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What's with all the skulls?

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House O' Pain

Discussion Starter · Mar 23, 2021

Any body besides me think it's downright silly how much skulls are associated with the cruiser community? I've seen posers dressed in skull t-shirts and jackets and wearing skull jewelry and skulls adorning motorcycle tanks, seats and you name it. When I see grown men dressing up with skulls all over I sometimes am stifling a laugh at them trying to look 'bad ass' and scary.

I think skulls on motorcycles are an extremely overdone trope and I wonder how many guys thinking they look intimidating are actually viewed by people like me as looking like overgrown kids trying to be scary.

I've been around some genuinely scary bikers and I don't recall any of them wearing skulls (lots of prison tattoos though) so when I see skulls I think 'poser trying to be scary'.

Thoughts?

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Boog

· #41 · Mar 26, 2021

Keith Post said:
Speaking of skulls, they have a different meaning altogether to me. They’re part of a crime scene when you have to put the skull with the correct shoulder joint, etc.

To be clear, the head bone connects to the neck bone. Forward to around 1:10 for proof...
Shake Dem Bones song for kids | Head bone connected to the neck bone - Bing video

vito

· #42 · Mar 26, 2021

bevo1981 said:
how does my bike fit in? i have an actual black bear skull as my coil cover, and the paint job makes the tins look like bone.

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given that, i agree that skulls and flames are overdone. at some point people decided that these were the toughest things you could put on a bike, and decades later the sentiment still hasn't changed for some reason. isn't that why people put them on? to look tough? a skull can't hurt nobody. it's a dead thing. you wanna put something tough on your bike, why not a mongoose? those things can kill cobras. or mosquitos. mosquitos are the deadliest living creatures on Earth by killing over 1 million people every year.

As long as you ripped the bear's head off with your bare hands, you're good.

Seriously though, I think your bike is a different take on the skull thing. It is truly unique, not the cliche' flaming human skull thing we see every time we turn around.

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subbiker

· #43 · Apr 1, 2021

I always thought that having skulls on your bike was commemorating all the bone-headed things you did!

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Louisiana Jeff

· #44 · Apr 1, 2021

subbiker said:
I always thought that having skulls on your bike was commemorating all the bone-headed things you did!

I'm gonna need more skulls....

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Deeksvstarclassic

· #45 · Apr 1, 2021

The only skull i have on the classic is the one holding what little brains i have left in.

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Boog

· #46 · Apr 1, 2021

Deeksvstarclassic said:
The only skull i have on the classic is the one holding what little brains i have left in.

Pictures or it didn't happen.

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Edhred1

· #47 · Apr 3, 2021

House O' Pain said:
Any body besides me think it's downright silly how much skulls are associated with the cruiser community? I've seen posers dressed in skull t-shirts and jackets and wearing skull jewelry and skulls adorning motorcycle tanks, seats and you name it. When I see grown men dressing up with skulls all over I sometimes am stifling a laugh at them trying to look 'bad ass' and scary.

I think skulls on motorcycles are an extremely overdone trope and I wonder how many guys thinking they look intimidating are actually viewed by people like me as looking like overgrown kids trying to be scary.

I've been around some genuinely scary bikers and I don't recall any of them wearing skulls (lots of prison tattoos though) so when I see skulls I think 'poser trying to be scary'.

Thoughts?

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Lee H

· #48 · Apr 29, 2021

You got that right. Down right silly. Some guys work in an office sitting behind a desk all day and then they put on a Hells Angels costume when they go for a ride. Funny.

PaulieBoy

· #49 · Apr 30, 2021 (Edited)

Lee H said:
You got that right. Down right silly. Some guys work in an office sitting behind a desk all day and then they put on a Hells Angels costume when they go for a ride. Funny.

It's mostly a Harleigh thing.

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Jaguartech

· #50 · Apr 30, 2021

He's too tall to be a proctologist.

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TN Hermit

· #51 · May 5, 2021

Skulls remind me that death is inevitable and that everything I do, think, and experience should lead me to a better death.

And I want to be a pirate

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Bo Momma

· #52 · 5 d ago

I don’t think it’s that deep. I think it’s more like monkey see monkey do.

Wind Jammer

· #53 · 5 d ago

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Wind Jammer

· #54 · 5 d ago

Wind Jammer said:
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I never wear skulls that would just wrong I collect shirts from every Biker Bar I go too funny they stock lots of the stuff

FWRider

· #55 · 4 d ago

I like skulls and flames! And knowing that some people can't stand them makes me like them even more!

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Scuddy

· #56 · 3 d ago

Personally, I like pigs. Got a pig on the bike and the FJ. And pigs have skulls. It's what their noses are attached to and their noses find all the food for the stomach and the stomach is the only reason for all the other parts of a pig. Pigs are really just mobile stomachs.

Banner

· #57 · 3 d ago

I have a few skulls on the bike, but only to scare away electrical gremlins that live around these parts 😉

FWRider

· #58 · 1 d ago

Scuddy said:
Personally, I like pigs. Got a pig on the bike and the FJ. And pigs have skulls. It's what their noses are attached to and their noses find all the food for the stomach and the stomach is the only reason for all the other parts of a pig. Pigs are really just mobile stomachs.

Plus... BACON.

Pancake81

· #59 · 1 d ago

Wind Jammer said:
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Another BC boy I see

Wind Jammer

· #60 · 21 h ago

Pancake81 said:
Another BC boy I see

Nope but traveled extensively through the okanagan love riding BC

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