February 11, 2012 12:21 AM PST
As a kid I didn't play well with others, so I got real good at entertaining myself.
I commend you on stopping just short of TMI. LOL
I am thinking bikerness needs to be graded like an Iowa Basic Skills test:
you are in the 98 percentile for wrenching, but the 70 percentile for riding
Until we have universally accepted standardized testing for official bikerdom status, there are plenty of fun online quizzes people can take to do a self evaluation. They are very helpful for the posers to find the areas in which they need to improve.
http://www.dixiedrifter.com/abiker.html includes such true/false questions as, "Confusing the terms "VIN" and "SSN", you try to write your bike off as a dependent on your taxes."
http://quizfarm.com/quizzes/new/cook1e/what-kind-of-biker-are-you/ is a good quiz if you can't figure out if you are the american made cruiser type or the rice burnin sportbike type of motorcycle enthusiast
http://vulcan.wolfcrews.com/misc/yuppie.htm is a thoroughly researched compilation of all the mistakes posers make in their efforts to fit in amongst bikers and should be required reading (of what NOT to do) for anyone who's life ambition it is to be referred to as a biker.
http://www.gotoquiz.com/are_you_an_old_school_biker is probably the closest thing we currently have to standardized testing of how bikery someone has become since they first threw a leg over to rounds of rubber.
Of course...there is always the old adage that if you CARE about whether or not someone considers you to be a REAL BIKER enough to do anything to influence what people think about you, then, you aren't one. Or to put simply,
if you gotta ask, you ain't.
But the quizzes are still good for a few LOLz.
