Wheelers Blog & News tagged "stereotype"

There’s this common stereotype about riders being crazy fanatics of speed and Rock and Roll...As if the minute you get on a motorbike you grow a beard, your hair becomes instantly long, your skin turns into this leathery surface of distinguished roughness, and your exhaust system releases drums sound and hard core notes! Well guess what? Under this edgy look there’s simply a doctor, lawyer, professor, and father just trying to make his way to work. Yeah, riders do care about making a living...

All bikers are dirty – I and most bikers I know shower at least once a day.  That’s not to say that I haven’t run into a few that weren’t so fresh. All bikers are smokers – I don’t smoke.  Many of the riders I know don’t smoke either.  Some choose to do so, but definitely not all of them. All bikers are gang members- Not even close.  I’d never make it in a gang.  All bikers are bad people – Bikers are some of the most charitable people I know. All bikers are fat and ugly – Definitely not...