Beeps – column

What is this recurring nonsense with 'babes' and motorcycles? There are even special sections in the media about it, you notice, wandering around in media land. Young, and very unsafely dressed and in any case near a motorcycle.

Being unsafely dressed is an issue in motorcycle land, I have been addressed about it several times this summer. Not by the police, but by fellow motorcyclists. And when I pointed out the neatly repaired damage under the line of my shorts, they immediately shuddered.

Scary!! And those scantily clad Beeps? They usually look at you longingly. But they don't contact you. So they don't really miss you that seriously.

And then just that name: “Beeps” The phenomenon seems to be designed for non-motorcycling hand-riders and is, we think, actually misogynistic as well. The link with the pathetic lonely men search became clear to us when we received an excessive number of hits in an article that talked about a 'top model' and a 'naked top model'.

On the search terms 'naked' and 'top model'. There you are with your pants around your ankles. You end up on the site of Auto Motor Klassiek… A magazine that serves a completely different target group. The idea that Beeps have an added value was recently refuted when a friendly HD freak was enjoying a pile of motorcycle magazines brought from the US of A. He got quite irritated when he saw a young lady who had draped herself on, over and around a custom bike and with her silicone curves had to be the dream woman of all airbag fetishists.

“That woman is standing in front of the carburetor! Do you understand that? How can I tell what kind of carburetor is on it?” Jeffrey shouted in pain. That kind of thing. To show that I move in all circles, I mention that there was also someone who showed me a picture of a motorcycle and a Beep while he said with a smirk: “Look, that's a pretty girl”.

As a realist I corrected him: “It's not a beautiful child, it's a photoshopped representation of a youth with injected lips and breasts, you idiot.”

The women I know and have known, even from the past, in the motorcycle world are actually of all types, ages and interests. From casually relaxed to neatly groomed or hard core lesbian.

But they are not “Beeps”. They are just people. And that is something to be happy about. And that something like that can produce a beautiful picture? That is just a bonus.

The young lady in the photo below is also just a real person. Just photographed in the wild. That she is sitting on a Guzzi was a coincidence during a visit to Mike Buttinger who was still the owner of CMSNL at the time.