I finally 'get' Harleys

**marty** · 7th October 2007, 12:34

Originally Posted by Fumeux

20000rpm and tight suspension doesn't do you much good when you're going in a straight line for 300km. It's like criticising a 747 for not being able to outmaneuver a fighter plane, horses for courses. Europeans love taking the piss out of hulking American machines, it makes them feel smart, but I'd like to seem them ride a 998 across Nevada

my point exactly.

**limbimtimwim** · 7th October 2007, 13:19

Originally Posted by Fumeux

but I'd like to seem them ride a 998 across Nevada

Are you offering to lend me one?

**marty** · 7th October 2007, 15:03

well i would have chosen a harley over the duke. as it was, i was in a Lincoln Towncar - i can see why they are coverted to limos - a fantastic high speed cruiser. not once did my 6'3" tall son complain about leg room - more than a caprice or fairlane by far!

**Badjelly** · 7th October 2007, 15:05

I lived in America for 4 years. I still don't get Harleys but I do get Gold Wings.

**deanohit** · 7th October 2007, 15:06

Oooohhh man, I'd take a Harley over a Goldwing any day!!!

**arj127** · 7th October 2007, 15:44

i still dont get why they have to be so ficken loud!

**hospitalfood** · 7th October 2007, 16:21

harleys should not knocked by people who have not ridden them ( like me ).
I think they are cool, no question.
not my kind of bike in this country.
love my buell.

**Timber020** · 7th October 2007, 16:50

The guys that do the big Km are often on the goldwings, when your on the interstates the harleys you see generally have local plates, but the goldwings are often from the other side of the country. We were in nova scotia and saw 3 wings from arizona, tennesee and one from texas.

**Monsterbishi** · 7th October 2007, 17:58

Originally Posted by arj127

I still dont get why they have to be so ficken loud!

That's the owners that do that, the new Harleys are 'noticeable' in volume, but no more than any sportsbike.

**Swoop** · 7th October 2007, 18:56

Originally Posted by Timber020

The interstates seemed built with harleys in mind.

I believe that there is something in the Eisenhower legislation that enforces stretches of straight road (5 miles?) every so often.
This is so aircraft can use them as emergency runways. A left-over of the cold war.

**jrandom** · 8th October 2007, 05:52

Originally Posted by Goblin

Did a poker run once where I couldn't keep up with two blokes on V-rods. One of them had chewed the rear tyre like I've only ever seen on Taupo track. Takes a fair bit of skill and huge balls to ride a hog that hard.

It's amazing how some bikes that you wouldn't think would hustle can be hustled, isn't it? Prepare for some photos later on of what kiwifruit did to the rear tyre of a tubby ol' K1200RS on the Coro GP (er, loop...) yesterday. Heh.

Oh, and fuck long straight roads. Twisty goat tracks of doom ftw!

**Goblin** · 8th October 2007, 08:13

That Fruity fulla is hard on the gear alright.

Bring on the pics.

**Timber020** · 8th October 2007, 08:52

Originally Posted by Swoop

I believe that there is something in the Eisenhower legislation that enforces stretches of straight road (5 miles?) every so often.
This is so aircraft can use them as emergency runways. A left-over of the cold war.

Same in parts of sweden etc. They have (or had) massive bunkers of bombs beside some of the main roads to load up bombers from that would land on the sections of road. I knew a guy who was an ordanance firefighter in one of them.