jd750ace wrote:
Guess he should have driven his Toyota.
Thats always my favorite I see many KIAs,Toyotas,etc. plastered with HD decals and license plates,I ride and drive what I like and thats about it I am a loyal Chevrolet owner but I don't rag on the import drivers

brown91redcam wrote:
jd750ace wrote:
Guess he should have driven his Toyota.
Thats always my favorite I see many KIAs,Toyotas,etc. plastered with HD decals and license plates,I ride and drive what I like and thats about it I am a loyal Chevrolet owner but I don't rag on the import drivers

And the guys with "off shore" brand vehicles in the driveway tend to be the worst protagonists of this attitude too!

Last Saturday the Shrine put on a ride to benefit the Shrine Hospitals It started at the local HD Dealer. My wife and I went into the showroom before the ride and on the floor was a 2014 110 CVO Ultra Classic with a beautiful multi blue paint job. A salesman came over and try to sell it to me. Told me it was 40K. He bragged about the power and size of it and then asked me what I rode. I told him a Stratoliner Deluxe. He said the HD will ride so much better than our Strat. Before I could say anything the wife asked him when the last time he had been on a Stratoliner? Well, he has never ridden a Strat. She told him she didn't think he should be telling her that his HD rode better than her Strat if he had never ridden a Strat. Then told him she couldn't trade down to a bike with a shorter wheel base and less HP, especially when the HD was more than twice as much money. He turned and walked away. I just chuckled and enjoyed the moment.

A couple weeks ago i was pulling up to a stop light on a fourlane . Guy in front of me was on a Harley . Would run then die . Put my blinkers on and left my bike in road and pushed this guy across other side of rode to gas station , cut both my shins on his pipes when he slammed on brakes went back got my Roadie out of highway . Thank gosh no one hit it , rode it around to see if he needed any more help . He said no and asked why i was ridding a jap bike REALLY i said !! He thanked me and i left .

Ashley wrote:
He said no and asked why i was ridding a jap bike

...same reason we were just pushing yours!

Kaidallac wrote:
I usually just say "a Roadstar/Stratoliner that's paid for... "

+1
reasons I don't own a HD anymore
1: I will never finance another bike
2: I don't need the bike to make me feel better about myself
3: I ride my bike, not stand around in a parking lot with a bunch of others talking about my bike

I wonder what kind of shit people who ride victorys get? Everyone I know with a harley is generally blown away at how much my roadie looks like a harley. I raced some kind of harley when I had my Z1000 at a stoplight, I blew his doors off almost instantly (no surprize) and kept pulling, I'm talking 20-30 bike lengths before I let off. he follwed me to the gas station and started to rant and rave that he would have taken me in a longer race, and that his bike does over 200 mph. I just said "really?! WOW!" and walked inside. Dont know what kind it was, but it had a ducktail style rear fender and skinny front wheel.

Ricohoc wrote:
texanrebel82 wrote:
First he asks what kind of bike I have...and I told him a Yamaha. Then he says he dosent need help from jap crap.

I'll never understand people like this. I would have just shrugged my shoulders and rolled on -- as you did.

Deep inside, though, I know it wasn't HD that said it. It was the guy on the bike, but I sure run into an awful lot of HD owners who have some strange perceptions of things.

exactly.

AWDimprezaL wrote:
I wonder what kind of shit people who ride victorys get? Everyone I know with a harley is generally blown away at how much my roadie looks like a harley. I raced some kind of harley when I had my Z1000 at a stoplight, I blew his doors off almost instantly (no surprize) and kept pulling, I'm talking 20-30 bike lengths before I let off. he follwed me to the gas station and started to rant and rave that he would have taken me in a longer race, and that his bike does over 200 mph. I just said "really?! WOW!" and walked inside. Dont know what kind it was, but it had a ducktail style rear fender and skinny front wheel.



My R1 won't even do 200mph

texanrebel82 wrote:
its been awhile since I posted with work and moving but I went to lowes today to pick up some shims and I was about 1/4 mile from the house and I see a guy on a Harley sitting at a stop sign in front of me. He finally gets the bike started and rolls through the intersection and pulls to the side of the road. So I stop and asked if he needed some help and I only lived down the street. First he asks what kind of bike I have...and I told him a Yamaha. Then he says he dosent need help from jap crap. So I said ok and left him there, I was in the garage when he rolled by about 20 min later and it was spitting and sputtering and running like crap and looked like he could only do about 5 miles an hour. So that made my day.

Seriously? Shows how blind the fella was. If you pulled up to me and offered help first thing I would notice is your bike.. "It's a fine bike with lots of work into it.. hmmm.. perhaps he can help?" I'm not a blind fool.. unless it pertains to women.