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...quietly crept in to the room in which I was interviewing his roommates, I asked him if he, a non-biker, felt some-how lesser or insecure while living with such avid motorcycle men. He said that he didn't feel lesser. In fact, he plans to get a bike of his own. Simply the influence of his roommates? "Well," Plaks explained, "People have no personality. You need something to know...
Most of the bikes point to easy parking as the major advantage to the motorcycle over the car. McPartland, part of the Winthrop suite, often rides his Maxim 550 Yamaha bike between Winthrop and his classes in the yard. "If I can go some-where where there's an option between walking and riding, I'll ride." When asked if this made him feel lazy, McPartland responded with assurance, "I feel lazy regardless. It doesn't matter." But Rich Beukema, a senior in Winthrop who has ridden across the country three times on his bike and currently rides a Honda...
...bikers agree that riding through Cambridge is difficult and dangerous. Maniatis, owner of a Yamaha Fazer, claims to have "come near death quite a few times" and recently almost ran in to a bus. Millan once fell off his bike when he hit a patch of send in the middle of a sharp turn. Still, he was able to get back on the bike and drive himself to the hospital. With the agressive Cambridge driving style, Beukema worries about the apparent rise in numbers of Harvard motorcycle riders. "I worry for other people driving around here...
...riders. As McPartlend put it, "Rather than trying to outdo each other, we've communed." Maniatis added, "It's a brotherly thing." The sign of acknowledgment between bikers, according to Milan, is "a quick right handed wave, nod or beep." There is not, in the experience of these particular bike boys, a universal brotherhood of motorcycle men. One species of bikers stands against the rest: the Harley Davidson riders. Harley riders, Maniatis explains, "don't even acknowledge that you're of the same breed...
...motorcycle craze catching on with the greater Harvard community? Most of the bikes I spoke with think this is the case. "I've seen a lot more people with motorcycles," Millan says. Regardless, the Winthrop gang has big plans for the future. Maniatis announces confidently that as a rooming group. "We plan to have a fifteen bike collection." McPartland agrees, "We are all going to live next door to each other and swap bikes...