I’ve ridden BMW GS models for many years and whilst I’ve come across GS riders who dismiss the likes of H-D for instance, I’ve always taken it as a bit of a lighthearted banter. I have always acknowledged riders of everything that is a motorised two wheeler.....to me it is the biking that counts.
Today I rode over to park up at the Devils Bridge at Kirkby Lonsdale for a bacon butty and coffee. Parked my BMW R9T Scrambler by a crowd of GS and Triumph Adventure bikes and in spite of me saying “hi” as I normally do, I was totally ignored! Perhaps my outfit of open face helmet, Spada wax jacket ( Morgan’s M3W jacket by the way and an excellent one too!) and jeans, just didn’t cut the mustard with their “round the world” adventure gear?
All was not lost, a couple of H-D riders came over for a chat!
It has made me rather glad to have moved away from the GS/ Avdenture bikes and their “culture”
