Of all the sketchy characters on Thayer Street, the loud (and clearly proud) bikers are probably the most frightening to Brown freshmen during orientation week. They travel in packs and park wherever they want... which is great! Unless you find motorcycles annoying... 

Regardless, new legislation was passed this summer to make *motorcycles only* spaces denoted by oppressive blue lines. One biker interviewed by the BDH wasn't so hot about it. "It will make the city more money," said another biker, Kevin Black. "That's what they want - for us to park illegally in car parking spots and then ticket us (to pay) for their doughnuts."

However, councilman Wood argued that in Maine (of all places) it "seemed to work well."

C'mon, that's Maine. Hardly anyone lives there, and those bikers are probably migratory. Our Thayer bikers may be part of a local population thriving on exclusively Thayer street goodness! More importantly, they're an important part of Brown's rating of how sketchy Thayer street really is.

This editor predicts the sketch-factor dropping from a 7 to a 5.