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Revz
Posted on Sunday, January 03, 2010 - 07:31 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Exclusive story of the product development leading to the naming of a new 2010 H-D model...

(Flashback to 1960, in a back room of a
H-D warehouse in Milwaukee)

Willie G: I got it!

(Co-worker now permanently living as a kept man in a house in New York State, who was formerly from Arkansas, and worked for a brief time in Milwaukee, who from this point forward we will call Billie C)

Billie C: What Willie, what've you got man?
Willie G: sssssssssssssssp

(a sound made by making the sss sound whilst inhaling (very much like an erstwhile american president would never admit, don't remember his name))

Willie G: eeer
Billie C: Thanks, Willie
Willlie G: O yeah man I've got it.
Billie C: What?
Willie G: The name of our next Harley-Davidson, Willie G. Icon bike man!
Billie C: Cool what is it?
Willie G: What's a, what's a, hey you want a pizza?

(Memories fade further, then recover somewhat, 40 years pass by, much liquor and motor oil drained, spilled, or otherwise lost from both the personal and Harley oil pan nuts)

(The year 2010 - Same back room at H-D, Same two Characters)

Billie C: eeer
Willie G: Oh yeah, the name of the bike
Billie C: Yeah what?
Willie G: It's revolutionary, it's new, it's out of the box, something we've never done, We'll call the new model the.....
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"2010 Fat Bob Lo"

Billie C: Cool, now quit Bogarting man...

Scene closes with Billie C. thanking Willie G. for also coming up with the idea for a major American military policy.

Billie C: What's with the beret?
Willie G: Don't ask, don't tell man...

(In the darkness of the back room, way in the shadows, a small Southpark character slowly slithers away with an idea for an episode.)

(Message edited by revz on January 03, 2010)
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Ulynut
Posted on Sunday, January 03, 2010 - 08:34 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Cold winter up there in Midland?




Hang in there, buddy. Springs coming. eeer cough cough
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Beachbuell
Posted on Sunday, January 03, 2010 - 09:07 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Interesting seeing how there is no model called the Fat Bob Lo.
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Revz
Posted on Sunday, January 03, 2010 - 09:38 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Sorry, I could never remember if the Fat Bob rode the Fat Boy or if it was the other way around...

Try looking eeer...

http://www.harley-davidson.com/en_US/Content/Pages /2010_Motorcycles/2010_motorcycles.html?locale=en_ US&camp_id=16&source_cd=SEM_NewModels&_cr=ppc|goog le|RETENTION|fat%20boy%20lo&source_cd=SEM_flstfb#/ model/flstfb

(Message edited by revz on January 03, 2010)
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Mmmi_grad
Posted on Sunday, January 03, 2010 - 10:42 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Ten years from now the new fat boy will be........ the fat boy hi.........it will look just like this one but will be anodized sub lime green insted of black. Californians will go ape shit.
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Oldog
Posted on Monday, January 04, 2010 - 10:03 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

+2 grad..
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