Do you go to bike nights in your area?
 

Tell about your local bike nights and how often you go?

I may hit one a month, sometimes two, but I'd rather be out riding. Our local Yamaha shop has one each month that I usually go to since I'm cool with everyone working there. We sometimes will go to Hooter's bike night, Iron Thunder, or Quaker Steak. Again I'd rather be riding but it's cool on occasion.
Our riding group is pretty fun so regardless we have fun no matter what the venue.

I started bike nights in our local area when I lived in Florida, but we gradually just started gathering for hanging out one night a week in a small close knit group. Now, in Ga, I've been to one. It was nice to meet some fellow riders, but our riding "interests" seem to differ quite a bit. Nice guys, I may check out a Sunday ride, but I don't see me going regularly.

no

I went to another state for bike night this past wed night, lol :lol


Wasn't that far actually.... Quaker Steak N Lube in Greenville, SC, so only about 50 something miles away. Met up with some friends and hung out there, then rode around for awhile then went and got something to eat. Supposedly though on a good night they can have as many as 1500 bikes there, so I'll probably go back here and there to check it out. Not really much in the way of bike nights here around Asheville, oddly enough

Other than that though, it's been a long time since I've been to a regular bike night. When I lived in Florida I went religiously to Hooters every wednesday and Moonlite Diner every friday. It was more to hang out with a group of friends every week though so it was always fun times. We'd always ride downtown or over to the indoor go-kart track afterwards

I used to go, had fun. Back then pretty much knew all the riders. [2001 - 2005]

Don't go now, partly I don't know anyone now and I am not a fan of riding at night.

not really any around here...

No

LOL. We may not have been in another state, but this is how far it was for us to get to a decent bike now. Since then Quaker Steak has built a place a little closer, but we've never been there.
Once a small group of us went to Columbus (1-1/2 hours) for one. It was kind of cool.

Just not a bike night type person so I don't go very often.

not one around here except one at a bar down the road, but since its a bar, all it is is harley guys drinking and driving, and this angers me cause that night is 35 cent wing night and they have awesome wings

No. I don't ride my bike to go park it somewhere and socialize. When I ride it, I want to ride it, not look at it and eat bad food.

werd if i do i stop in look at bikes get ideas for my own bs a little and leave.

went once and never again, not my scene

I don't ride a stretched bike or a stunt bike so I really don't fit in at the bike nights here.

Agreed.

We dont really have a "Bike Night". The usual group I ride with doesnt gather for shit like that but a lot of the riders in this city do park at a coffee shop and talk about drag racing all night. We dont call that a Bike night though. We call that "Every Night":blah:

I enjoy seeing other bikes but there isn't a bike night that is reasonable for me to get to.

I haven't in a long time.
My schedule makes it impractical to try to get up early enough to go somewhere and hang out before I have to get ready for work.
Although I might start trying to make it again.

I'm not allowed because I don't have a ZX-14/Busa with a bass boat paint scheme and a 390 tire kit with a 40 inch stretch.

Sorry I posted before I read the entire thread...

I hang out with a small group occasionally. Don't like the mentality of the morons that show up at the big bike hangout.

HAH!
I thought I was the only one that used that term. :lol:

i go for the hardware. always nice to see rare or exotic shit when it shows up, or the random frankenstein. there was a v30 magna rat chopper a couple months back that both me and derf were drooling over

There are always 20 to 30 bikes where I stop to warm up and get something to drink.

I don't do bike nights though. When you go on Thursdays there are hundreds of bikes. Ill roll through sometimes because I forget about it. But I never stop. I'm not a fan of crowds.

The ones at the japanese bike dealers here in the triad are always squid-fests


The ones that carolina BMW/Ducati hold have some very interesting people, and Jason always has models in bikini's on a runway sporting new gear...so his are ALWAYS worth going too!!!!

:lol: Like somebody shot a roll of dimes out of the paint gun..

Being this is one of the homes of Harley manufacturing, we don't go unless we want hearing loss. :bash:

They started a sportbike night this summer near the house, since they got ran off from the last place. Found out quickly why. Seems if there is an audience, the stunters show up. Wouldn't be bad, but they damaged two of the waitresses cars and several other bikes. :eek: Since we are new in town, no one talked to us, so we didn't go back.

I used to go when i lived in nyc, but mostly because it gave us an excuse to see all our friends, since many of us worked around the area. There wasn't too many squids either, and the food was pretty good.

Here, I haven't been to any, but I'm also been antisocial lately.

I told that to a local on his Bandit 12. Wierd thing was it was stock except for the bass boat paint and pipe.

He had never heard the term either, but he thought it was funny.

I went one time. Full of people my age (half riders/half squids). Not a single hello. Fuck em.

I go every now and then, just to remind myself why I don't go :lol:

Well, and to see people do fun things like snap their chain when they go over a speed-bump with a stretched swing-arm [ooooo, did I just laugh out loud?].

We do have a really REALLY excellent Euro-trash night at the best Chinese restaurant in Austin... I haven't been there in a while. :( Even though there is a herd of Ducs out front - I don't consider it a "bike night" - it's more like a family. [dysfunctional though it might be]

Everyone thinks I'm a narc if I show up. So, I show up just to make them jumpy.

Honestly, no. I don't. Sometimes I'll stop at the Sheetz they all meet at on fri nights if I'm in the area. I LOL at the stories they tell. Everyone has a 6 inch over swinger, slip on exhaust and run 8 second quarters.

I do sometimes... but not often. I prefer to ride than sit. So when I do... I typically ride like an hour + to get to the bike night.

I like riding up the mountains...chatting while we rest...then riding down the mountain.

All while the sun is still up! :beers:

i perfer to ride the curves then sit and talk and rest, watch other bikes go by

:rockwoot:

Once. It's sucked and was a cruiser haven. I'd rather ride.

We have a few around the area and I'll hit two or three when they first start up each season and then I seem to get my fill and don't really go anymore.

I'm sure there are bike nights around but I never go.

I'm uber shy in person and it's just not my scene. I don't have any friends that ride in my city and don't like to go alone. It's not really my 'scene' anyways. :idk:

Nope.

I would have never pegged you to be shy in person!

Ridiculously shy (painful at times) with people I don't know. I don't know why because once I get to know people I"m fine. But it takes a very long time for me to feel comfortable around people. :idk: :tremble:

On Thursday, November 5th, there will be a Vintage Bike night near downtown. If it doesn't snow, I may bring my GS1000. But since I don't drink now, I would feel stupid ordering soda in the bar. What do other non-drinkers order?

Water. :wink: Or sprite if you want it to look like you may be drinking something. As a bartender, I used to get asked this fairly often. Have a juice, no one will ever know it doesnt have alcohol in it and have them put it in an alcoholic drink cup versus a soda cup.

The most recent bike night I went to the owner of the joint was offering free margaritas to the riders to have it there. Seriously??!! It was nice hanging with folks and meeting new faces, but I just cant get into the whole drink and ride thing, even if its just one.

I drink a water with lemon and tell people it is a polar bear... then they think it's some kind of mixed drink :)

I really don't give a shit what other people think if I'm not drinking. I believe I'm the smarter one for that, but that is my opinion.

You know it is funny, I consider myself quite shy and I haven't drank in a what some of you would consider a very long time, and It never occurs to me to worry about how other view what I am drinking.

I am loud and clear that I dont drink when I ride, and that water or soda is fine. No one has ever given me crap for it and hopefully it makes a few stop and think before ordering that drink.

one of the things I've noticed in the two bike nights I went to (may just be those groups) but all they do is worry about what everyone else is doing... what they're drinking... what they're riding... who they're talking to... makes for night long conversation and delays the part of the night they all seem to hate....

RIDING THE DAMN THINGS!

High school all over again?

If I'm driving or riding to and from the bar\restaurant..
Pounding waters...
That's me...
The guy who has to pee again

I am the same way, although bike nights up here are usually at Tim Hortons, not a licenced establishment. that is just plain dumb.

it's bike nights and forums.... :panic:

I may drink A beer when I first get there but then it's either a coke a tea or even lemonade after that.

I don't see it too much on the forums but i hear about how people get nasty pm's and such and backstabbing via pm's. I miss out on all the fun.

No, for all the reasons above... anti-social, would rather be riding, and am not a Pimp Bike Ryda. Closest i come is spending a few minutes shooting the shit (where're you from, how're the roads) while stopping for gas at places like Shady Valley or the Dragon.

I haven't been to one in over a year. I just don't have the time anymore with work, school, triathlon training, gf, etc. Plus they are pretty boring too. They lost their cool pretty quick. The Hooters ones suck the most.

Every Tuesday I pass one on my way home from school.

We went to a couple but just didn't feel them. Mostly a bunch of young guys (no offense to the youngens on here :lol: ) trying to prove how bad they were. I'm getting to old for that crap :rofl:

Not really my thing; I'd rather ride than stand around and socialize. Went to bike night twice in 5-6 years in SoFl and that's it. Will probably never even bother up here since most of the riders on the two local boards are douches.

we have several big bike nights in town, but I never went...

the "bike night" we go to is at a tasting room at a local brewery - on good days we get about 8 bikes :lol: mostly dual sports and standards - maybe a duc...

It's more about catching up and maybe organizing a ride, not so much about the bikes and "to be seen"

I went to the Vintage bike night yesterday and had a good time. After 16 inches of snow last Thursday, I wasn't sure if I would go. But it melted by Sunday, and yesterday broke a record of 77 degrees. I ordered a club soda at the bar, and she poured it in a liter mug. I was able to take it outside and look at the bikes. It lasted for an hour and a half, the whole time I was there.

There were about twenty bikes. There was only one woman and she had a KZ650, all original. The most unique bike was a 73 Laverda 1000, a triple. There were a bunch of Triumphs and a look-alike 2000 Kawasaki W650.

One guy made a bobber out of a 73 Honda 500 four-cylinder. I don't really like when they do that, but he actually did a good job. He told me the handling sucked, and I spotted the problem right away. He took off the front fender, which ties the forks together. I told him to get a fork brace. I showed him how I replaced my steel fender with a plastic fender and then added a fork brace. They liked that I was the original owner of my Suzuki.

I don't know if they will meet during the winter, but I will probably go back in the spring. I had never seen the W650 before, but here's what it looked like:http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/5...tagenight1.jpg

Well, I can now say I made it out to the first HellBuellie bike night.
The turnout was pretty impressive, something in the neighborhood of 30ish bikes? Not all Buells, but plenty of them to be sure.

No kidding. Some people just won't shut up about things that shouldn't be public...

I stopped going to bike nights. Partly because I'm old and boring and suck, but partly because the local Ruff Ryders gang shows up and takes over the lot. They park their bikes in a row, blocking the exit, so no one can get in or out while they're there.

Hollywood bike night got NUTS a few years ago. There were cholos showing up in gang colors with guns, people smoking blunts and drinking 40s in the parking lot, one guy started filming a girl-girl porn in a car, and having seen the pics I'm not entirely sure it was consensual. The cops came down hard on it and now the location bobs around so you're never quite sure where it's going to be. :rickroll:

The "Motorcycle Nights" that I go to are in Lowell, MA. All types of riders there, from your stunters to your chromed out busas to your regular harleys to bobbers, bmw's, etc.

I usually go for a ride before hand, show up & hang with anywhere between 10-30 of my close riding buddies, check out the other more interesting bikes that show up and whatever type of entertainment & sponsors they have there that night. Then we go out for Chinese food.

It's more about getting together with my riding buddies that I don't always get to see/ride with on a regular basis than the bike night itself.

It's a good time... Especially Chaps Contest Night :D

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Winnar, Winnar, chicken dinnar :dribble:

I don't usually ride at night, and if I do it's on roads that I know. Going to the Vintage night, I rode on streets that I hadn't been on before. I learned that I like riding at night, and that my face shield has a lot more fine scratches that I don't notice in the day.

I liked that all the riders I talked to did their own work on their bikes. It was also fun to see riders kick-start their bikes. Even the W650 rider kicked his bike. When I asked him why, he said he was saving his electric starter. These are my kind of riders.

The local bike nights around here have something to offer for everyone

Why does she have side rolls coming out of under her shirt?

I'm pretty sure it's just the angle/perspective of the camera.

Yup... what Lee said. Trust me, she wasn't a chubby & with an ass like that I'm surprised you even noticed the "rolls"

You didn't just try to call her fat, did you?:?: