If you read more articles related to motorcycles or watch more videos about it, you may have definitely heard about a word squid. In the motorcycling culture or among the riding community, generally the term squid refers to a person who disturbs the public by a aggressive riding style. These type of person always don't wear protective gears and also questions others safety. If I step out of my house even now, I can able to see them with their heavily modified two wheelers.
What makes these kind of riders? The only answer I have is immaturity. As we all know, riders of many R15s and Pulsars are youngsters these days and that's the reason behind it. According to me, age doesn't matter in motorcycling culture. But, riding with responsibilities matters. Everything we do in life must have purpose, right? Like that, our riding should also have a purpose. Each and every penny we spend on our motorcycle doesn't came from air.
Coming back to the purpose, some buy motorcycles for daily commuting purposes, short riding purposes or for any other reasons. But youngsters these days are just buying for passion and love towards motorcycles. Next big problem comes in a form of social media platforms. Short videos rules over all the social media platforms where our peoples started to showoff their skills in terms of acting or by doing stunts.
As social media and other short video platforms started to pickup more momentum, everyone started to turn their heads towards that where I can able to see peoples scrolling down the short videos for hours and hours. Algorithm of these platforms also work in such a way which shows more contents related to our watch history. So if a person watches more videos related to motorcycles, their feed will be fully filled with the same. So, the person's mind will be stuffed with the contents they watched and it surges them to do the same for posting it on their social media accounts.
I think this is the starting point and I believe in it strongly. If anything becomes viral or popular, everyone starts to follow it and that's our nature. But what I'm trying to say is, there's nothing wrong if it leads us to a right path. But it's useless only if we use it just to showoff. The problem doesn't stops here where it follows to the public roads. The implementation of tricks on the public roads without any safety gears or without any experience or suddenly riding the motorbike very aggressively is where all the problem starts to blow off.
There'll be no rewards given in doing such activities and this also results in zero safety to the people involved in this activity and to the public. I accept that revving the motor to the redline is the best feeling but on the closed environment like a race track. Doing these activities on the public roads without any safety gears doesn't make any sense and youngsters these days really have to change their mindset for their and other's safety.
What makes these kind of riders? The only answer I have is immaturity. As we all know, riders of many R15s and Pulsars are youngsters these days and that's the reason behind it. According to me, age doesn't matter in motorcycling culture. But, riding with responsibilities matters. Everything we do in life must have purpose, right? Like that, our riding should also have a purpose. Each and every penny we spend on our motorcycle doesn't came from air.
Coming back to the purpose, some buy motorcycles for daily commuting purposes, short riding purposes or for any other reasons. But youngsters these days are just buying for passion and love towards motorcycles. Next big problem comes in a form of social media platforms. Short videos rules over all the social media platforms where our peoples started to showoff their skills in terms of acting or by doing stunts.
As social media and other short video platforms started to pickup more momentum, everyone started to turn their heads towards that where I can able to see peoples scrolling down the short videos for hours and hours. Algorithm of these platforms also work in such a way which shows more contents related to our watch history. So if a person watches more videos related to motorcycles, their feed will be fully filled with the same. So, the person's mind will be stuffed with the contents they watched and it surges them to do the same for posting it on their social media accounts.
I think this is the starting point and I believe in it strongly. If anything becomes viral or popular, everyone starts to follow it and that's our nature. But what I'm trying to say is, there's nothing wrong if it leads us to a right path. But it's useless only if we use it just to showoff. The problem doesn't stops here where it follows to the public roads. The implementation of tricks on the public roads without any safety gears or without any experience or suddenly riding the motorbike very aggressively is where all the problem starts to blow off.
There'll be no rewards given in doing such activities and this also results in zero safety to the people involved in this activity and to the public. I accept that revving the motor to the redline is the best feeling but on the closed environment like a race track. Doing these activities on the public roads without any safety gears doesn't make any sense and youngsters these days really have to change their mindset for their and other's safety.
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