Have you ever been disowned?

[roadthing]

Everyone accumulates friendly acquaintances through time,space and area you live - someone at the grocery market, the guy working the counter at the auto parts store, a person at the post office or at the dentist maybe etc etc. They really don't know much about you but always seem friendly or even happy to see you,shake your hand,some small talk etc. Once they find out you ride a motorcycle, their whole attitude toward you changes or even  "Oh,your one of those guys". Just curious, anyone ever notice or have this happen?

Nope. Just the opposite...

Once I find out that they DON'T ride, I'm done with them!

 

[wpg2rch]

I've only been disowned once, and that was by a Harley rider.
Ran into the husband of a friend of my wife's. Only met him a few times before and never talked bikes (I guess neither one of us knew the other rode). Well I ran into him on a charity bike ride at one of the stops, away from our bikes. We talked for a while about biking in general, where we've ridden, how often we get out, etc...then he asked me what I rode, I told him. As soon as he heard it wasn't a Harley, he didn't want anything to do with me. He definitely didn't want his friends knowing he was talking to someone on the "other side".
Since then, whenever my wife drags me to their place, he avoids talking to me about bikes like the plague...riding is never even mentioned or topic changed very quickly.

Now I'm not saying this to start anything, it was just this one guy with his friends. I have friends that have Harleys and have a great time with them. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt, but I don't need to waste any more time on this guy.

 

[Revlis]

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One other thing I think is really funny with how people treat you... I ride a Harley somewhere I get treated one way, I show up on the Busa I'll get treated another, and if I ride the Guzzi, yes even a third different attitude. Go Figure, humans are simple tribal animals... You're not in my camp Get the hell out...

I know exactly where you are coming from. I have been going to this "Harley" bar on Sundays for a few years for the cookouts. Always took the Hardley Dangerous. I am "aquainted" with most of the people who hangout there. I am hard to forget. 6'5" 285# and a little loud (USMC). So people remember me by sight. A few weeks ago I pulled in on the Busa because I was hungry and in the area. Man, the looks and stares and mumbling. I am thinking to myself- Self F**K these people. They know I have a F'ing Harley. What a bunch of low life scum sucking tird munching hypocritical scrotum lickers. So just to piss them off I stayed.
Sorry if this is a jack.

Nah Not a jack, tell us how you really feel though, don't hold back.

It's interesting the way our species functions. We Spend great amounts of time dividing ourselves into more and more specialized little groups. Christians, Muslim, Jew, or Harley, Import, Sportbike. Hell there's no point in mentioning Black, Asian, Latino, White, or whatever is there, we get this.

Hell idiots especially in the U.S. even do it with clothing Labels. If I am wearing Affliction, Ed Hardy, and Guess, I'll get treated one way. If I wear Carharts, a Hanes-Beefy T, and riding Boots? I get treated in a completely different way. It's messed up, especially when folks forget that they aren't the labels, the machines, or their claimed religion who makes them who they are. They loose sight of the fact that WHO WE ARE, is inside, in our minds, not the crap you claim as yours or the labels you swear allegiance to.

Now this is a thread jack...

 

[mrninja9]

see i guess i dont get this cause, the way i look everyone thinks i ride a harley( imaine that) but i ride with harleys so but i know there are alot of differences so but in another not you have to realize t wheels are 2 wheels. Alot of the guys i run with dont care. yeah i get alot of crap but they get mad when i tell them their bike is saying potato potato when it is idling. or pull out a small bag of oil dry... and they ask me where i keep the rice so but in your question never disowned that only happens at the bash

 

[Vic_E55_2001]

You want people to make judgments about you in a store or something? Buy a freaking BMW, people who used to be cool to you will hardly look at you.

I owned multiple BMWs and MBs and never noticed anything like that.. Quiet opposite ...

Or maybe I just didn`t noticed that because honestly I don`t care.

 

[SpeedAdict]

I get disowned all the time I just don't care, they will either keep talking to me or not either way is cool with me.

 

[Revlis]

You want people to make judgments about you in a store or something? Buy a freaking BMW, people who used to be cool to you will hardly look at you.

I owned multiple BMWs and MBs and never noticed anything like that.. Quiet opposite ...

Or maybe I just didn`t noticed that because honestly I don`t care.

I think a lot of it has to do with my current employment. when I was doing the Suit and tie thing, nobody would have said boo. So I think it's the environment to a certain extent.

Then again it could just be that you're oblivious or have owned a BMW or Merc long enough that you've gotten used to it???

I think the worst part is my local BMWCCA seems to have issues with younger folks in the the Twin Turbo E92. If you're not into some antique E30-36 you're just not in...

 

[jefferycarman]

I have a few people who no longer talk to me. I don't miss them much anyway.

My boss asks me jacked up questions all the time now that she knows I ride. One of our co-workers husbands had a bad accident and was in the ICU. Parking lot and no helmet are the gist of it. She comes up and starts with the "you always wear your helmet right? Even just moving the motorcycle?"

Then to the life insurance points... If you ride a motorcycle you are going to die... tomorrow or this weekend!

But in general people don't hate me because I ride... It's just cause I am me

 

[Vic_E55_2001]

But in general people don't hate me because I ride... It's just cause I am me