I'm guessing the throngs of bikers I saw today...

[vi5]

...were some sort of pro-war, pro-Bush bike rally of sorts? Riding down I-80 in a republican area of Northern Jersey, the lane of bikes stretched for about 4 miles. I hate to say it, but it was pretty impressive.

I'm admittedly making the assumption here given the date and the signs I saw elsewhere about some "Patriot Ride". Goddamn were there a lot of bikes.

Edit: To clarify, any assumptions I was making on the nature of this ride was based off of numerous extenuating factors. The signs for a "Patriot Ride", the location, the date, the obscenely oversized flags on many of the bikes, several vehicles from the local armory/arsenal riding along with them. I was NOT stereotyping bikers. If you knew the type of crowd I have run with over the years, the misunderstanding of what I was saying would be funny. I can understand that based off of my initial post though.

[notadmblnd]

1. Real bikers wouldn't buy into bush policies

so it must have been a bunch of middle men that are trying to hang onto their youth buy riding those damned noisy Harleys. You know, the Mepublicans that can finally afford them.

[smirkymonkey]

3. Arghhhh.....The NOISE!!!

I hate it! Like fingernails scraping against a chalkboard.

[PuraVidaDreamin]

8. Dentists are the only folks I know who can afford today's hawgs

Dentists

Bad Ass Dentists

[linazelle]

16. Wrong. I attended the first anniversary protest of the Iraq invasion

in Chicago. There were the same types riding from North Michigan Avenue to the federal buildings where protests were taking place. I was shocked to see these morans as well. All I can say is, they ARE out there.

[smirkymonkey]

2. They rode through NYC - it had something to do with the Sept. 11

memorial, but I don't know what their agenda was about. If it was to support Bush, I find that absolutely contemptable.

[Bluzmann57]

4. Boy there's nothing like stereotyping

How do you know they were pro-Bush? Just because they "looked" like they were? Maybe they had another cause altogether. Are there helmet laws in Jersey? Were they riding to make the public aware of biker safety? You need to provide details and quit assuming. And yes, it is 9/11, and no, there is nothing wrong with paying respects to the fallen. It can be done without being pro-Bush, or pro-Democrat for that matter.

[vi5]

10. As I stated in my post....

The date (September 11), and the signs I saw locally in the area I saw them, stated "patriot ride". My stereotype was based off of the type of people who would participate in something called a "patriot ride" rather than of bikers themselves. I come from a family with a lot of bikers who are mostly democrats so I don't know what stereotype you THOUGHT I was talking about but it more had to do with the fact that this appeared to be a Patriot Ride done on September 11 in a largely republican area of NJ.

I also made it clear that I was putting 2 and 2 together with this but was unsure of myself.

[bribri16]

5. You may be correct but I wouldn't confuse support of troops with

support for Bush necessarily. Bikers love to ride and they love to take part in mass rides just for the hell of it.

[Teaser]

6. "The Roar to the Shore"

There was a biker convention in Wildwood NJ today.

[vi5]

11. Then maybe that's what it was.

[BlueEyedSon]

7. Hey, let's celebrate 9/11 by burning a whole mess o' FOSSIL FUELS!

:crazy:

[Champion Jack]

9. Sorry

even the most souped up Harley should still get around 35 MPG

[BlueEyedSon]

17. My bike consumes NONE!

[crikkett]

12. shows I'm from the left coast...

you said 'throngs of bikers' and I wondered to myself, 'what on earth is Republican about bicycling?'

:crazy:

[WePurrsevere]

14. I'm from NNY and that was my first thought too...

and my brother and a few old friends of mine were zoom "bikers" not push pedal "bikers".

Whatcan I say... it's just say it's been a "duh" kind of day eh? :D

[Davros]

13. Bikers supported us during Sheehan Vigil

When we were at the Ocean County (Toms River) NJ vigil with our candles, bikers who drove by and stopped at the traffic light, they gave us a positive reaction.

[newyawker99]

19. Hi Davros!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[AirmensMom]

15. Thanks for the clarification.

My husband dodges the thunder storms here in south FL to ride his Harley to work so he can save gas. The bike gets better mileage than the cars. He talked about riding a bicycle, but it's just too dangerous. Yeah, he's middle-aged, but he's certainly not Republican, pro-Bush or pro-war. We know what crowd you're talking about, though.

[ForrestGump]

18. I saw a few -- just a few -- on the Vegas Strip

Typical corporate-logo poseurs with two or three BIG flags on each flatulent Hardly Ableson...I guess they must've just bought the Special Edition 911 Patriot model with integral flagpoles. Yeah, nothing wrong with the flag (though it's become co-opted to a startling degree by Bush idiots) or with commemorating the dead of 9/11 (early victims of the Bush maladministration), but the whole thing stinks of the right-wing 'patriot' (for which read 'unAmerican') movement when taken in total.

F***wits.