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Old Feb 25, 2010 | 07:53 AM
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motorcyclist or rider is someone who rides a motorcycle

a biker is something you dress up as
 

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Old Feb 25, 2010 | 08:22 AM
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I ride to work everyday. In my free time, I like to just ride. I wear a black leather jacket when it's cold outside, sometimes black chaps if it is really cold. Not into patches, but if you are that is cool. I like to ride, I like to do my own wrenching on the bike. Started out at about 5 years old on a pull start mini bike, rode just about everything since then. My ride of choice for the last 20 plus years has been Harleys.
I could care less what people label me, well except for drunk, because I am that.
 
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Old Feb 25, 2010 | 08:56 AM
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If someone asks me I tell them why, are you bike curious?
 
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Old Feb 25, 2010 | 11:00 AM
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Originally Posted by jpooch00
I've always thought of a biker as being an outlaw motorcycle gang member, like a 1%-er, Hells Angel, Devils Disciple etc. All the other terms would describe the other 99%.
seems like a logical response.
 
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Old Feb 25, 2010 | 11:28 AM
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I put them in two catagories, bike riders (bikers) and bike owners. Riders ride every day and don't worry if they have some dust or dirt on their bike. Bike owners bring it out of the garage on the weekend, providing it's sunny and warm and go for a little jaunt. I ride mine everyday, and right now it's dirty as hell, but I'll get around to washing it when the weather breaks. I consider myself a Biker.
 
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Old Feb 25, 2010 | 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by mongomark
If someone asks me I tell them why, are you bike curious?
Best post of this whole thread.
 
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Old Feb 25, 2010 | 12:06 PM
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Kinda reminds me of what a guy said to me at a gas station one day a while back. Was fueling up and a guy next to me started talking about the bike and stuff. All was going good untill he said "You dont look like a biker" I had to ask him "Whats a biker supposed to look like? That pretty much ended the conversation. I said have a good day and went on down the road.
 
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Old Feb 25, 2010 | 12:43 PM
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Originally Posted by harley-jones
Nope....he rides a RoadGlide!
I don't think so Homy....
 
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I don't know and I don't care. I ride to work everyday it's not snowing or raining buckets...that can be 120-240 miles a day. I wear textile jackets AND leather jackets. Leather chaps AND textile overpants. On my one day off a week, if the weather's nice, it's 2 up for a couple of hundred miles to make the wife happy. What's that make me? Happy as **** I don't live where it's snowing all the time!
 
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Old Feb 25, 2010 | 03:35 PM
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I am ME......that about sums it up.
 
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