Customer Reviews

The Biker Code: Wisdom for the Ride

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
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1 star:		(7)

 

 

After reading this book, and the reviews found here, I can't help but believe that all the positive reviews come from:

1. Rich Urban Harley Riders
2. Friends of the author
3. Both

This is pretty light weight stuff that has very little to do with riding a motorcycle. But then again...there aren't a lot of motorcyclists. There are a lot of people who own motorcycles. Before you order it from Amazon.com pick the book up at your local bookstore. Glance through it. Maybe you'll like it. Maybe you think $25,000 is a reasonable price for a Harley.

I've picked stuff outta my nose after a long ride which contained more character and advice than this claptrap.

1 star because "No Stars" was not an option ...

This was a total waste of money. I thought it sucked

This book changed the way I drive around bikers...because I didn't really understand their vulnerability, AND because I didn't appreciate their strengths. This book shows a side of bikers that non-bikers (like myself) need to see. It is both beautiful and moving.

Just before writing this review, I noticed that there were over 100 new/used copies available from sellers starting at $.01 (thats a penny for the bikers that failed math). Even at that price it isn't worth it. Here is a quick summary of Biker Code:

Look like everyone else
Ride the same bike as everyone else
Talk like everyone else
Travel in a pack (with everyone else)

Then call yourself an individual. What a load of crap.

I cannot believe that I paid good money for this book. It cannot even be considered a real book just a collection of a bunch of self professed bike riders with one liners about why they ride, most of which are pretty lame. Most definetly NOT worth the money or your time!

this is the lamest sample, i couldn't read any part of the sample. i was very surprised.

We generally fear the unknown.
If someone is different, it tends to scare us.
To most a 'biker' is someone that is unknown and different, hence feared - irrationally.

The Biker Code - Wisdom For The Ride is a unique opportunity for those who are not bikers to get a rare peak into the lives and views of those who are bikers. We get to see the bikers and read in the their own words, who they are and why they ride these machines. Carpenters, psychiatrists, artists, mechanics,...salesman, chef, funeral director, medical assistant, moms and retirees; perhaps not the boy or girl next door but fellow Americans, fellow humans.

Different? Perhaps, but after reading this book we find them less different than we may have imagined. Or at least they are no longer unknown and while they may be different, we can respect their individuality and their way of expressing it.

Stuart Miller and Geoffrey Moss are to be commended for an exceptional book, beautifully done, providing for those who are afraid to go there in person, an insight into the biker's world and for those who ride, an extraordinary canvas to paint a true picture of themselves.

Saddle up!

Length:: 2:21 Mins

"The Bikers Code [...]
" a site for Bikers and Biker Supporters.

The greatest video ever produced by Harley-Davidson (in my humble opinion) that truly promotes brotherhood, and sisterhood, in the world of Bikers... "if this was a perfect world runs like this would happen spontaneously every day". This is an example of "The Biker's Code" at its best!

"Strength and Honor" -The Bikers Code [...]

This is the kind of book that makes my blood boil.

1. If bikers are so intent on expressing their individuality, why do they ride around in a herd at thity miles-per-hour wearing identical "baaad" outfits?

2. Loud pipes don't save lives, they create even more anti-motorcycling sentiment with the general public. Loud pipes will LOSE bikers' rights.

3. Nam is over, dudes. Have a little self-respect and stop peddling your trauma. Grow up.

4. What the hell is that typeface all about? Oh, I remember... individuality, again. Right.

I'm a motorcyclist. Not a biker. I ride alone, and I like it; I like the skill, the grace and the challenge. I'm well aware that I could be killed or maimed at any given time while riding. But that doesn't qualify me to write this kind of pseudo-philosophical claptrap.

Save your money. Buy a copy of... ANYTHING else.