Tuesday, 24 January 2017

Bikers and their style: a perception or reality

This blog is my personal experience with a biker. Well, you can’t call it personal, as I was the one eavesdropping on his conversations and felt like it should be known to everyone. Sorry, can’t share the name of the place and the person about whom I am talking. Let me ask you first, what is the first thing comes to your mind when I say I want to talk about a biker. Maybe those leather jackets, either a Harley or some other badass bike like that, guys with metallic biker jewellery, etc. Dictionary says, Biker is a noun and has two meanings, “1. A person who rides a bicycle, motorcycle, or motorbike, especially in competition or as a hobby. And 2. (Informal) a member of a motorcycle gang”. Rest of the definition you conjured in your mind is just your perception of the person.

 So, hypothetically I was sitting in the coffee parlour and this guy was sitting at the next table reading the newspaper and talking to himself.  There was a news which said that a biker met with an accident in which the passenger sitting with him died on the spot and both of the people were not wearing any helmets when questioned they said, “we are bikers we do not wear helmets.” The last line ticked off the guy.

He started blabbering. These guys are spoiling the name of bikers. We are rough and all but we always take responsibility of the person travelling with us. He also said that we follow the rules of the bike. One rule among many of them states that never leave the place without wearing a helmet. Few other rules which he blabbered were,

·         Always keep your bike cleaned up.
·         Safety of the passenger on your bike is your responsibility.
·         Drink as much as you can handle.
·         All bikers are your brothers by nature.
·         Ride a lot but with safety.

This one is not a rule but he wanted to add it to the list, “be a stud and wear those amazing sterling silver biker jewellery, to keep them coming”. I am still thinking to keep what coming.

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