Who Hates Harley Davidson?

I was on Holiday in Barbados a few weeks ago, there is a little beach bar and guest house that I have stayed at a few times and where the dive boat I use is located. Even if we are not staying at the guest house we use the beach bar after the dive. Some Canadian friends of mine who stay in Barbados mentioned there was a group of Harleydoods touring the islands and would be meeting the local chapter that day and coming down to the beach bar. Sure enough, with a two bike police escort they duly appear. All noise, cuts and colours. My Canadian mate starts pointing out the locals to me, Doctor, Lawyer etc.
Anyway, fast forward to the same night, we were very fortunate to get a table for the buffet and live music as word had gotten round that Grant Fullerton, who played with Lighthouse, would be doing a guess set. Turned out he played for a good couple of hours, bloody brilliant he was too. Anyway whilst he was playing a single Harley arrives, one of the locals, goes right behind the stage to turn, all the time revving the shit out of his 883 sportster. Grant stopped playing mid song until the muppet had parked up. We have had the buffet and I go to the bar for drinks, when I return the Harleydood (late 203/early 30s) is sitting on my seat at our reserved table next to my Canadian friends gf Laura and my gf Lynn.. I nod as I put my drink at my seat which he is now occupying, letting him know it is taken. As I pass out the drinks Laura says she told the guy when he sat down, as did Lynn that the seat was taken. Guy just leered at them. I return to my seat and say to the guy, "excuse me you are sitting on my seat." Guy just raises an eyebrow and slouches further down. I simply lean over him and say quietly "move." Guy does exactly that. He made a nuisance of himself to half the girls there, but stayed away from us.
I wonder if he would have moved with a few of his "posse" there?

 

Shithead--- 20-30's it's called entitlement--


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Freaking stupid ass Harley riders gets instant karma!!!!

https://youtu.be/3S9lqEB9Vw0

 

Harley Davidson is now--finally, after decades--making high quality motorcycles. I am in love with the Low Rider S; with Screamin' Eagle 4V heads, FI work, and pipes, you have 130HP and more torque than two VFR800s. Even has great suspension and brakes.

 

How awesome would it be to set a street 500 engine in a radio flyer with a small jerrycan and just enough plumbing/wiring to get it running. When the weekend warrior crowd rolls up to a venue making a racket and parks, then sits down. Wheel that little contraption among the tables where they're sitting regaling tales of farkle purchases and fire that fecker up.

 

When the weekend warrior crowd rolls up to a venue making a racket and parks


Ain't that the truth, why why why the hell do they constantly have to rev, at lights, parking lots and pretty much everywhere they stop-- its laughable to say the least


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My history of Harleys is one of a girlfriends (ex fiancé) brother in laws friends. I met her hooked up and was invited to ride to Jackson Hole Wyoming just weeks after hooking up. Her brother in law rode a BMW K1000, I had my GPz1100 and the other friends where Harley riders. I had never met three of them and this was a odd ride to meet most of them in a truly Harley house hold before we began.

We where a group of blue collar workers and as we set out I definitely felt out of place with these guys. They gave me the ups and down asked my riding experience and so we went. It made it even more uncomfortable since my girlfriend and sister was following in her sisters car. The Harleys had to stop much more often and had a breakdown or two, but did not let stop with them until we had known each other a little more. Ending in a good relationship with them. They always gave me shit for the JAP bike, but because of being friends with her brother in law did not have the same animosity for a German bike.

I gave them shit at the end of the ride about Harley reliability! Plus at 130hp I could smoke them. Good times for 2 1/2 yrs. They actually let me ride second to last in groups to pick up breakdowns. Demi Gods in front and rear, rookies or untrusted in the middle as most groups ride. I was kinda unhappy that my favorites (wife and husband was lookin to Join the Utah outlaw gang "The Baron's" and did, because I knew that I would never ride with them again.) Good peps make poor mistakes in the Harley world IMO! I miss them.

I will say during that time that my girl and I where solo and again she chose to ride with a girlfriend to Lava hot springs in Idaho. We got Drunk at the bar, and a group of cowboys came in off the range and hit on her hard playing pool. I was watching the Championship game between Utah and Kentucky. I came in to the situation being stupid (since she could take care of herself really) and called all four of them "Sweethearts" (Poor choice of words and being drunk alone with no back up male wise) after some jocking and threats they called me outside. Someone said that the sheriff was at the bar and I approached him. He said "you are on your own." Really? (must of heard that I called the local boys "Sweet hearts") luckily for me a rider of the same mentioned outlaw group the "Barons" hearing this from the sheriff walked over the 4 of them and said something and they left. I went over to thank him and he got pissed and told me not to thank him or say anything else to him period. I guess it would not have suited him ill well If someone knew that he did what he did. I just walked away. I like anyone on two wheels period. And have to thank a Harley rider for taking care of a drunk Japanese bike rider!

 

What's a nice Japanese guy like yourself doing in a joint like that?

 

It's just amazing that HD can wring a whopping 64 hp out of an engine that displaces only 1,690 ccs. Remarkable!




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The why is for a couple of reasons. One is hairy. (some harleydoods are hairy, some aren't) The hairy one lies in Gestalt psychology. Mostly IMO it's because for years HD used shitty carburetors.

 

HD has been making high quality motorcycles for years. The racebikes for the most part support the statement. What is not shown is that in many cases the racebikes that HD supplies gratis to the fast guys come with many times a tuner who is also a graduate mechanical engineer.

Screaming Eagle is good stuff, it is doubtful that HD really makes the go fast goodies. The example bike so equipped with a whole bunch of hotrod farkles is rated at 135 HP. For more on how HD makes this bike go fast, heres a +/- 70 pages of stuff that likely does not come from the Milwaukee Boat Anchor Works. Looks like maybe for those kind of pesos a dude could strap a blower on even an old 91 and still have pesos left over for a new VFR to boot. Labor and batteries not included.

http://www.williamshd.com/fckimages/shop/PA_2015_ScreaminEagle2016_NP.pdf

 

My reaction when I read this:

[video]https://youtu.be/VPRuL9ACZeM[/video]

 

More like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlYlNF30bVg

 

On a sunny mid-day in September 1999 I found myself sitting in the middle of Hwy. 97 south of Bend with a floppy arm after I was flung 200' down the pavement when I hit a buck going 75 MPH on my new ZRX1100. I should have been killed a dozen times in that crash. A large group of Harley riders came upon me not two minutes later, took fantastic care of me, called for aid, and gathered up all my stuff that covered 150+ yards of road.

Never met a better bunch of guys; and I had been a Harley-mocker for years. I grew up at that moment, and decided it means f&^%-all what any of us ride; it's the riding, stupid, that counts, and an amazing thing we share. Lots of people realize VFRs are has-beens, and look down their noses at folk who ride them. Owning a VFR today and thinking you're somehow superior is flat nonsense; modern bikes are eons ahead, different galaxy. Don't believe it? Ride a BMW R1200RS, or R1200GS, KTM 1290, Aprilia Tuono RR, KTM Superduke 1290, Ducati Multistrada 1200S, etc., ad infinitum. That doesn't mean you can't like VFRs. It just means you like riding a particular model of old Honda for whatever reason, and certainly not because they're "the best" anymore. They're cheap and very good bikes once the suspension is fixed.

This was also the day I stopped disliking police; the Oregon State Patrol officer who showed up was fantastic, and kept me out of shock during the half hour it took for the meatwagon to show up.

Kristian

 

Others have had that same experience with well meaning harleydoods. A few have reported that whilst scraping up riders off the pavement they were singing KumBy ahhhhh. A capella

Oregon State Police have a Patrol Division.

Washington State Patrol have much the same functions.

Like they say, speed kills. 75mph? Well at least it wasn't an elk or a moose or one of those bigass kangaroos they have down South. We could speculate that if you were riding a Harley, those same harleydoods might have ripped you off for any farkles that weren't welded to the bike.

 

Weird!! Just before the laughing lion, was a two minute or so vid of some badass critters out of a Lucas/Spielberg flick I was expecting that some one was going to report that the critters had evolved into harleydoods or lawyers.

 

Harley Davidson's new high flow valves

 

So that's what harleydoods mean when they say ported and polished.

This calls for an appropriate musical interlude:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FscIgtDJFXg

 

I agree, Suzuki pulled 113hp out of a 996cc Sv1000s and weighs 417lbs dry! One wonders why? I do.