My Rant! Where are all the riders going?

The guys I was riding with this weekend to the Lions rd have all pulled out as they claim it's too dangerous! Really makes you wonder how many riders out there actually have any passion left for riding.

You pull up on a ride and occasionally you'll see a bunch of litre bikes etc etc go past so you jump on and tag along only to find out they ride like girls on the rag. By any means I am definitely not 'fast' yet am unable to find bugger all riders to go with for a decent fang.

Just getting out and doing wheelies for the day or getting the knee down at stupidly slow corner speeds just for fun is great, yet where or how often do you see guys popping it up out of bends or pulling up on the straights and practicising standups or rear peg wheelies? None of the above is in the 'too hard basket' for any rider. Especially those who go out and buy a Superduke.

One point I find interesting is that when you pull up after a ride, either for lunch or a break along the way, you watch everyone and most of them will say nothing. They simply have done nothing so far that is worth talking about. No wheelies, no knee-down, no butt clenching late braking (not really a good thing), no nothing that is worth reliving over a coffee with your mates. So why go for the ride? Wouldn't it be far more comfortable to bring the car? Seriously, the car has hot and cold air, radio, CD's, all the luxuries you could ask for.

What got me to writing this was we went for a ride with 4 new guys last weekend and when we stopped for lunch all four of them spent 10 minutes solid sms'ing on their moblie phones while we sat there watching..at the same table I should add. After 5 more minutes of this I asked "what the fook are you guys doing? Put those things away, we're out for a ride you know!" They almost seemed put out. Either way I knew the ride was over as they were more interested in sms's than riding.

Does anyone else experience this or is it just a Brisbane, Australia curse type of thing? Is it a new generation of riders emerging that ride purely to get to the coffee shop?

Where's my anti-depressant box...

You have just discovered what the rest of us already know....


.....Aussies are pussies

First off, texting is for girls &/or boys who are on a short leash. I ride to get AWAY from that horse hockey.
Call the wife/GF/SO and get it over with - be where you are NOW, not where you think you should be.
Second, scratching around is fine, but pushing the limits of traction/sanity/safety on public roads will catch you out one day, and it will cost. A lot. Be careful. I'm not saying be a pansy about it, but when you start approaching the limit, it's easy to go over it. I do my share of wheelies & slides, but very few people see them occur. Or the scary stuff.

Motorcycling is a singular, individual sport. I don't ride with others very often, because they 1) bore me 2) scare me 3) too slow 4) too fast 5) too dangerous 6) too safe, etc, etc. If I ride with other people, I take the risk that some/all of the previous conditions will affect me, and I tolerate it, or I ride solo.

But, I haven't ridden in Australia yet, either.

my crowd is for sure some real hell raisers, my biggest bitch is they all fecking smoker like freight trains and I can tell when they are jonesing for a fix, I hate the fecing things and the time it takes away from riding, I have jumped ship and started hanging with a faster crowd but most of them are scared of me... maybe I am too old and just don't text enough for them, I hate fecking cell phones too. I just want to wheelie fron corner to corner and be going slow only when the radar is on me... I hate cops catching em and have had the first 2 ticket in the last 60 days in 25 years,,,, crap thee, I like to ride alone cos most riders are much too careful for my taste and speed. Lets rock... collyer lets meet up in tenn this spring in may!!! Joe has become this madman and wants to go blitz some roads.... who's game cos I am on the hunt..

here is the edit!----> joe get a life and quit hating everything.... I really do not hate, that is normally not in my vocabulary sorry guys for this but I love much more than I hate, you know.... ? when you have peol=ple attacking you out of the blue sky how is this suposto make me feel.. it is a vent so if you treat is like this then it works but make some people mad.