Got this in a text the other day from another Honda rider (CBR 929).

"98% of Harleys ever sold are still on the road. The other 2% made it home."

Enjoy!

 

he he thanks

 

that's funny, except if you own one. I have been taught disdain for Harleys by my mentor of yesteryear who built my Norton to eat strokers. I also have these feelings for them and other american manufacturers who produce **** for decades and not only charge high prices for inferior products, but need taxpayer dollars on top of that to survive.

To be fair, english bikes weren't that great back in the day with their Lucas electrics, sticking pistons, and **** vibrating loose all the time(the most frequently used part of our tool kits was bailing wire, and that's no joke), but at least they got what they deserved in terms of becoming extinct. Fortunately triumph stepped up and got their **** together to the point that I wouldn't hesitate to get one if I was in the market for a new bike.

 

I dont hate harleys, i hate the people who ride them.

 

Truthfully now days Harleys build quality is just fine but their engineering r and r is pathetic. They found something profitable and they are going to milk it until dry and not develope the next American icon everyone want to have. There is no creativity over there. I think they fire anyone who want to think outside the box. If Harley made something I liked...

We were having this discussion on the SOHC forum and there are a few people who absolutely love them and where telling the "haters" as they called us, that we hate because we want one. Which isn't true I hate because there is nothing I like, that Harley makes, enough to ever buy. (Although the new xr comes pretty close). So for me the hate or frustration comes from only seeing our biggest American motorcycle company continue to build the same slow heavy machines they have been producing for the last 45 yrs.

 

The problem is that when they do (or rather, did) venture out to try to bring some semi-modern tech and thinking to their line-up (witness the V-Rod), their clientele doesn`t buy in. The problem, it's quite obvious, is not so much the engineers (I imagine most of them would LOVE to design something modern) but their client base.

Yep, I agree with alien, it is not so much the bikes I despise as the people who ride them (act as though they have just found God). My response: get a f***in' life loser.......

As for the label "hater" applied to someone who doesn`t care for Milwaukee`s garbage (or rather, is objective enough to see it for what it is), show up at a Harley gathering on anything but a Hog and see what kind of greeting you get. Tell me then who the real haters are........

 

I ride a harley for a living. I also own 4 motorcycles. Not one of them is a harley. That should tell you something.

 

lol, that sums it up nicely. Thanks for sharing

 

I can only think of a few jobs that you'd ride a Harley for a living. Harley test rider, Racer (straight line of course), or a Law Enforcement Officer.

The proof is in your pudding. You ride one, but don't own one. Must say something about them.

Has anyone seen the video that is making it's way around facebook about Harleys?

 

I owe a Harley as well as many other bikes. Harleys are fun. For all of you that hate Harley riders, I guess that I am on your list. I thought that cops were not supposed to profile.

 

Personally, I don`t hate all Harley riders, just the arrogant f***s who look down on me for riding something other than.... Unfortunately (for the decent Hog owners), the proportion of the latter seems abnormally high when compared to the level of snobbism I noticed in other brands (as all brands have their "wouldn`t be caught dead ridin' anything else" crowd)

 

Never said I disliked harley riders. I just dont think harley makes a good bike is all. In fact harley riders come up to me all the time "You ride a harley for a living. Man that must be a great job." Well it is but it would be better with a better bike. Can any one say Honda ST 1300.

 

They just hope that you remember them and won't write them a ticket. ***-kissers come in all forms.