{"id":2570,"date":"2012-01-09T11:26:52","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T03:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/?p=2570"},"modified":"2021-06-18T16:18:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T08:18:20","slug":"hong-kong-motorbike-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/2012\/01\/hong-kong-motorbike-clubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Bikers Shrug off Gang Stereotypes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Reporters: Sandy Ho, Gienne Lee, Krizto Chan<br \/>\nEditor: Victor Chan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/34280442?byline=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"395\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Motorbikes and scooters are a common enough sight in Hong Kong. Often they are ridden by couriers and delivery workers.<\/p>\n<p>The sight of riders on large bikes, wearing matching uniforms bearing flashy Harley-Davison logos roaring through Tsim Sha Tsui are a rarer picture. Heads turn as the group zooms through the busy streets.<\/p>\n<p>But this is no fearsome biker gang. It is a group of biking enthusiasts from all walks of life. <\/p>\n<p>Physician Leung Kai-man is one of them. He says that contrary to the perception most motorbikers are uneducated, unsavoury types, the group includes doctors, businessmen, a choreography instructor, an architect and a coach. \u201cWe talk about everything at gatherings. It\u2019s not only about motorbikes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr Leung adds their activities are not all about thrill-seeking,\u201cWe organized charity rides and asked for permission beforehand,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n<p>Dr Leung spends time and money on refitting his motorbikes &#8211; like repainting, upgrading engines and attaching logos. It is a labour of love but he does worry his passion for bikes might disturb the neighbours because the engines are so loud. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe neighbors should come to get you!\u201d jokes his wife, who like him is also a doctor and a biking enthusiast..<\/p>\n<p>Dr Leung Man-ching says motorbikes do not have to be macho. They are also for women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMotorbiking is a lifestyle. It can be applied to fashion and everything,\u201d she says as she shows off her collection of pink helmets and cutesy masks for motorbiking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biker groups are not all about bad boys in black leather and chains. Varsity talks to members of local motorbike clubs, who count doctors and businessmen among their number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15,1795],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hong-kong-life","category-multimedia","category-multimedia-january-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19339,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions\/19339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}