Posted on 09/30/2008 11:02:27 PM PDT by Spktyr
It came with the shirt and the boots????
Has nothing to do with the way they dress; I pointed out the clothing as a separate item. It has to do with the way I saw them passed around at the Harley meets. And still do at the generic bike meets around here, among the Harley crowd.
I used to wear a helmet, but not any more.
The last 70mph EOE I had, the damn thing broke.
Thats what I meant, you have all that center mass metal to get the front wheel off the ground, then its pretty much all over IMO.
Building bikes is always a compromise of contradicting variables IMHO.
//The last 70mph EOE I had, the damn thing broke//
LOL!
Doh!
They’re supposed to do that... like condoms, they’re single use only. :P
In my ‘immortal days’ I was a lot more stupid than that guy in the photo.
Yeah, but with the condom on I couldn’t breathe!
(Must have been a condominium. you know, the one’s they make for midgets.)
His first mistake was taking his hand off the bar and waving at whomever snapped the photo.
This, by itself, might not have been so bad, had he not been leaning into a curve.
He compounded his own stupidity by also forgetting that his running board was there, hovering just inches above the moving pavement.
You can see the running board just about to make contact in the first photo.
[and throwing sparks, no doubt in concert with his pipes, in the second photo]
I hope he survived and he looked to be falling into [relatively] soft gravel rather than unforgiving blacktop.
But still...there are reasons why God made cows; for steaks, milk and biker gear.
The DMV training manual teaches new bikers to be aware of *everything*...and that includes your own self.
I reckon he skipped that page.
My mom, upon seeing me riding the first time, asked “Why do you have to dress like that?!? You look like a Hell’s Angel!”.
My reply was “Better the cow’s @ss hit pavement than mine.”
I can't (and won't) answer for Spktyr, but I just gotta say your profile page is freakin' awesome. You don't have to answer to nobody, nohow.
*sigh*
I know you are not that obtuse or dense and understood perfectly well that I was referring to the chrome/bags/etc.
You must live in a sad, morally impoverished world.
Where I live, bikers don’t even speak to another guy’s ‘ol’ lady’ unless they’re already friends with the guy and get the okay to do so.
I’m always treated with nothing less than chivalrous respect.
Slut.
Yeah, but with Harley and all their “lifestyle packages”, you *have* to ask. :P
That depends on where I’m hanging out at the time.
As for the women.... Well, when a girl is with one guy at one meet, and then two months later is with a *different* guy at the same meet.... and then two months later... etc., etc.
That’s why I never cared for Sporties or Dressers.
They sit too high and are too “off balance” for my tastes.
The first bike of my own that I *loved* was a ‘93 Low Rider.
I felt centered and at one with it.
Then came the time for a newer bike and I got talked into a Softail which was not exactly my thing but I accepted it because it was a black-on-black-on-black Night Train.
*After* Himself bored it to 97” from stock 88, replaced the cams, heads and rockers with performance parts, then, I was happy.
[I still miss the Low Rider, though...it’s a sentimental thing]
I am overjoyed that Bobber style are making a comeback.
[more sentimentality because of the 60s ‘biker exploitation’ films] ....:))
Aw shucks...ya made me blush.
:)
We’re still snickering over the “custom” paint jobs they’re offering now.
What’s that old saying?
“If you bought it “custom”, then it -aint-.”
For years we’ve gone through the showrooms, gleefully announcing “Hey! You can hardly feel the pinstripes!”
[hubby’s paint jobs are so smooth the custom paint work looks as though it’s under glass and you will *never* feel so much as a dust mote sticking up]
Pffft.
Nowadays, that could apply to *any* societal subset.
[sadly]
That’s “He-Whore” young lady! <;^}
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