At my place of work, riding a bike - any kind of bike - is regarded as a bit 'unusual'. Local Government Officers don't do that sort of thing. There are about six bikers in the building (out of 480 people), but only two of us ride to work. The other guy rides a Royal Enfield Bullet - which is just about acceptable (slow, old, leaky and dignified). Nobody comments though. Not the 'done thing'.
I used to have to visit elderly sheltered accommodation as part of my work and interview tenants. I don't drive a car so at first I thought turning up in my leathers might not go down well with the oldies. So much for stereotypes! It turned out that they just wanted to talk to me about the bikes they or their boyfriends used to ride when they were younger.
Hud
“Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
We actualy have 3 bikers where I work thats out of 20 people.We have one FZ1 a Suzuki Savage and my Bandit 12.The CEO is very engine mad so enjoys seeing peolpe spending their wages on bikes/cars.And thats sort of filtered through company.So its pretty good.
Mind you the best thing is when we get a harley mad client in from the states and he gets disgusted that we dont have Harleys.However they are usual RUBs.
I work in an office building with ten floors and few big companies have their offices here so there must be a lot of people. Out all the masses streaming in and out only four ride bikes to work.
Since I wear a suit everyday I can't bring my bike (Harley) but see there are mostly cruisers, 1 V-Rod and the rest metric. I tried to strike up a conversation with one of the metric guys and although he wasn't rude, definitely was dismissive.
Shame.
To answer the topic, never really had any bikers totally ignore me out on the road and have even had some nice conversations at lights with Sport bike riders!
I still don't see very many on the interstate though.
