Quote Originally Posted by Grazor View Post
Funny you mentioned that, one of my biggest peeves is the male menopausal crew who rode their friends 90 cc 2 stroke yamahaha when they were 14 and think they can hop on a road king at 58 years of age.
Not hard to spot them, the bike is immaculate with low mileage and every conceivable factory extra. They wear Harley helmet, jacket, gloves, boots, socks, probably underwear and have 300 pins and patches on their vest.
They ride too fast or too slow. They have an intercom on their helmet so they can communicate with the pillion, which is usually a 350 lb behemoth squeezed in to a size too small matching leather jacket and pants.
They all belong to the HOG club and wear a beard.
On Monday they get in their suits and toddle off to the office in their Audi.
I give them a wide birth.
The only up side is they buy a new bike every two years, so you can pick up a low mileage bike for cheap.

Sent from a moto x far far away
Well aside from the ones they scrap because they cant ride and end up going over a cliff or hitting a tree/truck/wall/car/each other etc etc...
Round here they made variable prices for licence plates dinging sport bikes 1400$/year then anything else over 400cc 600$/year and under 400cc 400$/year.
A car costs 250$/year to plate Yes plates are ridiculous here! Bikes and cars used to be the same till about 5 years ago
The excuse was that the sport bikes were more dangerous but the govt stats showed it was 50+ first time riders on cruisers that crashed the most. Youngsters already couldn't afford the massive insurance on sport bikes so it really wasn't that much of a problem but they did succeed in driving a lot of bike shops out of business.