The Most Moranic: W stickers next to Harley stickers

[Ripley]

I know, Harley Davidson has gone mainstream. Their symbol doesn't mean what it used to. But it just kills me when I'm sitting in traffic on campus today and the punk frat college student is driving a New Chevy Tahoe his parents gave him with W and Harley stickers side by side on his back window, next to his Alpha Beta Crap sticker.

Harley's suck anyway....oil leak/breakdown city. Want an unreliable piece of machinery that is considered "cool" and gives you an instant "image"? Buy us!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. Reminds of when the Hell's Angels volunteered for Vietnam.

They sent a letter to Nixon volunteering to go to Vietnam and serve as "gorillas" (their spelling).

[Ripley]

2. Hah.

I don't imagine any Harley riders are volunteering today!

[AmandaRuth]

3. i recently went to a alternate rock festival sponsored

by a radio station here in Seattle. I went to see X and the Violent Femmes, but the headliners were newer more recent bands. The festival went on all day and into the night, and was almost sold out (about 15,000 attending). My friends and I were commenting that we saw absolutely NO Harley clothes, emblems, and no leather. I think the Harley craze suggests an age and generation older then them, and the image is rejected by them. Just my observation.

[ewagner]

4. Mostly

Hell's Rotarians now.

[Ripley]

5. Heehe.

Rotarians...and they don't take their bikes out further than their grocery store.

[jmowreader]

14. You don't know how close you are to the truth

One of my very favorite customers is the Fayetteville Chapter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club. (It is Hells Angels, not Hell's Angels--they are picky as shit about this!) They've probably bought fifty grand worth of building materials for their clubhouse so far and it's not done yet.

About six months ago I was working up a quote for the roof of their house. About six of them came to the store to get it. While I'm standing there punching keys, these guys are discussing a service project they were getting ready to launch. Habitat for Humanity won't let them work on projects, so the local HAMC chapter likes to buy old fucked-up houses, bring them to current code then donate them to one of several charities. They do this all out of their own pockets. They've only done two so far.

I had to ask: "When did the Hells Angels become a service club?" Two motivations: first, a Harley now costs $20,000 and the cops love to confiscate them and auction them off if the Angels riding them show any hint of unlawful behavior. And second, it's hard to be in a club whose unofficial motto is "lock up your daughters" when most of those guys have their own daughters. So ya can't raise hell and ya can't participate in gang-bangs--what are you gonna do? Become a service club.

[Mountainman]

7. I'm pretty sure most of us "bikers" are over 50.

That is because you have to wait till the kids are grown and out of the house to get back to where you were before you got married.

I ride a 1500cc Kawasaki because it is a better machine than a Harley and it costs a lot less, yet when ever I see a lot of us together, most have gray hair and if a beard that is gray too. I'm always amassed when someone with a full face helmet pulls it off and he looks older than I am.

[jdj]

19. Man, I didn't know X was still around.

It's eery that the Femmes were so ahead of their time that their music doesn't sound dated at all, in fact it could be alternative NOW or even ten years from now. I just heard that Vigo Mortenson used to be married to Exene, she's one lucky lady. (and vice versa, I'm sure.)

[Lefty48197]

6. I'll be there's no "W" sticker on Kerry's Harley.

.

[skygazer]

8. No, that's not the most moronic

The most moronic is a "W" sticker and a "Union and Proud" sticker. How the hell can you be union and support that idiot?

[Astrochimp]

9. Good point, but....

I have to argue the "oil leak/breakdown city" quote.

HD is the most reliable bike sold according to JD Powers. Sporty is also best selling in US.

[Ripley]

10. LOL

You are wrong.

[MsUSA]

17. Sporty for the first year,

then it's always onto something bigger. :-)

[newyawker99]

18. Hi Astrochimp!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[jdj]

20. U.S. made or overall?

[Hanover_Fist]

11. As a child of the 60's & 70's

I remember the true outlaws on their Harleys, passing them on the roads and freeways and being in awe of them. Not the "criminal" aspect, just the thought that these folk were really pretty free, and they just didn't give a damn about anything outside of their world short of freaking out the straight populace. Now however, when I see a person on a Harley I think to myself "My goodness, Joe stockbroker just bought a sportster, I hope he don't muss his shiny new leathers." I used to really want a bike, but now I don' want to appear that mainstream.

[jmowreader]

15. A chuckle for you

I used to drive a Bug. Every Bug owner's biggest worry is oil--a Bug can trash oil quick because of the temperature the engine reaches. (The general consensus of opinion is that Shell Rotella and Chevron Delo, both of which are designed for heavy-duty diesel engines, are the oils to run in a Bug.)

I was in an oil discussion where I was praising Rotella and some guy pipes up with "if you want to know about motor oil, ask a Harley rider." The group's leader responded with "what does a lawyer know about oil?"

[Hanover_Fist]

16. LOL!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. If you think old Harleys are trouble, try a BSA.

Known to the proud owners as Bastard Stopped Again. Damn thing would go a lot faster than I would..when it ran. Ahhh..the idiocy of youth.

[rppper]

13. to me, nothing is more satisfying than .........

blowing by a 20k harley or 50k+ custom on my little 750cc, v4, 16 valve, dual overhead cam, 22 year old $750.00 v45 sabre, one of honda's first sport tourer's.

it's my little reminder to all he fat cat yuppie biker wanna-bees that chrome don't get you home, corbin seats are for your living room and a nice paint job should be hanging in a fine arts museum......

just my .02

[mconvente]

21. My dad rides Harleys/Buells

And he's 100% for Kerry. He's a trucker too - he works for National Mobile Television and ABC - he does stuff for Monday Night Football. He drives an 18 wheeler for an HDTV trailer and he drives an on-field camera cart. For those who watch MNF, if you know of the Horse Trailer Player of the Game, well I've had dinner with the guy that drives that truck (his real name is Charlie Brown - no joke). I've been inside all the TV trucks and on the Madden Cruiser. It's pretty cool.

[PsN2Wind]

22. We all seem quite elitist here

Bragging about our foreign made crotch rockets as oh so superior to that American made shit. When you sell it you can sometimes get almost 1/3 of the new cost as opposed to Harleys which hold their value.
You pays your money and you takes your choice. I'd a helluva rather have an old knucklehead or early pan than most anything out there now.