[gashousegorilla]

   
http://www.motorcycle.com/top10/top-10-hipster-motorcycles.html

[Otto_Ing]

#6: Royal Enfield

[Richard230]

That is a great description of hipsters on page 1.  But I sure have never seen a hipster on a Gold Wing before.  What is hip about a 1000 pound two-wheel Winnebago? 

[gashousegorilla]

  Yeah right ?   I'm not getting the whole Gold wing thing ?   But who knows what lurks in the mind of the young ?  And did you get a load of the rest of those bikes!?   Why.... I am feeling a bit self conscious.    I have owned or own at least a few of those bikes over the years, probably like a lot you guys out there. Why, I might be a Hipster too !?     Hehehehe !  Naaaa, too old.  But could it be that our sons are actually doing what we did , and actually think that it was cool , but yet they THINK that they discovered a "new thing" ?   Ummmm.....

 Anyway.  It seems they are infiltrating other Hobbies as well.  Some more then others......

http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2016/02/hipsters_are_ruining_surfing.html

 

[Otto_Ing]

Although I can't associate myself with the hipsters I do feel sympathy for them. As the saying goes "if you are below 30 and aren't a socialist you've got no heart and if you are above 40 and still are a socialist than you've got no brain.". Young people are grouping themselves and wish to belong to something bigger and something that's unique to their generation. What choice do they really heave? I prefer any hipster trying to make his bike look cool and attract the female part of the society this way than the sort of cowardly geek acting in secret inventing schemes to deprive the public embracing some higher power. There really is nothing new under the sun, electric cars? Has been tried 100 years ago and failed miserably.

[Arizoni]

Actually, the "Hipsters love anything vintage. If someone’s grandpa wore it, read it, used it or rode it, a hipster’s gotta have it." image sounds like there might be some hope for the future.
I may have pre-judged them. 

They sound a lot more like the people I used to run with than the "sit on their butt and play with a video game" generation I've watched grow up.

If these hipsters are actually learning how to modify old motorcycles and get old mo-peds running again, I'm all for it.

[REpozer]

It appears the Hippsters have good taste but lack the means to make it happen.
I can see myself enjoying most everything on this list.

[gizzo]

I don't have a beef with hipsters. I mean, theyre' idiots and all but it's not like I need to interact with them on any meaningful level. Coincidentally, hipsters like a lot of the things I like, just that I'm older and liked it first  . The hipster motorbike thing is a good thing in my eyes. They've caused a lot of old shitters to be rescued, rebuilt repurposed and reused to good effect. These are the same old clangers nobody wanted not so long ago, so they're getting a second life. Traditionalists moan about the bikes being "ruined". So what? If they were so precious, those same whingers ought to ahve bought and restored them. Same argument goes for the classic car mob decrying the UK banger racing scene and the wanton destruction of all the Oxfords, Westminsters and Farinas. If they don't like it, they could save those old beaters themselves. Anyway when the hipster movement moves on, there'll be loads of cheap old motorbikes available again.
Where I surf, hipsters are no problem either. It's too cold to be there unless you Really want to be, and too isolated, so no-one to see them, even if they could surf.
The only grumble I do have is that they seem to have latched onto punk and hardcore, so when I go to see a favourite old band there's tons of bearded johnny come lately fops acting as if they've just invented the genre. But it's good for ticket sales and the bands can benefit, so even there's a silver lining.

[Richard230]

I don't have a beef with hipsters. I mean, theyre' idiots and all but it's not like I need to interact with them on any meaningful level. Coincidentally, hipsters like a lot of the things I like, just that I'm older and liked it first  . The hipster motorbike thing is a good thing in my eyes. They've caused a lot of old shitters to be rescued, rebuilt repurposed and reused to good effect. These are the same old clangers nobody wanted not so long ago, so they're getting a second life. Traditionalists moan about the bikes being "ruined". So what? If they were so precious, those same whingers ought to ahve bought and restored them. Same argument goes for the classic car mob decrying the UK banger racing scene and the wanton destruction of all the Oxfords, Westminsters and Farinas. If they don't like it, they could save those old beaters themselves. Anyway when the hipster movement moves on, there'll be loads of cheap old motorbikes available again.
Where I surf, hipsters are no problem either. It's too cold to be there unless you Really want to be, and too isolated, so no-one to see them, even if they could surf.
The only grumble I do have is that they seem to have latched onto punk and hardcore, so when I go to see a favourite old band there's tons of bearded johnny come lately fops acting as if they've just invented the genre. But it's good for ticket sales and the bands can benefit, so even there's a silver lining.

You make some good points, Gizzo.   

[Narada]

If I buy the new twin with larger displacement, would that bike be called a hip replacement? 

[gashousegorilla]

  In more then one way !            Or perhaps Hipster-ceptor  ? 

[Narada]

Hahaha! The Royal Enfield Hipster-Ceptor! . Hang on to your beard! 

[gizzo]

Hahahaha! That's awesome, GHG!  remember that for when they finally get built .

[gashousegorilla]

   In stead of "Constellation".     How about simplifying things and just call it " The Hub !"  Alright, I'll stop now.....

[tooseevee]

#6: Royal Enfield

          ....and the writer, of course, spelled Chennai wrong. It seems nobody researches what they're writing about any more and that goes across the board for all species of so-called social/news media. American news "anchors" are thrown for a loop with even the easiest of American city names and you just have to cringe when it goes foreign.