Why don't Dark Angels have Bikers?

[Charistoph]

The answer is simple: Why put in 08/15 Bikers, when you have the ravenwing? Or with other words: Why make a (nother) codex-entrie which no-one will take?

Then why put in Scouts and Tacticals when half the point to take Dark Angels is Deathwing and Ravenwing?

[Iyandagar]

... This is like asking why can't Dark Angels field Terminators.... Oh wait they can, it's the Deathwing. Unless I am missing a fundamental point to this thread I really don't see what the problem is. (It is getting late and I have been up since about 4am, so maybe my eyes and Brain are not synchronising as they ought)

[zenjah]

the Ravenwing are all "skilled rider", surely they weren't inducted into the Ravenwing without having fought on bikes before.

Only Ravenwing Command Squads and Ravenwing Black Knights have Skilled Rider. The standard Ravenwing Attack Squadrons don't have it.

I'm not sure the codex needs a fourth entry of bikers just to flesh out all the different skill levels one might imagine.