Stereo systems are like Harleys
....and this is why you Don't want me to win a lottery..... https://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/a10022304/lotus-elise-hillclimb-car-uses-v8-formed-from-two... A 'street' version of this would be my first splurge... ;)) |
As a certified H-D technician of over 27 years and being raised around them I will agree to a certain extent that owning a Harley is like owning audio gear. The obsession part of it anyway. What I don't see is a guy go out and buy a McIntosh amp and all of a sudden think they're a tuff guy or pretend they have been into audio their whole lives after they bought their first stand alone DAC at 40yrs old. Those are the guys that go on poker runs and charity rides. Every one of those rides end up with accidents. I don't have to be there to know what happened, the bikes and the story's usually end up at my garage. @onhwy61 has it right. Image the nonsense I have had to put up with since fictional shows like OCC came out. It was a phenomenon that I like to call biker by checkbook. Their bike hasn't even left the showroom floor and they already got all the current t-shirts, leather accesories, do rags and boots. Looking like a kindergartener on their first day of school. It used to piss me off (mostly the ones with bigger check books than mine) now I just laugh while I get paid to install back rests and crash bars along with the other items in a pile of newly acquired accessories. @bdp24 you better be careful it's not 1975 anymore. Things have changed. I heard those "San Francisco bikers" like to ride them with no seats. |
@wolf_garcia Have been to Marcus Dairy quite a number of times on a Heritage Softail (carbureted). That's an old pleasant memory. Tried riding the '76 shovelhead rigid chopper up there one time...too much pain, seems I waited too long and tried to fool myself into thinkin' this will be fun! WTH its only 90 miles each way...yeah right. Still have both of them. BTW, going to Limerock for the IMSA race in July (if its not cancelled). @lostbears Yeah it's been ARC since early 70s, Corvettes since early 70s, My dad was a Harley fan so we had a bike or two around. Fun stuff. To the OP: yup rallies are one thing, biker parties are another thing altogether. Usually runnin' on the ragged edge of...well you know. |
There was a place in Illinois called the Highland House. It was up north on highway 41 by 22. Every Sunday bikers would come from near and far. You would wonder around and see all sorts of unusual bikes. It is long gone now. I use to go there in the late 1970's and early 80's. I miss those days, I still had my 65 pan. |
