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My feeling is that a lot of bikers (definitely not all) behave like a dog marking his territory. Sometimes in the UK it's the ones with loud pipes on sports bikes who ride around town wanting to be noticed. I don't think they do much else...no long journeys seeking out twisty roads, no track days, no touring. In the US it's usually Harley riders. They want to feel powerful and be recognised, but they don't have much of a life or a personality. Both the UK and US have produced large numbers of disenfranchised men who like the 'romantic outsider' niche of bikers in the movies. With a helmet on and a noisy bike they can live up to it. But when they are unmasked and talking, there's nothing there.