I've never understood why some people seem to be so proud of this fact.

 

I walked out of the local weekend bar once and a buzzed to the gills tweaker was sitting on my bike bouncing up down on the seat jerking the handlebars around going VROOM VROOM .

It didn't end well for him , didn't even see it coming .

 

I've swapped bikes with friends on rides, but I wouldn't loan it ever, even to my best friend with whom I've ridden thousands of miles. He's as good of a rider as I am, but if he wants to ride a Harley for an afternoon he's going to have to sell that ridiculous Gold Wing and get a real bike. I'm just sayin'.

 

A few friends and I swap bikes sometimes but always when we ride together, never separate occasions, not that I would mind, just that there has not been the opportunity to do so.

 

If he's thinking of buying one he sure as hell can afford to rent one.

 

just remember that when you are looking at different bars...shocks....bikes........... I cant tell you how many peoples bikes I've sat on ( all with permission) when I was bar shopping, it was a huge help to me. I have no problem with people doing the same to mine , I guess us folks that are willing to help others is a dying breed

 

Love my bike, but it's a bike. Not my wife!

 

No need to get so high and mighty. Maybe I should qualify my statement. If someone is serious about bikes and wants to give it a feel, ok they're welcome to sit on it. But some neighbor or friend that just wants to sit on it and pretend, no way!

 

I have a few buds who I've ridden with way back to the 70's when we were riding dirt bikes together. These are guys I know, know how to handle a motorcycle. So, if I do a new mod, I'll let one of them take it down the road to check it out. Hell, that is why I'm putting in a 120R. My bud stopped by my work the other day with a new 120R in his Street Glide. He asked me if I wanted to take it for a ride. He was still breaking it in so I short shifted at 5,000 rpm, but I knew right away, I had to have one.

 

I let my retired father ride my road king, he has a 99 ultra and has been riding for 40 years.

First ride he took on my bike less than a mile from home he totaled it, I lost a good deal of money on the deal.

I have a 2012 street glide now, I can see the gleam in his eye when he looks at it and I know he wishes he could afford a new bike,

I will still let him ride my new bike, he's a good ol dude.