Biker's Handbook by Jay Barbieri

Author:Jay Barbieri
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781610600385
Publisher: Motorbooks
Published: 2010-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

When you’re on the road:

• Don’t ride up alongside of or really close to a car and rev your engine constantly trying to act really cool.

• Don’t zigzag in between cars like you’re playing a video game.

• When you walk into a restaurant, don’t talk extra loud and use bad language to make everyone think you’re a big bad biker and they should be afraid of you. What they’ll mostly be thinking is “What an asshole.” This just plays into a ridiculous stereotype.

• If you see a biker in trouble on the side of the road, pull over and help. This is a big deal. There is a brotherhood when it comes to helping each other on the road. Don’t fuck it up. You should also offer roadside assistance to any motor vehicle that is broken down. Bikers have a reputation for being helpful, so let’s keep that alive. How many times have you heard someone say, “Then this big old biker pulled over and gave me a hand. Even though he was pretty scary looking, he was the nicest guy.” The road is a major part of our culture. Help take care of it.

• Don’t wear the leather jacket you ride in, covered in patches and pins, as your normal street jacket. When you are going to the corner store for a pack of smokes, it’s not necessary for everyone to know you’re a badass biker.

• Don’t talk about yourself and your motorcycle experiences at every family function or with your friends who don’t share the same passion. You don’t have to constantly prove you’re a biker.

• Don’t be a biker because you think it will make you a more interesting person. I know plenty of boring bikers and wild accountants. When I hear a guy constantly talking about motorcycles and all of his motorcycle experiences outside the biker community, all I can think is that he’s trying to convince himself that he’s cool.

• Don’t act like you know everything about being a biker. As I said, I know a few things on this subject, and thank God I keep my mouth shut half the time and listened to the guys around me.

• Don’t drink and ride. Guys who are usually talking the most shit do it when they are drunk (actually, we all talk shit when we’re drunk … including me). It’s harmless. Getting on your bike drunk is not. I don’t drink and get on a bike anymore, but I did for years. What changed my mind wasn’t the fact that I could have really hurt, or even killed, someone or myself. It was economics. Darryl got arrested in Sturgis one year and it cost him $1,500 and a day in jail! It could have cost him $10,000 or more, if convicted of a DUI.

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