Harley Davidson and this guys site.....an example of obsession gone wrong

[burnedout]

Hayabusarider: Thanks for the offer. I'll be glad to take you up on it. Must wait until next summer though. I think you might know how it is for us over-40 crowd trying to negotiate their way through college some 20 years too late.

And I hear you and know exactly where you come from. I mean, golly, the way some people act nowadays just ain't funny. The modern-day H-D crowd is an insult to the true spirit of riding. When I got my first H-D from my Dad in 1983, I wasn't into the yuppie-ness and all. Still shy away from it. The best riding times ever were at Fort Campbell, KY before I shipped to Germany the first time, and then later in Germany. We had a small group with H-Ds, BMWs and just whatever else somebody brought with them.

The object wasn't how fast a scoot ran. The main thing was to get your "face in the wind", fellowship, socialize and act a little crazy. Well, a lot crazy, by today's standards. We are only young once.

But yeah, almost everybody I know with a H-D nowadays are doctors, lawyers, accountants and professionals making more than I do. Those folks are so superficial and so stuck-up. I mean they really have some attitudes. My current Sportster is now 15 years-old and man, they even treat me like a dog. I guess 'cause my scoot isn't new or something. HaHa, it sure is funny when they break down though. Talk about stress.

 

[bozack]

Hey Billgates, thanks for pointing that out and while I agree it is an interesting read, IMHO it is just too much time and effort invested into hate...I couldn't even fathom spending the time necessary to draft something like that with the sole intent of slamming a product, he could have gotten his point across in under a paragraph but dragged it on and on and on...like I said, scary to think that some get so obsessed with material things...it is ok to have an interest but when it seems to become an obsession, especially a negative one...well it just doesn't seem right

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: burnedout
Hayabusarider: Thanks for the offer. I'll be glad to take you up on it. Must wait until next summer though. I think you might know how it is for us over-40 crowd trying to negotiate their way through college some 20 years too late.

And I hear you and know exactly where you come from. I mean, golly, the way some people act nowadays just ain't funny. The modern-day H-D crowd is an insult to the true spirit of riding. When I got my first H-D from my Dad in 1983, I wasn't into the yuppie-ness and all. Still shy away from it. The best riding times ever were at Fort Campbell, KY before I shipped to Germany the first time, and then later in Germany. We had a small group with H-Ds, BMWs and just whatever else somebody brought with them.

The object wasn't how fast a scoot ran. The main thing was to get your "face in the wind", fellowship, socialize and act a little crazy. Well, a lot crazy, by today's standards. We are only young once.

But yeah, almost everybody I know with a H-D nowadays are doctors, lawyers, accountants and professionals making more than I do. Those folks are so superficial and so stuck-up. I mean they really have some attitudes. My current Sportster is now 15 years-old and man, they even treat me like a dog. I guess 'cause my scoot isn't new or something. HaHa, it sure is funny when they break down though. Talk about stress.

I know in San Jose Ca there were more than a few instances where a Yuppie Biker pulled into a real Biker Bar (like Otto's) and ended up getting the crap beat out of them and their bikes stolen. In fact it was a pretty lucrative business for the Mongols Bike Gang (arch rivals of the Hells Angels in Ca)