xs over HD

[brownbear1000]

I jest got my bike running andhade taken it up north with me I polled it up there and had put some miles on it to breake it in when i was up there I got breave and opened it up some cranked it up to 90 then 100 when i got home it was raning so i left it at a frends .when i was riding home there was two HDs riding behind me as thay came closer thay got beside me thay where laffing at my bike and TRYED to get me to race them I jest laffed at them cranked it open and left them lick thay where standing still I have an xs1100 special when thay got to the next light thay did not laff aney more.
Boy that felt GOOD lol

[79XS11F]

Harley riders don't care about speed .... They just want everyone who sees them to think they are big tough guys who drink hard, ride hard, play hard, work hard love hard etc. It's a good act and owning a Harley is part of that act and don't they just look like a bunch of "bad boys" ....who are more then likely a gang of pussy whipped lawyers and doctors LOL LOL
Rob

[manshack_one]

Go Wild Hogs!!


(you have to see that movie, hilarious and describes exactly what you're talking about)

[GNEPIG]

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....who are more then likely a gang of pussy whipped lawyers and doctors LOL LOL

Wow you can say that word here, what a coinceidence, that just happens to be one of my very favorite words!

[Hammerhead1st]

Originally posted by GNEPIG
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....who are more then likely a gang of pussy whipped lawyers and doctors LOL LOL

Wow you can say that word here, what a coincidence, that just happens to be one of my very favorite words!

What's so special about the word "whipped"???

My Ex-wife is married ot my close friend who just dumped his bike for the 2nd time in a month the other day. Actually, someone turned in front of him and he parked it in their passenger side window. Anyhow, he's out shopping for a new bike, courtesy of the insurance company, and she wants a Harley. He keeps telling her if it's over 85db, he'll kick it over in the front yard LOL.

I keep asking her when she gets it, who will she ride with? Cuz we all ride at or just above the speed limit... We're forever busting her chops about Harley's, oil slicks, "Deaf rider area" signs, etc...LOL...I told her I think she's just into the whole vibration thing...

[TADracer]

I dont worry about Harley riders, especially since I think I have the only XS in the New Orleans area. In fact, I have even had a couple of them comment nicely on my machine. A real Harley rider isnt a doctor or lawyer but instead is someone mich like an XS lover. He rides for the sport and feel of freedom and works on his own machine. He rides an old shovelhead or an even older knucklehead and prides his machine like we do ours. He doesnt put it away in a garage only to be taken out on weekends when the sun shines. He isnt out looking for a race because he already knows the limit of his bike and probably the higher performance limit of most others on the road. He has suffered through the years when AMF owned Harley Davidson and every bike they made leaked oil. The doctors and lawyers and dentist that are all over the road on their chrome queens are just living the 'lifestyle' that is nothing more than a marketing ploy. Nope, I am not an HD rider!

Still, most v-twins are made to be baggers. To carry alot of weight and do it well....and most of them do just that. Performance wise, about the only HD that would match the acceleration of an XS is the V-rod.....and they have to work at it.

Love my 79 special and will probably will it to one of my kids.

[TADracer]

Oh, by the way, I do still love to twist the handle and leave them behind

[xschop]

H.D.

H.D.= Hundred Dollars....heard that one from a Harley owner I work with. Handle bars, $100.....seat $100x3.....chrome this, $100....chrome that, $100.....little more chrome, you guessed it....I guess they want them so shiney, so they can be seen easily by the tow trucks

[John]

h-d = Hundred Dollars?

All these years I thought it meant Horse Droppings.

[STEPPENWOLF]

I liked TADracer's post,hd rider's are a little different from us I guess, most on here seem too feel that speed is what makes the bike the best,I just like to not to have to down shift in turns and just roll the thottle on,the style the looks and just overall performance of the stock machine is what I like...plus kicking a little butt now and then puts a :-) on this ole man.

[Pat Kelly]

I wandered into the Honda dealer the other day and was looking at the shiney new bikes. A sales person asked if Ihad any questions. I asked him where the regular bikes are? He looked puzzled and wqas unsure ofan answer or even what my question meant. I told him I was interested in somethin between Easy Rider and Freddy Spencer, a regular bike. He said they're too diversified now (wrong). Hmm... diversified would mean able to do many things. These bikes are too specialized.
I old him there was nothing there that interested me. "I'll stick with my 30 year-old bike that can be changed from a tourer to a cruiser to a cafe set-up and cost less than $4,000 new. Paid $60 for one and $500 for he other.He was at a total loss.
Maybe I'll go to the HD dealer and ask if they have anything used for $60 that will go 140MPH (stock) and can comforably cruise at 100 MPH all day.

[Hammerhead1st]

I think the big thing that started the Hardley revolution and cemented it's place in history was the fact that Hardley's were American made. If you weren't riding a Hardley, you were un-American. I think a lot of that still holds true for many Hardley owners. Of course, it really burns their biscuits when they get rocketed by a 30 yr old bike that sounds like the can's gonna explode from the HP, but they always fall back onto the old Standby...American Classics, man, they never die. Yeah...lemme clear that up a bit...

The IDEA of American Classics never dies. It's reborn with every purchase of a new machine made in York, PA. However, what they don't get....I think....is that bikes such as our 30+ year old machines STILL run great, look great, and do or will have 3 TIMES the mileage they'll get out of that dream of theirs. for a FRACTION of the price...

So...every time you blow by a Hardley, or take one from 3 blocks back with throttle to spare and 3 gears left...you're stepping all over their dream. For cryin out loud, have some respect!! At least apologize for your actions. "I'm sorry man, I didn't mean to show up your brand new 20K+ machine with my $50 antique. You go on ahead, I'll stay back so you can show off..." Of course...we all know that won't happen. These bikes won't run right puttering along at 25 mph...they NEED to breathe and run.

[Meatloaf]

Of course it confuses me when my Canadian bretheren are so obsessed...

I actually like Harley's, sorry but there aren't many bikes I don't like. I've been shopping for one for a while now. I'm not giving up my XS to do it though. It's the HD owners that are starting to get on my nerves. The next pencil-neck,middle-aged civil-servant that lectures me on my choice of rides is going to get my foot up his arse.

Even worse is the non-bike riders who bag on anything that's not a Harley. Usually toothless, banjo-playing, knuckle-dragging, white trash that will never own anything themselves or if they do they get a sportster and think they've got the world by the short-hairs.

Classic story:

I live in a small-town. Like many small towns we're an akward mix of wealthy, middle class, and lower income folks all sharing the same 10 square miles or so. We're a beach community so we get a lot of day tourists in the summer. My wife and I are at the local watering hole last weekend on the patio having pints and some hot wings when a couple roughly the same age as us pulls up on a HD softtail. They're low key not wearing all the HD clothes and, carefully groomed 5 o'clock shadow. Neither scumbags or weekend wannabes. Nice folks out for a ride on a bike that just happens to be an HD. Good for them. As soon as they sit-down on the patio, one of the local loser drunks staggers over and asks "is that a hawwwwg?" then sits with them uninvited and starts telling them stories about all his bad-ass buddies with HDs. Of course he's never owned one himself. The poor tourists look like deer in the headlights.

A few minutes later a skanky looking chick, covered head-to-toe in tattoes and wearing full HD uniform, wanders up and starts dancing beside their table. The fact that there's no music playing doesn't slow her down. I know for a fact she walked to the bar, doesn't even have a license.

At this point the couple lean-in close to each other, have a quick whispered conversation and then light out of there like there hair is on fire. The two idiots from the bar stand on the patio watching them drive away like a dog watching it's master leave for work. By this point my wife and I are killing ourselves laughing.

Neither of them ever owned an HD or ever will but like a lot of folk with no ability to forge an identity for themselves, they decided to hump the leg of someone who they thought could do it for them.

Like I said, love the bikes for what they are, have no use for the majority of owners or wannabes.

[Pat Kelly]

When I come upon the rare "buy an American bike" knuckle-dragger I point out Harleys Bosch (German) ignotion, Kehin (Japanese) carbs, and the trannys are assembled in Mexico.
If they want a bike manufactured in America by Americans they should buy a Goldwing.

[Snow]

Actually, the big thing that got Harley-Davidson going was world war 2. The army was deciding on whom to contract out bikes to - Indian and HD were in the race. Indian made a bike 100% to the army's specs... Harley violated the specs by putting in a larger, more powerful motor...guess how that turned out?

Of course, after the war, vets could buy HDs surplused for cheap and everyone wanted to have one that was different...so on and so forth.