Nobody is defined as a Biker; the Biker is just a part of you which defines your whole persona as a Individual. And I know that this is hard to digest for many of us, believe me I found it stupid when my father first told me this when I sneaked out to a G2G for the first time and got caught. But as time progressed I would at times say to people that I was a Biker; and when told this they found it incongruent to the conversation and thought I was desperately trying to seek out attention. This I later realized this myself, when I heard a 12 year old talking to me the same way I did to others. But during the course of a conversation when it became evident that I was a step above when it came to my bike and biking, they became curious about that little part of my life and I could see that they were analyzing me as a person with this one little info. And that is where you stand apart a mile from the mundane crowd, and it was for this reason that I loved what I did so much, the more subtle your biker side is the more attention it draws, and they have their own perks with the fairer sex, but that isn’t what this is all about. The Biker persona portrays a very fiercely independent figure in the minds of people, they think you are a rebel and you are your own master and that is what is generally thought of Bikers as usual, a misguided off-shoot of the same opinion is the one where people think of us as anti-social elements because again we are not following any “moral” rules they assign for themselves and others. And that is how it is portrayed in films also, as a negative side, they show bikers as an unruly group of leather-clad hooligans moving about town wrecking havoc and as a positive side to the coin they show heroes who ride alone and mysterious striking the whole town with awe or something in the similar vein. Therefore all these examples confirm that Bikers are by nature Independent beings who shoot straight from the hip.

It is not just the social side of it that makes us unique, even when you ride amongst a group of like minded fellows you (or at least me) feel privileged to be in the company of few who happen to think along the same lines as you do. And this immediate sense of fraternity bonds you with the group, you are enriched as a person in their company just like how a set of good circle of friends thinking along the same wavelength enrich your experience with them. And when you resume your daily routine after all this, you fell refreshed and invigorated at a new experience even though it is all very predictable, but that is how the human psyche works we are comforted by the predictability and enjoy subtle surprises along the way. Therefore you look forward until the next time you are lucky enough to undergo the same experience. I have felt many a times that my outlook on certain things as a person changed when I started to take more interest biking, I got to met a whole lot of people like me, from whom I could learn and teach. I learnt that shedding your inhibitions of meeting strangers, would reap enormous rewards in terms of listening to their experience and knowledge which I could pass onto others. And it was never only about bikes or biking, I learnt a lot about a lot of things which I wouldn’t have even had the slightest idea had I heard about them before. I learnt that letting people laugh at you made you laugh with them, and I was no longer shying away from people like I used to.

This new experiences came to me only when I started biking for which I’m thankful. I would not go as far as to say I’m a totally changed person, because there some aspects about my biking which became a thing of worry for my parents, what with their conservatism my care-a-damn attitude was scaring them. This again taught me that I need to be responsible with what I do and how I do it. So , it’s about the biker in your character as a person which plays a vital role