You guys haven't lived until you try to sleep with your bedroom 30' from
the main street when the Harley open house happens here at the end of
Sept. each year. There are upwards of 5,000 Harleys in town and they
ride up and down 'til the wee hours bar hopping. I don't complain, just
wear ear plugs to bed that Friday night.
The Harley plant employs a lot of people and we almost lost them this
year to another location. Even so, they will be laying off half the
workforce. The open house also brings a lot of commerce to the area, so
being against a night or two of noisy motorcycles is stupid and selfish.
Charlie
York, PA
Tom Felts wrote:
> PS---I have on and ride occasionally myself.
>
>
> ---- "rrengineer @dslextreme.com" <rrengineer@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>
> =============
> Obviously, you gentlemen do not ride motorcycles, nor do you appreciate the
> fact of how a "quiet" motorcycle is quite invisible to most people in
> "cages" (cars to the 4 wheel vehicle types). I cannot tell you how many
> times I have been cut off in traffic by someone that simply does not "see"
> me when they take a left in front of me in oncoming traffic or a lane change
> in front of me. Before I changed the exhaust this happened all the time. I
> have cut the frequency of this occurance considerably by putting the louder
> pipes on my motorcycle. I have had people take a left turn while looking
> right at me, turn in front of my moving combined weight of 1000 pounds (only
> two brakes and two contact patches) because I don't register in their brain
> as a vehicle. I don't look like a car, so I must not be there. People in
> cars think that a motorcycle can stop on a dime. Little do they know. I
> have loud pipes for a better chance at survival. Of course, I like they way
> they sound too. What are you guys compensating for with your flashy sports
> cars? I don't really give a crap what you guys think of me or my
> motorcycle. I have been riding them as long as I have been driving Austin
> Healeys. (About 40 years) Even in an accident in your fifty year old car,
> you are safer than me on my exposed two wheel vehicle. I'll take any
> advantage I can get. People in glass houses...
> Mike MacLean
> 56 BN2
> 60 AN5
> 02 Heritage Springer (I'm safer in the first two, but it doesn't stop me
> from riding)
>
>
>
>
>> Tom Felts wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Yep---I call them a "rolling erection".
>>>
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>
>
>> I know bikers claim they are a "safety item" but to my way of thinking
>>
>>> they are simply an extra set of balls.
>>> Best--Michael Oritt
>>> --------------------------------------------
>>>
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