it's Bike Week in Daytona!

[Rhubarb]

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* Twitchin Kitten looks around for Rhubarb to help slap BS upside the head for a narrow minded view of large groups of people riding together from one place to the next.

So I'm here TK
Your idea of bikers is Sooooo different to ours. As you will see I'm counting down to the weekly event in our town. Its for all types, classic, vintage, sports, scooters (anyone heard of the Mod's and Rockers?) custom, daily rides, small bikes, tourers, weird and trike. It's all bikers and they bring their families and friends. The holidaymakers actually get bussed in!

Yea and there is the gangs, but they 'lost' in the fun and they are not like the US gangs by any means.
The Hog 'chapters'(bless 'em) spend a fortune on charity runs (teddys for terminal sick kids/Easter bunny run/mistletoe run/Air Day....). The Help the Hero's Campaign will have 10,003 bikers at Wootten Bassett on our Mothering Sunday (14th March). 6 mothers of dead soldiers asked for a little bit of help and that's what they got.

My son belongs to a club, without them out last year would have been total shit. They were there as extra fathers for him when his sister died, talking to him when his own father was too wrapped in his own grieve, getting him out on his bike, just riding and riding. They were our body-guards when unwanted interests appeared (the press, snoopers and gawkers). They stood at the back of Christine's funeral to ready kindly 'evict' certain people I requested didn't attend (they wisely did as asked).
They carried my mother on a Pan European to the site we chose for her ashes because she couldn't walk and the path was...well wasn't, more a rough track.
When my son got taken out by a car and fractured both femurs, they 'bullied' him into getting better and help the nurses feed him, dress him and make him see a future.
Pete has done time, ok and Dave is a walking wall. They were Rockers in the 60's. Brian and Tony were (are) in the Police as bike patrol. Phil and Teefy were Mod's.
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They look after each other and if you had to ride the roads over here then you would see All bikers look after each other.

Our testing system is really rigid. CBT's expire after 2 years, there are 4 parts to the full licence. Just 2 for a car.
When we are out on the road bigger bikes 'protect' smaller bikes. Many a time I've been out and get a nod from a Ninja who keeps that pressing Audi off my back at 60mph, or a nod from a Fireblade at the traffic lights. They don't care I'm a silly 50 year old woman on L-plates. When I get on the school bike for module 2, I may be in the minority, usually 1 in 10 women ride but I get treated as an equal.

Most girls at our Bike Nights, are stunners riding or pillion, not fat, tattooed cheap 'sluts'. Some men do have that 'midlife' crisis, with 'totty' on pillion, then you find she's his daughter! We are friends with a 'Hells Angel' (over here for his health) whose has calmed so much when he rides the quay on his custom Harley his wife is knitting stuff for the grandchildren on the back of it!