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Happy-N-Skirts
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My wife and I were returning from a trip to western Nevada and we like to avoid the Interstates, particularly the heavy returning traffic from Las Vegas and dodging big rigs and RVs. We drove across the desert through mining towns on the way home. I like to wear skirts while traveling for comfort, freedom, and air conditioning where needed. My wife needed to use a restroom and there were no options. We stopped at a crossroad where there was a biker bar resembling a saloon from a TV western. I didn't want my wife to go to a biker bar without me and I was wearing a skirt. We entered the bar with the usual posters, stickers, signs, and photos of motorcycles and equipment. Most of the patrons had their backs to us as we headed toward the restroom. There were some rangy looking females covered with tattoos wearing short skirts or tight fitting shorts and some people shooting pool. We were definitely "outsiders." I casually walked in and went to the "restroom" and when finished I opened the door and waited for my wife, who came out in less than a minute. We left the same way we came in, got in our car and bid farewell to the establishment. NO ONE noticed a guy wearing a skirt walking into a biker bar out in the desert. I know I took a chance, but I got away with it. I was wearing a beige or kahki skirt above the knees. It was a shortened scrub skirt with an elastic waist and was very comfortable for traveling 300 miles across the desert. I need to admit it was not so comfortable walking into a biker bar. I spent most of the weekend and all of the traveling wearing skirts into gas stations, convenient stores to buy bottled water and ice, a few restaurants, checking in and out of the hotel, having the complimentary breakfast. We were there to conduct some business with a casino manager, chamber of commerce director, and museum curator. I did wear pants to conduct our business.

If there had been time to change in to pants before venturing into the biker bar I would have. It was not an option for my wife's urgent need for a restroom. I don't want to take a chance like that again.
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I can almost guarantee you were seen by a lot of the patrons of the bar. A lot of the biker bar stuff we see and hear about on the boob tube is not true. When traveling I have gone into biker bars and have not had a problem with anyone. As long as you don't start trouble most will not do anything to cause you harm. some will try to have a little fun with you using the "Biker Bar" mystic but most do not care what you do as long as you mind your own business. :)
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I'll second Fred's observation. I know lots of guys that ride bikes, from hyper-macho Harley riders to rather sedate BMW riders, and I've never received a lick of grief. They're "counter-culture" just like we are, and if treated with dignity and respect will highly likely reciprocate.
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crfriend wrote:I'll second Fred's observation. I know lots of guys that ride bikes, from hyper-macho Harley riders to rather sedate BMW riders, and I've never received a lick of grief. They're "counter-culture" just like we are, and if treated with dignity and respect will highly likely reciprocate.
I would agree with Carl . Biker groups are a counter culture of respectable mature men . Just like Men in Skirts .
Here in Cornwall The Bikers tour Cornwall in The summer on their choppers and their trikes .

They are noticeable by their long grey hair , beards and leather . One of my friendly neighbours is a Biker .
He accepts me as a Man in a skirt as just another way of life .

I have not previously mentioned this , down here some of the fishermen and the farmers ride quad bikes as an alternative convenient form of transport .
About a month ago I bought a bright red Suzuki Quad Bike at the right price , I usually wear a boiler suit and wellie boots ,for convenience .

My biker friend had spoken to me regarding my quad bike . I pulled up outside his drive the other day on my quad
whist he was manually pulling his trike backwards into his drive.
I reminded him that my quad was just a mobility scooter , like his trike , but I had an extra wheel for my day off from my retirement.
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As well as being a normal man in skirts I am a crossdresser. I was staying in a hotel in the Scottish countryside for a couple of days completely dressed as a woman. On my final morning I noticed that a few bikers had parked outside so I decided to postpone my departure until after they left. It turned out that on this day of the week the hotel was a meeting point for bikers from all over and by the time I really had to leave, not only was the hotel itself and the car park full of bikers, but they had blocked me in. There was nothing else for it - I had to walk through them in heels and a dress pulling my suitcase. I asked them if I could get out. Not only did they move aside, they guided me out as I reversed. I do not delude myself that I look like a woman so these guys knew I was male. There was no mockery, there were not even critical glances. They were perfectly polite just like anyone else and perhaps I was more guilty of judging them than they were of judging me - a thought to conjure with.
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I'm glad things went so smoothly. I'm really not surprised though. Bikers belong to a counterculture where most wear unusual clothes and appear a little different than the normal people out there. Just the fact that they ride bikes is enough to set them apart from the norm. Your wearing a skirt is just a variation of the same attitude. I would have been disappointed to hear they acted any other way. Bikers are cool.
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I have similar good experience with bikers. I had had a coffee at a gas station and when I went back to my car I could see about ten bikers on their machines were on each side of it.
They all looked at me when approaching and when I was at the car they all greeted almost heartedly, like had I been one of them. I was wearing a short black skirt.
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As I have stated in another post bikers or people too. They are usually very helpful and really nice. I have never had any problems with bikers and I have net several.
One group of really nasty looking bikers turned out to be some of the doctors from one of the hospitals across the river, also in their group were some lawyers and one superior court judge. So you can determine the contents of a group of bikers by the clothes they wear or bikes they ride.

They do make the news a lot around here as reported by one of the local TV stations...
A woman was broken down in a very bad part of town and was unable to get help, when one of the local bike gangs came on her sitting in her car and crying. They then took the woman to an all night diner and two of the bike women stayed with her while the rest of them got the car repaired and drove it to the diner. Gave the woman $25 dollars and then went on their way with out letting the woman even try to pay for what they did to help her.
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I met a biker who was a member of a local T.V. Group. ....It takes all sorts to make The World.
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