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Outside Dawg posted:Most of the haters (on both sides) in my experience are people that have never ridden the style they hate. If you don't like one style or the other, I get that. Ride what you like and shut up already. We can all hate hipsters. Preach!
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Shimrod posted:Preach! I don't want to get worked up, I might grab the antique shearing scissors and trim some of those hair product laden beards.
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To me, owning a Harley is like owning a classic muscle car. Sure, you could drop $75000 on a new Corvette that's faster, handles better, has more amenities and is more reliable but that '68 Chevelle is just God drat cool in it's own different way. New corvettes are also cool as hell. Just like I'd love to have a Ducati but my Road King is cool in a different way.
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Outside Dawg posted:Most of the haters (on both sides) in my experience are people that have never ridden the style they hate. If you don't like one style or the other, I get that. Ride what you like and shut up already. We can all hate hipsters. I loving hate hipsters!
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what sort of motorcycles make people mad about hipsters, i want one of those
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OMGVBFLOL posted:what sort of motorcycles make people mad about hipsters, i want one of those As far as I can tell "hipster" means "people who don't dress like me or do a thing the way I do it" because I have gotten as many definitions of the term as people I have asked when I hear them use it. Every time I think I find a trait which fits everyone's definition, someone will prove me wrong. Everyone just goes. "You know.....hipsters!" No. I don't know.
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I never rode a hipster, therefore I hate them
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OMGVBFLOL posted:what sort of motorcycles make people mad about hipsters, i want one of those whatever they dont like, hth
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typically anything that has any components manufactured by biltwell or sold by lowbrow
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Duck_King posted:Yeah, I like that about SA. We ride Harley's but no one here's going to say something retarded like "If it ain' a HARLEY it ain' a bike! Jap crap! Rice rocket!". My two Harley riding buddies, older guys in their 50's, don't say that retarded poo poo either, and it's nice. Honestly I think that people that like motorcycles just like motorcycles. I mean they have their personal preferences as we all will. But most realize that different styles of bikes are just that. Personally I bought the Harley based on the fact that it matches the kind of riding I do, day to day. But that in no way means that its the only bike I am interested in. Honestly my father is the same exact way. He likes the Harleys because thats what he had when he was a kid. But he is also a mechanical engineer and is very interested in any kind of motor.
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Valt posted:Honestly I think that people that like motorcycles just like motorcycles. I mean they have their personal preferences as we all will. But most realize that different styles of bikes are just that. I feel like in my age group (40+) there's a pretty obvious divide between lifelong riders who happen to ride Harleys and Harley people who got into them specifically for the "lifestyle" and have little to no interest in other motorcycles.
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One of my favorite parts about Sonny Barger's memoir was when he lamented the apparently permanent link between american outlaw motorcycle clubs and Harleys. He makes it clear that he's loved every Harley he's ever ridden, but goes on to talk about how, especially early on, when they were chopping and rebuilding they weren't just trying to make cool poo poo, they wanted to go fast. They rode Harleys because after Indian folded the only large-displacement bikes on the market were Harley, BSA, and Triumph, and most guys wanted to buy American. He talks about how he understands the attachment, but that European and Japanese makes "do 110 out of the box now" and thinks it would have been cool if biker clubs had kept up with technology. It's a good read for anyone interested in the history of Harley culture, outlaw clubs, or even just the Bay Area in general.
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OMGVBFLOL posted:most guys wanted to buy American. HD is unionized American labor. unless japanese and euro manufacturers can figure out a way to "keep up" with that it's a done deal.
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Anyone else hate Harley switches? With basically no tactile feedback, they feel "dead" to me. Constantly checking to see if my signals are activating is really distracting. I've tried searching the internet but I'm not finding anything except some dude that converted to Honda switches. Was hoping for something less drastic.
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They're some of the nicest switches you'll find on a motorcycle. I'm constantly checking to see if I canceled my signal, so constantly checking the signal is pretty much riding for me.
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I think all riders can be categorized as either constant-signal-cancelled-checkers or constant-highest-gear-checkers.
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My wife's Magna had a OD (6th) indicator but I still looked for 7.
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Sagebrush posted:I think all riders can be categorized as either constant-signal-cancelled-checkers or constant-highest-gear-checkers. Is "both" not an option? 
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Coydog posted:Is "both" not an option? I hope it is 
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Both checking in, also making sure it's in first at a stop light about a thousand times.
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Sagebrush posted:I think all riders can be categorized as either constant-signal-cancelled-checkers or constant-highest-gear-checkers. See, when I had my v-star I had to cancel all my own signals. It was automatic for me and never a thing I had to give second thought to. The self-canceling on the Harley seems to work great in turns, but is obviously lane-change dumb. I can live with this but I still often don't know if I've activated the signal without looking down at the tank, because the switches don't "click" or anything. This also true when canceling signals during lane changes. With the v-star, if I felt maybe I didn't cancel my signal, I could always just press the signal button down a second time and feel if they were activated. No looking necessary. I've caught myself a few times on the Harley now just tooling down the road with a signal blinking incessantly.
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Yeah, I do wish my signals were a bit more "clicky", but I also like the auto cancel on them.
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trouser chili posted:See, when I had my v-star I had to cancel all my own signals. It was automatic for me and never a thing I had to give second thought to. The self-canceling on the Harley seems to work great in turns, but is obviously lane-change dumb. I can live with this but I still often don't know if I've activated the signal without looking down at the tank, because the switches don't "click" or anything. This also true when canceling signals during lane changes. The signals on my Wide Glide DO cancel for lane changes, tho. I read the spec somewhere. If you go for X distance above Y speed, it assumes you left it on accidentally. I forget what X and Y are, tho. It definitely goes off, tho.
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The starter on my non-motorcycle busted so I rode all week long on the bike. Contrary to what I thought would happen if subjected to seven days of Seattle rain, it did not melt and all the chrome is still there. Also, it was pretty outside to be out there, even if the rear liked to slide out from under me every once in a while
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Hello thread. So I added some bags mounted with Easy Brackets but kept the yoke for appearance or whatever. My goal of them at least not making the bike look worse was successful imo. In other news holy hell the S3 takes just garbage photos
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 I recently bought this guy. For cruising down the highway (which as I live in Texas is all I do) it's super good. It's 2008 dyna lowrider and when I bought it, it had 6,500 miles on it. As of now roughly 8 months later it has 13,000.
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Valt posted:
Nice. Welcome to the Dyna club. Schlieren posted:Hello thread. So I added some bags mounted with Easy Brackets but kept the yoke for appearance or whatever. My goal of them at least not making the bike look worse was successful imo. In other news holy hell the S3 takes just garbage photos Those look good.
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Gonna check this out tomorrow. Might swap my Mustang for it (I have too many 4 wheel vehicles but you can never have too many 2 wheeled). '01 FXDWG
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Schlieren posted:Hello thread. So I added some bags mounted with Easy Brackets but kept the yoke for appearance or whatever. My goal of them at least not making the bike look worse was successful imo. In other news holy hell the S3 takes just garbage photos Easy Brackets are great. Let you remove the bags in seconds. Had a set on my old sportster.
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clutchpuck posted:Gonna check this out tomorrow. Might swap my Mustang for it (I have too many 4 wheel vehicles but you can never have too many 2 wheeled). Nice, that's pretty clean for an 01 Wideglide.
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Scrapez posted:Easy Brackets are great. Let you remove the bags in seconds. Had a set on my old sportster. The yoke makes getting the key into the lock a two-handed one-finger-only-on-each-hand challenge but that's fine with me, I won't be removing them all that often and if someone finds the key stashed on my bike, yeah good luck figuring THAT out But now I can't put most sissy bars on the thing because that's where they'd mount and then you'd have all sorts of metal beneath that trim piece. I stuck the HD one there that mounts under the seat, because I have actual passengers every once in a while now. Kinda takes from the looks of the bike but whatever
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What do you mean by the "yoke" ? When I had the Easy Brackets on the sportster, I had the quick detach HD hardware on the inside and the bags fit on the tabs to the outside...
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Guy thought his dyna was worth $8000, which is not something we agreed about.
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clutchpuck posted:Guy thought his dyna was worth $8000, which is not something we agreed about. I don't get how sellers all seem to think those are worth more now than they were new. $10k for a 2001? Uh...no.
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Everyone thinks their bike is a special little snowflake and worth ridiculous money. I'm sorry you spent $5000 at the Harley shop on some gaudy chrome parts but they make your bike worth about nothing more...
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clutchpuck posted:Guy thought his dyna was worth $8000, which is not something we agreed about. About $2700 over average retail, sheesh.
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Scrapez posted:Everyone thinks their bike is a special little snowflake I do too... Until it's time to sell
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My dyna set me back $31k (brand spanking new) Gotta love countries with %118 import tax
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adary posted:My dyna set me back $31k (brand spanking new) why in gods name did you buy a new harley for $31k
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IM DAY DAY IRL posted:why in gods name did you buy a new harley for $31k Because he is a billionaire and already has one of everything else and just needed this last piece. Right? Please be right.
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