Met the friendliest sumbitch standing in line!

My wife is amazed at how I'll start up conversations with total strangers.

So I'm at Gander Mountain waiting to pay for some fishin' lures when I notice a dude in front of me in a textile BMW jacket and a plain white Arai lid. There's a delay at the register and the guy takes off the jacket (getting hot, I recon) and lays it on a display with the Beemer logo facing up. I say "Does that get pretty good air flow?" "Yeah, if you're going 100mph" he half mumbles over his shoulder (note he doesn't look at me). I add, "I have a Cortech. It's all mesh, but it has really good padding. I haven't had to test ballistic nylon yet!" I was hoping for a laugh, but got no response from Mr. Cool as Shit. "What do you ride?" I ask. Cool dude pokes his beak in the direction of the jacket and barely mumbles "BMW". No model designation, just "BMW". I notice he still has not looked at me. I proceed to try and make a connection with a fellow motorcyclist. "I just sold my Buell, an interesting bike..." Nothing... It's his turn to pay for his merchandise. He makes small talk with the cashier, pays for his shit and walks off. What a fucking ray of sunshine that dude was!

Yeah, those BMW riders are pretty much all snobs. When I joined the BMW MOA, I was notified that I was from that point forward bound by law to always display a BMW roundel (the appropriate word to describe the logo) and never allow the roundel to touch a surface used by the unwashed masses, such as a countertop or heaven forbid, a floor or chair seat.

No shit??? You're yanking my chain, aren't you??? I literally laughed at the guy as he was walking away! How proud can that make a person if a total stranger laughs at him? Too funny!

Man, I sold high line German autos, and I know snobbery! That is way over the top. I have never heard of such a thing.

Yeah - I'm yanking your chain (of course we BMW riders are WAY too sophisticated for anything as primitive as a chain)

My 1975 R75/6

You had me going, there. Dick! ;D

i've had BMW's for many years, mostly Airheads and older. I've also been a member of the local BMW riders club and I can tell you the guys that ride Airheads and the guys that ride the much newer Oilheads and Hexhead and K's are very different. The newer bikes cost upwards of 20K, mine cost me 3500 and that right there tells a story. But It also crosses all lines. When I'm out on my old R75/5 most of the riders on newer GSXZRRVT's kinda sneer at the old fart on the old beemer. My bike has almost 100K on it and runs like a watch, their bike has maybe 10-15K and is ready to be make into Kia's. So what goes around, comes around. It's the same with a fine single malt Scotch, you either like or you don't. It's a strange life with motorcycles.

Terry
J'ville, Fl.

Tim said:

Yeah, those BMW riders are pretty much all snobs. ...

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Yeah, Ducati owners too. Or wait, sorry... Ducasti

My turn to share! ;D Went to the big giant motorcycle apparel store to look for some stuff. There is covered bike parking all along the front of the store, so you can pull your bike in, park in the line, and leave your bike in safety right in front of the store. Lots of different bikes in line, and I pulled in where the biggest hole was, between a bagger and a beemer. Silver newer beemer with metal bags. Everyone pulls in and heads out, meaning the front wheels are all pointed towards the parking lot. Not the beemer, however.

As I walked with my loot towards my bike, beemer man is gearing up. He says to me, "I had to move your bike, you were parked too close." There was more than enough room for any sized rider. If he hadn't been the ONLY bike parked the wrong way, he would have had enough room. DOUCHE. I shoulda kicked his bike over.

loudest143

Shoulda, Hooligan! :-D Wonder if he was a newb who doesn't understand the fact that one never touches another's bike without invite?

BMW engines are vertical twins that suffer from ED. A dose of Viagra is whats needed to turn them into motorcycles.

I can relate to the snobbery of newer BMW owners but from a little different perspective. I drive a 1972 BMW 2002tii. One of my favorite sayings ever is "BMW built my car, before society built snobs". It sucks to get lumped into "the rest" of the BMW owners out there, whether in Bimmers or on Beamers.
Also, some people are just anti-social dicks no matter what they ride or drive.

Later,

Ryan

I work at a BMW shop and ride a Triumph. I know this all to well.
Along with being snobby as all hell, most of them are cheap as they come for work or repairs for there bikes. I have thousands of stories from guys bringing in used tyres, which are really useless tyres; to guys bringing in the $1 a quart car motor oil because they dont want to pay for "G" type oil.
Some guys are realy cool, but there few and far between. I havent noticed too much of a differance in attatude by which type of bike they ride.
My first week there I was doing a 12 month service on a guys oil head. This guy looked like booger from "Revenge of the Nerds" with a Mr Pringles mustache, but he had been riding with a 3/4 helmet and had snot caked on his face. His bike was a salute to Thomas Edision with a GPS, Radar Detector, Iphone, Ipod, hot and cold beverage holder, and no sh*t, a digital tempature gage (not engine temp, air temp). So, working on his bike this guy is right over my sholder on his phone and asking me every little thing he could about what I was doing. I was loosing my cool, so I walked outside for a cigarette only to find him going through my tool box and working on the bike! I about monkey stomped him.

Hoofhearted said:

BMW engines are vertical twins that suffer from ED. A dose of Viagra is whats needed to turn them into motorcycles.

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....best thing I have heard about a boxer engine yet!!! LMAO!!!!!!

Classic!

I don't have any experience with BmW bike owners, but I do make a hobby of cutting off every Dickhole in a BMW car that can't find his indicator..


btw, I drive a VW, the peoples' car.

Fuck me ... you'd think we were Harley riders or something ;D

Signed,

CanadaDan
Airhead #6990
Desperatly seeking $$$ for an M3



After doing this my r75/7 could I be all that bad?

http://members.shaw.ca/canadadan/wrenching.htm

Gotta be just the rider. I took a ride out to a BMW dealer last fall on my 550 cafe & as soon as I pulled into the lot I had 2 mechanics come out & talk to me about my bike & say how cool it was. Then a fella pulls in on a big ass GS1200 round th'world bike & starts a conversation with me about old hondas! Funny thing though, it was inside & I think he noticed my Chuck T Allstars & figured the 550 must've been mine. Had a guy on a Ducati follow me into a gas station to talk to me about my bike too. Maybe just Michigan?

I saw a Harley rider (really nice custom bobber) wave at a rice rocket last night

So there are exceptions to the stereo-types ;D

i dont notice any of this here in central iowa, every harley/crotchrocket/beemer/cafe/moped/bicycle rider always drops the 2finger wag to every harley/crotchrocket/beemer/cafe/moped/bicycle rider that rides by.

on another note, i did see this 5'1 100 pound chick on this GIANT Boulevard M90 (1500 i think? sexy ass bike too imo). 1 foot down @ a time.

I guess I do look like a douchebag here. ;D But I am pretty friendly once you get to know me. I'm also obsessed vintage Hondas... what does that say about me?

Nice bike, Kuya!