Gresh’s most recent blog (The 5 Stupidest Ideas in Motorcycling) really lit up the blogosphere yesterday. It’s a piece that got thousands and thousands of pageviews and a ton of comments. Gresh, you see, likes to stir the pot. And he’s pretty good at kicking beehives. We motorcycle riders are opinionated folks with big egos and prominent buttons that Gresh knows how to push. It makes for an entertaining mix.
We share a lot of our stuff with targeted Facebook groups (Big Tech lets us do so as long as it’s not anything from that Vinnie Bobulinski guy about Hunter Biden), and the Facebook comments were, well…let’s just say they were entertaining. Here are a few (spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and other errors included so you get the full keyboard commando impact). With that as an intro, here we go.
Written by a Luddite
I agree with the one piece riding suites lol, but I like everything else
Damn, dude. Just ride your own ride. Who cares what others do to enjoy their ride?
This read is more like a crybaby session than a useful blog article lol
He ain’t wrong…….
Fine article written by the worlds last typewriter repair man…
Total angry old man afraid of tech?
I feel “stupider” for even trying to read this crying, bitching, moaning “article”….
My Harley has all the technology this guy hates except the info system and intercom, and I’m glad it does.. Really don’t care with this dbag thinks
The author of that article is full of it. Seriously, what’s wrong with him?
Sounds like someone is jealous that the world and technology have moved on without them.
A couple of possible solutions are:
1. Intensive training in technology and joining a Technophobic support group.
2. Sticking to 20 year old bikes.
3. Harley still makes quite a few models that are still technological dinosaurs… I think even Royal Enfield has ABS these days on all their current models.
Leather one-piece suits are the greatest thing the motorcycling world has adopted. If you stow your clothes in your saddlebags and leave the ankles unzipped, you can just pee while you ride and it’ll funnel everything to the road where it belongs. Unzip the neck for some airflow and you’ll be riding dry in less than an hour.
Good list.
i think he is right
There’s been more than one occasion where an idiot made a left in front of me, and only the locking of the tires and slewing the bike sideways saved me.
ABS would have had me t-boning the car…
Kind of agree woth #5 but everything else this guy says is BS
Very bored ,angry little man😂🤣
I said I’d never be old enough to need a fairing or a radio. Now I wouldn’t be without either one of them. My aftermarket TPMS is a great item, especially with saddlebags, wouldn’t be without that either now.
This guy left out the kickstand, his attitude eliminates the need for that stupid gadget. Real men know they can use their helmet and save all that weight and eliminate the possibility of it catching on a log when bouncing through the woods.
Sound like someone is jealous of my Goldwing.
A boomer wrote this list.
I agree on both the ABS and the keyless ignition. Especially when they only give you one key fob. 😖
Wow … my grandad has a moto page. Who knew?
I have no experience with the ABS systems, key thingy, or one piece suits. I disagree with the comm systems, mine has made my wife and I’s two- up experience tremendously more enjoyable. My peeves are underglow lighting, and stereos. Stereos don’t belong on bikes. I can see how someone might enjoy having one, but for God’s sake man, turn that shit off when group riding. I don’t want to hear your crappy music. I usually just quietly peel off the group and go away if someone is blasting thier latest Gwar song.
Thank goodness. Thought there was going to be a debate on oil again.
Old bloke moaning warning
Absolutely agree with you.
This article may be the stupidest thing I’ve seen in motorcycling
What an absolutely stupid list. Clearly written by a technophobic, Luddite, Boomer troll.
Get off my lawn!!
Wow whoever wrote that just dated themselves . Somebody got old and refused to go with the times . All these innovations made motorcycling better . And complaining about abs for off-road use is just lazy writing : a) modern bikes have off-road abs that work amazing in the dirt ! B) abs saved probably hundreds of thousands of life’s
And this last one, which is my favorite:
It’s Joe Gresh. Nuff said…
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