Amid all my concern over my friend Ian buying another scooter it got me thinking about the boxes we put ourselves in.
I’m a mac using, real ale and malt whiskey drinking, Honda and BMW buying, IAM training, living in St Albans, London, cigar smoking, Biker. And you’d be surprised at how many others are too.
I buy into the whole thing you see, riding a bike is about more than just transport. That’s really where my problem with scooter riders starts, for the vast majority of riders a scooter is just transport, there’s no romance, no love, no depth to the experience. I know a lot of bikers have scooters too… not for fun… but because they’re perfect for cutting through the traffic.
So is being a biker about more than just transport? Yes it is! It’s the same with computers, using a computer is about more than just getting the job done, for that matter any tool is about more than just getting the job done… it’s the reason why I use a mac, why I smoke cigars and not cigarettes, why I drink REAL ale, not the trash Burton Upon Trent chucks out today, and savour MALT whiskey… and why I may buy a BMW next.
But all those things also point something else out… I don’t like to follow the crowd… well not the main crowd… the smaller slightly more interesting crowd I’m more than happy to follow – I quite get on with them.
