Harley Davidson cult following
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Army
Comes under the heading of "natural selection"..
Even a light windbreaker can save you serious road rash...
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From: Fresno California
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From: NorCal
I road for about 10 years until I got married at 27. My wife didn't care much for bikes and I saw too many friends get seriously injured over the years. I'm lucky I wasn't one of them.
It's 100 times more dangerous now than it was back in the 70's and 80's.
I had a wife, 3 kids, and a mortgage by the time I was 35. There was no time or money left for a bike and by the time the money was available again the interest was gone and I'm still here to talk about it.
It's 100 times more dangerous now than it was back in the 70's and 80's.
I had a wife, 3 kids, and a mortgage by the time I was 35. There was no time or money left for a bike and by the time the money was available again the interest was gone and I'm still here to talk about it.
Then I found a woman with the same interests I have - the only woman I have ever met who likes mechanical things as much as I do! Makes life a lot easier and more pleasant.
Recent years have slowed me down a bit, what with taking care of my elderly parents - my Mom just passed two days ago at age 94 - and bouts with prostate cancer, bypass surgery, back problems/injections, and now skin cancer. Things are getting better and time is now more available.
I do find the thrill and the joy is still there. When I'm in the vettes or on the bike I still feel like I'm about 35 - which would be tough to do with kids who are 40 and 37!
In the immortal words of George Jones - " I ain't ready for the junk yard yet, cause I still feel like a new Corvette"!
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Racer
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From: Saint Paul Va.
even a young fellow might would have problems holding up that bike! 
the original seat is so high that unless you are extremely tall you have to support the bike with just the front part of your foot.(Sometimes only your toes!) newer bikes have seats that are much lower and allow the rider to be flat-footed.
the original seat is so high that unless you are extremely tall you have to support the bike with just the front part of your foot.(Sometimes only your toes!) newer bikes have seats that are much lower and allow the rider to be flat-footed.
Drifting
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From: Durham ON
Le Mans Master
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From: Oklahoma City Oklahoma
I think that the same young people that are not/no longer interested in new Harley-Davidsons have turned to something different, like restoring vintage Triumphs, Ducatis, Nortons and older Harley-Davidsons. Those are the same people that are not/no longer interested in the newer Corvettes. This may be the group that moves onto older Corvettes.
Ray
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Safety Car
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From: northern CA
Mike Regalia used to manage the Nethercut collection restorations. Unfortunately he had an ugly departure. The legal stuff can be found with a simple internet search. At any rate, I was at his house about 12 years ago and he was busy with his once Steve McQueen owned 1963 Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso in his garage/shop he built in his back yard. Once the restoration was finished, he sold it at auction and did very well. He hated to see it go, but it brought way more than he thought it would so that made it OK. Mike was a master at restoring cars, and the Nethercut collection proves it.
Seems politics rears its ugly head when something like this happens. Looks like Mike had been with the organization for quite some time. .
Yes, the Nethercutt collection was a real treat to see!
John
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Burning Brakes
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From: Lake Dale Indiana
I am the direct opposite. The 65 L78 takes up too much garage space and I have bikes outside under covers. I just picked up this gem 
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Burning Brakes
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From: Orlando Florida
driving
Of course it will, why have a vehicle that you actually have to work at driving and stay 'ahead of the curve' with and be part of the driving experience when pretty soon, you'll just be riding along in a self-driving car updating your Facebook status or watching Oprah -- because after all, isn't that the important thing ?
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From: NorCal
Burning Brakes
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From: crown point in
did you ever race one of those turbos in the late 70s or early 80s? a very hard bike to run in a 1/4 mile race, but unbelievable acceleration when road racing. if you had listed your location as Lake Dalecarlia instead of Lake Dale I would have realized how close you are. I stopped to view a couple Lake Dalecarlia homes this past Friday.
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Melting Slicks
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From: Penticton B.C. Canada
Riding my Superglide more than driving the Corvette this year. Out today and everyday. Been riding HD's for 30 years. Would like a decker but they just take up too much room ..... Don't tour much anymore anyway......
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From: In The Woods Northern AZ
Going back to the OP, I think we appreciate the products we admired growing up. In my case I loved the look of the first SWC I saw as a kid in the fall of '62. I wasn't alone as we can tell by their current value. Later got into bikes. 73 Kawi Z1 900 (way to fast), hard tail springer bored and stroked iron head (way to dangerous) and now a '86 GL1200 (just right) in mint condition I got it on the cheap cause everybody wanted HD,s. Point is when you admire something early in life you tend to hold them in high regard later in life. Man I wish I woulda bought all those early sixties Strats, Teles, and Les Pauls that were floatin around for $150 in the day! Maybe todays youngins are gonna be into vintage fidget spinners in the future. Or maybe the first Iphones. All in all us Boomers lived through some great times, cars, bikes, music, movies, you name it- lot of good stuff!
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From: Poway CA
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Going back to the OP, I think we appreciate the products we admired growing up. In my case I loved the look of the first SWC I saw as a kid in the fall of '62. I wasn't alone as we can tell by their current value. Later got into bikes. 73 Kawi Z1 900 (way to fast), hard tail springer bored and stroked iron head (way to dangerous) and now a '86 GL1200 (just right) in mint condition I got it on the cheap cause everybody wanted HD,s. Point is when you admire something early in life you tend to hold them in high regard later in life. Man I wish I woulda bought all those early sixties Strats, Teles, and Les Pauls that were floatin around for $150 in the day! Maybe todays youngins are gonna be into vintage fidget spinners in the future. Or maybe the first Iphones. All in all us Boomers lived through some great times, cars, bikes, music, movies, you name it- lot of good stuff!
Good point on the guitars. I have a 75 Les Paul that I bought in a pawn shop for $350 in the 80's. Not as valuable as the earlier ones, but probably worth $3500 now.
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From: Washington Michigan
Bikes
I had a long string of big street bikes in the 1970's (750 Honda, 750 water-cooled 2-stroke Suzuki, Norton Interstate, 900 Kawasaki, and finally got the BMW R90S I really wanted in 1977 or so. After a couple of years of watching my fellow bike-riding engineers get mowed down by inattentive car drivers, I figured I owed it to my family to stay alive and sold it and haven't been on a bike since - bad survival odds for bikers these days - much worse than the 70's.
Melting Slicks
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one of my best friends who owned a H/D store was killed and his wife badly hurt when someone turned left in front of them. my son came home from college and started a new job and said he was going to buy a street bike. we had rode and raced dirt bikes together for years so bikes were nothing new to us. I asked him were he was going to live because I did not want his mother staying awake all night till he made it home safe. he did not buy one. my first place 4 hour hare scrambles trophy
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