Wellington HOG Rally

**Big Dave** · 20th February 2009, 09:24

The Harley-Davidson Motorcycle is the World's Most Traveled Motor Vehicle

In a historic world first, Kay and Peter Forwood’s Harley-Davidson motorcycle has traveled to more countries than any other motor vehicle in the world.

Their Harley-Davidson motorcycle - a 1994 Electra Glide Classic (vehicle number 1HD1DJL14RY502784), has ventured through every internationally recognised country of the world. Many machines have circumnavigated the globe as aeroplanes, boats, cars and motorcycles and a few individual machines have visited more than half the world's countries, but only this Harley-Davidson has been to every internationally recognised country.

The World's Most Traveled Motorcycle has visited over 357 countries, states, territories, isolated parcels, islands, atolls and disputed territories.

The Electra Glide Classic was purchased new in 1994 and it has now been ridden a total of 515,000 km both in Australia and around the world. 490,000 km were recorded outside of Australia on the motorcycles journey across the world.

Kay and Peter’s journey spans some 12 years, beginning in Australia on the 3rd of February 1996 and still continues today. Details of the journey around the world are meticulously recorded at http://www.horizonsunlimited.com/forwood/ The Web site profiles their journey with descriptions, images and maps of all 357 countries, states or territories they visited. For the Harley-Davidson enthusiast it is a site that records a unique couple who truly “Live the Dream”.

Chrome that.

**mazz1972** · 20th February 2009, 09:41

Sitting here at work (on State Highway 1) and even with my earphones in listening to rock music I can still hear the constant rumble of bikes cruising through on their way to Welly.

**Beemer** · 20th February 2009, 11:23

I hope the group of about 50 bikes that headed south through Levin a couple of hours ago made it to Wellington all right. The other half rang to say about two minutes after they passed his work, sirens went off and police and fire headed south. No accident report has come through from the police, so hopefully they weren't involved with whatever it was.

What are they going to do all weekend though? It's RAINING!!!

**Pwalo** · 20th February 2009, 11:58

Apparently there's a few trailers parked up in town at the moment. Rotten day for riding anyway.

**Omega1** · 20th February 2009, 12:16

Yeah, I'm sitting here at the Wellington port watching the bikes go past as they arrive in town definitely not a great day for it.

**Hitcher** · 20th February 2009, 12:30

I've just been for a lunchtime stroll. There is a lot of soggy hoggies around town.

**carbonhed** · 20th February 2009, 12:43

Originally Posted by scumdog

AND why I wear tassles, great dick-bait are tassles, just great...

I always wondered about those tassles... so they're kind of a sign for the other mincers... makes sense.

I was standing in a bank queue in Waikanae watching them all roar through the lights on SH1. Very impressive. Then the lights changed and some grizzled old buffoon decide he would use his bike to block the traffic that now had the green light and the Hardleys just kept roaring through. Wound up with a B train straddling the main trunk line... how the driver managed to resist the urge to just smear the silly old prick all through the intersection bewilders me.

Great PR coup for motorcycling though.

**peasea** · 20th February 2009, 14:32

Originally Posted by scumdog

Harleys are the greatest bike for getting up peoples wick and upsetting them - hence why I ride one.
AND why I wear tassles, great dick-bait are tassles, just great...

Dick bait? Are you gay?

**scumdog** · 20th February 2009, 14:46

Originally Posted by peasea

Dick bait? Are you gay?

Scored two so far on THIS KB thread...

**peasea** · 20th February 2009, 14:47

Originally Posted by scumdog

Scored two so far on THIS KB thread...

I thought you were going out? (Or coming out?)

**Bloody Mad Woman (BMW)** · 20th February 2009, 14:51

Many are staying at the Bay Plaza Hotel up the road from me - guess they won't be going far lol, may mean they have to put on wet weather gear and that would hide all their useless gucci gear. The tassles really do my head in lol.

I doubt I could lower myself to get dressed up in their gear for a joke and try and act the dumb blonde, giggle and flutter my eyelashes - fk I can't do that normally - alot of MONEY would have to change hands lol.

Haven't seen a tall good lookin Harley rider yet. Sad ay. NOT

**scumdog** · 20th February 2009, 14:58

Originally Posted by peasea

I thought you were going out? (Or coming out?)

Are (bi) curious or something...

**Horse** · 20th February 2009, 14:58

Originally Posted by Hitcher

If it keeps raining like this, the Harley folks will be contracting out the Thunder Ride to the Japanese and Euro bikes, rather than getting their chrome wet. Oh the horror!

The rain didn't stop several hundred bikes going on the Thunder Ride at last year's HOG rally here in Palmy.

**peasea** · 20th February 2009, 15:02

Originally Posted by Horse

The rain didn't stop several hundred bikes going on the Thunder Ride at last year's HOG rally here in Palmy.

Was that the one where a lightning bolt took out the power? That'd suck, where would they charge their pacemaker, cellphone and mobility scooter batteries?