As a guy who has mainly experience with Japanese bikes (late model zx6/cb650/sv1k/and my current hot rodded gl1100) and who has always sworn I would never buy a Harley... I've ridden a few Harleys (over 1k miles on a Road King, a couple thousand on a bone stock Sportster 1200, a hot rodded Sportster 1200 putting about…

Any car that has a remotely conservative/libertarian sticker is most likely from Sunderland. Gay rights are fair game everywhere, nobody in MA really seems to care about that anymore (thankfully.) Gun rights are a mix between South Hadley/Belchertown/Sunderland. Anything remotely left leaning, you've got an 80% chance…

I ride a 13 vrod muscle, participate in none of this, and rolled over 10k on the odometer in the first 14 months. DOES NOT APPLY ACROSS THE BOARD. Fuck.

The thing is. They don't just let everybody know they have a Harley by saying it.

So much this! Not only does all discussion revolve around only one brand of motorcycles, unnecessary revving, and pointlessly loud bikes, but the costumes involved are the ridiculous icing on the cake.

Most of the Harley people around here wear "relaxed fit" jeans and black tennis shoes alongside their Harley gear. Cuz wearing a leather Harley vest with your "casual Friday" garb says "badass Harley dude." Oh and, meanwhile, their wives dress like skanks with bad sunburns on their lumpy, pasty flesh. Jesus ladies try…

Hey, half the Prii I see on the road are passing ME going 75. Save the Earth, my a**.

My next door neighbor is an overweight slightly older than middle aged man with a late model GMC Sierra and a late model Dodge Charger. And his garage door and front yard are all decked out in Harley shit. Every fucking Saturday morning he pulls his bike out on the lawn (which he mows ever three damn days) and revs…

I have a little side business selling cars and bikes for people on eBay. HD owners are THE WORST. They buy a bike (usually the cheapest Sportster 800), spend $3000 in official HD accessories (bags, windshield, etc) put maybe 500 miles on it in 3-5 years, then want to sell it for the same price or more than they paid…

Pretty sure I've seen this exact car in Amherst, MA...and Northampton, Hadley, Belchertown, Sunderland...

Hybrid you know what owners want you to know all their political views now, now, now.

But man, they got the gear. Harley jackets, caps, window stickers, (probably fake) tattoos, etc.

I heard a great term for the incessant revving at a stoplight: "Throttle masturbation." Perfect description.

And they sit at stoplights revving it. I finally had to ask one why his bike was running so bad that he had to keep revving it to keep it from stalling and when he was going to take it in the shop to get it fixed.

/Thread This is the reason I will never own a cruiser bike because I would have to deal with HD owners.

"If I drive 42mph drafting a big rig, a/c off, and eat a light lunch, I can get 72.438mpg. Yes, it took me 3 hours to drive 110 miles, but hey, look how much fuel I saved."

Ferrari Owners, right Doug?

$50 says today's COTD comes from this article.

"Not that there is anything wrong with that."

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