us older people always had a saying, bike riders and bikers are two different species, a true biker in my book, would’ent slate off anything other than a car, the whole point of “biking” was to be out there, enjoying the freedom that a bike gives you, no matter how many wheels it has,then you have those others, that slate anything that dosent fall into their own little perfect ideal world, these people I call bike riders:crazy:
Sorry, but it’s not just about speed, what about design, the sleek lines, fluidity of the wind rushing over it, the fierceness of the engine.
That’s tosh, people who are bikers have probably wanted a bike since they could walk, saying that makes us the same as scooter riders is pants. Scooter riders generally have a completely different attitude to riding and different reason for being on 2 wheels (cheapness, convenience) than a biker. Bikers have it in their blood. No one at age 6 has ever thought ‘when I grow up, I want to be a scooter rider’. You only need to look at the number of complaints fro
bikers about scooters lack of etiquette and attitude to riding to see that we are not of the same world. I’m generalising, not massively so, but the likes of JimC who has embraced both worlds is the exception, not the rule.
Tanya, people can be just as passionate about riding scooters as you or I am about riding bikes.
Have a look at these guys and there are many many like them !
Scaffold foreman at work has one his always giving it large he was properly chuffed till i asked him if the doors fell off when he honked his horn 
It’s a shame there’s none around but my dad had a lambretta lc which he put a 220 engine in with Amal carbs with manual primers, stuck the exhausts just under the body work so it didn’t give the game away.
The only way to ride it hard was by hanging over the handle bars going 100+
Bottom line is that you can’t put Valentino Rossi and Jamie Oliver in the same basket. What next, pizza delivery riders are bikers too 
So basically your trying to say you don’t like
Pizza boys
Suits on scooters
General scooter prats
Scooter chavs
What about
Midlife crisis man/woman
Courier w@nker
Tail gaiting angry biker
Non nodder/thank you biker
Oh the list can go on and on there’s knobbers in every size and class of bike. Valentino Rossi does not and will never be able to some up biking he’s a racing machine he doesn’t show the community or many of aspects of biking.
I didn’t get into bikes by watching moto gp I grew up watching f1. My passion came from being on my dads cb900 I wanted to be like him enjoying the roads and freedom not going 200mph
+1 but go easy on the midlife crisis woman! 
Urm…I’m a biker, at least I was last time I looked.
Here’s a pic of me & my son with my mates race bike when I was a Pizza delivery rider in the evenings and weekends trying to avoid getting the house repossesed.
+1. I have lots of friends into the Italian scooter scene, riding (and racing) all over the UK and Europe to rallies. They’re hardcore and many also ride large motorcycles. I sold my last Lambretta last year only because I didn’t have the space but would have one again tomorrow. Don’t relate them to commuters in London on twist and twats, it’s a massive scene where customisation and tuning is part and parcel. I’ve ridden bikes from 16 (1985 BTW) but because I’ve ridden scooters I don’t think of myself any less a biker.
It’s worth noting that James Toseland and Leon Haslam raced on scooters in the BSSO championships.
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I wouldn’t call Police Pigs. But then again I respect the law. You clearly don’t.
You have totally proved my point 
You were on a scooter out of necessity but deep down, you are dreaming of a motorbike, its in your blood 
As I said before, tis a generalisation, there are some scooters that live in the world where we live to ride, but for the most part, scooters IMO are doing it for practical reasons.
Does anybody know what the largest selling bike of all time is?
Aparently it’s this;
In 1958 Honda introduced the C100 Super Club motorcycle as a sports, leisure, easy going, convenient and reliable bike with a great marketing campaign (you meet nice people on a Honda) that blasted the C100 to a best selling bike of all times. And it was only a humble scooter styled motorcycle.
Freedom of speech, free country, I pay my taxes, I’ve got rights…Please be kind enough to highlight any information from any of my posts which you deem suitable and in your view make me disrespect the law.I respect the law & abide by it, but I do not respect the fact that they believe they are above the law.This argument can be continued…
When it comes to abusing people, like you’ve done to me and several other members of LB on here then no, you don’t have freedom of speech and it’s not a free country. What makes you think you have the right to call people abusive names simply down to the job that they do ?
You may pay taxes and you may have rights but none of that allows you to act in the manner you have done on this thread.
Treat and speak to people how you would want to be spoken to and that may help you out in life and save you from a world of grief - you may learn this when you grow up and become more mature.
You have been disrespectful.
You do not know what my colleagues or I do and what we deal with on a daily basis. To slur us all like this is bang out of order.
Never been on a scooter, but apparently I was sitting on a bike when I was three or four years old (think my parents may still have the photographic evidence of that), so, born biker? :w00t:
There are a few 3 wheelers passing through Moorgate/City, they do look weird indeed. Not my thing, but to each their own