Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: loic2003
Must be really tough trying to not look like a homosexual on that bike.
You're implying I have trouble looking gay when you look like THIS?
http://www.frenchgeek.com/imageslg/aus8.jpg
touche! Not the butchest pic, but those same looks have always gotten results. Clearly having my site in my sig demonstrates I'm more than happy with my appearance, and my confidence certainly isn't unfounded. I don't feel the need to hide behind the anonymity of the internet whatsoever...
I do have a strong dislike to harleys simply because they're purely designed for showing off. They're the attention whore of the motorbike world. Brash, loud, slow and shiny. The riders usually wear open-face helmets so everyone can see who they are. They're anything but a rider's bike... I mean, loads don't even have rear suspension; something that even the lowest of the low, most basic moped has. It also shows a clear lack of insight when it comes to choice. Like a nouveau-riche feller jumping out and buying a porsche or ferrari when there's far more interesting and exotic vehicles out there that would provide more of a talking point, and (if they wanted it) more heads turned.
Harleys also are hugely dated. It's typically very american, sticking to a technology that was good in the hay-day, never truly moving forward. Noisy, spluttering, inefficient and poor-handling by today's standards. These days there's so many awesome torque-sports bikes out there that are more fun, more reliable, have far better handling, and so on. A couple of examples that I posted in another thread:
Moto Guzzi Breva 1100
Moto Morini 1200
Yamaha MT-01
Seriously beefy bikes that look freaking awesome, but don't have the stigma of harley-freaking-davidson atached to it. I mean, look at the bike meets! All those skulls, chrome, leather tassles, beer guts and receeding hair-lines. It's just not cool. Coupled with the fact that 90% of bikers give each other the nod as they pass, whereas harley riders always have a stupid "I'm bad to the bone" face on as they rasp around on their attention-mobiles and never acknowledge anyone else. There's even a few harley riders that go to the bike meets I attend, and even then they never talk to anyone when we're all sitting around. It's weird behaviour.
Whatever. Stick to your HD; I'm sure you paid a small fortune for it, and I guess some like to potter about on a noise machine. Do have a look around at the above models I posted and see what you think, maybe I'll be able to persuade you away from chrome-land! Funny response above, though, and I'll even stand up and nominate myself if you like. 'tis a good thing to not be so proud as to be able to laugh at yourself.
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