When Your Motorcycle Is Your Whole Personality

When your motorcycle is your whole personality, you are one breakdown away from having no self. Keep the bike. Do not let the bike keep you.

For many Filipino men the motor is freedom, income, and barkada. That mix is powerful. It is also how a man disappears into chrome and group rides.

When is the bike healthy?

When it takes you to work, when you maintain it, when you wear the helmet for your child's sake, when a Sunday ride does not steal the rent.

When is it a costume?

When every photo is the motor. When every peso is an upgrade. When you are rude in traffic because the machine made you tall. We poke that costume at thefilipinomen.com because the man under the helmet still has to come home.

What should you protect besides the bike?

License. Sleep. The people who wait. A skill that still works if the engine dies. A conversation that is not about exhaust.

More of this kind of everyday manhood is at thefilipinomen.com — that is the home of The Filipino Men.

Frequently asked questions

Is selling it failure?
Selling it to stand up the house is adulthood. Failure is a shiny bike beside an empty pantry.

Can I still ride with friends?
Yes. Come home on time. That is the whole plot.