AUSTRALIAN MOTORCYCLE TRIBES

Australian Motorcyclist Issue #119

• THE OLD GUY – POETRY
• OUR COMMUNITY – SIKH MOTORCYCLE CLUB AUSTRALIA
• BEAR TALES
• BORIS COLUMN
• CUSTOM BUILD
• KAWASAKI KZ900R – REVIEW
• MOROCCO PART 2
• AUSTRALIAN MOTORCYCLE TRIBES
• PUB OF THE MONTH
• BACK ROADING ON THE MANNING
• COMMUTING ON A BIKE? WHY NOT?
• TEMORA – BEAR’S MAP
• 2023 MOTO GUZZI MANDELLO – REVIEW
• 120 YEARS OF HARLEY-DAVIDSON HISTORY
• THE VORTEX – RENNIE SCAYSBROOK
• THE GREATEST SHOW ON TWO WHEELS – RENNIE SCAYSBROOK
• NEWS
• EDITORIAL

WORDS – BORIS MIHAILOVIC
AN ENTIRELY BRIEF AND INCONCISE HISTORY

MOTOR CYCLE TRIBES OCCUR WHEN motorcycles stop being tools and become leisure vehicles ridden by wild, gimlet – eyed youths.

Tribalism is human nature. We all do it. We all like to belong. But wild, gimlet-eyed youths like to belong more than anyone else. It’s like a genetic imperative.