Yup, the Rally/Rallyraid/Endurance set are definitely different monsters.....four wheels and two.

Yup, that amount of work you may as well LS the thing.

Turns out you are right, nearest I can find for last year 485K bikes of which 171k were Harleys a mere 35%.

No the ratio of squids to “normal” riders isn’t anywhere close to 1:1. Normal riders don’t make the news, squids either grow up, or blow up.

Feel free to disagree all you want.

Because our lawmakers are 30 years behind technology, most of them are so old that they can barely run a PC, much less keep laws current to what we are doing with tech.

Supposedly its coming.

I got one of those (chronological order)

Ironically the Harley riders that I have the least issues with are the 3 patch outlaw types. They are ACTUALLY motor heads. Its the weekend warrior Dentists dressing up for the weekend that generally throw the shade.

Exactly why I always give Harley riders hell. Something about 30 years of “you’ll get a Harley when you can afford one” when I have averaged three bikes in the garage for 20 years. Yeah, trust me asshole, if I wanted a Harley I would have one.

Heh that is some Harley shops, I’ve had them tell me “Sir Harley’s have chains” So I rode my 1976 FLH (Harley) down there just to scream at the morons and went to another place to buy the chain and put it on myself.

Pretty sure I did worse when I was 21 and stationed in Hawaii. My highest ever recorded performance award was on H2 under one of those radar signs.

Debatable, the best gear won’t help you in a major off, while it offers amazing abrasion resistance blunt force trauma will end you no matter what you are wearing. It all comes with certain drawback.

Speed doesn’t kill people, speed differentials do.

LOL a yellow plate as well, that thing can only be 660cc.

The average jury pool is full of people that aer not smart enough to get out of jury duty.

Meh. 350hp isn’t that hard to deal with in turbo applications. My GTR which is more or less stock put 325 at the wheels (single pull on a cold day) its within 100lbs of a RS...and nannys? You get ABS basically, the ALSD is a pretty primitive form or stability control, it’ll go in the direction that you point it, but…

You are right.

On ADV rider there were about three threads going that were nothing but Dakkar 24 hours a day. Its about the best way for Americans to keep up with the proceedings, rally-raid doesn’t get any airtime in the US.

Most of those guys are only wearing a neck brace, knee braces and gloves, at most a hard chest protector under it. If you watch Toby Price (this year’s winner) didn’t even wear the neck brace (doctor’s orders from a previous injury) Price was pretty much super human, Coma and Despres’s obvious heir.