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Jul 31, 2015 | 02:06 PM

#21

1BRAVO9

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From: 1000 Miles From Nowhere

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Originally Posted by Bodean46

I'm not a biker by any stretch of the imagination, however, I bought my 01 in 2007 with 4000 miles on it and as of parking it today, it has 60857 miles. The wife has been packing behind me for most of those, she's 63, I'm 60, with 5 back surgeries, and a quadruple heart bypass, and been to Sturgis a time or 2, but the only trailer time mine has seen has been when the bike decided she had had enough and broke down, lol! Not slammin anyone for hauling them, we just prefer to ride.

First of all Bodean I envy you and your wife. Not only do I envy you for the amount of time you are able to ride but that you are able to ride after the two health issues you've dealt with over the course of your life. I pray you get another 56,000 miles.

I have never considered myself a "biker", I challenge anyone on this forum to link to a post where I have claimed to be a biker. Hell, after seeing the people who claim to be bikers I'm not sure I would feel comfortable being labeled as such. The ones I have issue with is the "I'm a biker and your not crowd". These are the guys that go around the forum waiting to pounce on anyone that says anything that they can use as evidence to show the forum that they are a "real biker" and whoever they are pouncing on isn't. Usually the two best topics that bring the "real bikers" out to pounce are trailers and how many miles you have ride in a given time period. Any one of those two subject come up, and the "real bikers" come out of the wood-work to tell you how much of a "real biker" they are.

You should search the forums and you'll see what I mean. Hell I have even seen forums where according to some "real biker" standards you may be a "poser" or a "wallet biker", or maybe even a "RUB". If you bought a bike in 2007 with 4,000 miles on it and it only has 60,000 now that is only 7K a year and that isn't averaging near enough miles to be considered a "real biker".

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Jul 31, 2015 | 04:17 PM

#22

TwiZted Biker

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From: Niles Canyon Ca.

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Originally Posted by Machiavelli

First of all where did I mistake bikers for owners and part time riders?

I don't have a misunderstanding, your adolescent juvenile post does nothing but support my point.

Thanks.

I especially love when people on this forum think they have the definition of "biker" cornered.

Love it you types are so easy.. All you have to do to wind them up is point out they aren't what they are trying to so hard to come off as.

Jul 31, 2015 | 04:35 PM

#23

1BRAVO9

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From: 1000 Miles From Nowhere

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Originally Posted by TwiZted Biker

Love it you types are so easy.. All you have to do to wind them up is point out they aren't what they are trying to so hard to come off as.

What are you pointing out that I'm not?

Jul 31, 2015 | 04:42 PM

#24

TwiZted Biker

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From: Niles Canyon Ca.

I'm still trying to figure out the point you pointed out I didn't get and forum rules say I can't get any more descriptive than that cause you really wouldn't like the layman's version.

Jul 31, 2015 | 04:49 PM

#25

JimmyDee

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From: North Carolina

I rode my first bike that belonged to a friend who cared nothing about it in 1963. He would not sell it, but as long as I made the payments I got to call it mine, rode it until I bought my own in 1965.

Throughout the years I have not been without a bike for any extended period of time. I can honestly say that it was not until I joined this forum in 2008 that I ever heard any dissension about who rode and who trailered.

I really never thought about it or for that matter cared what you did with your money or your bike. I guess I just took it for granted that everyone else felt the same. I have ridden through several US states as well as several countries in Europe, some solo and some with great friends.

Many times we would trailer and many times we would ride and I do not remember people being any less friendly regardless of how we arrived. Guess we were look upon as bike owners who were riders.

Jul 31, 2015 | 06:03 PM

#26

E8USMCRET

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From: NC, USA

If you sail via Amphibious ship to combat or fly in which one of you are the "real warriors" and which one isn't really in combat?

Does anyone see the lunacy in determining how someone arrives someplace?

I've ridden there and trailered and can tell you I felt a whole lot more human and rested to enjoy my one week off a year when I trailered.

Jul 31, 2015 | 07:29 PM

#27

bigjames4xl

Tourer

Joined: Nov 2012

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From: Columbia sc

Yep, I got a trailer, and I'll use it anytime I feel like, and I don't need any "bikers" approval for what I do or don't do!

Jul 31, 2015 | 10:43 PM

#28

Angelfire36

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Joined: Aug 2008

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From: Sierra Foothills, California

I never had anything against trailers. I never could understand why someone would willingly trailer if they had the chance to ride though. And, especially on a trip like Sturgis, if I had to trailer to that, I just wouldn't go. On mc trips, the ride out there and back is the adventure. It makes the trip. You know, "it's not the destination, it's the journey", that's just not an old saying, it really means something. You trailer around everywhere and you never get that feeling of satisfaction after a long ride, a little tired and beat up, but happy as hell to have taken that ride. You meet more people along the way and experience more of nature when your living life on your bike on the road, even if it is just for a week or even just a day or two. That's what you are missing when you trailer and that's why some have trouble relating to it.