Arnt Harley Riders an odd bunch,

[Lou Girardin]

Shit no, they WANT to take their hands off the bars to give them a selves a break from the vibes.

I guess they just didn't like the look of you.

They're scared that if they wave it'll be some secret gay sprotbike rider come-on.

[Ixion]

Well I don't know about that. BUT - I heard from this guy in the supermarket checkout queue, that he (the guy in the queue) was drinking in the pub with some guy (another guy) a few years ago, and this guy (the one he was drinking with) had a mate who's cousin worked for the British government and he (the one who worked for the government) told him (the cousins' mate) who told him (the drinking guy) that some (at least!) of the air in the tyres was ACTUALLY TRACED BACK TO COMMUNIST RUSSIA at one time!.

It's all a conspiracy!.

[Krusti]

I just find all other people are odd! Seriously though I have as many Harley friends as Jappas and have met an equal number of oddballs from both camps. Takes all sorts to make me feel sane

[Timber020]

I have a book on the hells angels where barger says he would rather be riding a honda st, funny that here they are a cop bike.

[vs04]

I have a book on the hells angels where barger says he would rather be riding a honda st, funny that here they are a cop bike.

He said in the interview that i read that they,re making one of his books into a movie.

[madmal64]

Hell I dont know?
Ive got a mate who owns and rides a Harley, a Ducati 996, an old BMW R80 and a V8 trike.
I wouldnt call him odd or strange, I suppose maybe because he does ride a huge style range of machinery is whats keeping in balanced.

[What?]

I read an interview with Sonny Barger,he,s the guy who started the Oakland chapter of the Hells Angels in the states,they were the guys responsible for the stabbing and death of that guy at the Rolling Stones concert back in the late sixties.Anyway when asked what he thought of the Harley Davidson,he replied with.There junk,i only ride one because i,m a Hells Angel, if i was,nt in the Hells Angels i,d ride a triumph.He did mention other bikes that he,d ride but cant remember what they were,also gave the metric cruisers a good rep to.This guy is considerd the grandfather of the Hells Angels around the world,it would be interesting to see how many guys in that type of lifestyle would stop riding harleys if sonny decided to hop on a cruiser or sportbike.What i,m saying is that there,s a lot of people riding harleys because they have a genuine interest in them,their the ones that you get a wave from or a decent conversation out of.

Another interview was in the Los Angeles Daily News in 1994. In there, he said he only rode a Harley because he owned a shop that specialised in fixing them. If it wasn't for the shop, he'd ride a Honda.
He also said what he didn't like about Harley was the company, not the product; "...for years they didn't want to know about us, now they are capitilizing on our image..."

You must have read this one??
Well I don't think I've ever said anything good about Honda; what I said is Harleys are junk, technology wise. If I was not a Hells Angel I would probably be riding an ST1100, a BMW or a Triumph. But I am a Hells Angel so I ride a Harley, and the one good thing I can say about Harleys is they made me a good living; by being junk they need to be fixed all the time.

Of the new bikes, I just got a new 2000 model in March. I've got 22000 miles on it. It runs well, its been opened up, the brakes work. It's probably the best motor, transmission and brakes that Harley ever put out. But in reality, technology wise, it's still a million years behind everything else. Harleys new balancing system on their 88V motors is the kind of thing a Caterpillar tractor had a hundred years ago.


But, yeah, wouldn't it be interesting if he traded the Hogley for a Blade!

[terbang]

Been in a lot of these Harley bagging exercise before and well they are a motorcycle. The title "odd bunch" gets me thinking and I notice that a few of them wear German Wehrmacht helmets. WTF is the mentality in that..? I havn't seen people who ride Jappers (superior machinery) wearing such lids so why the harley thing and a Kraut lid..?

[SlashWylde]

Been in a lot of these Harley bagging exercise before and well they are a motorcycle. The title "odd bunch" gets me thinking and I notice that a few of them wear German Wehrmacht helmets. WTF is the mentality in that..? I havn't seen people who ride Jappers (superior machinery) wearing such lids so why the harley thing and a Kraut lid..?

Well supposedly the wearing of German Wehrmacht helmets, Iron Cross and various nazi parephenalia (particularly the swastika) was an anti-authothoratarian response by bikers after the second world war.

American bikers who wore the helmets swastikas etc were basically saying to the world "fuck you! I'm a big scary biker" and it was done to get a rise out of the 'straight' folk.

From here this iconography has become a standard part of outlaw biker culture like the wearing of 1% patches, FTW, the number 13 etc.

[montsta56]

I reckon most of them are cock's, they think there hard or some shit cause there on a harley, They never give ya a wave on the road, every other biker seem's to apart from them???

[SPman]

You've never ridden one.

A westie? .....

[Big Dave]

A westie? .....

I heard you always 'fuck' - up!

[Shadows]

From here this iconography has become a standard part of outlaw biker culture like the wearing of 1% patches, FTW, the number 13 etc.

I wonder if there's a market for 99% patches?
Probably piss a few people off and cause aggro though.

[Virago]

I reckon most of them are cock's.....

....and as most sprotbikers are cunts, you would think the two groups would get together quite nicely.....

[popelli]

It would appear reading this post is that the only people who have problems with harleys and the people that ride harleys are the people who don't have them