Like most groups there's a clique on BB, many of the jokes are in-jokes or long standing ribbings, between just a few posters.

T
Come along to the track day on the 15 August there will be 17 people the majority of them I wont have met before, but sure they will become friends
Its not a Clique its because people have met face to face and become really good friends
Many times I have gazed into your eyes while rubbing Fleegles leg under the table at breakfast.
I've gazed a few times at your leg while rubbing my eyes.biggrin

bogie

16,342 posts

271 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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dern said:
Wow, disagreeing about disagreeing on BB... good one, nobbers hehe
LOL, we cant even agree on why we disagree about not agreeing on all kinds of stuff hehe




bogie

16,342 posts

271 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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Biker's Nemesis said:
mitzy said:
TT Tim said:
Like most groups there's a clique on BB, many of the jokes are in-jokes or long standing ribbings, between just a few posters.

T
Come along to the track day on the 15 August there will be 17 people the majority of them I wont have met before, but sure they will become friends
Its not a Clique its because people have met face to face and become really good friends
Many times I have gazed into your eyes while rubbing Fleegles leg under the table at breakfast.
Is this like the BB middle aged swingers group masquerading in tight leather together at the weekends ? wink

Fleegle

16,688 posts

175 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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Biker's Nemesis said:
mitzy said:
TT Tim said:
Like most groups there's a clique on BB, many of the jokes are in-jokes or long standing ribbings, between just a few posters.

T
Come along to the track day on the 15 August there will be 17 people the majority of them I wont have met before, but sure they will become friends
Its not a Clique its because people have met face to face and become really good friends
Many times I have gazed into your eyes while rubbing Fleegles leg under the table at breakfast.
Sorry to burst the bubble mate....I think that was your leg you was stroking. I did wonder if you had something in your eye

Spanna

3,732 posts

175 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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"Pffft that's just a poor Bonnie copy."
- man I don't know talking about my W

Some people are weird and lack knowledge about motorcycles and their history. Bloody Triumph fan boy hehe

2013BRM

39,731 posts

283 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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I think there is some resistance by some to feel we all have one thing in common due to the diversity of bikes and the way people identify with them, it's a mini version of Mods and Rockers. I'm hated by the HA wanna be's and dismissed by the Crotch Rocket blokes because I ride a VRSCA, it's pack mentality perhaps?

Yoda400

386 posts

107 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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Renn Sport said:
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Why cant people just be fking polite?! wink

I love a good oxymoron biggrin

I've noticed some level of sensitivity in BB, people taking things adversely when it wouldn't have occurred to me to get offended, but maybe I'm of the thick skin variety. Wrinkled certainly frown

We all like bikes in our own ways, and communicate in different ways, that's all. Calm down dears wink

Biker's Nemesis

38,534 posts

207 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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bogie said:
Is this like the BB middle aged swingers group masquerading in tight leather together at the weekends ? wink
Yep, you wanna join?

Biker's Nemesis

38,534 posts

207 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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Fleegle said:
Sorry to burst the bubble mate....I think that was your leg you was stroking. I did wonder if you had something in your eye
Must have been McKeans leg then.

mckeann

2,986 posts

228 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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That wasn't my leg wink

Prof Prolapse

16,160 posts

189 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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Renn Sport said:
Prof Prolapse said:
Two things I hate.

1) The belief that because we're all motorcyclists we have a mutual common ground. We don't.

2) The post slagging match analysis of internet forum rows. People need to have thicker skin.
Disagree..

1. We are all motorcyclists and do have a mutual common ground! Motorcycles!?! We have a lot in common… why the hell else are you on here unless you want to socialise with people you have something in common with? That theory doesn’t even make sense. Why you on here?

2. Rather then everyone have thicker skin so wkers can just be blunt. Why cant people just be fking polite?! wink

I'm pretty confident we also own shoes and enjoy eating at regular intervals but that doesn't make us blood brothers either.

Because wkers just are. You're best bet is being resilient, not crying about it and thinking anyone gives a st.

Wedg1e

26,760 posts

264 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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Sea Demon said:
- f*ck everyone else
Arguably it's this attitude that leads to road rage: people driving like inconsiderate aholes.


bogie

16,342 posts

271 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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Biker's Nemesis said:
bogie said:
Is this like the BB middle aged swingers group masquerading in tight leather together at the weekends ? wink
Yep, you wanna join?
Would love to but the doc keeps talking sense into me, and says he cant fix me again.....so im just a voyeur these days and like to watch wink

bogie

16,342 posts

271 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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2013BRM said:
I think there is some resistance by some to feel we all have one thing in common due to the diversity of bikes and the way people identify with them, it's a mini version of Mods and Rockers. I'm hated by the HA wanna be's and dismissed by the Crotch Rocket blokes because I ride a VRSCA, it's pack mentality perhaps?
thats because you bought the wrong V-Rod, its an A and you should have got the DX or an F, at least an AW would have had more cred or maybe a B, D or X...but not an A ..wrong variant dude, you are not in the clique wink

wolf1

3,081 posts

249 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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Is this another one of those touchy feely sand in the vagina/arse crack threads? rolleyes

Sod this I'm off back to the workshop to twiddle with my nuts.

Janluke

2,552 posts

157 months

Wednesday 29th July 2015
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We're a tribal lot and always will be

We ride Brand X and they're great but those wkers who ride Brand Y they havent a clue. But then when you dig deeper the Brand X guys are all falling out amongst themselves. Because the latest model is rubbish and company Brand X have sold out so now there's a split between Brand X mk1 and Brand X mk2 and so it goes on.

Substitute "Brand X" for Harley, BMW or any other manufacture you like