Let's Argue About Motorcycles

[j911brick]

Re: Increased levels of enforcement, and where...

Eric Buell was an engineer for HD. He designed and developed the Buell line. Just a year or two back HD let the line go.

Now Eric Buell is building a new Buell bike with a modified Rotax V-twin engine.

Suggested retail price: $39,999.

I know. I had a job with Buell when I graduated from college and my room mate was their chief project engineer for many years. Eric came over to the house for dinner many times.

 

[bigyellowpete]

Your right, and that is why I won't own a Pete either.

Opinions are like assholes.

I've got Harley's and a Peterbilt. Wouldn't trade either one for a Volvo or a BMW. Just my personal choice, Ive driven just about every make of motorcycle, and I can appreciate the difference between a ZX11 and a Fat Boy, and I choose to ride the V-twins. I find them more comfortable to ride long distances, and I also enjoy being able to customize them. That being said, I don't try and ram my opinions down other peoples throats, and belittle their choices though, like you seem to enjoy doing. Try having a little respect for other people's choices, or keep them to yourself. I for one, am more than a little tired of your holier than thou bullsh1t about nearly every topic in here.

 

[j911brick]

Try having a little respect for other people's choices, or keep them to yourself. I for one, am more than a little tired of your holier than thou bullsh1t about nearly every topic in here.

Try again sport; I didn't start the argument. It was started by one of your Harley buddies. Clearly its Harley owners that have no respect for the choices of others.

...and all my bikes are v-twins except the BMW and CRF. I guess that makes us like brothers or something.

 

[boone315]

Opinions are like assholes.

I've got Harley's and a Peterbilt. Wouldn't trade either one for a Volvo or a BMW. Just my personal choice, Ive driven just about every make of motorcycle, and I can appreciate the difference between a ZX11 and a Fat Boy, and I choose to ride the V-twins. I find them more comfortable to ride long distances, and I also enjoy being able to customize them. That being said, I don't try and ram my opinions down other peoples throats, and belittle their choices though, like you seem to enjoy doing. Try having a little respect for other people's choices, or keep them to yourself. I for one, am more than a little tired of your holier than thou bullsh1t about nearly every topic in here.

What? Volvo, you are this close mister.

 

[bigyellowpete]

I'm always this close, lol.

 

[Racer X 69]

OK kids. Kiss and make up!

 

[j911brick]

OK kids. Kiss and make up!

NO1 I'm a big bad black leather wearing biker and I don't take no crap from nobody; except my proctologist.

 

[sobertim]

This is what I ride.


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[Racer X 69]

. . . . and I don't take no crap from nobody; except my proctologist.

Isn't it more like he gets a little on his latex covered finger?

(yuk!)

 

[Mr. Q]

I done it. Feel free to argue about bike's in here. We all know that Harley's rule, and all other bikes, and their riders are just jealous whiners anyway.

The previous driver of this truck that I now drive was a Harley guru:

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So far a security gate guard asked me if I owned a Harley. I simply told him no. This Harley emblem garners attention apparently!

 

[TruckingBiker]

This is what I ride.


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I think the Heritage is the perfect balance between a around town scoot and a long haul bagger.

TruckingBiker

 

[sobertim]

Nice bikes I agree I ride mine to work and recently to school. I have also ridden it from California to Sturgis. If you ever see it on a trailer it's been stolen and call the cops

Also for the Harley riders http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJxOsYh12yY&feature=related

 

[TruckingBiker]

Nice bikes I agree I ride mine to work and recently to school. I have also ridden it from California to Sturgis. If you ever see it on a trailer it's been stolen and call the cops

Also for the Harley riders http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJxOsYh12yY&feature=related

I've seen that! Incredible riding talent.

TruckingBiker

 

[Duck]

See there Ducky?
Screamers!
5500 RPM.
Phtt!

I said "AT 60 MPH IN TOP GEAR".

My dad had a 1979 Honda CB650. It wasn't a crotch-rocket or a sport bike but it had an inline 4 cylinder. One time when he was out of town I rode his bike to work one morning because it was raining and my Honda Shadow didn't have a windshield.
I hated that 650. True, it would pull ahead of mine in a drag race if he removed his windshield, but I still didn't like it. I like to CRUISE, not race. The next morning it was also cold and raining, but I took my own bike to work. (I didn't own a car at the time).

My dad's bike was showing 5500 RPM in top gear at 60. Mine would run around 3000 if I remember it right, .. at 60 mph, top gear.
My bike was perfect for getting out on the rural 2-lane roads and cruising about 60. It had a lot of torque so I rarely ever needed to drop a gear when I came up on a hill or if need to quickly get around some slow-poke.

Sport bikes are like a hyper young dog that's begging to be let outside, always ready to take off and go fast. You simply can't do that if you have a CDL to protect. If you get clocked at 140+ mph or something, your CDL is toast. It's not speeding at that point. It's "reckless driving", which is as bad as a DUI. I would not want to ride around on a bike that's not happy unless it's screaming around at 14,000 RPM with the front wheel off the ground. It's not relaxing to me. I'm not out to win any trophies or enter any chest-beating contests or get lulled into the kind of adolescent theory in which it is assumed that the size of a man's penis is directly related to the speed of his bike, or the size of the tires on his lifted 4 wheel drive.

I just want to ride, and a low RPM, torquey V-twin is my preference in engine design.

I don't own a bike at the moment. But I do borrow my dad's Goldwing every chance I get. It's got a 4 cylinder "boxer" engine, 1200 CCs. He lets me ride it because I custom-fabricated a conversion kit to put a Geo Metro alternator on it to provide more amps for his heated snowmobile suit that he wears on his long trips every winter.

 

[Road Dust]

I think the Heritage is the perfect balance between a around town scoot and a long haul bagger.

TruckingBiker

Those are beautiful!

 

[TruckingBiker]

Those are beautiful!

Thank you. We are about eleven hours from being together again. I am sure they miss us just as much. I know because of the pic they keep of us in the windshield bag. When we pull in the drive way they start blowing their little horns. Its so cute. Sniff sniff

TruckingBiker

 

[GroceryHauler]

I don't think Harley is only attractive to the older demographic, I just think the price of a new Harley puts them out of the range of your average 18-22 year old kid. Add to that the fact that a lot of times you order a new Harley and then have to wait several months for it and the instant-gratification generation isn't going to have that kind of patience.

I was in Walmart several years back and they were selling a bicycle that was painted and had plastic fairings to look like a Harley. You pushed a button on the handlebar and it made revving noises like a motorcycle. A couple of guys in Harley jackets were messing with it and started the revving noises on it. They asked me how to turn it off and I said "Just like a real Harley. Try to ride it somewhere."

I'm surprised I survived that bit of brain-to-mouth disconnect...

 

[Duck]

My dad was gone all summer and I had to come by and cut his grass. I also fired up everything with an engine that he owns, to charge batteries and run fresh gas thru the carbs.

I took his Goldwing for a spin and noticed it was almost bone dry out of gas. I had to use the booster to start it because he hadn't charged it all winter. That Geo Metro alternator I put on it was charging good, it was showing 14 volts after I disconnected the charger. So after topping off the tires I took it into town to put some gas in it.

I shut it off at the gas station and it wouldn't re-start. It wouldn't even crank, the neutral light would come on but it barely cranked. I pulled the fuse for the headlight to see if I could get enough juice to start it, but it wasn't working.

So I got on it and got it rolling and dumped the clutch but I didn't have it rolling fast enough, the bike just stopped.

There were 4 guys on Harleys watching me. One of them came up and pushed on the back of the bike so I could get it started. It was freaking embarrassing.

 

[boone315]

The previous driver of this truck that I now drive was a Harley guru:

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So far a security gate guard asked me if I owned a Harley. I simply told him no. This Harley emblem garners attention apparently!

I find that most of the people with the Harley shield everywhere don't actually own one. The only thing I have that has Harley on it is the actual bike itself.

 

[boone315]

My dad was gone all summer and I had to come by and cut his grass. I also fired up everything with an engine that he owns, to charge batteries and run fresh gas thru the carbs.

I took his Goldwing for a spin and noticed it was almost bone dry out of gas. I had to use the booster to start it because he hadn't charged it all winter. That Geo Metro alternator I put on it was charging good, it was showing 14 volts after I disconnected the charger. So after topping off the tires I took it into town to put some gas in it.

I shut it off at the gas station and it wouldn't re-start. It wouldn't even crank, the neutral light would come on but it barely cranked. I pulled the fuse for the headlight to see if I could get enough juice to start it, but it wasn't working.

So I got on it and got it rolling and dumped the clutch but I didn't have it rolling fast enough, the bike just stopped.

There were 4 guys on Harleys watching me. One of them came up and pushed on the back of the bike so I could get it started. It was freaking embarrassing.

bad battery, I take mine out every winter and put it in the cellar, stays about 50 all winter, I put a 2 amp trickle charger on it also. Same with lawn mower battery, it has lasted 4 years, I used to have to buy one every spring when I kept it in the mower.