What part of motorcycling do you truly not care about?
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Personally I love riding on the road, touring, and ADV / dirt-biking.
I couldn't care less about track days or motocross. I did one track day which was very useful and informative, but it didn't make me want to go back and do more. And I love riding on trails and through forests, but not bothered about racing anyone, I just like being out in the country.
You?
I couldn't care less about track days or motocross. I did one track day which was very useful and informative, but it didn't make me want to go back and do more. And I love riding on trails and through forests, but not bothered about racing anyone, I just like being out in the country.
You?
I do not get the appeal of group rides or track days, never have, probably never will.
A good bit of green laning, plenty of commuter miles, and the odd nip out to somewhere new in the middle of nowhere and I'm happy.
Although none of that at the moment as I cannot reliably get petrol everyday meaning I'm currently commuting by train... which has been expensive, slow, and tedious!
A good bit of green laning, plenty of commuter miles, and the odd nip out to somewhere new in the middle of nowhere and I'm happy.
Although none of that at the moment as I cannot reliably get petrol everyday meaning I'm currently commuting by train... which has been expensive, slow, and tedious!
Early morning country lane rides 
Constantly s
tting yourself as all the wlidlife hasn't seen any traffic for 8 hours and just wanders in to the road and then when it realises something is heading their way zigzags in front of you until making one last dash for your front wheel, then pissing off in to the bushes.
But actually motorcross and drag racing.
Constantly s
tting yourself as all the wlidlife hasn't seen any traffic for 8 hours and just wanders in to the road and then when it realises something is heading their way zigzags in front of you until making one last dash for your front wheel, then pissing off in to the bushes.But actually motorcross and drag racing.
Hmmmm
Big cruisers, Trike stuff
MCC’s
Group rides
“Biker meets”
The obsession with fry ups, coffee and cake
The GS Ewan/Charley image
Not really a part of motorcycling as such but I hate how some bikers think they have a good given right to speed and are superior to car drivers because they passed a test and sunk 1500 into a stty bike.
Do I need a break? Ha
Big cruisers, Trike stuff
MCC’s
Group rides
“Biker meets”
The obsession with fry ups, coffee and cake
The GS Ewan/Charley image
Not really a part of motorcycling as such but I hate how some bikers think they have a good given right to speed and are superior to car drivers because they passed a test and sunk 1500 into a s
tty bike.Do I need a break? Ha
Big group rides. Used to do a monthly organised ride out years ago but when it got to the point of people crashing so often the organisers had to lay on a van to collect the broken bikes I bowed out. Mental rides like that seem to be a thing of the past, round here at least, but I went on a charity ride last week which turned out to be a convoy ride with no overtaking. It took an hour and a half to cover 30 miles at an average speed of 24mph (according to my Motorrad app) and was frankly embaressing; the organisers all rode tourers with orange strobes and were stopping traffic to keep the 160 bikes together. All a bit cringeworthy and the other road users must have hated us.
R1 Dave said:
Big group rides. Used to do a monthly organised ride out years ago but when it got to the point of people crashing so often the organisers had to lay on a van to collect the broken bikes I bowed out. Mental rides like that seem to be a thing of the past, round here at least, but I went on a charity ride last week which turned out to be a convoy ride with no overtaking. It took an hour and a half to cover 30 miles at an average speed of 24mph (according to my Motorrad app) and was frankly embaressing; the organisers all rode tourers with orange strobes and were stopping traffic to keep the 160 bikes together. All a bit cringeworthy and the other road users must have hated us.
OMG that sounds awful.Question on the group rides thing.
What if you and a few mates, let's say 5-6 people total, want to get to a destination a few hours away. But you also have varying ability levels too.
Would you ride in a group of six at the slowest pace? Or just give everyone the destination, and maybe a couple of fuel/tea stops and say 'see you there'?
I don't really like group rides either, but I do enjoy touring with friends. Just wondering if this would be a good solution to enjoy the ride/view and not look at the bike in front of me all the time.
What if you and a few mates, let's say 5-6 people total, want to get to a destination a few hours away. But you also have varying ability levels too.
Would you ride in a group of six at the slowest pace? Or just give everyone the destination, and maybe a couple of fuel/tea stops and say 'see you there'?
I don't really like group rides either, but I do enjoy touring with friends. Just wondering if this would be a good solution to enjoy the ride/view and not look at the bike in front of me all the time.
Group rides, track days, cruisers, those blue camouflage trousers accompanied by a crappy old bandit types, biker cafes, motorcycle clubs, motocross, ‘vloggers’, scooters, people who don’t keep their bike at least semi clean and ‘race rep’ helmets or fairings on the road, ‘Repsol’, ‘Monster’ 
Surpassing all that however is my lack of understanding of that weird ‘bike shed’, Thornton Hundred, crap old bikes, no mudguard crowd.
Maybe I’m just a grumpy old man
Surpassing all that however is my lack of understanding of that weird ‘bike shed’, Thornton Hundred, crap old bikes, no mudguard crowd.
Maybe I’m just a grumpy old man
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