Topic: Harley and Davidson

[Terry in Australia]

Not to mention the Air Force guys returning from WW2 who started a little club called the "Hells Angels"......

[USMC5811]

I think you'd be hard pressed to sell those to the masses. There is a novelty to them. My age group (I'm 28) is more interested in sport bikes, and new Harley's.

Then why are scooters and Groms so popular?


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[BomberMann650]

It's interesting, we're talking about someone trotting out the old Harley engines remade with today's tooling. 

I remember reading a biography on WWI combat pilots and some of the best were also serious motorcycle riders.  None were Harley riders - that's not the point, but the riders were noted for "Roaring around the roads on their Wanderer or Moto Reve" and you look at the bikes they look less powerful than a bicycle.  Heck they look like bicycles.

I'm guessing that new Harley engine would be similar - slow, dull, and dangerous to operate.

Thats right, they got the bikes with the same motors airplanes had back then!

Ty antique archaeology for that bit of trivia

[J-Rod10]

Ha ha, There's a similar thread in a Harley forum that I frequent, and surprisingly, no Honda bashing? I guess Harley riders don't have that chip on their shoulders that you guys do?

Most local Harley guys come up and talk to me when I'm out on my XS, or CB. Typically what they started on, and has been ages since they have seen one.

I did have a Mongol give me crap one night at a bar. He was a prospect, didn't know I knew most of the chapter. Gave him some grief over being a wannabe gangster on a Sportster. He went and got his buddies thinking he was hot stuff. They all came up and shook my hand, asked which bike I was on for the night.

[Terry in Australia]

Yep, when I worked at a gas station part time when I was in the army, I'd ride to work on either my Suzuki GS1000S or my BMW R100RS. The local Iron Horsemen would talk to me when I was on the BMW, but not as often when I was on the 'Zook. Even so, they weren't bad blokes as long as you kept a respectful distance.....

[Terry in Australia]

http://awesomedl.ru/harley-and-the-davidsons-part-1-3/

Spoiler alert, the first episode was great, and for that matter, so was episode 2, until it finished about half an hour early! Bummer, I'd just gotten to where the new Harley was about to kick Indian's butt in a dirt track race, and it ended? WTF? I fired up episode three that started with flashbacks from episode 2, that weren't shown in my copy of episode 2? Poop! Oh well, apart from that, it's been great. Cheers, Terry.