…but I can sure as hell outride you.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned while riding a motorcycle in Korea, it’s this:
99% of the guys who get anything larger than the standard 125cc bikes can’t ride for shit.
I don’t know what it is. Maybe the engine size scares them, or they’re not sure how to maneuver at anything over 50kph, or maybe they got the bike just for the sound that cool aftermarket pipe makes, maybe…
Again, I don’t know. The guys who deliver food on the 110cc moped bikes can ride better than most anybody I’ve ever seen. They could ride me into the ground without even thinking about it. But the guys who ride for fun? Forget it. I’ve thrashed guys with more than three times the engine I’ve got. Light to light on an open road they could toast me easily.
That’s because all they know how to do is go fast in a straight line.
Ask them to find a decent route through traffic and they can’t do it. They’ve got no reflexes, no skills, no concept of what a bike’s made for – and no balls.
All they’ll do is sit meekly behind all the cars in front of them and wait for traffic to get moving.
“But that’s safe, right?”
Yeah, but it’s fucking dull. Korea’s one of the few places where you can ride how you want to ride with little fear of repercussion. Sure, you could end up killing yourself if you don’t know what you’re doing – but so what? The whole point of motorcycles is that they’re not cars. So don’t get one if you’re just going to treat it like a car with two wheels.
That’s not why they exist.
These guys are the Korean equivalent of the lawyers on Harleys. And those guys suck, too. From what I’ve seen of Japan, guys there ride a little differently from the average Korean dude. (Then again, the guys in Japan ride stuff like this.)