Originally Posted by dgasmd

90%+ of the people I know here in town that rides prove your statement above wrong. Although I personally do not belong to the "dirty fingernail crew" as you define it, I am yet to find that is a hinderance in any way to "fit in". Let me also add that most of the hardcore "weight weenies", "bike porn afficionados", and hardcore "posers" I have seen or know probably fall in the bottom half if not third of the income bracket of the blue collar group. It is simply what they choose to spend their money on. Most others around here, because of location and natural habitat, choose to spend insane amounts of money in beer, motorcycles, boats, cigars, and cheap loose women with multiple missing teeth.