Bikers' image with the public - we've got a long way to go!

[Yeti]

Whats more funny is that we are all on this site for the love of motorcycling, bankers, lawyers, engineers, teachers, police officer etc............

Ah well... keep smiling peeps

..........I'm with the ETC'erers!!!!........

.......up the ETC'erers!!!!........

[winxp-master]

My apologies kind sir, and ofcourse i meant also the mad as a box of frogs very VERY high crane operators...

[Whealie]

well not if they are Italian bikes.....eveen Benito would have problems with the electrics....

And the Germans have problems with output shafts

[AIRWOLF]

We, ( me, Ollie & Lauren) went to visit a very ill friend in HDU the other day,

upon entering the ward - " Oh! local hells angels are here!"

I think she was joking but not sure

I suspect she was taking the p*ss.

[Tony Varadero]

And the Germans have problems with output shafts

well one of them did.....I think.....

[dogwheel]

Hey, I thought it was all in the spirit of a bit of fun.

Austin, do you remember the Bandon Arms? At the bottom of the Hermitage (the Hill on the W'hampton Road leaving Bridgnorth, for those from gentler parts) oh, have I just put my foot in it again?
Cheers.

[BIG D]

Always been a biker and rather liked the tag. I used to be one of the "Bridgnorth bikers".

Motorcyclists to me are the beardy BMW brigade riding airhead R80's from the 70's and 80's.

I had a run in with the Wolverhampton hells angels chapters once. Nasty lot who were neither bikers or motorcyclists, just criminal thugs and bullies and give us all a bad name.

I was in Wolverhampton in the 70's & 80's Bridgenorth bikers knew them well, so I was standing in Cope's motorcycles Wolverhampton one Saturday when there was an awful ruckus outside, the old lady who lived next door was having a go at one of the so called hell'e Angel's for urinating against her wall, all he said was Do you know who we are, say's it all realy but some were well educated.
I was refused entrance to a cafe once dressed in full bike gear [Belstaff's] I said fair enough, but said to the proprietor just out of interest these garments cost more than those suits that are adorning your tables.

BIG D

[Austin]

Yes I remember the bandon Arms. Had a big fight in there once... Bikers against some other lot - jeez the things you did when you were a youngster . Main biker pubs were the fox or the raven and donkey dicks cafe at weekends. I do remember a time when we were banned from every single pub in bridgnorth and surrounding area. In fact banks's brewery had signs up in the car park of virtually every tied pub in Shropshire and Staffordshire saying "no bikers".

bikes and bikers were a lot different in them days

[pete h]

This has made me remember an incident many many years back when I used to do surveillance riding for the crime squads, we'd spent a long day out on the roads, ended up down near tunbridge wells, and stopped off at a nice looking country public house on the way back to our hotel for the night.

I'd noticed the no coach parties signs on entering the car park, but obviously missed the no satan worshipping, child beating, drug abusing, bikers allowed sign.

I arrived last at the place as I'd had to fuel up en route, 12 or so colleagues already stood in the bar ordering the first of what would doubtless have been too many drinks - (it was the 80's, that sort of thing happened) -
Walk in the rear door, landlord points a finger at me and says, get out, we don't serve your sort, can't you read etc etc..

Slightly affronted I retreat to the car park to fume.

Unfortunately for him, at least six other social or work riders on the team continued to order pints, shorts etc and engage him in small talk about why he wouldn't serve bikers.

Once he finished putting a voluminous quantity of alcohol on the bar, everyone gets up and walks out of the pub - no drink taken,no bill paid, no harm done.

But he was advised that it would have been cheaper just to serve the nice man on the motorbike.

[dogwheel]

Reply just evaporated! Here goes again.
Nowadays the Bandon still belongs to Banks's, but pretends to be Marstons and is a sort of affordable "Gastropub", quite resprctable and very little fighting.
It makes me cringe to recall some of the daft and sometimes awful things we got up to as lads, come to think, perhaps todays kids aren't all that bad, at least we had jobs to go to, or look forward to, and wages to spend on the essentials (Bikes Birds and Beer).
I can't avoid the issue any longer, here is the big confession, I own up to a beard and an airhead boxer BM. I don't know what to do, I'm so ashamed, I'll have to log off and hope you'll have forgiven me by tomorrow. Cheers.