Back in the 90's it seemed people we in to motorcycling for the love and not because it was "THE THING" and everyone was cool, the 1%ers did their thing and everyone was happy. In 2009 when i got back into riding i immediately noticed the divisivness, cruisers rode with cruiser, crotch rockets rode with crotch rockets, but then it was further divided between metrics and and harleys and even certain harleys were like the vrod and sportster were looked down on bevause they are not true Harleys. Further dividing the culture were people who ride in clubs who get patches and become instant badasses despite not knowing protocols or the culture vs the lone wolves arrogantly proclaimed independance but still wanted part of the biker scene. It was a bit confusing to me, i tried the club thing for a bit, but i like riding not meetings, been solo for 2 years and only ride with my gf because now for former club brother wont ride with me because of the politics of biker culture(or maybe im an a-hole). This brings me to today a young coworker was aaking me about hayabusas and immediately was pounced on by the harley guy, who was then pounced by the bmw guy and we never got to finish our conversation. Tommorow however i will tell him get what you like, ride because you want to becausw it yours and you are paying for it. People have made a passion so complicated with the nonsense of the latest generation of biker wannabees, we need to get back to basics, ride, eat, sleep, repeat, nothing else matters. Perhap when we get back to that motorcycking will grow for the riggt reasons and not because it the latest "THING".