You do have to realise though, that the "attitude" toward bikes is a lot different here than in Texas.
You mean like, "No Shirt, No Shoes, Or Motorbike, No Service"? 
LOL! something like that. Most people here aren't used to motorbikes at all. There are more and more every year, likely cos of the gas prices, but I suspect we're about 10 or 15 yrs behind Texas in "Motorcycle awareness" based on what a friend in Texas has told me. The attitude here is "why bother with a motorcycle, they're death machines" or "you can only ride it 3 months of the year" Not true, if the weather is at all ok, you can ride from March (If you're willing to contend with gravel. )to Late Oct or even Nov.
You can see it in the news. The latest being that the Police Chief is going to crack down on those "loud motorcycles". ignoring the fact that many of the "rice burners" and diesels are even louder. You see the attitude when a rider goes down. It's automatically our fault, even if someone did a U-turn in front of the rider. (That one happened last year.) In various places in the city, you will see "no motorcycles" signs. I can't figure out why, other than a "you're not welcome" attitude.
You see it in the attitudes of drivers. The ones that don't see us, whatever, I can contend with that. The ones that get the nasty grins on their faces and take a run at you, stealing your right of way and attempting to kill you, I take issue with. Someone did that about 2 miles from home to the other half about a month or two ago.
You see it in the attitudes of people that you park with. I stop somewhere and get looks like I'm the Devil Incarnate. I've had my bike knocked over, and I have a friend that was spit on for riding a bike (by another biker yet).
Of course that said, last summer a woman was killed while riding with her husband, and I had a couple of neighbors on my doorstep checking to make sure it wasn't us.
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