I have been sitting in a stool of those that surround the tables at the door of the sale, where I usually stop having enjoyed the biker route that leads to the place. In that scarce time lapse will have arrived as 50 or 60 bikers who, like a server, have traveled this road that borders the beautiful Murcian coast to the provincial limit with Almeria.
The site is a reference in the area if what you like is to have tutiplén lunch so it costs you a pack of cigarettes: XL size sandwich, drink, coffee and pacifier (for those who need to heat up), 6 euros. And then they say on TV that we live worse since Pedro Sánchez is president … (Ionic on).
Aliexpress equipment and the great contradictions of the biker
The fact is that, together with me, a group of 5 fans who have reached the controls of their fantastic latest generation adventure mounts has been sat down. I have noticed his presence because when he got off the motorcycles, and pass by my veteran with torn eyes, one of the members of the group has whispered to another between teeth “Have you seen the sling paint? …”
Undoubtedly, to me, that I have heard it with total sharpness, my morale has put my clouds, although I do not profess the same admiration for the technological mounts they pilot. Tremendous machines in every way, but lacking that novelty essence that threatened us deeply to more than one (and two) to make us addicted to this two wheels. In addition, as my colleague Ramón usually says … “Brother, with those bichas we are all pilots.”
Personal appreciations and tastes apart, the striking of the matter after browering the motorcycles enjoyed by colleagues, all new package and with rate prices that exceed 3 kilos of the old pesetas, is the conversation that for a few moments develop the aforementioned, at the rate of the escape tail that one of them mounts in their latest generation mount.
Apparently, as the owner explains in detail, he has bought it in Aliexpress for only 120 euros. Of course, puts Akrapovič and makes noise to wake up a deaf from a pleasant nap. The guy is driving from your master purchase and in your own words alleges with a jocular tone and textual way, “Let the brands fuck and if not to put cheaper prices.”
To finish the argument, he confesses that the gloves “Replica Dainese” that they use are also the result of an impulsive purchase in the famous Asian portal, of those who simulate being leather and that over time they end up smelling of dead dogs every time you take them away. Of course, listening to it, some questions come to my mind at that moment. For example:
- Will the colleague know the poor quality that this type of falsifications usually have?
- Will he be aware that they can be fine for not complying with current noise regulations?
- Will you have taken into account that in the case of unwanted fall, will those gloves protect it between little and nothing?
I think not. In addition, one does not explain how there are fans who invest a kidney in a new motorcycle (totally respectable) and then adopt this type of behavior when acquiring accessories and equipment. Because eye, this is just an example of the many that act in this way. We already know that in our beloved Spain, that of appearing takes a lot.
After finishing the last sip of coffee, and taking some notes on my mobile, (with the clear intention of “chiring me” in these lines) I am about paying, putting the equipment and going out for legs (or wheels) of the site. However, just before starting, that same group of bikers shout me from the place where they are sitting;
“Companion, give gas that we listen to that V4”to which I answer as politely as possible, “Ya that another day, when I mount the Aliexpress Arrow that I am waiting …”
I have to confess that, after silent at the table they occupied, they looked at me with a face of few friends. It is the result of getting your journalistic vein, and soak too much what you have sitting next.
