Sir Napsalot
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my Rd400 was like a museum piece
I would ride up at bike gatherings and people would ask if I restored it myself and I would tell them it's not restored, it's all original
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I would ride up at bike gatherings and people would ask if I restored it myself and I would tell them it's not restored, it's all original
Sir Napsalot
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Going fishing
That's a '74 RX4 coupe in the background
That's a '74 RX4 coupe in the background
Don't Bogart
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Except public radio. Which my main station is located at Boston University. WBUR.
Don't Bogart
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Bud seems like a pilsner or I don't know, but it's a copy of pseudo German beer. I mean "'weiser??" So seems logical.
Also tourists, Americans probably find comfort in something familiar.
When I was in Israel I tried some beers. Heineken was popular...others, iffy at best. Was down in Eilat and a bar had Guinness on tap. Salvation.
Don't Bogart
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Customers beating him with his pillows.
Don't Bogart
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I've always wanted a Harley but.... Too much money and too much maintenance. Guy at work bought a trike two years ago. Did a lot of riding. Tail of the Dragon in Tennessee. Two years running. They take pics of bikes going buy and then sell them to the riders. Has a pic of him and his wife. She has her hands spread about 2' apart to show how close they came to hitting a crossing bear just before the picture was taken.
Had 60+ thousand miles and blew the engine. It spent a lot of time in the shop for oil leaks and trainy issues. This guy was religious on maintenance. Harley wanted to rebuild but he stuck to his guns and they replaced it. He had an extended warranty. Then turned around and traded it in an bought another one 37K.
Ex club guy. Gotta be a Harley.
rkymtnman
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copy of a Czech beer: Budweiser Budvar Lager.
Don't Bogart
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He's got to be killing his company.
Don't Bogart
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Your not making a great comparison. They both fall apart. BUT we can't knock the ride. Sadly Hog sales are down. Not many of the up and coming generations want any bikes. Be it hogs or rice burners.
Me if I had my druthers I'd get a Golden Wing. Quiet, will get me there and back. Again and again and again and again and again..
Don't Bogart
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My first ride was a RD350. But orange and black. Damn near killed me.
Back then my friend owned a Suzuki 250. I could do standup with the crazy stuff he did with that bike.
God took compassion on him and asked a hornet to sacrifice herself to save the boy. So while he was barreling down a side street at about 60.
She flew into his helmet and started stinging his ear.
Both hands off the bars. Nameless friend started ripping at his helmet strap to get it off. In the mean time, stomping on the gear shift. At 2nd gear the trainy blew and the bike coasted to a stop never to be ridden again.
Back then my friend owned a Suzuki 250. I could do standup with the crazy stuff he did with that bike.
God took compassion on him and asked a hornet to sacrifice herself to save the boy. So while he was barreling down a side street at about 60.
She flew into his helmet and started stinging his ear.
Both hands off the bars. Nameless friend started ripping at his helmet strap to get it off. In the mean time, stomping on the gear shift. At 2nd gear the trainy blew and the bike coasted to a stop never to be ridden again.
hanimmal
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I would like a silent bike that looks like that Indian.
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DIY-HP-LED
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Jimdamick
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I pulled this from a site entitled "Harley's Suck" & it pretty much states my opinion of those noisy, un-reliable money pits.
"Owning a Harley Davidson is all about subscribing to a hillbilly fairy tale draped in comical make believe so ludicrous that most five year olds would see right through it for what it was. Owning a Harley Davidson is all about embracing wholesale fantasy and embracing an alternate set of physical laws that don’t work in the real world (or outside of any drunken stupor for that matter.). If we have any argument here at all regarding this particular point, it’s not whether IT exits or not, but whether to call what Milwaukee panders a “lifestyle” or a “religion.” I’m more inclined to believe IT is a pagan religion that is spawned and nurtured in a thousand trailer parks across this great nation. I firmly believe that media driven lemmings have not only memorized its catechism, line and verse, by heart but that you’ve rebuilt your entire lives around it. The fact that this ridiculous set of easily disproved beliefs has permeated your pathetic lives so effortlessly is evident from the way you argue and the clichés you fall back upon in order to feebly try to defend yourself and your laughable lifestyle choice"
So true, so true
When I worked as an elecrtician my shop was mostly filled with Harley Heads. & one reason for that was that my boss loved Harleys & if you showed up for a job interview riding a "Hog" (that's what a Harley is, a fucking fat slow POS pig which usually matched they're owners) you had a very good chance of being hired, it didn't matter if you were a Smack/Crack Head or had no teeth at all (we had more than one of that type), you got the job.
Maybe that's why I didn't/ don't like Harleys, too many assholes riding them & this (see below)
That's a picture of what those guy's did every other weekend, rip it up/repair/put it back together & pray you can go 100 miles at 50 mph without blowing up
No shit
Me, on the other hand opted for this (that's because I was cool & smart & sexy, the antithesis of a person who rode a Harley),
It was a 1980 750cc BMW Touring bike.
I had it for 3 years/50,000 miles & ZERO hours in the shop. (I changed oil/tune ups myself)
Could ride it at 75 with no vibration/or that God awful noise a Harley makes when it is actually running.
So, for anyone thinking of buying one of those "things", this is glimpse of your future.
You have been warned
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CunningCanuk
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Lol. Good post, James, though I think that site has a slight bias.2021 Honda electric
I pulled this from a site entitled "Harley's Suck" & it pretty much states my opinion of those noisy, un-reliable money pits.
"Owning a Harley Davidson is all about subscribing to a hillbilly fairy tale draped in comical make believe so ludicrous that most five year olds would see right through it for what it was. Owning a Harley Davidson is all about embracing wholesale fantasy and embracing an alternate set of physical laws that don’t work in the real world (or outside of any drunken stupor for that matter.). If we have any argument here at all regarding this particular point, it’s not whether IT exits or not, but whether to call what Milwaukee panders a “lifestyle” or a “religion.” I’m more inclined to believe IT is a pagan religion that is spawned and nurtured in a thousand trailer parks across this great nation. I firmly believe that media driven lemmings have not only memorized its catechism, line and verse, by heart but that you’ve rebuilt your entire lives around it. The fact that this ridiculous set of easily disproved beliefs has permeated your pathetic lives so effortlessly is evident from the way you argue and the clichés you fall back upon in order to feebly try to defend yourself and your laughable lifestyle choice"
So true, so true
When I worked as an elecrtician my shop was mostly filled with Harley Heads. & one reason for that was that my boss loved Harleys & if you showed up for a job interview riding a "Hog" (that's what a Harley is, a fucking fat slow POS pig which usually matched they're owners) you had a very good chance of being hired, it didn't matter if you were a Smack/Crack Head or had no teeth at all (we had more than one of that type), you got the job.
Maybe that's why I didn't/ don't like Harleys, too many assholes riding them & this (see below)
That's a picture of what those guy's did every other weekend, rip it up/repair/put it back together & pray you can go 100 miles at 50 mph without blowing up
No shit
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Me, on the other hand opted for this (that's because I was cool & smart & sexy, the antithesis of a person who rode a Harley),
It was a 1980 750cc BMW Touring bike.
I had it for 3 years/50,000 miles & ZERO hours in the shop. (I changed oil/tune ups myself)
Could ride it at 75 with no vibration/or that God awful noise a Harley makes when it is actually running)
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So, for anyone thinking of buying one of those "things", this is glimpse of your future.
You have been warned
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DIY-HP-LED
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Hey my nephew runs the Nova Scotia Harley club and my niece's husband (a well off contractor) is a Harley freak with a shrine of everything Harley as a bar in his home. I don't have a death wish and so I get my stimulation and cheap thrills by doing death defying acts with a racing quad via FPV, with my pink little ass safely in a lawn chair! Much cheaper too.Lol. Good post, James, though I think that site has a slight bias.
CunningCanuk
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I don’t ride anymore. Haven’t in years, but sometimes I miss it.
This was yesterday, about an hour from me. Stupid people everywhere…
45K motorcyclists flock to Port Dover for Friday the 13th
Around 45,000 of motorcyclists made their way to Port Dover for Friday the 13th.
DIY-HP-LED
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No masks, but probably many of the older ones were vaxxed, riding in the fine weather is one thing, gathering unmasked in large crowds another altogether. Even being outside in sunny weather, doesn't deter the spread of delta in crowds, masks do though. We do have over 70% fully vaxxed and most of them are probably over 40 in Canada, so we can loosen up a bit using common fucking sense! Play golf, but close the clubhouse and 19th hole, do business in an open tent, keep your distance and it's perfectly safe for the healthy vaxxed.I don’t ride anymore. Haven’t in years, but sometimes I miss it.
This was yesterday, about an hour from me. Stupid people everywhere…
45K motorcyclists flock to Port Dover for Friday the 13th
Around 45,000 of motorcyclists made their way to Port Dover for Friday the 13th.kitchener.ctvnews.ca
hanimmal
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How many of that are sleeper cells spreading Covid from the Sturgis rally?I don’t ride anymore. Haven’t in years, but sometimes I miss it.
This was yesterday, about an hour from me. Stupid people everywhere…
45K motorcyclists flock to Port Dover for Friday the 13th
Around 45,000 of motorcyclists made their way to Port Dover for Friday the 13th.
CunningCanuk
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I’m sure most were vaccinated but not many wore masks outside. We know the Delta transmits outside too.
If I had a bike, I wouldn’t have gone this year.
CunningCanuk
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If not for the border being closed, I’m sure that would be the case.
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