Are Harley owners really like this?
#51
06-06-2011 | 10:38 PM
6th Gear
Joined: Feb 2011
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From: Northern NJ
I don't post here, since I don't ride a Harley, but this one got me. As a Honda rider, I have to reverse this and say the following:
Are metric riders really like this?
No we are not. Most of us are not whining about not getting attention or constantly feeling inferior or unaccepted because of the bikes we ride. We have our reasons, Harley guys have theirs for the choices they make. This post is just some cry for attention "Look at me anfd tell me my bike is better then yours". Embarrassing.
Are metric riders really like this?
No we are not. Most of us are not whining about not getting attention or constantly feeling inferior or unaccepted because of the bikes we ride. We have our reasons, Harley guys have theirs for the choices they make. This post is just some cry for attention "Look at me anfd tell me my bike is better then yours". Embarrassing.
#53
06-06-2011 | 11:01 PM
6th Gear
Joined: Jun 2011
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From: Maui
If yer concerned 'bout whether somebody is checkin' out you or yer ride, then you don't have it figgured out yet. Just ride the beast, love it, love that you got the chance to ride and enjoy the heck out of it! If yer attachin' any status at all to any kinda brand or looks of yer ride or anybody elses, then ya definitely don't have it figgured out yet....
-2Loose
-2Loose
#54
06-06-2011 | 11:10 PM
Seasoned HDF Member
Joined: Oct 2005
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From: Santa Klaus County, Cali
I don't post here, since I don't ride a Harley, but this one got me. As a Honda rider, I have to reverse this and say the following:
Are metric riders really like this?
No we are not. Most of us are not whining about not getting attention or constantly feeling inferior or unaccepted because of the bikes we ride. We have our reasons, Harley guys have theirs for the choices they make. This post is just some cry for attention "Look at me anfd tell me my bike is better then yours". Embarrassing.
Are metric riders really like this?
No we are not. Most of us are not whining about not getting attention or constantly feeling inferior or unaccepted because of the bikes we ride. We have our reasons, Harley guys have theirs for the choices they make. This post is just some cry for attention "Look at me anfd tell me my bike is better then yours". Embarrassing.
Glad you understand your expectations and limitations.
#55
06-06-2011 | 11:12 PM
Road Master
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 775
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From: S.E. Montana
Ive experienced just the opposite of what this dude described!! Recently while on a trip in New Mexico, my husband and I pull up to an Iron Skillet on our Harley's. Parked in the front is a vtx with lots of luggage attached. Figured the guy was traveling to, so we paused as we went in the restaurant door, to speak and express riding pleasantries. The guy was fooling around with some of the luggage and refused to make eye contact with either of us! I said screw it and went in and had a good lunch. I think ppl that don't own Harley's can be more stuck up to those of us that do ride them!! It doesn't matter to me what u ride, but if u start talking **** about my Harley, I'll defend my bike and get just as nasty as you get! Maybe they are intimidated. Who knows.
#56
06-06-2011 | 11:31 PM
Cruiser
Joined: May 2010
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I love how all the impostor bike riders are always so overly concerned with seeing our approval or disapproval. Can't think of a time a Harley rider cared two ***** about what anyone on a impostor bike though. These guys need to get off their pedestals. I think they feel because they bought the impostor bike they came up with a bunch of reasons to justify to themselves why they didn't get the real deal, and in some sort of delusional state of mind have brought themselves to feel they are somehow superior, and smarter for buying what they did.
Whereas a Harley owner just loves his bike and rides it. Period, the end.
Whereas a Harley owner just loves his bike and rides it. Period, the end.
#57
06-06-2011 | 11:35 PM
Road Master
Joined: Mar 2011
Posts: 809
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From: WA
As a former VTX 1800 owner, I personally witnessed more than a few moments of Harley "snobbery". I ride with a couple of other Honda owners, and eventually one of them bought a Heritage Classic. Multiple times on roadside breaks we encountered Harley owners that would stop by and fawn over the Heritage, and ignore the rest of us. It wasn't our imagination; it actually happened. I vowed if I ever bought a Harley, I wouldn't do it. And I don't ...
#60
06-07-2011 | 01:01 AM
Road Captain
Joined: Apr 2011
Posts: 597
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From: Louisiana
Don't think this topic is so complicated. That Honda rider was probably autistic and unable to communicate. Or, maybe he'd just had a big arument with his ol' lady and was deep in thought. Human beings are unpredictable. Interacting with them on any level is a dice roll. I'll bet a bikes make and model is not as important as any of us like to believe.