I remember years ago doing my CBT at twowheelers at Arran Rd in Perth playing a game with some of the trainees to see whether we could match the personalities with the bikes.
John and I talked about a similar topic at the Bike-Safe briefing in Dundee.
It's amazing how accurate you can be. You can normally tell a sports bike rider, a cruiser rider etc. just by the way they identify with their own self image through the bike (or the apparel they wear).
In each classification there's also two ends obvious of each extreme.
You know what I mean, you get the sports bike rider who would have a helmet in Burberry check if they could get away with it right through to the self styled Rossi with scuffed knee sliders, toe sliders and narrow chicken strips.
In the adventure motorcylist category you get the middle class 1150 GS BMW rider with all the latest BMW enduro apparel right up to the Dakar stickered, TT accessorised, globallly stickered Zega pannies on a seriously battered 1200 Adventure.
In the cruiser category you get the frilled leather clad, open face helmeted rider right through to the ex-vietnam veteran type complete with red bandana, Willie Nelson T-Shirt and reefer enshrined peace symbols
Then there's those that desperately want to belong to a specific category but don't quite manage it - you know, it's the titanium knee sliders and the full leathers - but its the scooter that gives them away or the BMW Rally outfitted rider - given away by the safe office job or business card holder they insist on carrying.
Working on the assumption that there's no such thing as original thought are there any of us honest enough on here who would put their hands up to favouring a particular 'style' and do we seek to positively enforce our own perceptions of our self-image through the bikes we choose?
never done a cbt tho passed before that
