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Cruiser face epidemic

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#1 ·
I passed about 20 bikes on the road today (unfortunately I was in the car). All of them had the visible symptom of cruiser face. No one was smiling. It was 82 in the Lowcountry of SC today and not a cloud in the sky, yet no one looking happy. They all had that hard "I'm a baddass look. I grin all the time on the T100. They weren't all H-D riders either. Then it hit me: where had I seen this face before? on kids walking around with buds in their ears and an I Pod or phone in their hands. They walk around with an absolute dead face listening to God knows what. Are they the next gen of cruiser faced riders? I had a kid from one of my classes the other day ask me what I listened to when I ride. My reply: BC Sleepers on a 796.
 
#5 ·
Saturday had to be one of the most gorgeous riding days we have ever seen in Indiana. I wasn't riding, as I was working with disabled vets down in Brown County. (for you fortunate people who live outside of Indiana, that is about the best riding anywhere in Indiana). I saw hundreds of bikes on the way back home. I would say 99% were HD's, Victory's, or imitations. Most had a gal on back in a tank top, and the largest majority had no helmets. They were having fun though! I just shook my head, remembering folks who have been down without protection. Well, to each his own.
 
#10 ·
I know this post is mean to be comical, BUT I am sorry to pee on your party.

If I can see your face while you ride, it means you are wearing one of these:


It also means that, shall you be unfortunate enough to have an accident, chances are you will be wiping the pavement with your face, and most likely you will eat with a straw for the rest of your life.

Take a look at this picture:


Where is the highest impact area? Exactly.

I am not going to go in gory mode, so I leave you with this:


And a little story: Like most of you, I had a serious accident once. The reason why I am talking to you today, with no serious injuries sustained, is because I wore a full helmet and my trusty motorcycle jacket with 40+ degrees celcius. The cheapest part of my equipment were my gloves, and now I have a couple of burn marks in my hand to prove it.

Just think about it.
 
#13 · (Edited)
Sunday in NY was glorious. Spent the day on a little known mountain road in the Catskills. My buddy on his 800 lb , 9 foot long Arlin Ness chopper was not having a great time because way up in the mountains his Iheart radio shut off and the riding position was so terrible his back hurt and his hands went numb from the terrible vibration. And his velcro mounted seat was slipping off - I kid you not.

I was having a fantastic time on my Bonneville. You couldn't tell because my FF helmet covered my crazy smile.

To each his own.
 
#19 ·
I want to say the cruiser-face is due to riding-for-fashion and riding-for-herd-membership, and needing to look the part. But I spend a day on a Fat Bob and damned if I couldn't make myself smile. The bike was fine for what it was, that wasn't it, it was just that the hardware called for a attitude. It's a strange thing. I think the way the v-twin engine vibrates just affects your chakra in a certain way ...
 
#26 ·
Can you go into the 3 million posts here talking about Ped Slicers and Fake Kickers and other nonsense about "Retro" bikes blah blah blah and discuss this "Fashion" and "Herd"mentality with them? It seems it would be fitting to point a finger at someone who Pretends he is riding a bike from 1967.:grin2:


I just like my Helmet no matter what brand of bike or kind I rode that day... Damn wonder if I am smiling? I wonder if anyone has photos of them actually riding?


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#20 ·
My buddy was on a chopper that ironically is a one of a kind almost exactly like this one -


I don't want to hear your moralizing about live and let live !! F** off! - its stupid, it breaks down, cant carry anything, can't turn, louder than a frigging dragster spews unburned gas, ... its a royal pain in the ass and one of my best friends just loves the stupid thing. I dont care, I hate it - I hate stopping to wait for it all the time and the frequent breaks he has to take ( every 20 miles ) because it abuses his back so much.
 
#23 ·
I've been looking at something cruiser-ish lately to add to the stable, maybe even something from the Motor Company. I guess I'll have to work on my mean face.

The real burning question I have, and this is super important, is what happened to the space between the text and my signature? Anyone, mean-faced or not, know how I fix this?
 
#24 ·
Rest assured, we all see a space. It is created by the "Like" link. But you can't like your own posts, so you don't see a "Like" link on your own posts, so your signature line is all smashed up against your text. That is why I don't have a sig, I couldn't stop looking at the anti-space.

And anyways, it's stupid that I can't like my own posts, because they are the best posts on the forum :mad:
 
#27 ·
We're all into our fashions and herds Lux, and no one around here more than you. You talk and dwell on retro and brand and outfit more than anyone else here, starting to think we should change your avatar to a picture of Joan Rivers. You simply define your fashion and herd as the anti-fashion and anti-herd, that's all. You just hang out with the herd too cool to hang out with herds :dunno

You do have a cute costume there though :p
 
#43 ·
1984, Olongapo City, Philippines (outside of Subic Bay Naval Base)-
As my friends and I watched from our curbside table covered with empty beer bottles, two moto-taxis (low-cc bikes with covered sidecars used for quick trips) came buzzing around the corner with the riders hurling obscenities at each other. We though, okay whatever.

The riders got to the end of the strip and we saw them turn around and as they approached us again, one of the riders reached down and unbuckled HIS WOODEN LEG and began to beat the other rider with it until they rode out of sight.

We looked at each other with that Marine Corps W*F look and busted out laughing, halfway hoping they'd come back so we could throw money at them for their troubles :D
 
#38 ·
Don't mistake the non smiling face for something negative. My content face can be rather serious looking. When i ride i have headphones that act as earplugs and i'm either listening to waze give me directions or some music or news as well as concentrating on the road. I'm always pretty happy to be on the bike and it makes my work commute so much better, but that includes being content on the bike as well. You won't get a smile for content, but its still a positive.
 
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