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Tonyxb9r
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 03, 2003 - 09:40 pm: | 
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I say ride your own class. Sport bikes don't like ya because you sound too throaty for there tastes, and Hogs don't like you because you're not throaty enough and dirty I might add. Though most of the HD guys that don't like us are the older YUPPIES that are trying to act like there hard and been living a rough bikers life. Even though they drive a lexus Mon. through Fri. and ride maybe once a month. So ride your own class because that is what we are anyways, are own class..... |
Kevinfromwebb
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 03, 2003 - 11:18 pm: |
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Just my .02, maybe .03... Started riding dirt bikes in my early 20s, did a lot of cow trailing over the years. Lived out in the country and had a longer commute to work. Bought an little Intruder and put a windshield and bags on it and commuted on it. Took long rides out on the country roads in the evenings and weekends, had a blast. Put 50,000 miles on that bike and it's a bit tired now. Moved into town and it's mainly slab to work and back now, oh well... Haven't ridden much the last couple of years but got into bicycles a bit, still two wheels... Got used to the forward leaning position on the bicycles and the intruder feels like I"m sitting on the rear wheel now. Got a 12R on order and can't wait...
A few guys at work got into the harley deal the last couple of years. Instantly started wearing the harley shirts, bandanas, etc., they don't ride to work, just on the weekends,if the weather ain't too bad... hmmmm... Sorta silly to me but whatever floats your boat...
Me, whenever I get my 'bolt I'll be riding in to work most days and if I've got time on the weekends, cool, where can I ride today. Mainly ride by myself but enjoy riding with a small group of people too...
Hmmmm, guess I'm just a 'rider'...Long winded, but a rider nontheless...
later, Kevin |
Stubby
| | Posted on Thursday, September 04, 2003 - 07:37 am: |
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Ahhh... I thought I was the only one plagued by the sneering, jeering, comments from "richard-headed" HD owner/riders/wannabes. We could make some money off those porche monkey jamokes by printing up t-shirts with that Calvin character on a chopper peeing on _______ (fill in the blank) like what you see in the back windows of the pick-em-up trucks around here! Same juvenile attitude where one's self esteem is based solely on what one owns rather than what one is.
I like brit bikes and buells. Will ride until I die! |
Usapitbullz
| | Posted on Thursday, September 04, 2003 - 10:34 am: |
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Tony, You should see the looks I get from the Harley crowd when I ride by on my XB9R W/ nallin-force pipes. My little buell sounds better, louder and looks cooler than their Harley. I was at the Harley 100th Anniversary in KC 2 weeks ago and parked in an area with about 20000 bikes, really at least 20000 bikes. When I left all eyes were on the XB as it drove by, especially when I blip the throttle every now and then just to let them know they weren't hallucinating seeing the little sportbike with the big sound.
L8R, Joe |
Sportyeric
| | Posted on Friday, September 05, 2003 - 12:52 am: |
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I was out last month with a buddy who just sold his Sportster Sport for a nice purple Dyna. (He didn't like the pace that his buddy on an R1 and I were keeping on our rides.) We stopped in at a popular Harley guys pub at the finish of our blast through the twisties. We were the only riders in the place when someone pulled up with a rigid Shovel with straight pipes. The rider fit the bike: no front teeth, tattoos everywhere, just out of jail, and coming off a ten year crack cocaine binge, he later told us. (You meet the nicest people on a Harley.) Anyway, he walks in, looks around, and says,"So who's got the sharp looking ride out there?"
My buddy and I both look alternately proud and humble so I ask back," Which one?"
"Well the Sporty, of course. Dynas like that are a dime a dozen," he says. LOL.
This weekend after a ripping ride (Border Raid) with about 30 bikes, mostly Buells and Triumphs, my S1 riding bud and I stop at a similar pub for a post ride debriefing. When I'm in the can, a guy asks if I'm riding the Ducati. When I say,"No, a Sportster," that pretty much finishes the conversation. Walking back to my table I think,"I haven't been outside for an hour but I'll bet there's no Duc out there. I should've asked if he meant the green one." Dweeb doesn't know the difference between a Duc and Sportster but looks down his nose at the owner of the later.
And finally, I was going on Thursday night rides that met at the local Kawasaki shop. Mostly ZX9s and such. They were amazed that Vance and Hines made pipes for Harleys. The newbies wondered out loud if I was at the right place and always pulled out in front of me while the regulars laughed. I'd find my way to mid-pack in short order while the newbies dropped back, then out to ride with safer people.
For weekend get-aways, I prefer the company of sport bike riders, but the Harley gatherings get the floozier chicks! |
Newfie_buell
| | Posted on Friday, September 05, 2003 - 07:06 am: |
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Just do your own thing, go ride and eventually people will start to go with ya.
I don't care who I ride with but the most fun are with the sportbike guys. |
Glitch
| | Posted on Friday, September 05, 2003 - 08:40 am: |
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<HomerSimpson voice>OOOooo...floozier chicks</HomerSimpson voice> |
Kenb
| | Posted on Friday, September 05, 2003 - 12:54 pm: |
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Funny thing this morning I got a big "how the hell you doing" wave from a guy on a HD. What was funny about it was that I realized something, he was a motorcyclist. A motorcyclist to me is someone who considers a bike a better way to get from point A to B than being in a cage. Everybody else is just a poser whether their on rice or Capt'n America. We love our toys and gadgets in this country and to most people who buy bikes it's just another toy regardless of brand or style. |
Aesquire
| | Posted on Friday, September 05, 2003 - 02:31 pm: |
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The Harley & Sport bike riders I pass by (when they are parked) ignore me until they hear the M2. Then they look like an alien has landed. The Sport bike guys I pass by (when they are waiting for a light) rev their engines like a pack of killer bee's. I love both reactions. |
Philip
| | Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2003 - 03:27 am: |
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i bought my 72 ironhead new in august of 72, 17 years old, 6 ft tall and 135 lbs. heard "almost a harley" comments and "get a real bike" all the time. my reply was "drag that shovelhead out here and lets race!". it was amazing how many times i heard some excuse about their bike being down or had a problem that would'nt allow them to race right then. these days i ride alone most of the time. ride some with a 1%er with a fxr. i do like getting off loop 610 at main street heading west and doing a power wheelie past all the stunned rubs at mancuso h-d. no one has ever said anything to me but all i'm trying to do is sell buells for them. bottom line is ride to ride and enjoy. |
Philip
| | Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2003 - 03:32 am: |
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just an observation, if you look at the biker magazines from the 60's and 70's you see a lot of sportster chopper features. also some of the pictures of sonny barger in his book about his life and the hells angels show him on a sportster. makes me wonder when and where the redheaded stepchild junk started. |
Chainsaw
| | Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2003 - 12:59 pm: |
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...gotta justify the extra $10,000 you spent on a 70hp Big Twin penis extention somehow. 
I have a client that called me up to brag about how he had just gotten a 95 c.i. motor put in his Softtail. He wanted to come down and race me on my Sportster 883. I said "Come on down, I rode the Buell in today". He said "I ain't racing you on THAT thing".
Funny how 1500 some cc's vs. 883 cc's in considered a "fair match" but 1500 vs. 984 isn't. I just don't understand how a heavier, slower bike with a smaller power to weight ratio qualifies as "real bike". Gotta boil down to what you spent on your bike I guess. My Harley was paid for before it turned a year old. "Real" bikes must be owned by men in debt. |
Spiderman
| | Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2003 - 01:02 pm: |
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>>>>>just an observation, if you look at the biker magazines from the 60's and 70's you see a lot of sportster chopper features. also some of the pictures of sonny barger in his book about his life and the hells angels show him on a sportster. makes me wonder when and where the redheaded stepchild junk started.
Cause back then the Sporty's were easier to chop, faster, and better build quality. Or so says sunny an many old timers. |
Steveford
| | Posted on Saturday, September 06, 2003 - 07:21 pm: |
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After having a customer nearly kill me on a V-Rod demo ride today, I REALLY prefer to ride with people who know the difference between a clip-on and a strap-on. |
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