[sam_paine]

He's a diva in pants who speaks not at all to the rugged, rebellious, road-hardened rockers who ride Harley motorcycles, and those who pretend on weekends to be those things.

Nobody will be fired, perhaps, because Harley actually may have done a GOOD JOB in matching the marketing tastes of their customer base!!

I'd be curious to find how many "road-hard" anythings actually had the resources to finance a trip (especially after forking over for a Harley-brand-name) to such a concert. I suspect a large faction are the wannabe 'pretenders' that could afford the trip. And I'll bet they liked Elton just fine. And I'll bet Harley Marketing gets internal accolades for keeping on top of the changing customer base.

The real "road-hards" probably can't afford a Harley, and ride beat up rice burners to the local quickimart to buy Milwaukee's Beast to drink at home.

HA! (Donning asbestos suit.)

[sarasota]

I was in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin on Sunday and the place was crawling with Harleys. At a rest stop I ran into a couple who rode up from Dallas (on their bikes, unlike many who trailered them). I'm told there were bikes/riders flown in from all over the world for the event. Some said half a million people were in Milwaukee over the weekend.

[TheSpottedOwl]

The real "road-hards" probably can't afford a Harley, and ride beat up rice burners to the local quickimart to buy Milwaukee's Beast to drink at home.

Ewwwww, Milwaukee's Beast! I would personally drink iced tea before I'd drink anything with "Milwaukee" on the label. My favorite cheap beer is Natty Ice :-D

[Bikers4Bush]

Jealousy is an ugly thing.

Your envy is showing.

[KDD]

Better Off Dead


There was a face on a hoarding that someone had drawn on
And just enough time for the night to pass by without warning
Away in the distance there's a blue flashing light
Someone's in trouble somewhere tonight
As the flickering neon stands ready to fuse
The wind blows away all of yesterday's news

Well they've locked up their daughters and they battened the hatches
They always could find us but they never could catch us
Through the grease streaked windows of an all night cafe
We watched the arrested get taken away
And that cigarette haze has ecology beat
As the whores and the drunks filed in from the street

`Cause the steams in the boiler the coals in the fire
If you ask how I am then I'll just say inspired
If the thorn of a rose is the thorn in your side
Then you're better off dead if you haven't yet died
Sir Elton John

[FourPeas]

You've obviously never spent much time with bikers. Your cluelessness is showing.

[edchambers]

The real "road-hards" probably can't afford a Harley, and ride beat up rice burners to the local quickimart to buy Milwaukee's Beast to drink at home

I happen to have FOUR riceburners and I can still afford Coors Light.

[Melas]

Sam, sam, sam, attend a rally or two before you make these assumptions.

One of my favorite parts of a lot of rallies is when they start up a piece of jap crap, break off the oil filter, and hoist the sucker to watch it smoke, sputter and die.

In the real biker world, not a whole lot of rice burners to be found. They're all scared their bike could be the one on the alter if you catch my drift.

[avenir]

"The real "road-hards" probably can't afford a Harley, and ride beat up rice burners to the local quickimart to buy Milwaukee's Beast to drink at home."

You nailed it!