Nice Harley Bashing Quote

[Clark Kent]

It's called comedy. Those often offended by that type of humor often have some underlying connection to the principal of the joke. Comedy works best when there is a slight grain of truth in the bit. Some people then feel their ox is being gored. Others see the truth, the mockery and laugh. Sorry Howie....

Nah...I'm not buyin' it. Many try to camouflage bigotry with comedy. Take any "Polack" joke as an example.

It's not just Harley bashing...it's Gold Wing bashing. It's BMW bashing. It's 600cc Sport Bike bashing. Hell, look at the title of this thread...it's not "Replying to Nice Harley Humor". It's "bashing". And that has nothing to do with humor. Some replies have been humorous, granted, but then you get comments like this:

That is the herd mentality! A bunch of big fat guys, all following the leader because they can not think for themselves.  Just like a bunch of sheep!

I ride, slowly, with several Harley owners who are not big nor fat and think very well for themselves.

Personally, I wouldn't own an HD if you gave me one. But like they say in sports, "don't hate the player, hate the game."

Hay Radio, My quote is funny. :haha: Remember the HD riders themselves named their group HOG! It is a life style :aarambo: :aarock: and they themselves do everything to perpetuate that myth.

It's not bigotry if your just repeating what the group says itself. :fans:

I also ride with many HD riders who are very trim and thin. They are great riders and have nice bikes. But the Harley Davidson Owners Group was named to come out with the acronym HOG!

What comes to mind when YOU think of a HOG? I rest my case.

If you were offended I,m sorry. Sometimes the truth hurts. :headbonk:

CK :super1:

 

[snowmonkey]

It's called comedy. Those often offended by that type of humor often have some underlying connection to the principal of the joke. Comedy works best when there is a slight grain of truth in the bit. Some people then feel their ox is being gored.

MNFJR05, It is not comedy or even a cheap joke when you constantly post your personnal attacks against HD owners. It is offensive to those of us that still own a HD or may ride with friends that own HDs. For all the Harley bashing that you have done on this forum you must have some major issues with HD riders. As a child, were you run over by a HOG?

 

[SkooterG]

Does anyone else see the similarities in these two groups??? Do they have self identity issues they are attempting to solve through role playing? Always picked last in kickball and now desperately trying to be part of the group? Held by their mother too long or maybe not enough?

Sorry Howie... :tease:

Maybe both groups are just enjoying themselves. Why do you begrudge them that?

RadioHowie was spot on. This H-D bashing does get old, and IMHO, tends to paint the bashers in a negative light. You say its humor. I say your putting down a huge group of people that you have so neatly stereotyped is your way of compensating for your own inadequacies.

Let's face it, happy, emotionally stable, well adjusted people don't feel the need to put anybody down. Ever. For any reason. Period.

Skooter "Dr. Phil" G would be happy to refer you to a mental health professional in your area. For $150 an hour, I am sure they wouldn't mind you Harley bashing to your heart's content.

 

[Clark Kent]

It's called comedy. Those often offended by that type of humor often have some underlying connection to the principal of the joke. Comedy works best when there is a slight grain of truth in the bit. Some people then feel their ox is being gored.

MNFJR05, It is not comedy or even a cheap joke when you constantly post your personnal attacks against HD owners. It is offensive to those of us that still own a HD or may ride with friends that own HDs. For all the Harley bashing that you have done on this forum you must have some major issues with HD riders. As a child, were you run over by a HOG?

Snowmonkey, And your picture of the woman with the stick show that your bigoted toward women!

My wife and daughters are VERY offended by that photo. Were you beaten or abused by your mother or sisters when you were young? :dwarf:

Can't we all just get along? :drinks:

As you can see, what is funny to some is offensive to others. All the bashing of HDs is done in fun. As is your photo of the women on your posts. Correct?

We should all lighten up a little and smell the roses. (how do you do that at 100 mph?)

Merry Xmas to all!

CK :super1:

 

[RadioHowie]

YIKES!! Didn't mean to start a border war.

Don't get me wrong CK, I'm not offended at all. Hell, I'm as offensive as they come, but to paraphrase ScooterG, it does get tiresome.

Most of all, it does us NO good, as FJR riders, to bash anyone, considering we're driving around $13,000 station wagons that tick, wear out their front tires in funny ways, only have enough wattage to light a [SIZE=7pt]small[/SIZE] candle, and require $600 seats to be comfortable on long rides.

Did I mention, weigh about 200 pounds too much?

It just makes me think "no wonder Harley guys hate metric guys...all we do is put them down constantly." Hey, they can't help their choices. All the GOOD DNA went to the FJR buyers. :haha:

 

[RadioHowie]

Does anyone else see the similarities in these two groups??? Do they have self identity issues they are attempting to solve through role playing? Always picked last in kickball and now desperately trying to be part of the group? Held by their mother too long or maybe not enough?
Sorry Howie... :tease:

Maybe both groups are just enjoying themselves. Why do you begrudge them that?

RadioHowie was spot on. This H-D bashing does get old, and IMHO, tends to paint the bashers in a negative light. You say its humor. I say your putting down a huge group of people that you have so neatly stereotyped is your way of compensating for your own inadequacies.

Let's face it, happy, emotionally stable, well adjusted people don't feel the need to put anybody down. Ever. For any reason. Period.

Skooter "Dr. Phil" G would be happy to refer you to a mental health professional in your area. For $150 an hour, I am sure they wouldn't mind you Harley bashing to your heart's content.

Okay CK, now you're getting outta hand.

There is absolutely NOTHING wrong or offensive about a woman smacking shit out of another woman. That ain't abuse...that's PrimeTime entertainment.

And it's "pipe" not "stick", as in "Take Pipe, bitch!"

 

[radman]

I happen to know for a fact that MNFJR05 dislikes HD's cuz' they took his spot at Sturgis once, parked all their motors over it, now it's a Superfund Site. Word.

 

[Clark Kent]

God am I glad I'm the man of steel! :super1: I couldn't take all this abuse

if I were just human, and rode an FJR. Heck, I don't even own and FJR yet. Just anST1100 and a Valkyrie.

I liked the part about the women and the pipe! :headbonk: Can you smoke that pipe? :boss:

We should all remember to have a sense of humor as "Harley Bashing" is a life style, just as much as riding one is.

Harley riders would have a site bashing us too, if they could read or write.

Don't check my spelling, please. :haha:

CK :super1:

 

[red2kcbr]

CK, good point on the trike. I did not consider handicapped individuals when I cracked wise about trikes.

I saw a a report about a Suzuki sport bike with pneumatic stilts that deployed at the touch of a button for a parapalegic rider. That's some slick engineering.

As for Harley bashing, it's not the bike, really it's not. It's the mentality of so many Harley riders. And I'm not talking about the true 1%ers. They move in their own circles. No, I mean the RUBs with their trailer-it-all-but-50-miles-to-Daytona mentality. With the image of being 1%ers. It's (again, speaking in generalities) the attitude of so many Harley riders that they ride the only real motorcycle.

Being from the performance branch of the motorcycle tree (and having fell out of said tree a few times) I naturally gravitate to the sporting side of motorcycling, not the cruising side.

Hell, I've riden a Harley (borrowed) to Bodega Bay and then to the Redwood forest. Had a great time. Once I adapted to the pace, I quit grinding the footboards. OK, almost quit. Anyway, it was a lot of fun. But was I wishing for my CBR929RR on those lovely California roads? You bet.

I wave at all bikes, Harleys included. I'll stop for anyone on two wheels on the side of the road. Most people are decent when you get to know them. Even Harley riders.

 

[Clark Kent]

CK, good point on the trike. I did not consider handicapped individuals when I cracked wise about trikes.
I saw a a report about a Suzuki sport bike with pneumatic stilts that deployed at the touch of a button for a parapalegic rider. That's some slick engineering.

Red, Your going to get a kick out of this. My dad had a friend who was about 85 and my dad was 84. Dad rode a trike and his friend has a Goldwing with retract wheels in the side bags.

When you took off the training wheels retracted automatically when you hit 15 mph. Then when you came to a stop you just hit the button and the wheels came down.

Problem was my dads friend would forget to hit the button. Dad said he would coast up to a red light and just fall over, all in slow motion. My dad said it would have been a riot if his friend didn't keep scratching his bike. He didn't seem to hurt himself. Sooo if you can remember to put the wheels down it's great. If not your in trouble. My dad said he never had to remember shit, except where he was and when to go to the bathroom! Hope I live long enough to give a trike a try. After I'm 80 years old!

As I said, I agree with you. He who rides a trike in good health is a sissy.

I have a tee shirt that says, "Trailering a bike is a mental desease!"

I ride 900 miles to Sturgis every year. I wish it were further. We stay in Gillette, Wyo. so we can ride 100 miles to Sturgis every morning and 100 back to Gillette every nite. That's the most fun. Riding with all the other bikes. In that 100 miles my wife counted 2,500 bikes on the road with us. (she was bored)!

You all be good now! :innocent:

CK :super1:

 

[SkooterG]

Good story CK. Hope I am on some type of cycle at 80+. Those that are, no matter what type, they are the truly hard core and deserving of my respect.

But......Gillette, WY? Yikes! I was there once! Never again. Not the prettiest place in the world.

 

[Clark Kent]

But Gillette is in WYOMING!

And Wyoming IS what America used to be!

CK :super1:

 

[SkooterG]

But Gillette is in WYOMING! 
And Wyoming IS what America used to be!

CK :super1:

Hey, I lived in Wyoming for 3 1/2 years. Another garden spot - Rock Springs. Surely not the worst place in the U.S., but surely not the best either, if you get my drift. Still, from my one day in Gillette, with all the damned oil wells everywhere, it made Rock Springs look like paradise.

Wyoming was very interesting. Couldn't wait to get the hell out, but still look back with fond memories. A state geographically bigger than most with a total population of around 450,000. Biggest city, Cheyenne or Casper around 50,000. Someday in the not too distant future, I may be headed back since it will be one of the last places to follow the way of the "rat race". Talk about vast, vast, open distances.

A few months ago, during the LOE1000 rally, I travelled up I-25 from Colorado to Casper. It had been 10 years since I travelled that stretch of road. I had forgotten how completely desolate it is. Hard to keep the speed down on the FJR as on that stretch of road, 75mph seems like a snails pace. Or at least it did until I came over a rise at ummm, uhhhh, elevated velocity and met the Wyoming trooper. A nice fellow he was. The second I had the opportunity to speak with in my few hours back in the state of Wyoming. They get bored there, and just can't wait to find someone to talk to, if you know what I mean.

F***ing cold (I saw -88 wind chill when I lived there) and isolated, but glad there are still places like that around. Still, nice place to visit, but wouldn't necessarily want to live there. But then, an old friend, says when he gets to be in charge where he works, has got a good job waiting for me.

Hmmm.......

 

[GunMD]

I'm glad I started this thread. I'm glad I chose to include the word "bashing" in the title.

Snowmonkey, you never cease to amaze me with your angle on things.

 

[Clark Kent]

Skooter, You were wrong about only one thing in your report on Wyoming.

Rock Springs IS the worst place on earh! That's a fact. That or Green River.

(Only thing green in green river IS the river! :haha:

CK :super1: