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Nick 50
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PostPosted: 16:32 - 18 Aug 2014    Post subject: Harley rider living the biker life Reply with quote

Pic says it all.................

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Seen just over the border in Scotland. On the way back past quite a few dozen other cruisers (actually ridden) heavily laden. So guessing there is a rally up there soon.

I wonder if trailer guy and his wife will stay at some hotel some small distance away and then "Ride" the Harley up to the rally in his full "Cruiser" uniform.


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PostPosted: 17:26 - 18 Aug 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wotcha.

That artwork on the side is just asking for the trailer and contents to be stolen.

This bike on a trailer business . . . . .I have always loaded my camping gear on the bike and set off. No problem - just pile it on, swing a leg across the saddle and ride off into the sunset.

https://www.moonshiners.org.uk/images/08gg01loadedbullet.JPG

Now imagine what happens if you can no longer "swing a leg" over anything, let alone a fully laden bike. OK, so maybe the camping gear can be loaded into a trailer and that can be pulled by a trike.

https://www.lonewolf.me.uk/LWMEimages/TCT2002.jpg

. . . all well and good, but what if you want to ride a bike rather than a trike and still go camping ?

I am seriously thinking of fitting a tow bar to the car - the bike can go on the trailer and the camping gear can go in the car. I could use the trike to tow the bike trailer...............


https://www.lonewolf.me.uk/LWMEimages/ETZ-2-001.jpg

............ but the tent I have to use now ( can't kneel down to get in a conventional tent ) won't fit on the bike. . . or the trike for that matter.

So I may be as guilty as the Harley owner . . . but at least my trailer will not be in such bad taste Mr. Green

So far I've resisted the using of the car, but if it means I can ride my bike whilst away camping then it may be a "necessary evil".
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PostPosted: 17:34 - 18 Aug 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ugh. I swear Harley riders are a completely different breed of biker. I see some that clearly spend more time getting polished than ridden, and to me that says the rider cares more about image than the actual business of putting quality miles on the thing. If you're gonna tow your bike rather than ride it (assuming you're not on the way to a track day or something where you might bin it and need a ride home with the wreckage) then to me it defeats the purpose.

I'd rather have a bike with a bit of dirt under the fingernails and a decent amount of miles on the clock that I've put there in all weathers for both reasons (work and play) than an immaculate chrome substitute for masculinity that barely gets an extra few hundred on the clock per year. But then that's just me. Diff'rent strokes and all that jazz.
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PostPosted: 18:27 - 18 Aug 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe it's a "show bike". How many of these you see riding down the street?

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jO8u2-d0y3E/S6r5BIF1GqI/AAAAAAAAAmU/N4swJ8d2cTg/s1600/bike+show.jpg

Talk about judging a book by its cover...
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PostPosted: 20:44 - 18 Aug 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why are bikers so often pointing the finger at other bikers and telling them how they should be doing it?

Is it a human thing, a biker thing, an internet thing, a UK thing or...?


That said, cruisers in the UK are an abomination Smile


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PostPosted: 20:46 - 18 Aug 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

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That said, cruisers in the UK are an abomination Smile


They're even worse in the US, see above!!
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PostPosted: 21:38 - 18 Aug 2014    Post subject: Re: Harley rider living the biker life Reply with quote

Nick 50 wrote:


What if it's some rare model in showroom condition that's being taken to that show? Is it wrong then? Or perhaps it's someone selling Harley mugs and hats and shit like that. Could even be transporting Harley trailer domes for sale...

Just wondering, since there's no way for you to know what's actually in the trailer. Could be anything....

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PostPosted: 22:01 - 18 Aug 2014    Post subject: Re: Harley rider living the biker life Reply with quote

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What if it's some rare model in showroom condition that's being taken to that show? Is it wrong then? Or perhaps it's someone selling Harley mugs and hats and shit like that. Could even be transporting Harley trailer domes for sale...


Are you for real? Rolling Eyes he has a huge land/range rover (can never tell the difference) which you can see isn't loaded therefore there has to be a bike in the trailor..
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PostPosted: 22:06 - 18 Aug 2014    Post subject: Re: Harley rider living the biker life Reply with quote

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Are you for real? Rolling Eyes he has a huge land/range rover (can never tell the difference) which you can see isn't loaded therefore there has to be a bike in the trailor..


Ahh yes more of your random bullshit observation.
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PostPosted: 23:13 - 18 Aug 2014    Post subject: Re: Harley rider living the biker life Reply with quote

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Ahh yes more of your random bullshit observation.



N'aww, you mad Bro?

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PostPosted: 23:39 - 18 Aug 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yay,

Scaredycat trying to up his smugness quotient by the pretence of being morally superior.

Bet he is an agnostic as well.
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PostPosted: 08:04 - 19 Aug 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

That trailer must have cost as much as a bike!

I desperately want a tow bar on the cage, and get one of those little fold up bike trailers. So next time we cross county to stay with father-in-law in Newtown, I can unload the KTM upon arrival and actually enjoy my weekend Laughing .

I can handle a few hours in the saddle with breaks, but I don't think my arse would ever be the same again if I rode all the way there. + Wife would still have to cage it with the tyke and mutt, and its a fair way from the east coast.
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PostPosted: 09:08 - 19 Aug 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

temeluchus wrote:
Yay,

Scaredycat trying to up his smugness quotient by the pretence of being morally superior.

Bet he is an agnostic as well.


Harold shipman is morally superior to someone who sneaks around at night messing with the brakes on someone's bike.


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PostPosted: 09:13 - 19 Aug 2014    Post subject: Re: Harley rider living the biker life Reply with quote

ScaredyCat wrote:
Nick 50 wrote:


What if it's some rare model in showroom condition that's being taken to that show? Is it wrong then? Or perhaps it's someone selling Harley mugs and hats and shit like that. Could even be transporting Harley trailer domes for sale...

Just wondering, since there's no way for you to know what's actually in the trailer. Could be anything....


You can keep your kangaroo court, thanks.


Funny how I use the word "Wonder" and you use "Wondering", but there you are posing on your high horse Laughing

As you say, it might be a "rare model in showroom condition that's being taken to that show"......... but is that just as pretentious?

In my opinion, there are 2 types of rare bike collectors. The ones who do it for the love of a particular bike, maybe brand etc etc and do it to preserve a little bit of history.

Then there are the ones who do it to simply show off. The "Oh look at me and my super-duper pristine bike aren't I fucking great" type who travel round the country wanting huge plaudits for having such a shiny bike.

To be honest I think those type of posers are even worse.

You can keep your holy-than-thou moralistic bullshit, thanks.
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PostPosted: 09:24 - 19 Aug 2014    Post subject: Re: Harley rider living the biker life Reply with quote

Nick 50 wrote:

As you say, it might be a "rare model in showroom condition that's being taken to that show"......... but is that just as pretentious?


Have you been to car shows, or indeed any type show when metal shiny shiny is on display - certainly not unusual for stuff to be transported.

Perhaps you'd find this more to your liking:

What if he's delivering it to a customer, in the same way 1000's of bikes get delivered every day.. except this guy just does Harleys.

What if it's not registered in the UK, or road legal? 1000's of reason for it. Better?


Nick 50 wrote:

You can keep your holy-than-thou moralistic bullshit, thanks.


And you can keep your sanctimonious bullshit - should about make us evens then.
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PostPosted: 22:21 - 19 Aug 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Harold shipman is morally superior to someone who sneaks around at night messing with the brakes on someone's bike.


<Thread merge>


who's brakes did you mess with?
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PostPosted: 22:24 - 19 Aug 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Does it even matter. If it gives the owner enjoyment isn't that what motorcycling is all about?
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PostPosted: 22:39 - 19 Aug 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wafer_Thin_Ham wrote:
Does it even matter. If it gives the owner enjoyment isn't that what motorcycling is all about?


I thought the pleasure was from riding the thing, not carting it about in a cage towed by a motorised cage so it never sees a speck of dirt or much of the road. Seems pointless to me, but then I also dislike people who collect expensive rare guitars, never play them (often cos they can't) and sell them for $5,000 or way more than the $100 dollars they used to go for in the fifties.
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PostPosted: 09:19 - 20 Aug 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

rideslikeanob wrote:
Wafer_Thin_Ham wrote:
Does it even matter. If it gives the owner enjoyment isn't that what motorcycling is all about?


I thought the pleasure was from riding the thing, not carting it about in a cage towed by a motorised cage so it never sees a speck of dirt or much of the road. Seems pointless to me, but then I also dislike people who collect expensive rare guitars, never play them (often cos they can't) and sell them for $5,000 or way more than the $100 dollars they used to go for in the fifties.


You don't get enjoyment from it.....the owner may well do. Seems like slagging someone off for any other choice of lifestyle.

Also ignoring that we don't actually know what's in the there. I'd be prepared to bet the reaction would be somewhat different if he wheeled out a race R6 with a load of trophies from the weekend's racing.
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PostPosted: 12:13 - 20 Aug 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

If he's getting it out a mile from the destination and riding it in on the pretence he's ridden it the entire way, that'd be sad and pathetic. But just as harmless as it being for show & tell etc.

If it's the former I wouldn't want him as a friend. I wouldn't employ him. Someone that does stuff like that isn't right in the head. But so long as I'd have no need to have anything to do with such a person I could care less, other than to be amused.
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PostPosted: 17:45 - 20 Aug 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

CieL wrote:
Maybe it's a "show bike". How many of these you see riding down the street?
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jO8u2-d0y3E/S6r5BIF1GqI/AAAAAAAAAmU/N4swJ8d2cTg/s1600/bike+show.jpg
Talk about judging a book by its cover...

In my world.. more than you'd think. However... this was at a recent rally-show:-
https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/t1.0-9/10423261_839022702789315_1684388302400128576_n.jpg
Note the tow-bar on the back....
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Next to it in show was this:-
https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/t1.0-9/10513453_839022829455969_9035695767492549497_n.jpg
Which was retirived from the tent on sunday morning and parked a few tends down from ours to be loaded up by its owner to ride home.... it was worthy of a snap, but unfortunately it was hissing it down and I was too busy battling with bungees on my own account.... In a similar vein to lone-wolf....
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This bike on a trailer business . . . . .I have always loaded my camping gear on the bike and set off. No problem - just pile it on, swing a leg across the saddle and ride off into the sunset.
https://www.moonshiners.org.uk/images/08gg01loadedbullet.JPG

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Part of my 'Back-To-Basics-Biking' adventure, after delighting in the luxuary of system hard luggage.. I discovered making it hard for yourself can be part and parcel of the fun... though less so when bungees are being bastards! There isn't even a luggage rack on there! Had a pillion perched in amongst it all too Laughing
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PostPosted: 19:06 - 20 Aug 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

CieL wrote:
Maybe it's a "show bike". How many of these you see riding down the street?
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_jO8u2-d0y3E/S6r5BIF1GqI/AAAAAAAAAmU/N4swJ8d2cTg/s1600/bike+show.jpg

Thinking about it... like I said, in my world I do see a fair few 'Show-Bikes' like that one riding down the street... ironically.. I actually see very few in concourse 'shows'.. most are on the street at a meet, or down the local, where, they can be admired without being criticised. Ridden a few miles on a sunny evening or week-end, little different to other 'Life-Style-Accessory' bling-bikes.

A lot of bikes I see in shows, probably wouldn't get a second glance at a meet... they often aren't that jazzy; but judged on a wide range of criteria, of which paint and chrome are not so high scoring, but 'concept' fabrication, engineering; detailing and such, bikes that take rosettes often aren't much to look at.... unless you REALLY look at them.
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PostPosted: 21:45 - 20 Aug 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Teflon-Mike wrote:
A lot of bikes I see in shows, probably wouldn't get a second glance at a meet... they often aren't that jazzy; but judged on a wide range of criteria, of which paint and chrome are not so high scoring, but 'concept' fabrication, engineering; detailing and such, bikes that take rosettes often aren't much to look at.... unless you REALLY look at them.


Well to me that's the point... they don't always win the looks contest but they're bloody great fun to ride because of the thought that's gone in where it matters, like how it handles and how it feels when you ride it. This is actually true of some women from a chauvinist's point of view, too. Wink
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PostPosted: 00:12 - 21 Aug 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah thunder in the glens this weekend in and around Aviemore. Im not a harley fan but I've heard of sports bikes doing the same, take them up in the back of a van or trailer and get past all the boring motorways to enjoy the highlands.
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PostPosted: 00:30 - 21 Aug 2014    Post subject: Reply with quote

Teflon-Mike wrote:


Wotcha.

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