Originally Posted by steve t.

Moreso than being a bicyclist, I am a motorcyclist. I equate being a motorcyclist to being a traveler, a tourer, an explorer. I equate a motorcycle biker as someone who rides an overpriced, underwhelming, loud motorcycle in a generally anti-social manner for misguided and false reasons only they can believe in and justify to those of their own ilk and which a majority of the rest of society wishes would just go away. It's not the machine, it's the owner's behavior, and they give all motorcycle riders a black eye. As a collective group, most seem to have social behavior stuck at age 11 or 12. If law enforcement would start simply enforcing laws that are on the books in each state and their overarching federal regulations, these people would be done.

Sorry, you touched a nerve with me. I guess cyclist or biker doesn't mean much to me in regard to human-powered two-wheelers, but I know where you are coming from.

Steve.