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This happened a few weeks ago:
I stopped for gas and there where a few Harleys there already and this old man was admiring the bikes. When he saw the Rocket he forgot about the Harleys and started to talk to me. You all know the questions:
-Do Triumph still produce motorcycles?
-How many cc did you say?
..and so on.
He then started to talk about his first Triumph and how his father also had one. I like those stories and he had a few nice memories to share of times long gone.
The HD riders didn’t like to be forgotten and started to compete about his attention with comments like “HD has always been the king of motorcycles since day one!” and “Nothing can compare with a Harley no matter how big it is!”
The old man ignored them and kept talking about old Triumphs.
Then someone said, “HD is the oldest manufacturer of bikes still producing!”
I corrected him and told him that the first Triumph was built 1902 and therefore was older. (OK, I know that the first all-Triumph with a Triumph engine was not build until 1905, but I somehow felt that there was no point in sharing that information).
This was taken for a joke and they all started to laugh at me who obviously didn’t know anything about motorcycles. A proof of that was that I had to buy a 2300cc bike only to impress on people that did not know anything about motorcycles either.
I did not get mad or anything, but I felt it was enough. I went inside and paid for the gas and both the old man and the idiots was gone when I got out again.
I have nothing against Harleys, I have had a –47 “warrior” and a –62 Panhead for many years, but I feel that the world don’t need another fat old man on a V-twin and there are to many idiots riding Harley already, so they can probably manage without me. Harleys do not impress me anymore and after meeting HD owners (I won’t call them “bikers”) like those, I can’t imagine that I would ever get a HD again.
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