Hardley Fcukin movin son

[wully]

So we were in Glasgow this weekend. Pish weather anyway, that's my excuse for coming up the slip road from Breahead this morning in my van- heading west to home.

There they are, for about a quarter mile, in the middle lane,head lights blazing, tassels and un-fastened 'colours' fluttering in the breeze. Legs stretched out in front all they way to their highway pegs. Eyes out on stalks from their open faced helmets. Open pipes bellowing. Blocking the whole fcukin road...

Indicator on,I get fed up waiting for some dentist on his hog to open up a gap bigger than a dyna-low-sportster-low rider- bad ass-whatever. and barge accross to the outside lane and accelerate to a reckless 70 mph.

As I pass the line of leather clad peeps burbling along on some pretty good looking bikes, the only ones who look comfortable are on Sportsters or the full on touring armchairs. Doesn't look like fun for the pillions.

At the front are a bewildering collection of fluorescent jackets with 'Road Marshal' 'Road Leader' or 'Road something-or-other'

I wonder if they were going to Largs. Or maybe farther afield.

I just wished they were going somewhere a bit feckin faster or a bit more spread out.

Had the same thing a while back when I was on the bike- the twats were strung out over about a quarter mile with a bike length between them just north of Fort William and a long queue of cars stuck behind them. Doing all of 50 miles per hour..

I never held traffic up when I had a Harley- spent all day putting back on all the bits that shook loose and fell off so never got to go anywhere.
Nice to see HD quality control has improved

 

[Schtum]

And no better in their homeland.....

I got held up by three of the bloody things on the way North through Oregon, on two lane blacktop, last year. SWMBO and I were in a surprisingly sprightly Toyota RAV4. These guys were bimbling along at 55 - 60 mph and scraping the fishtails pipes and footboards as they went round corners. I harassed them for a while before I was able to find a long enough straight to get past and back up to my 80 mph cruise.

Unfortunately that seems like the way the whole bloody world is heading.....

 

[robmack]

On holiday last month Wully came across this fukin muppet
Ridin at 40mph with his stereo blaring out Bruce Springstein tunes.
Every time i tried to overtake him the prik speeded up
They actually all ride at 40mph, whit's the fukin point havin a bike?
posin cnuts

 

[Hebby]

I agree entirely wi Wully's sentiments. These knuts think their some kind o gods chosen people and seem to get off on annoying everyone. A group of 4 held me up just west o the Welly two years ago. When I eventually got passed, I slowed right down to 30 an kept the bastards behind me fur a good few miles. They were Not happy bunnies, or hogs or whatever. Used to have a Sportster that shook violently at anything over 60mph. Concluded that HD should issue a free sidecar to carry spares aboot wi you.

 

[arcboutant]

mmmm....................

'the twats were strung out over about a quarter mile with a bike length between them just north of Fort William and a long queue of cars stuck behind them. Doing all of 50 miles per hour..'

Reminds me of the run to Campbeltown middle of last year

 

[arcboutant]

'Concluded that HD should issue a free sidecar to carry spares aboot wi you. '

Lovelt balck yin beside St ondress herbor last summer. It had a matchin' colour coded chair. Whole outfit looked the package.
mmmm, yes ,think of it the chair was a bit heavy looking.
Took a customer hame the ither week. He has a 13.. summit yin an his wife has an 8 summit sporster wi' noisy can. He swore blind they were so reliable, Iasked how many miles his had done . It was aroon 12 years auld wi aboot the same mileage ,he had done 4 grand in the last twa years. Eat yer hert oot BMW

 

[AndyT]

I must admit and have said it before that Harleys are really nice bikes, loads of character, the reliabiklity is up there now and I find mine comfortable.

However...... and its a big however, as quite rightly stated all this "Road Leader" pish is ridiculous. There is too much "Look at me" with Harleys.
I was under the impression if you had a "Leader" it was classed as a procession and as such needed a Police escort.......

 

[wully]

I was under the impression if you had a "Leader" it was classed as a procession and as such needed a Police escort.......

Quite a few of the 'Road Captains' etc are coppers....or were.

 

[Lugs]

I bought a V-Rod 100th Anniversary in 2003. It was a truly beautiful bike and by far the best build quality I have seen on a bike.

Trouble was the other riders.

I went for one run. Huge. Miles. All the way to ........Largs!
its a long way at 40!!

Trouble was i was on my own. The HD guys wouldn't talk to me because I had a V-Rod. The normal bikers wouldn't talk to me because it was a HD. And the V-Rod owners wouldn't talk to me because I'm a Cnut!

I had it 3 fabulous years. Did 7000 fabulous miles on it. Then sold it to a guy doon sooth!

Still miss the bike, but the shop, the HDOG members, the Road Captain, the hog roast at the shop, the patronising fecker that owns the shop and all who sail in her..........can go take a flying feck!

Oh, and as far as them hogging the road.......I came across a very large group coming out of Crianlarich last year. Radios, side cars, trailers(!!!!?????) the works!

To say the MegaMoto made mincemeat out of them is an understatment. They were so not chuffed! Cocks!

 

[(RIP) Bobble]

10 years ago I had a 1450 Dyna Sport and loved it (until it was stolen) however I said that I wouldn't have another one as the image is now so , then over Christmas we went for a ride and ended up at Cross Gates cafe and there was a guy (not HOG) on a Dyna, 2 years old with about 75k miles on it, then I remembered that you do get some die hard real bikers still on them. Then we had a chuckle when two new 12GSA's turned up together each owner with all the Ewan and Charlie trimmings, we looked but couldn't see a camera crew

I'm starting to think 'same people - different brand'

 

[Mutley]

Oh, and as far as them hogging the road.......I came across a very large group coming out of Crianlarich last year. Radios, side cars, trailers(!!!!?????) the works!

To say the MegaMoto made mincemeat out of them is an understatment. They were so not chuffed! Cocks!

We do it just because we know it gets up your nose

As for not being chuffed by some dick head blasting through on a mega moto I'd hazard a guess that they all thought you were just as bg a cock as you thought they were

 

[David Nimrod]

Trouble was the other riders...

I've ridden Harleys on and off since 1989, and although some of them are built really badly, I've had some great times on what are genuinely soulful bikes... Including getting to Nordkapp and back in 1990 on a grossly overloaded Sport Glide that insisted on boiling its battery dry every day due to regulator failure. It just felt like more of an achievement than riding a K or Pan there somehow ;-)

However... the riders can be a different matter altogether!

I have never been able to take seriously the 'bad ass bro's'...

Or the mincing weekend warriors... polishing their chrome ;-)

And the Motor Company can be blamed (or not!) for milking the infinitely gullible HD riding public to the nth degree... Have you ever seen a HD Parts & Accessories book..?

Unbelievable...

 

[Twotter]

Quite a few of the 'Road Captains' etc are coppers....or were.

Their Editor looks suspiciously like Spanish Bob and the Ladies of Harley don't look quite how I remember from Easy Riders magazine

 

[(RIP) Kaister]

I've ridden Harleys on and off since 1989,

so thats what you do when the Cure aren't on tour

 

[Uinneag]

Just noticed the no. plate

Is that Milwakee Iron Bru

 

[Zundapp]

Same thing happened to me on the way to Largs last year. Stuck behind a long queue of slow moving ignorant biking bstrds on their BMW convoy run.

 

[David Nimrod]

so thats what you do when the Cure aren't on tour

Re. the hair...

1). It was windy.

2) I still had some

 

[Tartan Terror]

QUOTE]

Leo sayer!!! How the hell are you? Bet you didn't 'Feel like dancing' after that run!!

 

[David Nimrod]

QUOTE]

Leo sayer!!! How the hell are you? Bet you didn't 'Feel like dancing' after that run!!

It's funny, looking at that photo brings back mixed feelings; It was brilliant to have got to the Cape (especially with some of the bike problems we'd had), but also the girl I was traveling with and I had had such a row (there were lots of them) that it took a lot of the fun out of it... hence the pained expression ;-) When I got back to London from that trip the bike was stolen shortly after... I then bought a brand new K100LT from Sawbridgeworth BMW. A huge and costly mistake I seem to remember... It was just so bland after the Harley, but of course totally reliable... Anyway, I'm rambling again

 

[David Nimrod]

Re. the hair...

1). It was windy.

2) I still had some

And it was 1990!!!