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same, I love ridin on my suzuki (vroom vroom vroom!!)
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:As a resident Goldwing Guy (that’s a dece gangtag by the way), that thing rules. Petition for a gold wing/ dadbike club gangtag (I work in medicine I have no graphic ability  )
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ImplicitAssembler posted:Ok, how do I get that Suzuki gangtag? 
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As a Suzuki owner and fan I condone this as being 'on brand'
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It should constantly shift colors though
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"Atmospheric river" be damned, I went on a ride today. 166 mile loop along the Northern Oregon Coast. Looking pretty clean at departure time:  Got rained on pretty good fifteen minutes after leaving but I dried off just by riding more. Little one lane bridge in the Siuslaw National Forest:  Made it to the beach! (Pacific City)    Lunch time plus a beach doob:  Near Netarts:   Did the whole trip on ~1.5 gallons. 
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   After a few thousand kms, very happy with the Scout. Main issue is all the boomers wanting to talk in any place I visit.
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TotalLossBrain posted:"Atmospheric river" be damned, I went on a ride today. Hell yeah. That’s some prime riding and I’m jealous you can do it on such a tiny bike without your spine leaving your body to choke you to death for your hubris like mine would. I got out today too, but just to run an errand and get rained on. Which was just fine with me. I’m ready for the rainy season to be over, but a ride is a ride.
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Letmebefrank posted:Main issue is all the boomers wanting to talk in any place I visit. It’s cool to know the goldwing ownership experience is now available on other bikes too
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I've got the immediate concerns and issues addressed on the beater 919 after a few weeks blown into a million pieces in my garage, shakedown ride yesterday went well. Gave it a quick hand polish and wax, I love this color, its got so much depth and pop. Still have a laundry list of to-dos but at least I can ride it in the meantime.  
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Jun 12, 2022 23:20
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TotalLossBrain posted:"Atmospheric river" be damned, I went on a ride today.  netarts rules. next time stop by nevør and pick up a bag or two of tørkes. probably my fave oyster ever
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Letmebefrank posted:After a few thousand kms, very happy with the Scout. Main issue is all the boomers wanting to talk in any place I visit. Harleys are honestly great for avoiding conversations. Most Harley boomers won't say more than "nice bike" because they don't know enough about motorcycles to have a conversation about them, and non-Harley guys think you're in that first category. But that's made up for any time I take my car anywhere. When you have a Hellcat every greybeard wants to tell you about the Plymouth Barracuda they had in 1968 and how it would beat a modern Tesla off the line.
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A few weeks ago, a dude pulled across two lanes of traffic to get next to me and shout "Hey man nice bike!" out his window. Everyone else who's stopped to comment on my Rebel 500 has been a cop or security guard. Maybe he was too? Why do cops love Rebels?
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Rebels are sweet dude. My learner bike at the msf was a rebel 250 that liked to stall at idle. I pretended I was riding a sick chopper thru the desert doing the little cone maneuvers in the parking lot lol
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unimportantguy posted:A few weeks ago, a dude pulled across two lanes of traffic to get next to me and shout "Hey man nice bike!" out his window. Everyone else who's stopped to comment on my Rebel 500 has been a cop or security guard. Maybe he was too? Why do cops love Rebels? They look vaguely tough but not in a Harley way.
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Most of harley "toughness" is just the threat of hate crimes. Current and definitely past. Otherwise they would have been out of business and forgotten ages ago.
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Coydog posted:Most of harley "toughness" is just the threat of hate crimes. Current and definitely past. Otherwise they would have been out of business and forgotten ages ago. Tell me you're a navel gazing American without telling me you're a navel gazing American
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Slavvy posted:They look vaguely tough but not in a Harley way. This is hilarious to me because while I love my Rebel a lot, I would describe it as dorky-looking. A little bike with huge forks and tires trying desperately to look bigger and tougher than it is and failing to be anything but an endearing doofus. Throw in me, the fat late-30s goon in the full ADV suit riding it, and it paints a pretty unflattering picture.
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Slavvy posted:Tell me you're a navel gazing American without telling me you're a navel gazing American https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Biker_War They shot 13 AT rockets.
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unimportantguy posted:This is hilarious to me because while I love my Rebel a lot, I would describe it as dorky-looking. A little bike with huge forks and tires trying desperately to look bigger and tougher than it is and failing to be anything but an endearing doofus. Throw in me, the fat late-30s goon in the full ADV suit riding it, and it paints a pretty unflattering picture. The rebel is the golden retriever of the cruiser world
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:The rebel is the golden retriever of the cruiser world Does that make a Harley a Rottweiler? People think they're tough and dangerous because of how they're depicted in movies but in reality they're mostly fat and slow with unnecessary mods that do little to actually benefit them (like cutting the tail), and even though they tend to be loud they're usually afraid of their own farts.
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I looks at Harley's like Pugs...oversized Pugs.
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English Bulldogs. A long and storied history, form mindlessly taken almost to the point of parody at the expense of performance or practicality.
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Xakura posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Biker_War Jesus that's a little excessive. And not the sort of thing I'd expect to go down in that quiet region. Slavvy posted:Tell me you're a navel gazing American without telling me you're a navel gazing American wat
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Xakura posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Biker_War This is amazing and presumably a predictable outcome of the finno-korean hyperwar. Coydog posted:wat There are ways of perceiving reality that aren't through the lens of moronic american politics. The fact that you think Harley=hate crimes days wayyy more about you than about Harleys or the people who own them.
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This forum itself has a number of very reasonable and cool people who ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles. There are definitely lovely people who ride Harley-Davidsons but it seems real dumb how every time HD gets mentioned on this subforum someone comes out of the woodwork with a blazing take at the ready about how they're bad actually.
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I want a Harley im just priced out. some day I will either get a gold wing or an Electra glide
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unimportantguy posted:This forum itself has a number of very reasonable and cool people who ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles. There are definitely lovely people who ride Harley-Davidsons but it seems real dumb how every time HD gets mentioned on this subforum someone comes out of the woodwork with a blazing take at the ready about how they're bad actually. It's PTwin enjoyers and KTM defenders you have look out for
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unimportantguy posted:This forum itself has a number of very reasonable and cool people who ride Harley-Davidson motorcycles. There are definitely lovely people who ride Harley-Davidsons but it seems real dumb how every time HD gets mentioned on this subforum someone comes out of the woodwork with a blazing take at the ready about how they're bad actually. I've said multiple times that people making fun of Harley motorcycles (lol they leak oil and they're slow and made of bowling pins probably!) should probably refocus that to making fun of Harley's "lifestyle" marketing and the people that buy HD-branded ceiling fans and dog bowls, but that would require more than a cursory look at the bikes themselves, and those folks are generally too busy huffing their own farts. But this is the pics thread so here's my motorcycle outside the weed store because freedom. 
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Main thing keeping me away from HD ownership is the bar-and-shield boomers and chuds that comprise a good chunk of their riders. Certainly not all HD riders, maybe not even a majority, but still a sizeable population and obnoxious to boot. They're all dying off though, so that problem will eventually fix itself. Meanwhile it'd be kinda nice if the Motor Company would stop teasing cool poo poo like the Bronx and forward-thinking bikes like the Livewire and either killing them in the womb or overpricing them and then sending them out to die in the wilderness when sales numbers aren't what they'd hoped
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I have very pointed and nuanced takes on Harley that come from living at ground zero harleytown Thank you very much 
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Main thing putting me off a Ducati is all the latte sipping hairdressers Main thing putting me off a bmw is all the dentists and doctors Just dumbness. Who gives a poo poo, ride the bikes for what they are. Except KTM, those people are untermensch
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I mean there was a time when I didn't know any reasonable people who were also Harley riders, and I was aware of them marketing a lot of lifestyle stuff and questionable safety gear, and my extremely limited experience on cruisers was that of driving a sluggish boat with your balls pointed forward, all of which just made me assume the bikes were also over-hyped idiot poo poo garbage. It took hearing from riders with breadth of experience vouching for (some of) them before I considered otherwise.
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For every lovely Harley rider there is an equally lovely *insert brand here*. In the city the shittiest of all are the three-wheeling Hot Wheels lite-bright brain bucket wearing douchebags who mash the rev limiter in 1st gear while circling the neighborhood blasting undiscernable music loud enough to turn your eardrums into a paste as fine as whatever's left of their eardrums.
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Slavvy posted:Main thing putting me off a Ducati is all the latte sipping hairdressers At least the KTM posters here take their periodic ribbing gracefully. All bikes are indeed good, doesn’t mean we can’t make fun of them.
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ought ten posted:All bikes are indeed good, doesn’t mean we can’t make fun of them.
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ought ten posted:All bikes are indeed good, doesn’t mean we can’t make fun of them. This is not true: the Kawasaki Vulcan is both subjectively and objectively bad and anyone who enjoys one probably doesn't realize that other motorcycles exist.
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The HD dealership where I bought my Roadster is still the only dealership I’ve been to that had women and people who weren’t white in any numbers behind the proverbial counter. Admittedly, this is Oregon so everything is white as hell. And I’ve also been to a super lovely local HD dealership, so it’s clearly not all of them. But that place seems to be making an effort to be welcoming to everyone.
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Geekboy posted:The HD dealership where I bought my Roadster is still the only dealership I’ve been to that had women and people who weren’t white in any numbers behind the proverbial counter. Where at? I'm demoing a LiveWire at the HD dealership in Beaverton right next to Bob Lanphere's. I want to check out their non electric bikes as well.
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