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on: November 10, 2010, 03:17:03 pm
There was a time when a motorcyclist would never be left stuck at the side of the road as another rode past.
      This was a time after the war in England when there was over 100 motorcycle manufacturers.

      This was the time when early Sunday morning kitchens were full of motorcycle parts boiling chains in grease all over the country before Church at 11am.

    Some how the near banckruptcy of the Harley Davison factory turned up a feeling of patriotism that even scowled at non Harley owners. Hondas were smashed, even againt the owneres will for the sake of American iron.

      This idiotic attitude exists today long after Harley have puled through to success.

    Fortunately young blood is coming back and Sturges welcomes any motorcycle enthusiast where as before a very unwelcome demise of you Honda or Kawasaki awaited you.

    I hate Harleys for this reason and Harley owners who outwardly express disgust for my Intruder 1400.

      This is not good camaraderie and is not good for motorcycling --we all need help sometimes and I await the day I see a Harley stuck in the rain --i'lle slow down look down at the bike and drive away.

      Well--- they started it.
 
     
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Reply #1 on: November 10, 2010, 06:21:23 pm
Get along to bike night down at Paignton sea front Clamp. Wednesday evenings all through summer. A mile of bikes. ANYONE on ANY two wheeler made welcome.
I find most bikers give each other the nod on the roads round here. I stop if I see a biker with a spanner in his hand in a lay-by, and I've been stopped for too. Not that my G5 needs attention in lay-bys  -  I was just waiting for a lull in the traffic so I could pull my long johns on.  Brrrrrr... :D
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Reply #2 on: November 10, 2010, 06:32:18 pm
I'll stop to help any broken bike I see, to be honest when I see a broken bike beside the road it's always a Harley. I rode HD's for years and made a lot of money repairing them, still do, but I don't want another one. When truth and reality meet myth and legend, Harley Davidson comes up short.
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Reply #3 on: November 10, 2010, 07:20:28 pm
I will stop for any motorcycle/scooter/moped/bicycle and offer help. I was lucky enough to have a few old school H.D. riders help me when I was first riding in the mid 60's. They thought my Honda 150 Dream was a neat little bike for this broke 16 year old to ride around on. If it wasn't for them I would have been stuck a few times not knowing what to do or having the money to repair it. Now its my turn to do the same.
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Reply #4 on: November 11, 2010, 03:02:32 am
Theres a club here that I have mentioned before hates non Harleys they are trained to not even look in your direction, the feeling of disgust oozes from them. Totally irrational I know and they probably do too if the truth were to be known-- however.

      It is sad, as I have friends who cant talk to me in Bars if there Harley mates are around.   One told me that he is supposed to hit me if I say anything bad about a Harley He as English and the mate who wont talk is Tazmanian.

    I tease him and say --you going for a ride Saturday, I know he cant,--he even gets irritable stopping at lights with me. He tried getting ahead of me --what of an Intruder 1400.

   Stupid stupid, the  guys are not bikers but Harley enthusiast, wont ride without that silly window cleaners vest.  makes me bloody laugh.

     A true Biker likes all bikes and never ever knocks another mans bike.

      This attitude is not biking and is detrimental to biking.

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Reply #5 on: November 11, 2010, 03:20:33 am
I'll stop to help any broken bike I see, to be honest when I see a broken bike beside the road it's always a Harley. I rode HD's for years and made a lot of money repairing them.  When truth and reality meet myth and legend, Harley Davidson comes up short.

Aw, you're being too hard on 'em.  There's more hogs out there than other bikes and some of those riders are pretty adament about riding in conditions most of us (me included) would dare venture out into.

My 22-years of Harley (and Buell) riding didn't see that many hogs on the side of the road.  The last bike I remember stopping for was a Kawasaki 4-cylinder UJM that had a broken chain.  The old tales of Harleys "marking their spot" with oil are long since gone, at least 25 years now. 

I wave at most bikers (but not scooters, heh!   ;)) and often the HD guys just ignore me.  That's their loss.
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Reply #6 on: November 11, 2010, 03:21:02 am
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Amen to that.
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Reply #7 on: November 11, 2010, 03:45:38 am
When I was a kid in the 70's, Harley riders would help any biker, lest the one in my neck of the woods.
  That seemed to all change with the Harley marlking of the late 80's early 90's.

I really don't care much for the "Poser"  ;)attitude either.
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Reply #8 on: November 11, 2010, 05:00:44 am


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Reply #9 on: November 11, 2010, 02:09:19 pm
music interlude  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9QpDvhshOQ

  Oh for fks sake,---Scotty I can not do your tube thingy even if I wanted to-- My down load speed is snail pace --about 4.5KBS    I can barely down load this page.

If I could do you tube I would not be here or I would be on some porn site.

    I believe Thia government have just signed some agreement to fix this prob.

    Until then  its  5 KBS
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Reply #10 on: November 11, 2010, 02:53:33 pm
Well,lads,there's our challenge.....get Clump a better connection rate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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Reply #11 on: November 11, 2010, 03:33:54 pm
Man, my experience is way different.  I live in Wisconsin.  Everybody who rides is on a Harley.  I had told the Harley dealership up the road from me that I wanted a sidecar rig to take my 8 year old along with me.  He got a very lightly used rig in on trade a few weeks ago and I decided to go and take a look.  I drove my C5 military to the dealership.  It generated as much interest, talk and questions while sitting on the lot as I could stand to answer.  No derogatory comments, and generally positive ones (even from the guys wanting to know if I was trading it off...  I didn't!).  I ended up buying the rig.  It's an FXDS DynaGlide convertible with a big bore kit and a very cool Champion sidecar that my kid thinks is the stuff.  I rode my C5 to work today, may be the last nice weather we get, calling for snow this weekend.  I'll continue to ride the C5 whenever I get the chance, but it is fun for me.  If my son wants to take a ride...  Hopefully I can keep the Enfield long enough to teach him to ride on it in a few years.  There are pricks everywhere, don't paint the Harley bunch with too broad a brush.
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Reply #12 on: November 11, 2010, 08:47:50 pm
the way it was explained to me is that the more arrogant or righteous about the bike, the less adequate the rider was about his personal equipment... so i always assumed the guy who is riding the moped, smiling while the others laugh at him was probably nicknamed "tripod".
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Reply #13 on: November 11, 2010, 09:56:03 pm
I really like harleys..I just don't want to unload a bunch of cash for one...
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Reply #14 on: November 11, 2010, 09:56:41 pm
I find that HD owners show the most interest when checking out my Bullet. Great group of guys, never ever a bad word.

Last summer I was dropping my wife off at a local mall for work and noticed a guy trying to get his wife to help him push start his big Hog and you could see the frustration in their faces that nothing was working. I took over for his wife and gave a hand pushing that boat and found out quickly that his problem was trying to start it in first gear so I help him back it up the slight slope then told him to put it in fourth and then another good push and pronto he's up and running and their off on their way offering plenty of thanks as they rode off. So before you help anyone push start their hulking Hog make sure it's in the right gear your body will thank you.
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