I hate other motorcycle riders

[Gummiente]

Ok folks, it's time to reel things in. Let's keep this civil and take the personal stuff to PM's.

[HYPERR]

This thread is ridiculous. First off, anyone who uses an el Camino as evidence that cars and trucks are similar is smoking something funny.

Obviously that guy said that with tongue in cheek as evidenced by the smilie he added.

[Superfly3176]

I kinda figured I would be thrown out of this forum for what I said. I admit I was angry when I typed it cause I just experienced being picked on and harrassed cause I ride a scooter. I have no friends and I just needed someone to talk to, to vent my anger, I was seeking someone that experienced the same problems. I was just being honest. Its coming to the point that sometimes I have the feelings of being ashamed and embaressed when I get my scooter out for a ride, the way other bikers point and laugh at me gets me angry. Crotch rockets always have something to prove by wanting to race me but when I point to them to pull over so I can talk to them they refuse, I just want to ask them why do they want to race against a scooter for and I would admit to them my scooter isnot in the same league. I can tell if another rider is a beginner or experienced rider by just watching the way he rides, slows down for curves, takes curves too wide and so on, and this same rider that cannot ride his bike cuts me down just because I ride a scooter.
Its amazing to me that some group has a poker run where the money benifits a little girl with cancer, but these same people refuse to allow me to pay for and ride in their poker run just because I am riding a scooter, so I ask is the poker run for the little girl with cancer, or is it to show off your bikes with lots of chrome?

Now that's just sad.

[sv-wolf]

I kinda figured I would be thrown out of this forum for what I said. I admit I was angry when I typed it cause I just experienced being picked on and harrassed cause I ride a scooter. I have no friends and I just needed someone to talk to, to vent my anger, I was seeking someone that experienced the same problems. I was just being honest. Its coming to the point that sometimes I have the feelings of being ashamed and embaressed when I get my scooter out for a ride, the way other bikers point and laugh at me gets me angry. Crotch rockets always have something to prove by wanting to race me but when I point to them to pull over so I can talk to them they refuse, I just want to ask them why do they want to race against a scooter for and I would admit to them my scooter isnot in the same league. I can tell if another rider is a beginner or experienced rider by just watching the way he rides, slows down for curves, takes curves too wide and so on, and this same rider that cannot ride his bike cuts me down just because I ride a scooter.
Its amazing to me that some group has a poker run where the money benifits a little girl with cancer, but these same people refuse to allow me to pay for and ride in their poker run just because I am riding a scooter, so I ask is the poker run for the little girl with cancer, or is it to show off your bikes with lots of chrome?

Marvin, old mate, if you had come on these boards and just had a good moan about this without getting agressive, you would probably have got a lot of sympathetic replies. The people on TMW are a pretty mature, sensible bunch and don't generally have issues about things like this. If you ride two wheels, you are among friends here. OK! Just remember that.

So, it sounds like you have been getting a lot of flack from a lot of idiots. I'm guessing that most of them are pretty young and haven't had time to develop enough good sense to know any better. Forget about them. Don't let them get you down. What matters in life is how you feel about yourself.

Take care

Richard

[sapaul]

I have no friends and I just needed someone to talk to, to vent my anger, I was seeking someone that experienced the same problems.

Okay, I am going to be brutally honest here. It's not your bike that it is the problem, its you and you arrogant, and narcistic attitude that is the problem. If you present yourself in real life the way you come across in these forums, then I am not surprised at all that you have no friends and no one wants to ride with you. I am pretty easy going and get along with most people, but if I came across you in real life, I'd think "what a p rick" and tell you to p iss off.

Instead of worrying about what people think about your bike, you should be worrying about what people think about you, and from what I can see, they aren't thinking anythng good. So my best advice to you, stop be such a t0sser and work on you personality.

Damn, you beat me too it. Especially this bit ( I'd think "what a p rick" and tell you to p iss off.) Sounds like a troll anyway.

[a_hippie]

I kinda figured I would be thrown out of this forum for what I said. I admit I was angry when I typed it cause I just experienced being picked on and harrassed cause I ride a scooter. I have no friends and I just needed someone to talk to, to vent my anger, I was seeking someone that experienced the same problems. I was just being honest. Its coming to the point that sometimes I have the feelings of being ashamed and embaressed when I get my scooter out for a ride, the way other bikers point and laugh at me gets me angry. Crotch rockets always have something to prove by wanting to race me but when I point to them to pull over so I can talk to them they refuse, I just want to ask them why do they want to race against a scooter for and I would admit to them my scooter isnot in the same league. I can tell if another rider is a beginner or experienced rider by just watching the way he rides, slows down for curves, takes curves too wide and so on, and this same rider that cannot ride his bike cuts me down just because I ride a scooter.
Its amazing to me that some group has a poker run where the money benifits a little girl with cancer, but these same people refuse to allow me to pay for and ride in their poker run just because I am riding a scooter, so I ask is the poker run for the little girl with cancer, or is it to show off your bikes with lots of chrome?

Yo Marv:

Take a chill pill. Check out your local "bike night" and go meet some folks. I've ridden the tiny to huge and I LOVE bikes of all sorts. In fact, in my case, anything old IS GOOD. Vintage bikes just rock my butt for some reason.

My point is, I dig scooters too. If I had more money and space, I'd get a kick out of one of those metro scoots!

I ain't the one out kind of guy either. Plenty of folks dig what you ride or else the bike would never have been created in the first place.

Anyway, chill out a bit, take a breath, pound a soda (non-caf!) and meet some other riders and get past the "I'm a better rider than thee" thing.

My best, regards

[sapaul]

Hey a hippie

easy for you to say, you have been riding 40 years and have a really cool bike. Marv has a scooter, not exactly full of street cred.

I think he may have to work harder for friends than you. Hell I have never met you but you are on my friends list

[dr_bar]

Scooters aren't motorcycles, there's a distinctive difference in how they operate, how you sit on them etc. They're only motorcycles in the sense that they have 2 wheels. VRODs aren't real harley davidsons, because well, harley davidsons make 45 degree aircooled vtwins. The Vrod doesn't fit in that category.

Which of these very different vehicles isn't a bicycle???

[sapaul]

Dunno, but that first one looks like a scooter recover vehicle

[dr_bar]

Dunno, but that first one looks like a scooter recover vehicle

The point is, they're all bicycles, like all two wheeled powered vehicles are motorcycles...

Well maybe not those electric ones... LOL.