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Anyway - I got this in the mailfrom the local Full Throttle Magazine: (fullthrottle@triad.rr.com)
My reply is below in Red.
When are bikers gonna stand up and put an end to the tyranny and discrimination that we are faced with every day. WHEN THEY KNOCK AT YOUR DOOR?
Hey man – after 3 attempts to get Carla to answer my emails asking about the status of the event, not hearing back and hearing from people in the Asheville area about the problems…on top of work overload, family visiting and bad brakes on the bike… I don't OWE them a visit to their party. I wanted to go and couldn't is all.
I don't face tyranny and discrimination everyday either. I ride maybe 25K a yr and have yet to face any discrimination, 'cept maybe some dirty looks from the crotch rocketeers behind me on Deals Gap – course I haven't tried to toss a biker party in the middle of the Bible Belt either.
The people that read my shit know I'm a back roads, corner saloon, solo kinda rider… gonna have a better time with the old lady and some riding buds in the mountains next weekend than I would have at some old warehouses full of vendors selling shit I don't need … and if you're really about anti-discimination, my friend, I wouldn't get any crap about the way I feel like riding. We're not all 1%'rs, 1% wannabes, or hard-core, hard-tail, hard-ass riders. From my responses out there, there's a shitload of 'back roads, corner saloon, solo kinda riders' who just wanna go riding.
Bikers fucked them because they didn't show up? Huh? Somebody throws a party, I assume in the beginning to show a profit, by the way – (although I gotta imagine they gave up on that around the third venue change) – and I'm obligated to show up or else I've fucked them? I don't plan my riding schedule around where I HAVE to go – I get on and ride when I damned well feel like it.
I should think you'd fight for my right to do just that and not discriminate against my decision to cut my fucking grass instead. There's your tyranny, Mark… I'm a no good son-of-a-bitch because I didn't go? No….shame on YOU for suggestin' I did something wrong for asserting my freedom to go wherever the hell I want on a fourth of July weekend.
There's the real problem…. Kinda like them Baptist street-corner preachers…if ya don't like religion their way, you're nothing but a god-forsaken heathen….same with some kinds of bikers….if ya ain't in the middle of the fight, tossing beer bottles, grabbin' yer friends old lady's ass or puking off the back porch, yer no kinda biker…. I don't aspire to be that kinda biker, nobody I know does and those that do…well, damned if they don't seem to be discriminated against, for some damned reason.
You got a good magazine there, Mark…and I have no desire to start any pissin' matches – cuts into ridin' time. . just don't pigeonhole all motorcycle riders into the same mold.
…and to answer your question… if anybody with tyranny in their eyes knocks on my door, I just shoot 'em and dump the body in the river out back.
Other than that – hope you and the old lady had a good time at the Bash – I look forward to reading about your visit in the next issue…
Muthuh
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