You Know You're A Biker When

[Guest]

This will be posted on another forum but I thought this would be the best place to get the answers.
Feel free to post all funny, serious, rude or just downright obscure replies.
To get the ball rolling I have.

You Know You're A Biker When

The bugs in your teeth start tasting good
or
It's pouring with rain,, only 4 degrees outside & you still ride the bike to work just cos its fun to ride..

almost nothing on your new bike is stock and almost everything on your
vintage bike is.

If you think a grease rag and a hankie are one and the same.

You think leather is for protection NOT fashion.

This post was last modified: 29-06-2010, 11:18 PM by celticbiker.

[marko67]

When it takes longer to get your gear on & off than the journey takes

the smell of castrol r makes your brain release endorphins

you can tell what kind of bike it is before you see it

you always check other bikes chicken strips

your bike is mint, your car is knackered

you have an indecent collection of long johns

you waste time doing things like this [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

[Guest]

When you rebuild your bike in your dining room, over the winter.

When you don't even own a car.

[steveearwig]

you check the weather forecast before you check the traffic news.

you find yourself leaning into corners... in your car.

[catsbum]

When you move a fridge into your garage, along with decent music system and TV [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif[/img]

[dmmsta]

when you keep emailing TomTom to develop a "twisty-est route" option for calculating journeys out.

[Lagotete]

you have finally understood that it is no use trying to scratch your head through your helmet

[TDMick]

When you know why a dog hangs his head out of a car window

[marko67]

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[Guest]

<!--quoteo(post=168181:date=Wed 30th Jun 2010, 07:45 AM:name=CatsBum)-->QUOTE(CatsBum @ Wed 30th Jun 2010, 07:45 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->When you move a fridge into your garage, along with decent music system and TV [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif[/img]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Got all that - I must be a biker then lol

[Guest]

You know you're a British biker when....

You and your riding mates blow past the pub and head straight for the cake shop.

[jollygiant]

When the flooring in your garage is better quality than your kitchen!!

[masterbrewer]

<!--quoteo(post=168334:date=Thu 1st Jul 2010, 05:44 PM:name=LDRider)-->QUOTE(LDRider @ Thu 1st Jul 2010, 05:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->You know you're a British biker when....

You and your riding mates blow past the pub and head straight for the cake shop.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

[img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rotflmmfao.gif[/img]


Errrr ..... cake shop? ..... pub? ... mmmmm [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/doubtfull.gif[/img] ....... was that ya say: cakeshop? ..... pub? ............ [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.gif[/img]

.... let me drink on dat one ! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img]

[img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/drinks.gif[/img]

This post was last modified: 01-07-2010, 07:44 AM by masterbrewer.

[newstu]

you wince when you see potholes, even though you are driving and they are on the other side of the road

you are on holiday abroad and meet a total stranger who lives locally to you and you have a conversation about drain cover locations (mea culpa!)

the smell of Putoline gives you a semi

you leave Santa Claus a letter and its all part numbers

[andysymmons]

Did someone mention cake?

[amarko5]

When your sitting in a car or on a bus and wave and nod at passing bikers [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

[peterkelly]

<!--quoteo(post=168334:date=Thu 1st Jul 2010, 08:14 AM:name=LDRider)-->QUOTE(LDRider @ Thu 1st Jul 2010, 08:14 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><!--quotec-->You know you're a <b>British bike</b>r when....<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

although severely limited in mechanical skills, you still have to carry an ex-army haversack full of hammer, pliers, bailing wire, insulating tape, whitworth spanners, more insulating tape, emery paper, and a pint of castrol GTX.............


Pete

(sorry - this of course does not apply to modern british bikes)

[Guest]

When you're saving up for one of these...

http://www.gizmag.com/ebay-tron-lightcycle/15590/

[SelinaXT]

You know you're a British Biker when....

In winter the settee in your front room is inaccessible due to the XT600X and TDM900 hogging all the floor space while the winter steeds take the brunt of the weather and road salt.... this is *probably* only bikers who don't have garages.

[andysymmons]

Stormy had a garage and still kept the Ducati in the living room so it dint get cold [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]