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Cheese Monkey wrote:Is that a FACT that only you in your head can prove is it
Sorry to hear the wife got injured mate. Interesting that someone who rides to the system and seems to bang on about quality of riding so much missed the danger of a car performing a u turn infront of them though......expand a bit more on the circumstances please.Stately wrote:
No bad considering that when we had a big accident T boning a U turning car many years ago, I was un hurt, but she had to undergoe four major operations in two weeks, including having a metal plate screwed permanently into her spine.
Report contradicts itself-Stately wrote:Cheese Monkey wrote:Is that a FACT that only you in your head can prove is it
" Biking seems to still be very much associated with a mid-life crisis as the average biker has only been riding for two years, despite his age".
Which can be found here
http://www.bennetts.co.uk/corporate/200 ... biker.html
It's only a survey, but probably as accurate as the one you are so keen to refer too
So 73% have either been riding for more than 3 years, or less than 1 year. No evidence in there at all that says most bikers are newbies.Biking seems to still be very much associated with a mid-life crisis as the average biker has only been riding for two years, despite his age.
How long have you been riding: 1-3 years (22.9%)
Now think up some decent examplesStately wrote:As I said.
If I put a pair of running shoes and a tracksuit one a week to run around the block - can I call myself an athlete ?
YES that's why there's amatuer athletic clubs!!
If I take a set of Jet ski's out on the odd Sunny Sunday - can I call my self a mariner ?
YES as you are out enjoying the water in some shape !!!
If I go to the skating rink at the weekend, should I call myself a skater ?
YES as you are skating !!!
If I do a bit of angling in my free time, - can I call myself a fisherman ?
Of course not.
So why should someone who keeps their bike in the garage nearly all year and bring it out once in a blue moon, be called a Biker
YES as they enjoy bike ownership that makes them a biker
nothing because it means nothing for road riding which is what this topic is about.deej wrote:Hell yeah but you've got to admit its fun winding the nobber up,you wouldn't have read it all else
The bennetts survey is quite good when you look at it logically, 23% have less than 2 years experience so could be classes as a newbie to road riding, that leaves 77% with more than 2 years experience
Just out of curiosity where does a 16year old with 10years motox experience stand on the newbie/biker/fake biker position ???
ILOVECOPS wrote:I thought this thread would of got more exciting now.....
Stately, I nobbed your missus last night.
Oh god, i 'm not a real biker then, i only go out on a few sunny days a year and the odd evening and don't top 2000 miles a year, and there was me thinking i was a biker because i liked bikes and have only been without one for about 4 years out of the last 25 and currently own two bikes purely for pleasure, truly gutted now my biker image has been blown. NOT....................Stately wrote:
Personally, if you asked me what a real biker is I wouldn't have the answer, but I know what a real biker isn't.
It's someone who dresses up according to whatever camp they subscribe too, goes out on a few sunny sundays in the Summer, and thinks that anyhing over 3000 miles a year is a lot
Not really, had a pulse but let herself go alot....obviously with such a negative,boring ole man as a partner, she had nothing to look good for.graham22 wrote:ILOVECOPS wrote:I thought this thread would of got more exciting now.....
Stately, I nobbed your missus last night.
Was she a real woman??
cue new debate on what makes a real woman, experienced, newbie, fake.....
Oh f*ck me the ghost of Fester...........Stately wrote:I know a few Angels, and they are not murderers.
Be very careful what you say publically.
ILOVECOPS wrote:Not really, had a pulse but let herself go alot....obviously with such a negative,boring ole man as a partner, she had nothing to look good for.graham22 wrote:ILOVECOPS wrote:I thought this thread would of got more exciting now.....
Stately, I nobbed your missus last night.
Was she a real woman??
cue new debate on what makes a real woman, experienced, newbie, fake.....
Pity.
That thing she does with her tongue tho...amazing.
