Each rider has a style (although he does not know)
The style is part of the equation of the motorcycle for each pilot. It comes every time you buy a new bicycle or a jacket, customize, studying his reflection in a glass window, and when you shoot into a crowd that watches every move you make. All this makes you think the style you have or want to create.
Maybe you want to be fashionable. But you can get philosophical about it and give your presentation style – if you know who you are. What image do you want to project as a cyclist? What do you tell people about you? Style of development begins with choosing a bike ride. Most bicycle crashes in one of the styles below, and shall go out style. The bike and the style is inspired to go together. You can change your style too. Cross over to another bike. But that can get expensive.
I see six styles of all those around me. Find yours here and start defining your own by reading these characteristics. If you ride any of these bikes in these categories, and is leaning towards their styles.
Freestyle
This person is not the James Dean / Marlon Brando / Peter Fonda type. He likes the ride and the breeze and looking impressive in tennis shorts and deck shoes without socks. You can neglect the leather looks and image. He refuses to bend to any well-defined, rigid styles characterized below. He bops around town in a Hawaiian shirt and OP corduroy shorts or cruise along the beach by car in 70-90 degree weather, creating a whole world envies to announce: "This is life." Forget about security. The helmet only gets in the way of his hair waving in the breeze damp. Shaving the nipples out of his chest with bruises, or rounding down their knee caps to nerves and spinal not going to happen. There is a bit of the beach 60 movies in this style. We see it in Florida, California and other beach, resort, or communities retreat, where life is slower. Teenagers who are not serious about riding, the elderly, and people who are frightened by the big bikes to make the style entertainment. But just as easy to see in any place where a person just doing errands, you save money on gas, or cruises to enjoy the experience. Those who do not travel or often have a scooter or a smaller displacement bike to adopt this style. It is quiet and surrounded by an air of innocence and an attitude of saving money.
Honda Goldwing Style
Now we begin the major styles. GoldWinging is a unique style in motorcycling. GoldWingers are in their own world. No one but you do what they do. Check out any normal bike can frequent night. Bikers will be wandering around and mixing, but below a the next will be a contingent of GoldWingers enclave as a wallflower at a 50's Sock Hop. But in fact it makes any difference, because there are so many of them out there they have an army of his own statements to them only. They have enough peer support that no matter how things may seem strange to others, think that all they do is preferred. GoldWingers mount these big, bus-like, half-ton jet to decorate and maintain certain behaviors in common. But there is one that Goldwing defined above all others. Lights. The Goldwing par excellence will be seen as bearing a solar system at night. The bike and the road all bathed in the luminescence. The flashing lights of the front, side, back, on wheels, helmets, everywhere. This is because a Goldwing is hammered with the gospel of safety. The Security is by word of this style more than any other. Therefore, the lights. They believe in being seen. And it will be seen for all types of reasons. Each one can imagine doodad conceivable hangs from a Goldwing. Helmet holders lights reflect off the back like sequins little. Stuffed animals rest on the decoders. There will CB microphones, helmet with wires hanging, pin stripes, GPS, coasters, wind wings, horns, all chrome vent holes, engraved windshield detailed paintings of landscapes and Indians and wolves, couplers, refrigerators, sheepskin seats, accounts, speakers, arm rests, back rests, holders tissues, electrical outlets, XM radios, flags, antennas, woodgrain plastic trim, and all the comforts of a car. If they can think is in that country. The last word for a Goldwing is "minimalist." A Goldwing maxes. They are the most ornate and stored in the motorcycling world, which so are the liking of many. They go out on the road with all the facilities there. Except for one thing. Leather. This is not normally included in the Goldwing style. You WILL see denim jackets with emblems GWRRA and pins, satin jackets and crazy things sometimes looking like a striped clown pants, especially at his rallies. Another feature is the pressure to join GWRRA Goldwing (Gold Wing Road Riders Association) with all their camaraderie, but not necessary. GoldWinging comes with the Couple of the Year (lots of emphasis in the 2-up riding), the names of the couple painted on their bicycles, walking at night, and numerous restaurants stops. Goldwing people (not unlike many other bikers) often increases significantly to the total weight of their bikes. group rides are a phenomenon. Everyone with his saddle "CB" and a rider that the locomotive and other is the caboose. This little train rides along at a moderate speed and is guided by the leader and finally as alert riders of all movements should be done with all potential hazards on the road. GoldWinging many cyclists make much sense. Moreover, none of the other styles no sense for the other styles either. But requires a certain frame of mind to come to this. It has its own culture and lifestyle, as well as a HOG club. So who does this? Go to meetings and so just look around. You see a lot of older guys and their wives. The cost of the bike probably has something to do with it. They are independent thinkers, according to a certain philosophy about motorcycling is legitimate if that is what you are and what you like and enjoy doing. "Do" is another good word for the style Goldwing. These People have all sorts of chapters, officers, and things to do together. GWRRA is done.
BMW Style
Beemer people are among the most independent thinkers in motorcycling. This is because, by comparison, there are few out of BMW even though there are some more bikes is technologically sophisticated. But they are expensive. To buy a Beemer, you should strive to think outside the flock. They look different to most popular bikes out there, the more peculiar is the GS. If you buy one and not a loner, you become a recluse because riding alone most of the time. Why? Nobody will be able to keep up with you at a time. These things fly. But the BMW drivers prefer to travel alone anyway. Do not travel in packs. You will not see them loaded with ornaments useless. Only what is essential to work LONG DISTANCE RIDES in high rates of speed for the hundreds of thousands of miles on the life of the bike, well ahead adjustment of the crowd behind him. Beemer driver is confident, confident, and swimming upstream against the current. He does not need any approval of the majority. For all this goes hand in hand, the crowd Beemer has a style as distinctive as bikes on which they ride. Leather is not the style of BMW. Textile is. With armor and warm clothing. And full riding suits that look like the Michelin tire man. Therefore, time is irrelevant. Beemer people are willing everything. Being in a helmet. With gloves and GPS and XM radios and waterproof boots and saddle bags and black tape back in your bags that reflects light like the sun at night. It also likely that a camper. Completely independent and self-sufficient. A two-wheel RV camping gear loaded with width and height, including tires, sleeping bags, tents, chairs, stoves and refrigerators. A BMW driver is alone. Your compliance is the lack of conformity. He is more or less ignored. But he is a Marine and thought to navigate at best. All the other bikes are lower, and the jockeys who ride them have been misled or are ignorant.
Want to talk about motorcycles? What cyclist does not? Beemer type leads to the next level. Most people talk about new ones coming out next year or some of the final models around. Beemer men lovers of history. I love to ride the story as well. Motorcycles of the 50, 60, 70, 80. He is more interested in the largest of the latter. Ease rather than complexity.
Some of the most probable in the world ride Beemers. If a person does not think like that at all, would be a BMW driver. Lots of Midwestern farmers feel about these things and roll up at rallies as if they just left the barn. Its manifestations are benign. I went to a rally in Iowa Beemer spring. All registrants were given a cup. You are granted the right to unlimited alcohol for the weekend. Parked on the basis of rally was a beer wagon open 24 hours a day for three days. It was the biggest bong you could think of Niagara Falls a beer poured over him. All beers and meals were in the share rally, and emptied the beer wagon without stopping every hour on the clock. The event ran smoothly. Nobody got drunk or naked. Think innocent freestyle, striking for Goldwing, and the plain to BMW.
Harley Style
This is the style of the majority. It is not clear. Most conceptions of cyclists are in this category. 99% of the most riders in most rallies this model version. Is marked by four characteristics. CHROME. No plastic. It is a signature element that shines in every place where they can be fitted. BLACK. For almost everything. BLUE. Like the jeans. LEATHER. Add doo rags, beer flowed like a fire hydrant, beards, mustaches, long hair, patches and loaded walks expensive silver. Throw in muscles and tattoos, chains. pack riding. Vests worn outside the vests. racket Thunder. Each runner tries to raise the dead before the Day of Judgement and get cagers to curse. The lack of confidence or overconfidence with the constant limit a traffic light that says everyone around them, "Look at me." sexy women. Skulls. Club names. Revelry. Black and orange Harley-Davidson and writing everything from boots underwear. T-shirts for all the Harley shops on the planet. Sellers in the thousands. Charity walks. Poker runs. $ 100 minimum for all things Harley. The omnipresent Harley-Davidson dealership stocked at each exit of the interstate. H style is emulated by all age groups from children to seniors. The last rebel and compliance most independent. The bikes are cruisers or metric cruisers. Leather is the attire of rigor, the uniform of a long tradition that looks good. Fits soldiers which transports them to a "T". And it's practical because leather provides the best protection when you visit evil. Textile is loathed as a Goldwing. This style can be use every day of the year, even if they are riding or have never ridden a motorcycle in his life miserable, because it is a fashion statement used by movie stars Teeny boppers to infants. It is the style. Black leather requests to adorn the classic solitaire.
Sport Biker Style
The biker style sport gains momentum every year. Sit on a promenade. What bikes are coming down the pike? Sport bikes often outnumber cruises seven to one. The reasons are: the price. It is a half or so to get into a sport bike compared to a Harley. Speeds. police give up if you fly by the street at 100 miles per hour. They turn around and ahead of radio, with the hope that is not out of range frequency. Can horse 10 miles through the Howard Frankland Bridge in Tampa Bay and is still happening around the world. Adrenaline shoots through your veins like cocaine while cutting between cars and blast past them as the F-15. Cagers almost flying off the road when you sneak on them with the sharp in the left lane just before they were about to enter. to IMAGE. Cruisers complain are for the old. Sport bikes reflect selfishness and carefree youth, fearless risk-taker value unnecessary. Juventud. They can bend like a rubber band in such things. The boy sits in his seat Lazy Boy cruiser and picks up his own leg to climb. This requires a different style. No leather. Unless it looks like it came from a race track and is rated for 200 mph. Textile is the suit. And exo-skeleton armor strapped to her back. Of Indeed, the armor everywhere. With a package. And racing boots with colorful helmets. Often tied to one side. The decoration is more pronounced and unimaginable to all , over 30 if it is the hood ornament on the back. The girl. The knees on both sides of the face, back bent like a hinge, the belt straps painted on bare back, traveling at 100 miles per hour in short shorts and grabs his waist, while the fool that both rejoices in the race for speed and think about their eternal destiny if something goes crazy. Harley is a male style or classic style sport bike is crazy.
His own man Style
In addition to the Beemer driver, this is the pilot who refuses to cruise all you have to imprint the words of Harley-Davidson. There is a load runner and fits your lifestyle. He looks at the crowd and enjoy the demonstrations, but "see" is the keyword, do not. If there is something that has meaning for him going to borrow a useful feature of another style if someone else (most likely, no one else) does or not. These people are few.
So they're there. Motorcycle style. You have one, and is likely to be one of them. You style is very innocent, striking, friction, crazy, classic / male or rebellious. In your mind or with the bike and everything related to it, you're in one of these camps.
About the Author
Dale is a resident of Florida and has ridden motorcycles for over 30 years. He writes primarily humorous articles and caricatures. www.dalehavencox.weebly.com