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On 2007-06-10 14:54, dazco wrote:
Funny thing is, i rarely ever see Harley bashing here. That is, HARLEY bashing. I see Harley RIDER bashing all the time tho ! Harleys are just fine. I don't happen to like their design, but thats just my taste, not because they're garbage or anything like that. They have their strong and weak points just like Triumphs. I just happen to like the Triumph's balance of strong to weak and where they each lie. The bashing that goes on is usually because of the rather inordinate amount of HD riders who many feel seem to have a superiority complex. I feel thats true, and it's not to say they are all like that. i just see it a lot and never really noticed it from any other riders. I have good friends who ride them and even they seem to feel they are superior. I feel my bike is superior, but i never say anything to them along those lines.
So i suggest we start referring to it as HD rider bashing. :wink:
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I've spent relatively little time on this board but I've looked at a lot of the posts and I've yet to see one instance of an HD rider coming to this board and posting anything about their bikes being superior. In fact I rarely see anything posted from an HD owner at all.
What you in fact have is the same thing that goes on as just about every other non-HD board I've ever seen: someone mentions the HD word and is is an immediate call for just about everyone and their dog to vent their spleen on their perceived view of HD motorcycles and riders.
Most of the time the poster is spewing recycled bs they learned from their friends, who probably learned it from another friend. It is relatively rare (in my experience at least) that the poster actually has any significant first hand experience with the bikes or the riders.
As to my own background I've owned 45 or so motorcycles in 38 years of riding. Four have been HD, three have been Triumph. I expect I will own at least one HD machine for the rest of my riding career, the same may very possibly be true for Triumph but is less certain because I don't know where they are going to go with product design.
Truth of the matter is I believe I have really valid reasons for owning an HD beyond looks and sound but would rarely share them because frankly it gets old having to listen to the braying of the bashers.
I don't come to a board, any board, and run down a bike. I've owned lots of bikes, all had their pros and cons. Some I liked, some I quite simply didn't like (often for reasons not at all related to function) . I would share that, but I would also be careful to point out that it doesn't matter much if I liked it because someone else is going to be in love with it, and that does matter.
So I very much appreciate what your webmaster has said here, well stated and timely.
[ This message was edited by: twinrider on 2007-06-10 19:21 ]
