This is why I tell everyone that Columbus Day is actually rape and pillage day and should not be celebrated.

Accepting them and putting them on undeserved pedestals. If I knew what I knew now in elementary and middle school about history, I would have tore down many posters and ripped up many books.

It’s like Christopher Columbus — We never heard anything bad about him, much less that he was a serial rapist and murderer, by his own admission.

Oh? Do tell...

OMG. I don’t know what’s worse, Plummer’s uncharacteristically awful delivery or David Hasselhoff’s mere presence. Still, gobsmackingly rad.

Not surprised at all. Slavery is the red headed step child of American history that America, as a father acknowledges and dresses up for the guests of history, but otherwise leaves locked away chained in the basement because to face it would be to acknowledge this countries failings.

Occam’s Razor. The alibis are unnecessarily complicated. Robert is most likely guilty of at least some part of this death.

Yup! With bags off it’s also a pretty sweet track bike.

1. Why don’t you read what you just wrote? No awareness = no watch.

“...because no one fucking cares what he has to say.”

Republican train wreck into a garbage truck? That could be a headline after the midterms, maybe.

...edited! Nothing to see here. Of course, your response has solidified my error in permanent digital form. Thanks to Kinja, there’s no way to delete the record of incompetence, so certainly it will dog me for eternity. 

They chartered the train. You think that’s cheaper than flying coach?

That, or take the existing 500 and build a flat-tracker and a cafe racer based on that. A smaller bike inspired by the XG750R would be pretty cool. Something like this, but from the factory:

I have one... 5 seconds isn’t particularly fast for a bike.. but it will outrun pretty much all traffic up to 80mph.

I got my bike, below, with bags, for $10k out the door after some recent dealer incentives.

Exactly. $20,000 for a machine with pushrods? GTFO.

This death spiral is a long time coming though. HD has focused on its core brand and image to the detriment of future survival. I ride a Buell, so I have to venture into HD dealers for parts. I also grew up with a father who had a Fat Boy as well as his S2 Thunderbolt and spent many weekends at HOG meetings.

Anecdote is not data: Which generation thought dropping acid would solve the world’s problems?

Might’ve been me. “Demography is destiny” and this story is in its 3rd act: