Just so you all know I'm not just bein an asshole here...here's a post of myne from the KCSBFORUMS.COM website:
They are talking about taking a ride to a new "Biker Bar" off of Metcalf...read about the bar HERE .
Here is what I posted, about 5 pages in at THIS forum thread:
They are talking about taking a ride to a new "Biker Bar" off of Metcalf...read about the bar HERE .
Here is what I posted, about 5 pages in at THIS forum thread:
PhilGRASHOPR
Posted: Wed 15 Dec 2004, 21:27
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I dont post much on these boards, mainly just lurk..but this topic has me pretty peeved.
{soapbox}
The gumption that a bar owner must have to call itself a 'biker bar' is aposterous to me. The owner doesnt make the bar a biker bar, the bikers make the bar a biker bar.
You want to know what the closest you're going to get to being in a 'real' biker bar in this area? The Kickstart Saloon in North Topeka, Ks. Recognized by ABATE and editors of Easy Rider, Iron Horse and Backstreet Chopper magazine as one of the top true "Biker Bars" in North America. It isn't sitting in a upper-middle-class-area of one of the highest income-per-capita counties in the state. It's alongside a two-lane highway that you would need written directions to find. Inside there aren't plasma screens, wheel-cutout metal bars, or waitresses that all wear 'uniforms' that look alike.
If you've never been inside the Kickstart (which, ALL bikes are welcome....), you'll be surprised to see that the building is a renovated, small 2-story house that was built in (maybe....) the 1930's. Hung from the ceiling are the sacrifices of any woman who has ever gone in, bras'.....TONS of bras...so many that the mass is so thick if you WANTED to find your bra to get it back, you would have to spend quite a while finding it.
The bar is a modest peice of mohogany that has been dented and chipped with the rings, knives, change and skulls of the patrons that have gone to the Kickstart over the last few decades. They have a 'ride through' once a year where anyone can leave their mark on the floor by doing a burnout as they run in the front door and out to the patio.
From the bars floor, there is a large peice of plexiglass that keeps those who get too enebriated on the longnecks of WHATEVER THEY WANT TO DRINK (no extra charge if you want a Dos Equis instead of a Miller Highlife) from messing with the "diamond in the rough" of the Kickstart. It's a hand-built, full-size motorcycle built entirely out of cow bones that were gathered from nearby farmers fields. The rims were made by bending ribs and glueing them together, the headlight bucket is a carved out turtle shell, the engine cases are cows skulls...the backbone is a.....backbone.
The bar is known worldwide and the patrons dont give a shit if you're on a 'Davidson or a Ducati..as long as you ride. Dont go in there trying to act it if you're not....they KNOW bikers when they see them.
This "Fuel" American-Made bar crap is a pile of bullshit. If they are trying to keep a certain type of rider from being able to feel comfortable in their establishment, then they dont know shit about what riding motorcycles is all about. Riding isn't about staying within your 'genre' of motorcycle type. It's about being out with friends, doing something that YOU like to do. Who gives a SHIT what your friends like to do? If THEY want to drag their knees or if they want to drag sidepipes..I dont see what it should matter to YOU. Just because you've got enough money from your "posh" bar to build a bar that caters to the current 'trend' just so you can make MORE money...doesnt mean that you should have the ability to redefine what it is to ride.
If the sportbike community in KC adopts an establishment that is based on shortsighted arrogance, then that community doesnt deserve the hard-earned respect that they have earned with the smaller sportbike communities in the midwest. Going someplace because it's 'posh' with the friends that are 'accepted' there is a major problem down the road when you develop friends that aren't 'accepted'. In the same breath...if a Sportbike-only bar opened up, I would SEVERELY bash that bar also.
I understand that the bar isn't attempting to segregate sportbikes as a whole. But in the short 'blurb' about the bar, the bartender made the statement that if you weren't drinking American Beer, you were going to be charged an 'import tax' for anything else. How much is the 'import tax' for wearing in a Triumph-brand motorcycle jacket, or a Repsol Honda T-shirt? Segregation should not be accepted or condoned in any form amongst the motorcycing community, and we have to police ourselves.
Point is, the owner is making an attempt to profit off of the current 'American Made Chopper' craze and trying to draw in the owners of 70-80-90k bikes to a new flashy Biker/Sports/Hooters bar. Nothing in what has been portrayed about this bar so far does anything but alienate the readers of this forum...so to me, the fact that you are attempting to setup a 'ride' to this bar looks pretty off-the-wall.
{/soapbox}
I'll go back to the lurkers lounge now.
