teener owners, some just dont fit the image Options

[messix]

just met a biker [long hair, long beard, bandana wearin, skull and cross bones and all, total bike dude. so here i was eatting a burger out side jack in the crack and i seee this this red teener across the parking lot, so i drive over and this total steareo type biker is in it and we start talking teener stuff, turns out he just got it in april and loves driving the teener. maybe he is the look into the future since all the yuppies are riding harleys now. whats next, hells angles in 930 turbos? or [sick] in boxsters? (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/laugh.gif)

[dbledsoe]

QUOTE (black73 @ Aug 30 2005, 05:08 PM)

Seems like more geeks look like bikers these days and the bikers look like geeks. Most people I see on Harleys are middle age businessman types trying to look cool.

Yes, and it's disgusting.

I built my first Harley in 1977 from a blown-up WLA 45 cubic inch WWII engine I bought for $250. And that's all I started with, just the engine. Lots of research, scrounging, chasing down WWII surplus Harley parts, going to strange chopper shops, and a year and a half later I had a complete 45 cu. in. side valve, side shift Harley.

I rode that until 1986 when HD came out with the aluminum Evolution engine Sportster, and at a price I could afford. Back then few beyond hardcore bikers rode HD's. And if you were on an HD, any HD, other HD riders acknowledged you as part of the group, no matter what your occupation was or what you looked like.

Then the mid 1990's rolled around and all the baby boomer geeks decide to relive their fading youth by looking like "Badass Harley Bikers" on the weekend. Shit, now everywhere you turn there's these gray headed, gray bearded guys on Harleys with brand new black leather everything, wallet chains, bandannas, and all that shit. Few if any know the first thing about their bike in terms of maintenance, overhaul, or anything. If it breaks they call the dealer. To each their own, I suppose.

Don

75 914 w/Buick V6
76 914 2.0L w/broken valve (soon to get a Buick V6 too)
86 HD Sportster started life as an 883cc (55 CID) now sports a 1200cc (74 CID) w/S&S Super carb, Gordon Kately Cams, Sun aluminum rims, Buchanan SS Spokes (18" rear 21" front), Dyna ignition, and too much other shit to list... all work done by myself... FWIW