Lawtown Ryderz Spring Opener April 4th

[Jim]

So does this mean no NERSIANS will be posted up on Newbury St. with me if I am rocking the Boyz2men Sweater Vest and the Chrome German this Thursday night?

apparently last week was 'bring your back protector night', so you know i'll be rockin mine next week.

[Doc]

If you wear no helmet, a T shirt, and shorts and cut out from a side road at the track riding with one hand on the bars directly in front of someone driving with the right of way I have an issue. I also have an issue with the fact that you won't stop fucking preaching and telling people what to do. Worry about your own god damn life and stay out of other peoples business.

We all have issues. :

[Stoneman]

Remember this?

For me it's the way newbies are thrashed and run off so often. NESR used to be a welcoming comittee for many people who'd been run off from other sites for no good reason. That was really the whole reason we started this site. In the early years we eventually had an influx of new members, many of whom brought an aire of entitlement with them - believing that we were lucky just to have them here. This new crowd also brought intolerance into the community and the accepting attitude of NESR began to die.

When you hear an old-school member complaining about what NESR has become, this is why. It's not the drama - we had that back then. It's not the bs posting - we had that too. It's the arrogant, condescending assholes that shit on anyone that doesn't think exactly like they do when it comes to riding. It needs to stop.

NESR has become so much of WHY it was started in the first place: intolerence. The main goal of NESR was to give all types of riders with all types of styles, mindsets & outlooks a place to go and NOT be treated like shit. A place where ANYONE could go, realize the importance of a diverse range of riders and share their own styles. We tried to keep this place 'self policed' for as long as we could, but this is obviously no longer a viable option. Far too many people here now think that this is theirs and theirs only, do to with and act like ANYTHING they want. It's simply not the case...

It's here for ALL of us. And hopefully it will continue to serve ALL of us. The personal attacks, following members around the board strictly to dredge up bad blood, the rediculous interboard politics, all of it is gonna come to a quick halt. This is NOT what NESR was for, nor will it be any longer. This is no longer YOUR personal little shitting station...

As Josh pointed out, this rediculous treatment of newbies is over now. You don't like 'em, ignore 'em. YOU were new here too. It used to be NESR's function to at the very least try to enlighten 'em, but WITHOUT forgetting that everyone's different. That concept has been far absent from NESR for so long, I think too many have forgotten it. The way new female members are treated are even that much more atrocious and utterly disgusting. Why do you find it your personal mission to make so many of them feel so uncomfortable? It disgusts me to think they run from NESR and YOUR treatment of them is conveyed as NESR's as a whole...

This is not to say NESR is a total shithole now. But it's getting worse & worse and we're gonna do everything we can to avoid it's complete collapse. We're not asking that you keep everything strictly moto-related. There's far too much funny shit going on around here to shut all that down nor is it our intent. We're not asking you to walk on eggshells around here. Again, that's not our aim. Our focus is to get NESR back on the track it was originally started for...

[OreoGaborio]

[Sheppo]

Remember this?

[Brian675]

If you wear a vest over your gear, I have no personal issues.

If you wear a skullie, a t-shirt and your vest I have an issue because you perpetrate the stereotype. A stereotype I try hard to squash.

To each his own.

Ride what you want.
Wear what you want.

But don't pull the rest of us down with your silly antics.

You say "ride what you want and wear what you want"?
It doesn't sound like that at all.

I guess to each his own.

[TheIglu]

Can we just have a thread similar to this that just gets bumped every month?

It would be a lot easier than having to read new threads about the same stuff.

Drparj, thanks for stickin around through all this, it's expected given the varied and vast range of riders there is on NESR.

[a13x]

heheh I like this Drparj guy, he's pretty funny (in a good way).


FWIW if I had a streetbike drparj I'd come to your shindig and say hello, I'd like seeing new things and checking out different scenes. You guys should all do a group Lawtown ride up to the races one day and check out what many of us are up to. We have a race not this, but next weekend. If you ever do make it up, swing by North Garage 10 and ask for Alex 434 and say hi. Guarantee you and the crew will have fun and see some good racing.

[Drparj]

Street bikes not needed, we have guys we ride with that have cruisers and so do other clubs, people come that don't even have bikes. Usually people we know and people they know. An excuse to party more or less.

[Drparj]

Got another question, why don't the track oriented people start a forum for track people instead of taking over a street riding forum?

[Pittenger5]

Got another question, why don't the track oriented people start a forum for track people instead of taking over a street riding forum?

Cause we all still ride on the street. Thats why we have a pit area.
I was still fucking with you, I dont care what you do. But Ill make fun of everyone. Hell, I make fun of myself more than anyone else.

[seth399]

Got another question, why don't the track oriented people start a forum for track people instead of taking over a street riding forum?

MY guess, is that some of us aren't all about blabbing about the gear we wear or how fast we are compared to some random street rider who didn't join to do a track day or race...I like the mix of people on this site minus the posts that feed egos/talk down to strangers for no apparent reason

[Drparj]

I don't do track, some money and mostly time. I like random rides not the lines a track plans out for me. Plus I like the changing scenery souring past me. And as for gear I only laugh when I see the guy fyling buy on the highway doing a wheeling wearing glasses a t shirt and shorts.

[Pittenger5]

how fast we are compared to some random street rider who didn't join to do a track day or race

Yah, we call you "novices"

[seth399]

Yah, we call you "novices"

SEE what I mean...lots of bullies around here, this guy is the WORST...its ok he rides a banana boat

[a13x]

Got another question, why don't the track oriented people start a forum for track people instead of taking over a street riding forum?

- 99% of us on NESR that ride track also ride street.

[Pittenger5]

I like random rides not the lines a track plans out for me.

So what youre saying is you dont see fit to participate in the type of activities other members of this forum enjoy?

I wonder where we've heard this, and been chastised for bring our opinions out in public.

[a13x]

I don't do track, some money and mostly time. I like random rides not the lines a track plans out for me. Plus I like the changing scenery souring past me. And as for gear I only laugh when I see the guy fyling buy on the highway doing a wheeling wearing glasses a t shirt and shorts.

FWIW I wasn't try to convert you, just said it'd be cool to get a big group of folks to swing by the track while out on a group ride. Just offering up a suggestion for a group ride, since half the problem with a group ride is figuring out WTF to ride too.

[a13x]

We should just all go party in Chatbox.

[Drparj]

So what youre saying is you dont see fit to participate in the type of activities other members of this forum enjoy?

I wonder where we've heard this, and been chastised for bring our opinions out in public.

You must have a lot of free time to read that much into it.

Let me define better for you.

I like the street not the track.
I like the open road, the trees, the mountains.
Not seeing the same thing for the 10th time around a track.
Not my thing. But as maybe you I won't give you shit for liking it. If its your thing then enjoy, just not mine.

That easy for ya.

[mzdagrl]

I don't do track, some money and mostly time. I like random rides not the lines a track plans out for me. Plus I like the changing scenery souring past me. And as for gear I only laugh when I see the guy fyling buy on the highway doing a wheeling wearing glasses a t shirt and shorts.

More power to ya for that. I am of the opinion that people should try it, but you seem to know it isn't something you'd enjoy. Why make others miserable if you don't want to be there? Good for you.

[a13x]

You must have a lot of free time to read that much into it.

Let me define better for you.

I like the street not the track.
I like the open road, the trees, the mountains.
Not seeing the same thing for the 10th time around a track.
Not my thing. But as maybe you I won't give you shit for liking it. If its your thing then enjoy, just not mine.

That easy for ya.

heheh. richie was being sarcastic, not giving you shit. i'm going back to work. like i said, i like ya drparj, welcome.

[Drparj]

Hey I can give shit right back, bring it I got nothing to do.

Wait actually I am going to work on the bike cause I want to ride today.

So at that til next time people. Its time to ride.

[Pittenger5]

You must have a lot of free time to read that much into it.

Let me define better for you.

I like the street not the track.
I like the open road, the trees, the mountains.
Not seeing the same thing for the 10th time around a track.
Not my thing. But as maybe you I won't give you shit for liking it. If its your thing then enjoy, just not mine.

That easy for ya.

I do have a lot of free time.
I like the street and the track.
I like the open road, the trees and the mountains.
I like pushing my limits without worrying about one time and volvos.
Riding and hanging out with my friends without being in a "club"
Not feeling the need to wear a vest.

I'm just saying dude, drifferent strokes, I dont agree entirely with how you do things, you dont agree entirely with the way I do things, but its all good, ride how you want.
And I will poke fun, its what I do.

[bigred875]

haha you said one time....did you run into them chillin with doughboy and tre?