(Shibumi @ Aug. 12 2007,04:49)
(JINKSTER @ Aug. 11 2007,12:06) Hardleys are a lot like hound dogs...
They both bark alot but don't have much bite.
They both hate to run but love to ride in the back of PU Trucks and?...
They take a leak where ever they go.
On another note?...90% of all harleys ever built are still out on the road...the other 10% actually made it home.
Even volvo beat them...as volvo finally discovered "The Curve" before HD discovered over-head cams.
L8R, Bill.
Did you post this in your shop for your "fellow" riders?!?
And did you ever put the rice trickle on the floor under their Mikuni carbs?
Well?..to be honest with ya?...i'm not certain if it was a...
A. a lack of intestinal fortitude on my part or?...
B. plain good walking around sense (not wanting to RISK esculating things to "over-the-top & outta hand" ) or?....
C. My...."Sense-Of-Compassion" * or?....
D. a combination of all of the above.
but no....i didn't do "The Rice Gig" as....
* ='s
Over the past week?...The fleet of HD's outside my shop has suffered the following in just the past week or so...
1. Was out of gas by shifts end...a deteriorated fuel line leak was the culprit..line dried, cracked split and leaked all the fuel out.
2. Was "Striped Out Linkage" of the oem forward controls...the shift side.
3. Was a dead battery and?...
4. Was a flat tire...picked up a nail...and i'm certain that the 300 series fat bob tire on the back didn't help.
and while i know it sounds suspicious?...especially since i just encountered the "spilled oil under my busa" routine?...i prefer to think of it as "Instant Karhma"...however i was the recipient of some sideways looks after a couple of those occassions.
But as far as the joking around goes?...it's pretty much non-freaking-stop....especially since i'm the vast minority of one (1) sportbiker in a shop full of about 30 hardcore HD folk...who all show up to work in their standard uniforms of jeans and an HD shop logo
from somewhere's else black t-shirt....i guess to prove they've been there?
Sorta remeniscent of my old rock-n-roll high school daze where they hadta get the t-shirt to prove they've been to the live concert!
Truth is?...they still always invite me to the rides and post work parties...and i show to the parties on occassion...ands while there's been many a heated debate (usually a 6pack and a puff or two into it? ).....it always end the same...peacefully...with me letting them know that's there's no more chance of them converting me than me converting them...and a few i've grown close friends with?...i offered them to test ride my busa..with the caution that if they do?..they'll be grinning from ear to ear at the end and trading in their HD's the next day...describing it like a cross between an amusement park ride and a jet fighter...sumpt'in you hafta buy tickets to ta ride!
Alas?...not a one has taken me up on my offer and while the hard core HD boys last great stand is to tell me how much of a chick magnet their HD's are?...i still view them as rolling scrap iron.
L8R, Bill.
