3 harley riders put on a good show today

[yjleesvrr]

Oh, so that's why my rear tire blew! All this time I thought I ran over a nail!

[dilligaf]

Hey.... I'm an Anal Strecher and are very proud

WHAT!!!!!, C3 your scare'n me

[boxermania]

dilligaf.....don't panic....just an inside joke that was told at the Beakster Bash II, in WV. Very descriptive and appropriate for our men in uniform, traffic cops that is.............

[wncbmw]

I'm an Anal Strecher and are very proud of my profession

I must have missed that joke. I was about to tell him that there wasn't anything wrong with that!

[roxrider]

Harley riders scare me. The riding skills they display , are a joke.
Last year I got stuck behind some for about 5 miles (in town
construction). At a stop sign one harley rider yelled at me
"What are you doing, you can't ride with us." I wasn't trying to-
if anything I wanted to get by them and far enough ahead
of them.
Guess my bmw is not allowed to ride on American roads with
American bikes.
Go ahead and stick up for the yard apes and say how I am not PC.
Its funny how every person that I know that raced motorcycles
wont ride without a helmet and every frickin hd rider has such
great riding skills that they do not need a helmet. Hey I dont
give a phuck , Actually I think its great. Helmetless riders donate
many good organs to needy people.

A guy who was national number 43 got a call one night
He went out and drove around. Found his dad laying
in the ditch. Dad was at a bar drinking. Dad is a great
rider (even after getting drunk – you bet). Dad does not
need a helmet. Dad crashed his HD. Dad blames lousy
handling HD. Yep all the beer and no helmet had nothing
to do with his head getting a dent in it.

[Pat]

My God Rox' !
I could very well find myself on a Harley (or Victory) in the near future;
in fact, I put 35,000 miles on a Harley before the 60,000 miles I put on my R1150RA......

and few thousand miles on a Triumph after the Beemer,

and over 200,000 on various & assorted Japanese bikes,

and 60,000 miles between a Ducati and Moto Guzzi.

Are you suggesting that if you should happen to see me on a Dyna Glide someday, that you will think that I am nothing but a "yard ape" with "riding skills (that are) a joke", "helmetless", on a "lousy handling HD" ????

I woulda likely enjoyed showing somebody so prejudiced as yourself, how a Dyna Glide could spank you on your Beemer (if I had the skills to do so....).
But I'm trying to get out of that mind-set;
and thus given more reason to consider joining the "Cruiser" crowd.

When I am standing around with Harley riders, poseurs, and cruiser enthusiasts..... I have yet to hear as much judgmental talk and below-the-belt quips, as I hear when I'm poo with sport-bike riders. There seems to be more of a propensity for us sport-bike enthusiasts to speak poorly of our fellow bikeriders than Harley riders capping on sport-bike riders......

I'll agree with you though, poor riders and helmet-less bikers are a breed unto themselves..... regardless of what bike they're on.

[yjleesvrr]

I'll think I'll perform an experiment. I'll take an IQ test right after 5 hours of riding my Harley, and perform the same test the next day after I get off the BMW. Then I'll do the same the day after once I get off my Suzuki.

Results to be submitted to this board as well as the New England Journal of Medicine...

[Pat]

I don't get it........






Currently bikeless.
(That might be why my mind ain't work'n so good right now....)

[BobFV1]

I'll think I'll perform an experiment. I'll take an IQ test right after 5 hours of riding my Harley, and perform the same test the next day after I get off the BMW. Then I'll do the same the day after once I get off my Suzuki.

I only have one bike I can ride for five hours - my BMW...

I don't have anything against H-D riders per se - I don't even have anything against loud pipes (my Duc has Remus Grand Prix cans that set off lots of car alarms). I do have something against anyone who rides like an idiot. I do resent noise for the sake of noise. Most H-D pipes I have heard just make a bike with a nice stock exhaust sound like a big, loud, POS without giving the bike any significant improved performance that makes a difference (don't see too many re-piped Harley's at track day...). But you know, I have seen plenty of BMW's repiped to sound obnoxious as well - lots of GS's around here with Two Brother's cans that sound like a series of wet farts going by. I'd rather listen to loud H-D than a loud BMW.

[roxrider]

Many of the gravel roads I have ridden on have offered a
poor level of grip.
So I ride slowly on ALL gravel roads.

Many Harley riders have impressed me with their lack of
riding skills.
So I try to avoid being near Harleys.


Sorry if the way I think offends some bed wetting liberals
but it’s a great way to keep alive.

[jrc]

Rox:

Lesson up, baby:

You're not gettin' it. Having blinders on blocks your view of the road -- the motorcycle road and the life road. peple are simply asking you to avoid generalizations and name-calling.

It's got nothing to do with PC. It's got nothing to do with politics. (My guess would be that most HD riders are Republicans, but that's a Canadian cross-border speculation.)

I try to live by this simple rule, whihch my brother taught me many years ago: "Always remember that there are two kinds of people in the world -- those who divide the world into groups, and those of us who don't."

[wncbmw]

Roxrider - I was trying to maybe stick up for you a little with my previous post.

Nevermind! You're on your own! Having a little fun at our HD friends (like yjleesvrr) is one thing, but you've got something else going on!

Hey garyspolar, andyfrompoland, rdsmith3 and noRRmad! Hear that, I'm a liberal now! I've been converted to the dark side!

[Pat]

"Always remember that there are two kinds of people in the world
-- those who divide the world into groups,
and those of us who don't."

Gotta love it!

(Pssst, self admitted "bed wetting" Republican here..... thinking of converting to a bed wetting Independent.)

[bearsfolks]

The fastest growing group of injured/killed motorcyclists are 40 something Harley riders. Their lack of training and those worthless cereal bowl helmets make them a pretty good bet to be organ donors.
When their most pressing decisions are the style of their dress, who has the most chrome, and the loudest mufflers, I can understand the statistics. Their "lifestyle" is killing them.

[wncbmw]

bearfolks - that may be a reasonable statement but that isn't what roxrider is raving on.

BTW - several of my friends fall into that catagory, 40-somethings (or 50-somethings ) getting back to riding or riding for the first time and they all go buy a new 750 LB Harley to learn or relearn how to ride! But they sure keep the dealership in the $$ with the logo stuff!

[GJBushman]

Sorry if the way I think offends some bed wetting liberals
but it’s a great way to keep alive.

Rox, you're excused as a guest for not knowing that a good majority of 1150R board members actually stand to the right quite proudly. Also, as Pat has pointed out, you don't need to be a liberal to be a bed wetter. I'm not sure you have offended anyone, maybe scared us a little. Perhaps you should find a more "age appropriate" web board where your anger might be better understood.

[yjleesvrr]

Wow rox. I'm amazed at your posts. First of all, that's the first time I've ever been referred to as a liberal. Most liberals recoil in horror as I recount my gun collection...

Second, I like to think that BMW riders are relatively enlightened folk that carry few prejudices. I'll be the first one to state that the average Harley rider can't ride as well as the average BMW rider. But guess what? I've seen plenty of lousy BMW riders too. I've also seen some pretty good Harley riders with HD's that corner and accelerate rather well.

To me, a "bad" motorcyclist or a poser is someone who buys a motorcycle and doesn't ride it enough to keep his/her skills sharp. While I can't say I'm a great motorcyclist, I ride 12 - 15k miles a year and have ridden in 11 states between New Jersey and Florida. Do I know Harley types who barely ride 3k miles a year? Yes. I also know BMW riders who do the same.

In the end, I simply like things with two wheels, be it my US/Taiwanese/Jap bicycles or Jap/Ger/US motorcycles. If I'm an idiot to you because I ride a Harley 1/3rd of the time, I guess that's your prerogative. My prerogative is to consider you someone whose view of the world is a tad myopic.

p.s. - it's okay to be a poser. Last I checked the Bible, posers aren't automatically destined for hell.

[Gord]

The real issue here is one of etiquette. Using lanes appropriately. Positioning yourself within a lane when riding in a group, etc. And it pisses me off royally when I see riders not respecting the basic etiquette of group riding. So anger and disappointment about bad riding habits are well founded. As for being upset because they were on HD's, well...

I am surrounded by HD riders where I live. There are only two of us on BMWs and it is my fellow BMW rider who is less eager to join in with the rest of us. So I will continue to be the lone BMW rider who the HD riders ask to come out with them.

Riding two wheels transcends everything. Just like being human should transcend sex (and sexual orientation), religion, colour, hair colour, etc.

Courtesy is all important

[Pat]

bearsfolks posted:

"The fastest growing group of injured/killed motorcyclists are 40 something Harley riders. Their lack of training and those worthless cereal bowl helmets make them a pretty good bet to be organ donors.
When their most pressing decisions are the style of their dress, who has the most chrome, and the loudest mufflers, I can understand the statistics. Their "lifestyle" is killing them."

bear's papa and I live in the same town. Stockton has one hell of a lot of Bikers, Patchers, Metric Cruisers, Posers, Sport-bike riders and wanabe's. There is at least half a dozen Poker Runs you can ride to and participate in every weekend of the year. We gotta lotta bikes here in Northern California. And we see 'em ALL, in any variation of LOUD, chromed out, shorts & sneakers, and leather. The ONLY style of dress where there is NO variation in choice of uniform, is the leather clad biker with his cereal bowl helmet.

I would venture to say that folks 'round here tend to put the miles on their bikes. There is frequent talk of plenty people attending the motorcycle safety course, and lots & lots of womens piloting their own machine.

My point is, fellow motorcycle riders in central/northern California seem to be pretty good at waving to one another. They know about stagger formation in group riding situations, and I though there are a few arses out there...... for the most part they seem to be okay.

But BOY OH BOY do we have the loudest collection of leather clad chrome loving groupies ever assembled in a 200 mile radius!

[BMRBIKR]

(The ONLY style of dress where there is NO variation in choice of uniform, is the leather clad biker with his cereal bowl helmet.)



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