They also owned the hill climbs too. A lot of the super modified dirtbikes that hill climb actuall use fuel injected 1200cc sportster motors for the amount of torque that they make compared to the dirtbike motors

 

BIGBADSCRAMBLER, I have to agree with BigBadScrambler on this point you forgot LEAKY and EXPENSIVE. So we would have a noisy, vibrating, unreliable, LEAKY EXPENSIVE piece of crap that looked good...
but hey, I would park it next to my AMF (leaky) Sporster.

 

And I want to apologize that I came across all wrong. My rant, unclear as it was, was directed against the "hells yuppies" themselves and the attitude they bring to bikes. They prefer Harleys, making them a prevailent percentage of harley riders in some areas. (Sadly, Denver is one of them)

Buying an image, I suppose. Gimme some credit, I never said anything about reliability issues. I'm aware that's of the past. I was about a hair from being a Harley rider myself. While in the Marines, I had a chance, while in Japan ironically, to buy a new harley at military discount, without any taxes. (Special thing they give military who are overseas). I was about ready to sign on a 1992 Daytona 75th Anniversary edition Softail, at about half what it would cost to buy from a dealer, delivered to my house in texas waiting for me to return.
I backed out because it would have strained my poor E3 budget too much. Shoulda bought it, though. That turned out to be a popular edition and worth quite a bit real fast.

 

Its all good man. Like I said. I dont care what you ride. All that matters to me is that you are out there riding. I am respectful to all riders of any type of bike. I wish that some others would carry that respect too (not directed towards you)[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img] That bike that you had a chance to buy is a real nice piece. My dad's friend has one. It is a sweet machine and a nice collectors piece. What do you ride anyway?

 

It would probably cost a fortune up front and a fortune to maintain. No thanks, I'll keep my Z!

 

I ride an 82 Suzuki GS650GL right now. A hobby of mine is to dig up a junkyard bound old bike and restore it to good rideable condition. This is the one I did last (number 4), and am getting ready to sell while I look for the next victim.
Saw a 74 GT750 that I am gonna try to talk the owner in to surrendering for my next. The old Water Buffalo is a rare bike nowadays, so I may keep that one.

 

Harleys DO rule the dirt tracks.Go to a flattrack race and see what the biggest part of the pro bikes are.They could build a quad but why would they want to? As for your coment about the wave hell I dont even wave at the Yuppie (new Harley )riders myself.Guess I am just aa old timer myself.

 

lol, i agree, but a harley would be awefully mean in a quad

 

So 100 years and still running strong doesn't prove anything? My dad runs a 1991 Harley Davidson Ultra-Classic Touring, with every possible chrome peice and more lights than I can count. It runs just as strong as anything I've ever seen if not better. Harley Davidson is an amazing american icon. Its not just a hobby its a lifestylye, its something that we americans can be proud of and if any of you jap-crap coffee can crotch rockets riders object, thats your own ignorant opinion and no one could give a rats a$$! (Sorry but I'm very proud of where I live and its annoying when someone ignorant thinks they can bash something they don't understand)

 

Good post, kid. You don't even have to be American to see the light. H/D have been building motorcycles since their Japanese buddies were carving their own guts out on their landlords orders. Americans were producing Harley Davidsons for ten years before Henry Ford's first model T appeared. How ever did it come to be that a few thousand dollars of ad money has a whole goddamned freaking generation of American youth calling Harleys some kind of primitive dinosaur machine (an outright lie) and championing Japanese machines as though they were the best thing since Christ pulled his nails? Did somebody put stupid water in all the reservoires? The U.S. TAUGHT Japan how to build a motorcycle. Look up RIKUO in a search engine. Have you guys gone completely nuts or has ad money addled your kids' brains worse than any drug yet named? Get a grip. ps. I'm Canadian.