i love knuckleheads, one of the best looking engines ever, quality might not be the best
in the description it says 36 knuckleheads were 1340 cc's, there was never an 80 cube knuckle (1340 cc) there was one 61 cubes (939) and 74 cubes (1200)
not sure if it was covered in previous comments (im not gonna look), i just wanted to point that out (obsesive compulsive disorder can be a bitch sometimes hahaha
Jack i knew if i posted enough comments sooner or later i would find an honest man. The knucklehead in it's day was good bike.Who knew that starting about 1970
that Harley would stop selling well engineered bikes and start selling sex in it's place and drive all the other great bikes out of the market place. I should have known that sex is number one in the sales market. They have convinced every gray haired old coot and every pimple faced teenager that they will never get laid without a Harley
@MrJimmy1437 Exactly, they tried (and succeeded) at cashing in on the oldschool biker image, and for awhile it was actually true. Now even the true "biker dude" image is gone from them, with silly dealerships in every strip of highway that runs through the burbs in which half of the store is goddamn clothing. Performance may not be the point of cruiser bikes, but even their sportsters will get absolutely manhandled by jap/euro bikes for less money.
@2220Blues Harley sound, Harley sound What bullshit. I even heard that a fool, at Harley, wanted to patent it. How dumb. Any v-twin four cycle with a 45 degree angle between the cyclinders is going to sound the same. It's impossible to sound any different. An Old Indian had 60 degrees and was different, a ducati 90 different again. I never read anywhere that, the one potato, two potato sound made Harley any faster or handle any better
@MrJimmy1437 In fairness at the time the bike in the video was made Harleys were serious motorcycles, now they're mostly clumsy barges that sell nostalgia and a bunch of tacky merchandise to middle aged guys with phallic insecurity at a premium price.
@JACKtheRIPP3R189 I knew that if i posted enough comments i would find an intelligent man. In about 1970 Harleycame up with the idea that it would be cheaper to sell sex than redesign a new bike. And it worked in spades. But those of us who loved performance lost out. Because the japs started copying that old 1940 stuff. I wonder if Ford should start building the Model T again?
@MrJimmy1437 Don't get me wrong, i like classic bikes but they shouldn't be the only thing in the lineup. Triumph makes cool remakes like the bonneville and the thruxton, but also makes great street bikes like the street triple and daytona 675. Harley's are simply too heavy, too slow, and handle too poorly to be taken seriously as anything other than image pieces. As for sex or performance, i went for both and bought a Ducati 1198sp, now the HD riders can't even say i can't afford a harley ahaha
@JACKtheRIPP3R189 Harley is in a catch-22 situation. Years ago when they could have made modern bikes, the davidsons, were cheap scotchman and would not spend the money. Now they have the money and the engineers but their customers are such
idiots they will not let them. Everytime harley has talked about something new, the fool customers say no. give us that old junk that goes boom, boom!
Old bikes and restored bikes are fun. What i object to is the reason a great many people ride. They ride for one reason and one only " to draw attention to themself"
If it takes the loudest pipes in the world, so be it, even if it annoys everybody in town. I ride bikes for the speed, agility, and the thrill. I could care less if anybody see's me. I have road for hours through the hills and saw nobody. there was not one bimbo on that rock ledge
@2220Blues More Harley bullshit. Harley has a soul. Give me a break, It's an old design, invented by a bunch of cheap scotsman. No sane person wants a bike that needs constant care. All those shitboxes are really good for is to attract attention to the rider. If i could get the California exhaust noise law enacted in all 50 states, Harleys would dissappear from the nation highways like leaves in a windstorm
@MrJimmy1437 I own a harley and I also agree with you. They are loud and they do need constant care but so do most motor vehicles. It's like owning an old truck, at some point it isn't worth getting it fixed. Just go and buy a new one. My next bike of coarse won't be another harley. I've owned two and that is one too many! live and learn...
I started riding in 1963. I've had about 25 bikes since then. I'm 66 now and ride a Harley Fat Boy, which I think will be my last bike. I love it. But I've loved every bike I've owned.
I own a few vintage bikes, one being a CB 750 but I really can't stand when other people who ride Japanese bikes rip on people who buy American ones. Although I like that my bike is low maintenance, I can totally understand how with a Harley you get to know your bike better and that's never a bad thing. So what if some Japanese bikes are faster, Harleys are a different riding style and everybody has different preferences. Ride what makes you happy!
@MrJimmy1437 The Honda 750 was designed by Harley= pure bullshit. That ranks right up there with that other
Harley rider barroom bullshit story that AMF ruined Harley. I have heard every story that HD riders can come up with to justify riding that expensive old 1940 design. From patriotism to better resale value. Just once, i would like to find an HD rider tell the truth and say i bought this because i don't have any personality and maybe this will help
@OLDSKOOL60813 You fuckin dumb ass pink primate piece of shit..If you wasn't at the motel filming your wife get gangbang by black guys so much you would realized that harley davidsons are crap.. We all know that Honda is better then harleys..
P.S. stop eating muskrat and stop fucking dogs you fat ass pink slob !
A BIKES A BIKE NO MATTER WHAT MAKE IT IS, ITS ALL ABOUT BEING FREE TO ENJOY YOURSELF ON 2 WHEELS. NUFF SAID. i have owned truimphs, bsa, panther,suzuki, honda and yamaha, now i have 2 harleys, an 883 sportster and a 1340 chopper that easly stays with big superbikes, built myself, no rich fake wannabees here.
@wolfoutlaw1 Bullshit. Your 1340 stays with a super bike? I blew a new highly modified Harley into the weeds
in a drag race last week with my fjr 1300. A busa is even faster. Last road test a busa did 147 in the quarter! You would be in the top of an elm tree if you tried to stay with my FJR or A Busa!
@MrJimmy1437, yes been building and riding bikes and chops since 1970, my ass is fine, but i am sorry your full frontal lobotamy removed what little sanity you had left, YOUR JUST ANOTHER WEEKEND PLASTIC WARRIOR, oh, can you ride a trike, cos thats about all a baby like you can manage,as for continuing this tiff, i got another chop to build, bye.
@wolfoutlaw1 I would not brag about building choppers. Oh it make take mecanhical skills but the end result
is a showboating piece of shit so why bother? I have been riding and racing motorcycles since 1964. Also racing sprint cars, Gokarts and flying airplanes. I also worked for as a Harley mechanic for 25 years and Bmw and Norton. The people who build Busa's and gixers are the real bike builders, not a bunch of thrown together parts like a chopper!
@wolfoutlaw1 Why bother to build a chopper anyway? You can't make me believe that you can build a bike that is as smooth, fast ,reliable in your garage as Honda. yamaha ect. can, with the finest engineers in the world, in billion dollar engineering depts. And their bikes cost less. The only reason on the planet to spend money and time building a chopper is draw attention to yourself. Look at me! look at me1 See what a bright boy am I.
All this arguing... I own an 04 sportster, it's my first 'big bike', it has never once let me down- just last weekend I did a 700 mile round trip with no problems and I plan to do the same trip in three weeks. I love it because of the sound, and the lines of the bike. I don't see why that's a bad thing- the sound itself necessarily means a loss in performance (energy loss, right?) and the lines of my bike make it less aerodynamic... So what? If don't require 180mph crouched forward, I'll happil
@MrJimmy1437 But you really seem to know way too much about motorcycles of all types, to be the old man yelling on YouTube about the choices, however thoughtless, of others. But you are cometely right about noise pollution, it's selfish, rude and annoying.
@MrJimmy1437 and 2, most "purists" base their bike options off feel, if it was always based on speed/agility, we would all ride the same bike right? I drive a 79 bonneville t140e because of growing up looking at it, dad got it in 80, I was born 81, so seeing it my whole life instilled meaning in me. So I have to believe that people who aren't concerned with image, base their options off whatever their bikes make them feel.
@MrJimmy1437 But come on man, if you're bright enough to express your opinion the way you have, you must be bright enough to catch a few flaws in your general logic, 1 All types of riders have destroyed the market, yuppies on their HD's coming from the city, heading to their weekend homes, and dumping their 30.000$ HD's in your county, to all the 105 pound females trash their crotch rockets because at a stop, the bike is too much weight.
@MrJimmy1437 You seem to be at least well though, able to collect your thoughts, and verbalize them. But man...you've been flaming HD riders since Dec of 09, it's now Mar of 11. But at least see the irony, one of your many complaints about HD is them staying in the past, and not moving on....and here you are, not moving on from this thread.
No one hates an object or machine as much s you guys UNLESS that object represents something that they are jealous of ! You keep telling us how wonderful your Jap bikes are but remember who kicked their ass in WWII and who built them back up !
@fez206 YOU GUYS KEEP DEFENDING THOSE OLD ANTIQUE HARLEYS .IT'S LIKE THIS VIDEO. WHAT IN HELL NORMAL PERSON SAY'S A MOTORCYCLE IS AN EXTENSION OF ONE'S PENIS
@fez206 It's not the machine, it's what it represents. Which is being ostentatious, showboating. Three years ago there was a busy bar, on the main road to the beach, lots of traffic by it. A big cement pad out front. The Hd riders loved it. It was their stage. It closed, tax troubles. When it closed a bunch of HD sold or cut back on riding.
@MrJimmy1437 I'm not into Harleys at all but let me ask you this: Which bike enthusiast doesn't enjoy admiration for his ride? I certainly do, and I have a Yamaha SR...
@MrJimmy1437 so then...enjoy and let others enjoy their bikes in their unique way. At the end of the day, we all love bikes...that's something that unites us.
imo riding is about losing yourself/the ego , not about boosting the ego.
@mezcal1111 I agree, enjoy your bike. But forgive me, i have a second hobby. I have been active with this Hobby since 1966. It consists of picking on or embarrasing Harley riders.. I have been quite at it good at it for a long time now. I will admit that it's tougher now that Harleys have become more reliable, in the old days when they broke down all the time it was more fun. The twenty-five years i worked as an Hd mechanic, i road Triumphs or Kawasaki's.
I have a simple question. What is the difference between cruising on a bike and riding slowly on one? Why do you have to spend thousands of dollars for a so called cruiser instead of just closing the throttle on a good bike?
@stormercody Those chink-mobiles can kick any Harley's ass any day of the week! Harleys are better? In what way. Jap bikes are a lot faster, lighter, handle better, more reliable, cost less. What to hell yardstick do you use
to measure performance and value? Harley still doesn't have a bike as good as a 42 year old CB 750Honda.
@MrJimmy1437 Your gay for saying something like that, and reliable my ass. They suck and are made cheap. Harleys are quality made and doesnt sound like it has a weedwacker engine in it. Go to Japan if you love their zipperface stuff
@MrJimmy1437 oooh a bike built for racing against a chopper built for just riding. Hmmmm i do wonder which would win. Maybe the harley if you put build quality, reliability, and things like that into perspective.
@stormercody A chopper built for riding? Give me a break! Those shit boxes are bareley rideable across town.
On an fjr like mine, a rider last summer, road ten thousand miles in ten days. John Ryan on a bike identical to my 2005 fjr, road from the Artic circle to Key West Florida in four day and eight hrs. That's riding. Riding three miles between taverns isn't riding. Reliablity, Johns bike had 140,000 miles on it before he left Prudoe Bay!
@stormercody I should have been more clear. Johm ryan left Prudoe Bay , the oil field head quarters, with a FJR 1300 Yamaha that had one hundred fourty thousand miles on it and four days and eight hours later was at the far end of Key West Florida. Try that on a shit box Harley chopper sometime. The first day you would be puking all over your tattoos or hanging yourself with your chain drive wallet
@stormercody Who give a shit what something sounds like? Your not buying a saxiphone. When you buy a car, do you have the salesman rev it up while you lay down by the tail pipe and listen? When my weedwacker engine blows by one of those
@MrJimmy1437 Wouldn't want my harley to sound like jap crap. And if i was buying an american car with decent performance(over atleast 350 hp) shouldn't sound like crap. Only jap cars do
@stormercody Well, spring is just around the corner. Time for Harley riders to swing into action. Let's see, wash do-rag, get a new tattoo, take baffles out of straight pipes, get rid of 12inch apes put on 16's,. polish #12jodpurs, raise forward controls up nearer the handle bars, take liner out of two dollar piss pot helmet, make a commitment to ride 1200 mile this year instead of 800 like last year. Practice my snear when a 180 mph jap bike parks next to me
@stormercody a bike can be light, fast and handle great without being a racer. What is a Harley or a copy of one for? They are heavy, underpowered, can't be ridden fast because you can go fast through corners with your feet
on forward pegs, sitting on your tailbone, hands up high, controls awkward to use. What are they for? They cost twice as much. Bike design made great strides in the 1970's and then hit a wall. Now they are going for a stone age design.
@MrJimmy1437 Really. Are you the Pope of motorcycle riding? I respect anybody that rides, and whatever they ride. I have several chops that I have built, some with forward controls and some with mids. Some with foot clutches, and some with sport bike engines. It doesn't matter what you ride as long as you love it. ANd hell if you love it customize it.
@lgimse No I'm not the Pope. I just object to people building a bike to attract attention to themself's! Loud pipe ,paint ect. Those damn Harley riders think a bike is a God damn stage and the rider an actor. That uniform they wear is enough to make me puke! Do-Rag-piss pot helmet-chain drive wallet-engineer boots-gynocolagist
riding postion-pipes loud enough to wake the dead. The new exhaust label law should stop some of the noise.
There is lots of anti-harley posted here and rightfully so. But you have to keep in mind the vid is of a great bike back in the day. Saddly performance hasn't greatly improved. The v-rod is an example of harley trying too hard and not appealing to either loyalist or newbies. Myself I have owned 2 harleys, 2 yamahas, 1 suzuki and a kawasaki and I loved them all in there own unique sort of ways.
I´m 45 now, have been riding bikes for at least 30 yrs, have ridden fast jap bikes on the circuit, big adventure BMW on trips to Africa and middle east, I own H.D. J from 1926 with sidecar and 1975 Shovel and CB from 1985 and others. My point is, I enjoy every one of these bikes, but use them for different purposes. If I need to travel abroad, I will take BMW and so on. There is a special feeling that I get on my 26 and nothing comes close to it and working on it is a privilege. Czech man.
@jbgoodner2 Your correct about engine sizes. But forty-four years on an old pan head. You must be either very
poor, very cheap, or very stupid. Those old Harleys are oil leaking, unreliable, viberating, ill handling, old clunkers. It would be cool to have one to put in shows but to drive any distance, try a new gold wing.
@MrJimmy1437 Sorry didn't mean offensive. Old bikes are fun for nostalgia reasons. however when you take a fast trip of 250-300 miles through mountain roads on a Sunday afternoon, you need a agile, modern bike under
poopoo2u People ride Harleys because they have taste? If i drove a ford model T to
work every morning would that mean i have taste? I do like your description about eighty mph around the edge of a frisbee because it implies great handling. I don't feel that i'm out in left field if i want a modern four cyclinder bike that i can ride at high speed to california and back. That means yamaha fjr 1300, Honda ST, kawasaki connie not some old overweight tank with, God forbid footboards.
I have a fjr1300 and a yamaha v-max. neither are boy racers. I sit up straight and go fast. I don't pretend to a road racer or a fucking Hells angel.. I am not trying to get laid or make a fucking fashion statement. Any v-twin if it comes from Harley or Japan is a piece of shit. It's an old design that dates back to the nineteen twenties. I don't care how you color it, there is only one reason to ride that old junk, is to get noticed. Twice the money for half the performance is stupid
@MrJimmy1437 I ride a Harley 1203 cc v twin and i can smoke anything 1100 and less sport or not just because its Harley doesn't mean it can't go fast for the leaks you can use better sealant, for the vibration have the flywheels balanced, for the ill handling swap out the shocks and forks
@gthcprinceofdarknss , . . .harley designed this thing to do one thing cruise but if you want a racer out of it then it doesnt take much like i said twisties, drag highway not only can i beat 'em but i can out run 'em mileage wise my little 1203 v twin gets 132hp at the wheel and is still road worthy on pump gas so just because you dont like it doesnt make it a bad bike
@gthcprinceofdarknss Your like all Harley riders. Full of shit. Unless your running nitro you couldn't beat my old
1975 Z1B. How would like to run my V-max or FJR? I have a young friend with a Yamaha FZ1 that could run you up an Elm tree the first time you came to a corner
@MrJimmy1437 well i'm not trying to say only Harley's are nice shit i own a 1971 honda CL 175, 2000 Suzuki Tl 1000s, 1994 Honda CBR 1000F and i'm looking to buy a CB750 just because someone likes something you dont doesnt make it wrong it just means you have different taste nothing wrong with that and honestly I do agree the older Vmax is a bad mamma jamma 135 hp stock so dont get me wrong i'm not trying to compete here i'm just saying if you dont like tomato soup dont eat it
@gthcprinceofdarknss Here is an other shitty Harley deal. HD riders come home from the drag strip bragging that Hd
won some races. What they don't say is that the crooked rules allow v-rods to run 2600 cc and big blocks 3,000 cc but jap bikes can only have 1600 cc. I would be real proud, if i could beat up somebody half my size.
@MrJimmy1437 wow,you are really full of crap arent you...I dont think you ride or know anyone who does for that matter..Go play xbox and get over yourself...
@MrDancer6696 Your the one who's full of crap. I have been riding for 46 years, worked in hd dealerships for twenty five. Have own at least twenty bikes, Have ridden, and raced bikes for at least 350,000 miles. I know the difference between showboating, windbag Hd riders and real riders
@gthcprinceofdarknss No matter how much money you pour into an HD, you can't make a silk purse out ogf a sows ear! Years ago Harley advertising bragged about Hd flat track wins but what they didn't say that the competition had to race with one arm tied behind their back. The Harley was allowed to 750cc and everybody else 500cc!
Truck dawg you are so full of shit it's unbelievable. Harley helped with the Kawasaki?
Thirty-eight years ago the z 900 set a record for a stock bike of 166 mile per hours. Thirty-eight years later Harley doesn't have a bike that fast or handles as good. By your site name i think you've given yourself away. It sounds like your one of those big mouth truck drivers with a belt buckle the size of a pie plate and IQ the size of a pea. do you believe that God and Harley are one and the same?
The guy in this film must be drinking his own bath water! A 1936 harley the best bike ever? An extension of one's penis? I thought a bike was to transport the human body from point A to point B
randylucky Let's see you bought a bike that was overpriced,not fast, doesn't handle'
expensive to repair, is overweight, and you are proud of it. What does this say about you? I know one thing it says. There are a whole bunch of nuts out there like you who came to motorcycle showrooms
for the last twenty years. The result of which is that i can't buy any of those wonderful standard jap bikes. They were, light, looked good and were FAST.
I love my new Harley! Overpriced! Smog equipment! Horsepower reduced! Gas useage increased! Weighs too much! Expensive to insure! Expensive to repair and replace parts! I LOVE MY HARLEY YAAAAHOOO!!
For all the Harley lovers there is a must read book out there. It's called the Milwaukee Marvel by Harry v Sucher. This is the only truthful book about Harley i have ever read.It is a litany of crookedness that spans years, mostly when old Walter was at the helm. Price fixing, blackmail, ect. We would have more old american brands today if not for outright fraud. Read about the Blackstone hotel caper that helped wipe out several brands
@MrJimmy1437 If you dont like Harley so be it I couldnt give half a damn less ride yer Jap bike and have fun .I choose Harley its MY choice .Oh and if it weren't for Harley Japan and Germany would way behind on their motorcycle program .Kawasaki can thank Harley for KZ models .Sure it was under AMF but thank God they stick to bowling balls now .Listen ride what you want I will ride what I want .You can believe the Bullshit if you want
1337 I wouldn't care what anybody rides if it had not, such a devistating effect on me!
But this belief that a v-twin was better than the standard motorcycle drove all my bikes out of production. By standard I mean four cylinder z1, 900 honda, 1100 yamaha. The only bike i have seen in last fifteen years that made me excited was
susuki gsx 1400 but do to the usual american ignorance you can't buy it here, look on the web it's in England. Power, handling, looks, reliablity
Now you start to make a good point. That... sucks. On ice.
What the fuck, if I lived in a country that blocked any bikes from selling for whatever reason, I'd move out immediately.
Just remembered that even the Harley XR1200X is "reserved for the european market", seriously what the crap. There's being traditional and then there's downright being an asshole. American market, I am disappoint.
1337 why don't you stop worrying about typos and address the issue at hand. Calling people douch bags. You don't know what to hell your talking about. i was a harley mechanic for twenty -five years. In the 1978-79 time frame the shit box harleys wouldn't even start brand new out of the crate. the fucking heads warped on the test stand at the factory. i had to rebuild thembefore i could sell them. Flawlesly for 60 years. BAH HUMBUG
@MrJimmy1437 "In the 1978-1979 time frame". That was the AMF era, right? Yeah, they were filled with shit in that time, I have to admit. What about all the other years? Some time ago I met a guy with a harley JE from 1925 still up and running...
Listen, harleys have their pros and their cons, what's the big deal? Everything does. If you don't like them, don't buy them. Why are you even watching harley-related videos? Just to spam comments about "boo hoo i don't like them they suck"? Grow up.
1337soldiahs Wow i struck a nerve! Yes i have a problem, because idiots like you,
twenty years ago, started voting with your pocket for that v-twin junk and drove all the great bikes off the showroom floor! As to my spelling, what does lear spell?
You only struck the "mildly annoyed" nerve at this point...
V-twin "junk"? Let's see a jap engine run almost flawlessy after 60 years of lifetime, then we'll talk again. Let's see a modern day jap rocket mantain a good market value after a year or two.
Don't get me wrong, though. American or Japanese, I don't care, as long as the bike as a nice appeal to me. What I don't like are pretentious little douchebags who spam comments on videos about stuff they don't like.
1337 If i ever meet an honest Harley rider, i will be in a state of shock! Tell the damn truth, you ride them old designed shit boxes, not because they do anything as good or better than other bikes but you think it makes you look cool or have some broad convinced that you are a real bad dude. The only reason you go through all the extra expence and trouble is to get laid!
I don't even have a harley. But I'd buy an old Panhead from the early 50's over any modern day bike. Why? Because fuck you, i fucking love choppers. What the rest of the world thinks is not my business.
What's the problem boy, are you angry because someone likes something you don't? Grow up. Or keep crying, I don't give a shit.
At least lear how to type using proper punctuation, dammit. You can't even reply properly to a comment. (hint: it's @ followed by the username)
aphasia 1972 I couldn't help but notice that all the bikes you mention are those old
archaic twins. What is the facination with these old twin designs? Inline fours are
smoother, easier to start, and size for size make double the horsepower. and more reliable? Isn't it time that pushrod engines went the way of the Stanley Steamer?
I see Harleys from the early 40's cruising around working like a charm, they're fucking immortal.
Harleys are not fast but have enough torque to carry pretty much everything without effort. You can ride one for hours without getting a sore ass or anything, they are comfy as a motorized armchair.
I don't give a shit about doing 300 kph in a matter of seconds. I want to have a fun ride with a motorcycle I like, without some douche bitching about how my bike sucks because he said so.
1337 this is not like those simpletons on Fox news. Somethings can"t be explained
in a ten second sound bite. If this site would give us more than 450 characters, i would have done iy all in one paragraph. Besides it's hard to explain or understand Harley riders. In 1985 j B
ranch dynoed two bikes. a new v-max and a superglide. The max made 119 hp to the rear wheel, the Harley 58. the max cost 5,300 and the hd 10,300. double the hp for half the money. explain why buy the hd?
lonny42 Oh i almost forgot, before you get all emotional about harley sound, it might
be helpful if you realized that it's impossible for it to make any other sound! Any v-twin engine that is a four stroke, with a fourty-five degree angle between the cylinders, on a common crank pin is going to sound the same. Some clown at Hd tried to patent the sound. I broke wind the other day and it was quite melodious, do suppose i could patent that.
lonny 42 As far as crotch rocket riders not being able to ride a harley, i say Bull. I worked for twenty five years as a hd mechanic. and had to test drive all kinds of harleys, but personally i always road something else Let see at the first dealer, i rode a Triumph, the second a kawasaki 900 z1, the third a 1100 yamaha special, the fourth
lonny 42 As far as Jap companies copying Harley, this is true, but it only proves two things. One that there is a fool born every minute, two if you copy a horse turd exactly, you will end up with a horse turd.
Tommy 42 Thirty years ago Harley realized they couldn't make a bike to compete, or were to cheap to. So somebody in the add dept came up with the idea of telling all future buyers that you are not a man unless you ride a Harley. Of course we want twice as much money, and you may get run over by a foreign bike. I used to laugh, when in the old days bike mags evaluated bikes they held everybody's feet to fire except harley. They wouldn't say,oil leaking, ill handling, viberating crap.
tommy 42 i guess i miss the point. Cycle mag used to be the best. When they evaluated bikes the crieteria, was, speed, handling, price, brakes, reliablity. agility. not sound or how good you might look on one. Your full of it. A harley that does
115 is a mans bike and a Busa that does 204 is for wimps? What a crock. I will admit you need to be strong or experienced to ride those overweight, ill handling cows. Did you ever see Kenny roberts riding a bike with footboards?
H4rleyhog The reason i'm so bitter is because of the general ignorance of the bike shopper that seem to start in the early 80's. These fools came in, demanding a bike that was a copy of my grandfathers 1940 Harley or a bike that just came in off the grande prix circuit. All the great looking, practical bikes were driven off the market by fools. THe triumph, the BSA, kawasaki z all gone. The only great bike i have seen in the modern era is the 1400gsx susuki and i can't buy one in the USA
H4rleyhog The reason i'm so bitter is because of the general ignorance of the bike shopper that seem to start in the early 80's. These fools came in, demanding a bike that was a copy of my grandfathers 1940 Harley or a bike that just came in off the grande prix circuit. All the great looking, practical bikes were driven off the market by fools. THe triumph, the BSA, kawasaki z all gone. The only great bike i have seen in the modern era is the 1400gsz susuki and i can't buy one in the USA
@MrJimmy1437 Well that's fair enough, I'm picking up a Triumph Bonneville in the next couple of weeks, love them! I think bikers over here are generally a lot more laid back and very down to earth and respect various bikes for their merits hence we still have lots of classics riding about in the UK! Hope you find one you're looking for!
h4leyhob I understand your sarcasm. You don't really care how many crotch rocket riders cream themselves. What the blowhard Harley show-boaters can't stand is,
when they are all puffed up like a Bull frog and showing off to some broad, a real biker on a rocket will come along and say, if your so good, come out on the road and we will see whose the best. That's when Harley riders put their tail between their legs and slip off into the sunset!
@MrJimmy1437 lol.....whatever, crotch rockets are for kids, plus they sound whiney. Harleys cruise, theyre just cooler. You wont find a better sounding bike than a harley, theyre a mans bike. Theyre sexy and bad. I find it so funny that all the jap bike companies copy their design too. Buy a harley, or buy a poor mans harley, a lap bike with a similar design.......lol.
@MrJimmy1437 Nah, I'll stick with my harley besides, crotch rocket riders cant ride a harley, theyre scared of them. I let a crotch rocket rider on mine, he almost dumped it, scared the shit out of him. You gotta be a man or a whole lot of woman to ride one. Anyone can ride a crotch rocket.
@lonny42 i like any kind of bikes doesnt matter where it comes from i used to have a sporty 1000 was fun,a suzuki intruder 1400 nice bike,VULCAN 1500 classic awesome bike and a yamaha XS 650 a perfect triumph clone and i must say all bikes where awesome surely harley is a harley but the japs with their cruiser specially from yamaha and kawasaki are on the same level like the new harleys.ducati nice too or the brits BSA ,triumph norton royal enfield or german old BMW from the 40 or 50 60" decade
h4rleyhog i am not sure why you are calling me names. I am sure there are a lot more accidents in the largest city in the world then there are in a rural community in new york. In my county the bikers who are gettting killed and maimed are harley riders who wear two dollar piss pots for helmets because they think it's cool. As to why i chose this site. Where else would you post a moment to insult ignorant , showboating Harley riders?
@MrJimmy1437 Exactly my point, why insult other bikers? You must come accross a different breed of Harley Rider... over here bikers are bikers. I ride with all bikers myself, I also have owned most bikes and have learnt to respect each model for it's pros and cons, I personally think if you met some of the bikers over here you'd have a different view...and the comment is not because I don't care about sports bike riders, it's because the speed is like a drug and it kills, lost friends to it!
i used to think that too, then i saw him at a motorcycle swap meet digging through a box of parts. He has full time mechanics on his payroll for sure, but he gets his hands dirty too.
What i dislike about harley riders are is there such phonies. They don't ride for transportation, or the love the outdoors. Poker runs=an excuse to parade, local bar=excuse to parade. loud pipes = get attention. i believe that Harley riders are people who as children were ignored by their parents and have to spend the rest of their lives trying to get noticed
@MrJimmy1437: oh, and people who ride shitty ricers don't do it so they can pretend they're professional superbike racers then huh?
people ride harleys over shitty jap bikes for the same reason some people would rather have a slow rolls royce over a porsche: because they have taste.
@PooPoo2U Some people hunt deer or fish. My hobby has been for years, making fun of Harleys and Harley riders. Way back in 79-80 i and a friend worked for an hd dealer as a mechanics. When riders came in the shop
complaining about the Harleys, we used to laugh and tell them, it served them right for riding that crap. Then we would show them our bikes. A pair of 900 kawasaki z. Those screaming fire engines. Of course not when the boss was around
h4rleyhog Interesting responce. It's ok except that you full of shit. In the last two years
we have had five fatalities in my county. All of them have been on Harleys. One fool tried to lay the hog over at speed and couldn't. He hit a telephone pole. Another was in a funeral parade at 30 mph and fell down with one of those two dollar pisspots on his head and splattered his brain all over the road. Most of the anamosity toward bikes comes from harley staight pipes, not somebody going fast.
@MrJimmy1437 You must live in a very small county!! I live in London a city if you haven't heard of it, in ~Europe! We have thousands every year, mainly due to cars pulling out of T junctions not seeing the biker, the second cause was speeding, most bikes involved range from sccoters to high powered sports bikes, out of all, sports bikes came top, due to excess speed! Now if you are such a big dick, why don't you post your own vids, and stop watching Harley vids and pretending to hate them.
Please don't start bragging about Harleys dirt track acomplishments. In 1924 Harley
bought the AMA that makes the rules. They have been twisting the rules for 80 years
so Harley could win. From the days when harley could run a 750 and everybody else
had to have a 500. Read the true history of Harley-Davidson and you will never find a bigger bunch of crooks in your life, Price fixing, taxes on other brands to give
them an advantage, ect. Walter davidson made Dilliger look like a choir boy
Davedrave jimmy 1437 if you are refering to me with the sactimonious bitch remark
i am not female. I have been riding and racing bikes for years. Won a lot, lost a few. Also sprint cars. The beautiful thing about racing sprint cars is that there are no phonies, the bullshit stops when you throw the car sidways in turn one. With Harley riders they stand and brag on the steps of the local bar, and showboat but never put their money where their mouth is
How come no comments about my latest note about the V-8 bike, if you can call it that. I find that everytime, I back a Showboater into a corner they seem to be at a loss for words. Perhaps because there is nothing to justify, spending twice the money for something that is slower, heavier, and awkward. Example Harley-Davidsons, V-8 bikes and other tanks.
Here is how stupid some of these so called bikers are. At several bike meets every
year a couple of clowns show up with these bikes with a big chevy v-8. And all the other fools are impressed. This over grown piece of dog doo couldn't beat a teenager on a yamaha fz 600. I would like to have a movie camera on one of these clowns when he lays it over at about 90 trying to catch an fz600 or a gs1000. He He. They would be picking chevy valve springs out of this blowhards posterior!
1337- Yep the fools keep coming in the show room demanding bigger and bigger bikes. not faster and faster. If brains were Dynamite these fools couldn't blow their nose. At a popular Bar on the main road these Harley rider stand around
and brag. I've got 105 inches, another i've got 110. To the uniformed they may have refering to their Phalus. However most nights, just at dusk a bunch of crotch rockets come by on one wheel doing 90. You can almost hear the wind come out of these harley riders.
@MrJimmy1437 Do you honestly think most people buy a Harley for speed? Honestly??People buy Harleys to cruise around on, If I want to go stupidly quick then I go to the track and use the track bikes, not speed around town like a stupid juvenile!! Most people that dislike bikers, dislike the dickheads on sports bikes doing stupid maneuvers and acting like twats, like wheelies at 90! Those are the idiots that end up on a morgue table, sometimes taking one or two people with them,Grow up Dick Head!
@h4rleyhog People buy "Hardleys" , take off the factory pipes, put on the loudest pipes they can find, then cruise around in the lowest gear possible while making as much noise as they can to attract attention to themselves.
The best bike I ever owned was a Ducati. When I got old I bought a loud, 96 inch Dyna and it proved to be a real a pig in the corners and a pig to stop. Sure it looked nice, bu it was the worst bike I ever owned. I eventually went back to basics and picked up a dirt cheap piece of crap Sportster and bumped it out to a 1250 and am having a lot more fun on it. Bikes are for riding, not posing.
I like harleys, but their engines are getting ridiculously big.
I mean, seriously? 1600 cubic fucking centimeters? The ones I like the most are the Sportster 1200 series (carb, not EFI), 90's Dynas with reasonable size engines, like the 1340, but I'd never, EVER buy a brand-new model.
Seriously, it's supposed to be a fucking motorcycle: lightweight and with a "just powerful enough" engine. Not an elephant-sized monster with a truck engine.
Goldfalcon i don't understand your comment. Were you making reference to my comments about noise? If you were, i stand by my remarks. i have heard Harleys
that were quiet because they had stock pipes. They bother nobody. However almost every clown that buys a harley rips the exaust off before he takes the bike home. It's not about power, it's about being noticed. If the government ever cracks
down, Harleys will be as extinct as dodo birds. Harley riders can't survive without an audience
I love motorcycles. I average about 8,000 miles a year, for the last 46 years but i'm
sick and tired of listening to loud Harleys going past my house 24-7 making enough
noise to wake the dead. How do these windbag-showoffs pass inspection? I thought there were laws on the books about noise polution? If these clowns piss off a biker, imagine how other people must feel?
rfs 12345 I couldn't agree with you more. Standard was the word mi was looking for.
I would love to see the standards brought back to this country. Not naked road racers
with ugly gas tanks. I look on English web sites and droll over that Susuki gsx 1400. Honda and Yamaha also build bikes like that but only for the rest of the world not the USA. I know americans rider for the most part are shallow and stupid, but, Japan give us another chance.
omg 1936 hardley do 100mph?? haha ya right the new ones can hardley do that. or maybe that shows how sorry the new hardleys truly are. haha loud, non handling, non braking, non accelerating, rough riding,oil leaking rattling piece of shit motorcycles.
I would like to say how proud i am of John Ryan. He road from Prudhoe bay Alaska
to the tip of Florida on an yamaha fjr1300 in 86.5 hrs. That's in under four days. I know of four Harley riders who were bragging of how they went from Burbank to Upsate ny in 14 days. Here is a statistic that Harley riders can stick where the sun doesn't shine. John's bike had 140,000 miles on it when he started the trip. This is what a good man can do on a great bike.
@MrJimmy1437 wow that's some serious riding. The best I managed was port lincoln to eucla (in Australia) in a day and that took 15 hours. That was easier though because I was chasing the sun the whole time. Once the sun goes down the roos come out and if you hit one of them you're fucked.
Thanks for the kind words drunckk. I would love to see Triumph build a bike that looks
just like a 1968 bonneville only with modern stuff like fuel injection, four valves per cyclinder. The bonnies there making today are too bulky looking and too heavy.
@MrJimmy1437 Modern Bonnies now have fuel injection. And weigh about the same as modern 1000cc superbikes...I have a Bonneville T100: take one out for a test-ride mate, you might like 'em!
Thank you jamn83. I rode my fjr1300 six hundred fifty miles over the three day mem
day weekend. I can ride the fj 250 miles before i have to get gas. i like that. I rode 120
miles to rochester ny without stopping and did the same thing on the return trip. No big deal. The iron butt guys would think this just a walk in the park. When I mention to some HD guys, this trip their jaws dropped as it was some big deal
p.s. i didn't even have a do-rag or a chain drive wallet.
drunckk A Harley rider with high bars and foward pegs is showing off, so is some clown laid down with full leathers. What to hell ever happened to bikes like the 1970.s , flat seat, normal medium bars and just using the bike for all around transportation. Not a stupid fashion statement.
They are all fun.
RideFreeTours 1 day ago
Harley's are the best. If they could make a street bike that doesn't look gay and sound terrible then I'd buy it. Harley and dacati
nimaxx38 3 weeks ago
Harleys are great when they run
trackend 4 months ago
My Honda wants to be a Harley.
sqweezel 4 months ago
i love knuckleheads, one of the best looking engines ever, quality might not be the best
in the description it says 36 knuckleheads were 1340 cc's, there was never an 80 cube knuckle (1340 cc) there was one 61 cubes (939) and 74 cubes (1200)
not sure if it was covered in previous comments (im not gonna look), i just wanted to point that out (obsesive compulsive disorder can be a bitch sometimes hahaha
TheWrectify 4 months ago
Awesome stuff
TAMPAHARLEYGROUP 4 months ago
Jack i knew if i posted enough comments sooner or later i would find an honest man. The knucklehead in it's day was good bike.Who knew that starting about 1970
that Harley would stop selling well engineered bikes and start selling sex in it's place and drive all the other great bikes out of the market place. I should have known that sex is number one in the sales market. They have convinced every gray haired old coot and every pimple faced teenager that they will never get laid without a Harley
MrJimmy1437 5 months ago
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MrJimmy1437 5 months ago
@MrJimmy1437 Exactly, they tried (and succeeded) at cashing in on the oldschool biker image, and for awhile it was actually true. Now even the true "biker dude" image is gone from them, with silly dealerships in every strip of highway that runs through the burbs in which half of the store is goddamn clothing. Performance may not be the point of cruiser bikes, but even their sportsters will get absolutely manhandled by jap/euro bikes for less money.
JACKtheRIPP3R189 5 months ago
@2220Blues Harley sound, Harley sound What bullshit. I even heard that a fool, at Harley, wanted to patent it. How dumb. Any v-twin four cycle with a 45 degree angle between the cyclinders is going to sound the same. It's impossible to sound any different. An Old Indian had 60 degrees and was different, a ducati 90 different again. I never read anywhere that, the one potato, two potato sound made Harley any faster or handle any better
MrJimmy1437 5 months ago
@MrJimmy1437 In fairness at the time the bike in the video was made Harleys were serious motorcycles, now they're mostly clumsy barges that sell nostalgia and a bunch of tacky merchandise to middle aged guys with phallic insecurity at a premium price.
JACKtheRIPP3R189 5 months ago 3
@JACKtheRIPP3R189 I knew that if i posted enough comments i would find an intelligent man. In about 1970 Harleycame up with the idea that it would be cheaper to sell sex than redesign a new bike. And it worked in spades. But those of us who loved performance lost out. Because the japs started copying that old 1940 stuff. I wonder if Ford should start building the Model T again?
MrJimmy1437 5 months ago
@MrJimmy1437 Don't get me wrong, i like classic bikes but they shouldn't be the only thing in the lineup. Triumph makes cool remakes like the bonneville and the thruxton, but also makes great street bikes like the street triple and daytona 675. Harley's are simply too heavy, too slow, and handle too poorly to be taken seriously as anything other than image pieces. As for sex or performance, i went for both and bought a Ducati 1198sp, now the HD riders can't even say i can't afford a harley ahaha
JACKtheRIPP3R189 5 months ago
@JACKtheRIPP3R189 Harley is in a catch-22 situation. Years ago when they could have made modern bikes, the davidsons, were cheap scotchman and would not spend the money. Now they have the money and the engineers but their customers are such
idiots they will not let them. Everytime harley has talked about something new, the fool customers say no. give us that old junk that goes boom, boom!
MrJimmy1437 1 month ago
Old bikes and restored bikes are fun. What i object to is the reason a great many people ride. They ride for one reason and one only " to draw attention to themself"
If it takes the loudest pipes in the world, so be it, even if it annoys everybody in town. I ride bikes for the speed, agility, and the thrill. I could care less if anybody see's me. I have road for hours through the hills and saw nobody. there was not one bimbo on that rock ledge
MrJimmy1437 5 months ago
@2220Blues More Harley bullshit. Harley has a soul. Give me a break, It's an old design, invented by a bunch of cheap scotsman. No sane person wants a bike that needs constant care. All those shitboxes are really good for is to attract attention to the rider. If i could get the California exhaust noise law enacted in all 50 states, Harleys would dissappear from the nation highways like leaves in a windstorm
MrJimmy1437 5 months ago
@MrJimmy1437 I own a harley and I also agree with you. They are loud and they do need constant care but so do most motor vehicles. It's like owning an old truck, at some point it isn't worth getting it fixed. Just go and buy a new one. My next bike of coarse won't be another harley. I've owned two and that is one too many! live and learn...
darrylsh 5 months ago
Cool Video
TAMPAHARLEYGROUP 6 months ago
I started riding in 1963. I've had about 25 bikes since then. I'm 66 now and ride a Harley Fat Boy, which I think will be my last bike. I love it. But I've loved every bike I've owned.
borge225 6 months ago
I own a few vintage bikes, one being a CB 750 but I really can't stand when other people who ride Japanese bikes rip on people who buy American ones. Although I like that my bike is low maintenance, I can totally understand how with a Harley you get to know your bike better and that's never a bad thing. So what if some Japanese bikes are faster, Harleys are a different riding style and everybody has different preferences. Ride what makes you happy!
8kmedia 6 months ago
so how come the knucklehead costs so much compared to other bikes
packofwolves93 6 months ago
I stopped the video when that women started to preach about god
MrBent22 6 months ago
where does that chick get her weed
shadowfax1221 6 months ago
what do you taste when you ride a hardley?
i taste bugs... i taste bugs in this God given country...
XBlackPropagandaX 7 months ago
Vespa beats Harley Davidson... Yes
Vespa = Alout of Fun
Harley Davidson = Me To.
killercrx91 7 months ago
MrJimmy1437 ,clearly a jap lover and a disgrace to the USA.
wolfoutlaw1 7 months ago
No matter what you do to a ricer its still a ricer.My choice is Harley .
OLDSKOOL60813 7 months ago
@OLDSKOOL60813 A ricer as you call it will still kick your ass. There is more fine engineering in a 1969 honda cb 750 than any Harley built today
MrJimmy1437 7 months ago
@MrJimmy1437 The Honda 750 was designed by Harley= pure bullshit. That ranks right up there with that other
Harley rider barroom bullshit story that AMF ruined Harley. I have heard every story that HD riders can come up with to justify riding that expensive old 1940 design. From patriotism to better resale value. Just once, i would like to find an HD rider tell the truth and say i bought this because i don't have any personality and maybe this will help
me get laid
MrJimmy1437 7 months ago
@OLDSKOOL60813 You fuckin dumb ass pink primate piece of shit..If you wasn't at the motel filming your wife get gangbang by black guys so much you would realized that harley davidsons are crap.. We all know that Honda is better then harleys..
P.S. stop eating muskrat and stop fucking dogs you fat ass pink slob !
HistoryHmoobGuy 5 months ago
@HistoryHmoobGuy I knew your mama she couldnt hunt worth a damn but she could roll overe and fetch pretty good.
OLDSKOOL60813 5 months ago
too bad Harley has turned to shit so much for "American built"
bigbradford69 7 months ago
A BIKES A BIKE NO MATTER WHAT MAKE IT IS, ITS ALL ABOUT BEING FREE TO ENJOY YOURSELF ON 2 WHEELS. NUFF SAID. i have owned truimphs, bsa, panther,suzuki, honda and yamaha, now i have 2 harleys, an 883 sportster and a 1340 chopper that easly stays with big superbikes, built myself, no rich fake wannabees here.
wolfoutlaw1 7 months ago
@wolfoutlaw1 Bullshit. Your 1340 stays with a super bike? I blew a new highly modified Harley into the weeds
in a drag race last week with my fjr 1300. A busa is even faster. Last road test a busa did 147 in the quarter! You would be in the top of an elm tree if you tried to stay with my FJR or A Busa!
MrJimmy1437 7 months ago
@MrJimmy1437 ,oooh get you goatfucker, your hard, as hard as a raw egg, get a life shit for brains,lol
wolfoutlaw1 7 months ago
@wolfoutlaw1 You swear real well. Do you do anything else? Can you ride a bike ? Have you ever won a race at the track asshole?
MrJimmy1437 7 months ago
@MrJimmy1437, yes been building and riding bikes and chops since 1970, my ass is fine, but i am sorry your full frontal lobotamy removed what little sanity you had left, YOUR JUST ANOTHER WEEKEND PLASTIC WARRIOR, oh, can you ride a trike, cos thats about all a baby like you can manage,as for continuing this tiff, i got another chop to build, bye.
wolfoutlaw1 7 months ago
@wolfoutlaw1 I would not brag about building choppers. Oh it make take mecanhical skills but the end result
is a showboating piece of shit so why bother? I have been riding and racing motorcycles since 1964. Also racing sprint cars, Gokarts and flying airplanes. I also worked for as a Harley mechanic for 25 years and Bmw and Norton. The people who build Busa's and gixers are the real bike builders, not a bunch of thrown together parts like a chopper!
MrJimmy1437 7 months ago
@MrJimmy1437 ,NOT WHEN I FABRICATE PARTS MYSELF,MY CHOPS ARE ROAD BIKES ,RIDDEN NOT HIDDEN, JUST WAKE UP.
wolfoutlaw1 7 months ago
@MrJimmy1437 ,NOT WHEN I FABRICATE PARTS MYSELF,MY CHOPS ARE ROAD BIKES ,RIDDEN NOT HIDDEN, JUST WAKE UP. LOOK WHO IS BRAGGING,PMSL.
wolfoutlaw1 7 months ago
@wolfoutlaw1 Why bother to build a chopper anyway? You can't make me believe that you can build a bike that is as smooth, fast ,reliable in your garage as Honda. yamaha ect. can, with the finest engineers in the world, in billion dollar engineering depts. And their bikes cost less. The only reason on the planet to spend money and time building a chopper is draw attention to yourself. Look at me! look at me1 See what a bright boy am I.
MrJimmy1437 7 months ago
All this arguing... I own an 04 sportster, it's my first 'big bike', it has never once let me down- just last weekend I did a 700 mile round trip with no problems and I plan to do the same trip in three weeks. I love it because of the sound, and the lines of the bike. I don't see why that's a bad thing- the sound itself necessarily means a loss in performance (energy loss, right?) and the lines of my bike make it less aerodynamic... So what? If don't require 180mph crouched forward, I'll happil
thorold 8 months ago 5
@thorold agreed. i rode my 883c from east tn to dc for the rolling thunder ride in 2004
yamahonkawazuki 8 months ago
Harley- Davidson is the most efficent method ever devised to convert gasoline into noise with none of the side effects of horsepower
MrJimmy1437 9 months ago
LoL only came in 10th, piece of shit.
i3ever 9 months ago
Harley's Best Fuck the Rest'.
firstwave2 10 months ago
@MrJimmy1437 But you really seem to know way too much about motorcycles of all types, to be the old man yelling on YouTube about the choices, however thoughtless, of others. But you are cometely right about noise pollution, it's selfish, rude and annoying.
Sevrethin 10 months ago
@MrJimmy1437 and 2, most "purists" base their bike options off feel, if it was always based on speed/agility, we would all ride the same bike right? I drive a 79 bonneville t140e because of growing up looking at it, dad got it in 80, I was born 81, so seeing it my whole life instilled meaning in me. So I have to believe that people who aren't concerned with image, base their options off whatever their bikes make them feel.
Sevrethin 10 months ago
@MrJimmy1437 But come on man, if you're bright enough to express your opinion the way you have, you must be bright enough to catch a few flaws in your general logic, 1 All types of riders have destroyed the market, yuppies on their HD's coming from the city, heading to their weekend homes, and dumping their 30.000$ HD's in your county, to all the 105 pound females trash their crotch rockets because at a stop, the bike is too much weight.
Sevrethin 10 months ago
@MrJimmy1437 You seem to be at least well though, able to collect your thoughts, and verbalize them. But man...you've been flaming HD riders since Dec of 09, it's now Mar of 11. But at least see the irony, one of your many complaints about HD is them staying in the past, and not moving on....and here you are, not moving on from this thread.
Sevrethin 10 months ago
No one hates an object or machine as much s you guys UNLESS that object represents something that they are jealous of ! You keep telling us how wonderful your Jap bikes are but remember who kicked their ass in WWII and who built them back up !
fez206 10 months ago
@fez206 YOU GUYS KEEP DEFENDING THOSE OLD ANTIQUE HARLEYS .IT'S LIKE THIS VIDEO. WHAT IN HELL NORMAL PERSON SAY'S A MOTORCYCLE IS AN EXTENSION OF ONE'S PENIS
MrJimmy1437 10 months ago
@fez206 It's not the machine, it's what it represents. Which is being ostentatious, showboating. Three years ago there was a busy bar, on the main road to the beach, lots of traffic by it. A big cement pad out front. The Hd riders loved it. It was their stage. It closed, tax troubles. When it closed a bunch of HD sold or cut back on riding.
No stage for the do-rag actors. Give me a break!
MrJimmy1437 9 months ago
@MrJimmy1437 I'm not into Harleys at all but let me ask you this: Which bike enthusiast doesn't enjoy admiration for his ride? I certainly do, and I have a Yamaha SR...
Live and let ride
mezcal1111 9 months ago
@mezcal1111 I don't care if my bike impresses anybody except me. If it handles like a Grand prix bike and excellerates like a rocket. It's for me
MrJimmy1437 9 months ago
@MrJimmy1437 so then...enjoy and let others enjoy their bikes in their unique way. At the end of the day, we all love bikes...that's something that unites us.
imo riding is about losing yourself/the ego , not about boosting the ego.
mezcal1111 9 months ago
@mezcal1111 I agree, enjoy your bike. But forgive me, i have a second hobby. I have been active with this Hobby since 1966. It consists of picking on or embarrasing Harley riders.. I have been quite at it good at it for a long time now. I will admit that it's tougher now that Harleys have become more reliable, in the old days when they broke down all the time it was more fun. The twenty-five years i worked as an Hd mechanic, i road Triumphs or Kawasaki's.
MrJimmy1437 9 months ago
@MrJimmy1437 if you put it that way....it almost makes sense :-)
mezcal1111 9 months ago
what the fuck does god taste like? xD
duprey0 10 months ago
I have a simple question. What is the difference between cruising on a bike and riding slowly on one? Why do you have to spend thousands of dollars for a so called cruiser instead of just closing the throttle on a good bike?
MrJimmy1437 10 months ago
typing mistake Mr. Impulsive. We dont need an bikes that run on rice so stop talking about "chink-mobiles".
stormercody 11 months ago
@stormercody Those chink-mobiles can kick any Harley's ass any day of the week! Harleys are better? In what way. Jap bikes are a lot faster, lighter, handle better, more reliable, cost less. What to hell yardstick do you use
to measure performance and value? Harley still doesn't have a bike as good as a 42 year old CB 750Honda.
MrJimmy1437 11 months ago
@MrJimmy1437 Your gay for saying something like that, and reliable my ass. They suck and are made cheap. Harleys are quality made and doesnt sound like it has a weedwacker engine in it. Go to Japan if you love their zipperface stuff
stormercody 11 months ago
@stormercody Listen idiot, back up your big mouth with facts. If you have a harley that will beat a BUsa. I would love to see it.
MrJimmy1437 11 months ago
@MrJimmy1437 oooh a bike built for racing against a chopper built for just riding. Hmmmm i do wonder which would win. Maybe the harley if you put build quality, reliability, and things like that into perspective.
stormercody 11 months ago
@stormercody A chopper built for riding? Give me a break! Those shit boxes are bareley rideable across town.
On an fjr like mine, a rider last summer, road ten thousand miles in ten days. John Ryan on a bike identical to my 2005 fjr, road from the Artic circle to Key West Florida in four day and eight hrs. That's riding. Riding three miles between taverns isn't riding. Reliablity, Johns bike had 140,000 miles on it before he left Prudoe Bay!
MrJimmy1437 11 months ago
@MrJimmy1437 How can you ride to the arctic circle without getting on a boat or plane
stormercody 11 months ago
@stormercody I should have been more clear. Johm ryan left Prudoe Bay , the oil field head quarters, with a FJR 1300 Yamaha that had one hundred fourty thousand miles on it and four days and eight hours later was at the far end of Key West Florida. Try that on a shit box Harley chopper sometime. The first day you would be puking all over your tattoos or hanging yourself with your chain drive wallet
MrJimmy1437 11 months ago
@MrJimmy1437 Ill try that sometime
stormercody 11 months ago
@stormercody I like to see that on film
MrJimmy1437 11 months ago
@stormercody I would like a video of it
MrJimmy1437 11 months ago
@stormercody Who give a shit what something sounds like? Your not buying a saxiphone. When you buy a car, do you have the salesman rev it up while you lay down by the tail pipe and listen? When my weedwacker engine blows by one of those
Davidson water pumps it sounds just fine to me.
MrJimmy1437 11 months ago
@MrJimmy1437 Wouldn't want my harley to sound like jap crap. And if i was buying an american car with decent performance(over atleast 350 hp) shouldn't sound like crap. Only jap cars do
stormercody 11 months ago
@stormercody Well, spring is just around the corner. Time for Harley riders to swing into action. Let's see, wash do-rag, get a new tattoo, take baffles out of straight pipes, get rid of 12inch apes put on 16's,. polish #12jodpurs, raise forward controls up nearer the handle bars, take liner out of two dollar piss pot helmet, make a commitment to ride 1200 mile this year instead of 800 like last year. Practice my snear when a 180 mph jap bike parks next to me
MrJimmy1437 11 months ago
@MrJimmy1437 actually id cut the gas line or light the plastic on fire. I guess i could do both
stormercody 11 months ago
@stormercody cut the gas line. That's an idea. That would be the only way a Harley could ever beat a jap bike!
MrJimmy1437 10 months ago
@MrJimmy1437 May not beat it in racing, thats not what its built for. Wont beat it in quality
stormercody 10 months ago
@stormercody a bike can be light, fast and handle great without being a racer. What is a Harley or a copy of one for? They are heavy, underpowered, can't be ridden fast because you can go fast through corners with your feet
on forward pegs, sitting on your tailbone, hands up high, controls awkward to use. What are they for? They cost twice as much. Bike design made great strides in the 1970's and then hit a wall. Now they are going for a stone age design.
MrJimmy1437 10 months ago
@MrJimmy1437 Really. Are you the Pope of motorcycle riding? I respect anybody that rides, and whatever they ride. I have several chops that I have built, some with forward controls and some with mids. Some with foot clutches, and some with sport bike engines. It doesn't matter what you ride as long as you love it. ANd hell if you love it customize it.
lgimse 10 months ago
@lgimse No I'm not the Pope. I just object to people building a bike to attract attention to themself's! Loud pipe ,paint ect. Those damn Harley riders think a bike is a God damn stage and the rider an actor. That uniform they wear is enough to make me puke! Do-Rag-piss pot helmet-chain drive wallet-engineer boots-gynocolagist
riding postion-pipes loud enough to wake the dead. The new exhaust label law should stop some of the noise.
MrJimmy1437 10 months ago
@stormercody what are tthey built for?
MrJimmy1437 10 months ago
There is lots of anti-harley posted here and rightfully so. But you have to keep in mind the vid is of a great bike back in the day. Saddly performance hasn't greatly improved. The v-rod is an example of harley trying too hard and not appealing to either loyalist or newbies. Myself I have owned 2 harleys, 2 yamahas, 1 suzuki and a kawasaki and I loved them all in there own unique sort of ways.
darrylsh 1 year ago
I´m 45 now, have been riding bikes for at least 30 yrs, have ridden fast jap bikes on the circuit, big adventure BMW on trips to Africa and middle east, I own H.D. J from 1926 with sidecar and 1975 Shovel and CB from 1985 and others. My point is, I enjoy every one of these bikes, but use them for different purposes. If I need to travel abroad, I will take BMW and so on. There is a special feeling that I get on my 26 and nothing comes close to it and working on it is a privilege. Czech man.
44marjan 1 year ago
Knuckleheads were 1206 cc,not 1340. 74ci NOT 80ci ! I have ridden the SAME 1962 Duo- Glide for 44 Years ! 'NUFF SAID !!!!
jbgoodner2 1 year ago
@jbgoodner2 Your correct about engine sizes. But forty-four years on an old pan head. You must be either very
poor, very cheap, or very stupid. Those old Harleys are oil leaking, unreliable, viberating, ill handling, old clunkers. It would be cool to have one to put in shows but to drive any distance, try a new gold wing.
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
@MrJimmy1437 Sorry didn't mean offensive. Old bikes are fun for nostalgia reasons. however when you take a fast trip of 250-300 miles through mountain roads on a Sunday afternoon, you need a agile, modern bike under
you.
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
poopoo2u People ride Harleys because they have taste? If i drove a ford model T to
work every morning would that mean i have taste? I do like your description about eighty mph around the edge of a frisbee because it implies great handling. I don't feel that i'm out in left field if i want a modern four cyclinder bike that i can ride at high speed to california and back. That means yamaha fjr 1300, Honda ST, kawasaki connie not some old overweight tank with, God forbid footboards.
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
I have a fjr1300 and a yamaha v-max. neither are boy racers. I sit up straight and go fast. I don't pretend to a road racer or a fucking Hells angel.. I am not trying to get laid or make a fucking fashion statement. Any v-twin if it comes from Harley or Japan is a piece of shit. It's an old design that dates back to the nineteen twenties. I don't care how you color it, there is only one reason to ride that old junk, is to get noticed. Twice the money for half the performance is stupid
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
@MrJimmy1437 I ride a Harley 1203 cc v twin and i can smoke anything 1100 and less sport or not just because its Harley doesn't mean it can't go fast for the leaks you can use better sealant, for the vibration have the flywheels balanced, for the ill handling swap out the shocks and forks
gthcprinceofdarknss 1 year ago
@gthcprinceofdarknss , . . .harley designed this thing to do one thing cruise but if you want a racer out of it then it doesnt take much like i said twisties, drag highway not only can i beat 'em but i can out run 'em mileage wise my little 1203 v twin gets 132hp at the wheel and is still road worthy on pump gas so just because you dont like it doesnt make it a bad bike
gthcprinceofdarknss 1 year ago
@gthcprinceofdarknss Your like all Harley riders. Full of shit. Unless your running nitro you couldn't beat my old
1975 Z1B. How would like to run my V-max or FJR? I have a young friend with a Yamaha FZ1 that could run you up an Elm tree the first time you came to a corner
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
@MrJimmy1437 well i'm not trying to say only Harley's are nice shit i own a 1971 honda CL 175, 2000 Suzuki Tl 1000s, 1994 Honda CBR 1000F and i'm looking to buy a CB750 just because someone likes something you dont doesnt make it wrong it just means you have different taste nothing wrong with that and honestly I do agree the older Vmax is a bad mamma jamma 135 hp stock so dont get me wrong i'm not trying to compete here i'm just saying if you dont like tomato soup dont eat it
gthcprinceofdarknss 1 year ago
@MrJimmy1437 shut up and jet your asian crap outa here. Harley's are a million times better
stormercody 11 months ago
@stormercody What in hell does your remarks mean? Jet your asian crap? Can't you spell or are you just ignorant?
MrJimmy1437 11 months ago
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stormercody 11 months ago
@gthcprinceofdarknss Here is an other shitty Harley deal. HD riders come home from the drag strip bragging that Hd
won some races. What they don't say is that the crooked rules allow v-rods to run 2600 cc and big blocks 3,000 cc but jap bikes can only have 1600 cc. I would be real proud, if i could beat up somebody half my size.
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
@MrJimmy1437 wow,you are really full of crap arent you...I dont think you ride or know anyone who does for that matter..Go play xbox and get over yourself...
MrDancer6696 1 year ago
@MrDancer6696 Your the one who's full of crap. I have been riding for 46 years, worked in hd dealerships for twenty five. Have own at least twenty bikes, Have ridden, and raced bikes for at least 350,000 miles. I know the difference between showboating, windbag Hd riders and real riders
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
@gthcprinceofdarknss No matter how much money you pour into an HD, you can't make a silk purse out ogf a sows ear! Years ago Harley advertising bragged about Hd flat track wins but what they didn't say that the competition had to race with one arm tied behind their back. The Harley was allowed to 750cc and everybody else 500cc!
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
Truck dawg you are so full of shit it's unbelievable. Harley helped with the Kawasaki?
Thirty-eight years ago the z 900 set a record for a stock bike of 166 mile per hours. Thirty-eight years later Harley doesn't have a bike that fast or handles as good. By your site name i think you've given yourself away. It sounds like your one of those big mouth truck drivers with a belt buckle the size of a pie plate and IQ the size of a pea. do you believe that God and Harley are one and the same?
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
@MrJimmy1437: "thirty-eight years later harley doesn't have a bike that fast or handles as good"
Yea, and Cadillac didn't either and there's a reason for it: the FEDERAL cap on speed limits in America is 70 MILES PER HOUR.
Who gives two shits if you can do 80 miles an hour around the edge of a frisbee? Most of the roads are straight so all you'll do is end up crashing.
PooPoo2U 1 year ago
wow, amazing
agustripamungkas 1 year ago
The guy in this film must be drinking his own bath water! A 1936 harley the best bike ever? An extension of one's penis? I thought a bike was to transport the human body from point A to point B
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
great old footage.
spoddog1 1 year ago
randylucky Let's see you bought a bike that was overpriced,not fast, doesn't handle'
expensive to repair, is overweight, and you are proud of it. What does this say about you? I know one thing it says. There are a whole bunch of nuts out there like you who came to motorcycle showrooms
for the last twenty years. The result of which is that i can't buy any of those wonderful standard jap bikes. They were, light, looked good and were FAST.
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
I love my new Harley! Overpriced! Smog equipment! Horsepower reduced! Gas useage increased! Weighs too much! Expensive to insure! Expensive to repair and replace parts! I LOVE MY HARLEY YAAAAHOOO!!
randylucky 1 year ago
For all the Harley lovers there is a must read book out there. It's called the Milwaukee Marvel by Harry v Sucher. This is the only truthful book about Harley i have ever read.It is a litany of crookedness that spans years, mostly when old Walter was at the helm. Price fixing, blackmail, ect. We would have more old american brands today if not for outright fraud. Read about the Blackstone hotel caper that helped wipe out several brands
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
@MrJimmy1437 If you dont like Harley so be it I couldnt give half a damn less ride yer Jap bike and have fun .I choose Harley its MY choice .Oh and if it weren't for Harley Japan and Germany would way behind on their motorcycle program .Kawasaki can thank Harley for KZ models .Sure it was under AMF but thank God they stick to bowling balls now .Listen ride what you want I will ride what I want .You can believe the Bullshit if you want
truckdawg43 1 year ago
1337 I wouldn't care what anybody rides if it had not, such a devistating effect on me!
But this belief that a v-twin was better than the standard motorcycle drove all my bikes out of production. By standard I mean four cylinder z1, 900 honda, 1100 yamaha. The only bike i have seen in last fifteen years that made me excited was
susuki gsx 1400 but do to the usual american ignorance you can't buy it here, look on the web it's in England. Power, handling, looks, reliablity
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
@MrJimmy1437
Now you start to make a good point. That... sucks. On ice.
What the fuck, if I lived in a country that blocked any bikes from selling for whatever reason, I'd move out immediately.
Just remembered that even the Harley XR1200X is "reserved for the european market", seriously what the crap. There's being traditional and then there's downright being an asshole. American market, I am disappoint.
1337soldiahs 1 year ago
1337 why don't you stop worrying about typos and address the issue at hand. Calling people douch bags. You don't know what to hell your talking about. i was a harley mechanic for twenty -five years. In the 1978-79 time frame the shit box harleys wouldn't even start brand new out of the crate. the fucking heads warped on the test stand at the factory. i had to rebuild thembefore i could sell them. Flawlesly for 60 years. BAH HUMBUG
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
@MrJimmy1437 "In the 1978-1979 time frame". That was the AMF era, right? Yeah, they were filled with shit in that time, I have to admit. What about all the other years? Some time ago I met a guy with a harley JE from 1925 still up and running...
Listen, harleys have their pros and their cons, what's the big deal? Everything does. If you don't like them, don't buy them. Why are you even watching harley-related videos? Just to spam comments about "boo hoo i don't like them they suck"? Grow up.
1337soldiahs 1 year ago
1337soldiahs Wow i struck a nerve! Yes i have a problem, because idiots like you,
twenty years ago, started voting with your pocket for that v-twin junk and drove all the great bikes off the showroom floor! As to my spelling, what does lear spell?
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
@MrJimmy1437
You only struck the "mildly annoyed" nerve at this point...
V-twin "junk"? Let's see a jap engine run almost flawlessy after 60 years of lifetime, then we'll talk again. Let's see a modern day jap rocket mantain a good market value after a year or two.
Don't get me wrong, though. American or Japanese, I don't care, as long as the bike as a nice appeal to me. What I don't like are pretentious little douchebags who spam comments on videos about stuff they don't like.
1337soldiahs 1 year ago
@MrJimmy1437
Oh and... You spotted a typo. Big fucking deal.
An eight-grader would use a better punctuation than you, and you seem to press the "enter" key randomly at some points.
And... drove great bikes off the showroom floor? What do you mean? It's not like they don't have their own shops and showrooms or anything...
1337soldiahs 1 year ago
1337 If i ever meet an honest Harley rider, i will be in a state of shock! Tell the damn truth, you ride them old designed shit boxes, not because they do anything as good or better than other bikes but you think it makes you look cool or have some broad convinced that you are a real bad dude. The only reason you go through all the extra expence and trouble is to get laid!
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
@MrJimmy1437
I don't even have a harley. But I'd buy an old Panhead from the early 50's over any modern day bike. Why? Because fuck you, i fucking love choppers. What the rest of the world thinks is not my business.
What's the problem boy, are you angry because someone likes something you don't? Grow up. Or keep crying, I don't give a shit.
At least lear how to type using proper punctuation, dammit. You can't even reply properly to a comment. (hint: it's @ followed by the username)
1337soldiahs 1 year ago
aphasia 1972 I couldn't help but notice that all the bikes you mention are those old
archaic twins. What is the facination with these old twin designs? Inline fours are
smoother, easier to start, and size for size make double the horsepower. and more reliable? Isn't it time that pushrod engines went the way of the Stanley Steamer?
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
@MrJimmy1437
I see Harleys from the early 40's cruising around working like a charm, they're fucking immortal.
Harleys are not fast but have enough torque to carry pretty much everything without effort. You can ride one for hours without getting a sore ass or anything, they are comfy as a motorized armchair.
I don't give a shit about doing 300 kph in a matter of seconds. I want to have a fun ride with a motorcycle I like, without some douche bitching about how my bike sucks because he said so.
1337soldiahs 1 year ago
1337 this is not like those simpletons on Fox news. Somethings can"t be explained
in a ten second sound bite. If this site would give us more than 450 characters, i would have done iy all in one paragraph. Besides it's hard to explain or understand Harley riders. In 1985 j B
ranch dynoed two bikes. a new v-max and a superglide. The max made 119 hp to the rear wheel, the Harley 58. the max cost 5,300 and the hd 10,300. double the hp for half the money. explain why buy the hd?
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
lonny42 Oh i almost forgot, before you get all emotional about harley sound, it might
be helpful if you realized that it's impossible for it to make any other sound! Any v-twin engine that is a four stroke, with a fourty-five degree angle between the cylinders, on a common crank pin is going to sound the same. Some clown at Hd tried to patent the sound. I broke wind the other day and it was quite melodious, do suppose i could patent that.
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
@MrJimmy1437
You posted 5 damn comments in a row over a "i don't like your motorcycle" dispute. Calm down, jeez.
1337soldiahs 1 year ago
lonny 42 As far as crotch rocket riders not being able to ride a harley, i say Bull. I worked for twenty five years as a hd mechanic. and had to test drive all kinds of harleys, but personally i always road something else Let see at the first dealer, i rode a Triumph, the second a kawasaki 900 z1, the third a 1100 yamaha special, the fourth
a yamaha v-max.
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
lonny 42 As far as Jap companies copying Harley, this is true, but it only proves two things. One that there is a fool born every minute, two if you copy a horse turd exactly, you will end up with a horse turd.
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
Tommy 42 Thirty years ago Harley realized they couldn't make a bike to compete, or were to cheap to. So somebody in the add dept came up with the idea of telling all future buyers that you are not a man unless you ride a Harley. Of course we want twice as much money, and you may get run over by a foreign bike. I used to laugh, when in the old days bike mags evaluated bikes they held everybody's feet to fire except harley. They wouldn't say,oil leaking, ill handling, viberating crap.
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
tommy 42 i guess i miss the point. Cycle mag used to be the best. When they evaluated bikes the crieteria, was, speed, handling, price, brakes, reliablity. agility. not sound or how good you might look on one. Your full of it. A harley that does
115 is a mans bike and a Busa that does 204 is for wimps? What a crock. I will admit you need to be strong or experienced to ride those overweight, ill handling cows. Did you ever see Kenny roberts riding a bike with footboards?
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
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H4rleyhog The reason i'm so bitter is because of the general ignorance of the bike shopper that seem to start in the early 80's. These fools came in, demanding a bike that was a copy of my grandfathers 1940 Harley or a bike that just came in off the grande prix circuit. All the great looking, practical bikes were driven off the market by fools. THe triumph, the BSA, kawasaki z all gone. The only great bike i have seen in the modern era is the 1400gsx susuki and i can't buy one in the USA
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
H4rleyhog The reason i'm so bitter is because of the general ignorance of the bike shopper that seem to start in the early 80's. These fools came in, demanding a bike that was a copy of my grandfathers 1940 Harley or a bike that just came in off the grande prix circuit. All the great looking, practical bikes were driven off the market by fools. THe triumph, the BSA, kawasaki z all gone. The only great bike i have seen in the modern era is the 1400gsz susuki and i can't buy one in the USA
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
@MrJimmy1437 Well that's fair enough, I'm picking up a Triumph Bonneville in the next couple of weeks, love them! I think bikers over here are generally a lot more laid back and very down to earth and respect various bikes for their merits hence we still have lots of classics riding about in the UK! Hope you find one you're looking for!
h4rleyhog 1 year ago
h4leyhob I understand your sarcasm. You don't really care how many crotch rocket riders cream themselves. What the blowhard Harley show-boaters can't stand is,
when they are all puffed up like a Bull frog and showing off to some broad, a real biker on a rocket will come along and say, if your so good, come out on the road and we will see whose the best. That's when Harley riders put their tail between their legs and slip off into the sunset!
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
@MrJimmy1437 lol.....whatever, crotch rockets are for kids, plus they sound whiney. Harleys cruise, theyre just cooler. You wont find a better sounding bike than a harley, theyre a mans bike. Theyre sexy and bad. I find it so funny that all the jap bike companies copy their design too. Buy a harley, or buy a poor mans harley, a lap bike with a similar design.......lol.
lonny42 1 year ago
@MrJimmy1437 Nah, I'll stick with my harley besides, crotch rocket riders cant ride a harley, theyre scared of them. I let a crotch rocket rider on mine, he almost dumped it, scared the shit out of him. You gotta be a man or a whole lot of woman to ride one. Anyone can ride a crotch rocket.
lonny42 1 year ago
@lonny42 i like any kind of bikes doesnt matter where it comes from i used to have a sporty 1000 was fun,a suzuki intruder 1400 nice bike,VULCAN 1500 classic awesome bike and a yamaha XS 650 a perfect triumph clone and i must say all bikes where awesome surely harley is a harley but the japs with their cruiser specially from yamaha and kawasaki are on the same level like the new harleys.ducati nice too or the brits BSA ,triumph norton royal enfield or german old BMW from the 40 or 50 60" decade
aphasia1972 1 year ago
h4rleyhog i am not sure why you are calling me names. I am sure there are a lot more accidents in the largest city in the world then there are in a rural community in new york. In my county the bikers who are gettting killed and maimed are harley riders who wear two dollar piss pots for helmets because they think it's cool. As to why i chose this site. Where else would you post a moment to insult ignorant , showboating Harley riders?
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
@MrJimmy1437 Exactly my point, why insult other bikers? You must come accross a different breed of Harley Rider... over here bikers are bikers. I ride with all bikers myself, I also have owned most bikes and have learnt to respect each model for it's pros and cons, I personally think if you met some of the bikers over here you'd have a different view...and the comment is not because I don't care about sports bike riders, it's because the speed is like a drug and it kills, lost friends to it!
h4rleyhog 1 year ago
fucking Jay Leno..he just ordered his bikes all together..no connection between him and the machine.
he has them just to show off
red33m23 1 year ago
@red33m23
i used to think that too, then i saw him at a motorcycle swap meet digging through a box of parts. He has full time mechanics on his payroll for sure, but he gets his hands dirty too.
xwattupx 1 year ago
What i dislike about harley riders are is there such phonies. They don't ride for transportation, or the love the outdoors. Poker runs=an excuse to parade, local bar=excuse to parade. loud pipes = get attention. i believe that Harley riders are people who as children were ignored by their parents and have to spend the rest of their lives trying to get noticed
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
@MrJimmy1437: oh, and people who ride shitty ricers don't do it so they can pretend they're professional superbike racers then huh?
people ride harleys over shitty jap bikes for the same reason some people would rather have a slow rolls royce over a porsche: because they have taste.
PooPoo2U 1 year ago
@PooPoo2U Some people hunt deer or fish. My hobby has been for years, making fun of Harleys and Harley riders. Way back in 79-80 i and a friend worked for an hd dealer as a mechanics. When riders came in the shop
complaining about the Harleys, we used to laugh and tell them, it served them right for riding that crap. Then we would show them our bikes. A pair of 900 kawasaki z. Those screaming fire engines. Of course not when the boss was around
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
h4rleyhog Interesting responce. It's ok except that you full of shit. In the last two years
we have had five fatalities in my county. All of them have been on Harleys. One fool tried to lay the hog over at speed and couldn't. He hit a telephone pole. Another was in a funeral parade at 30 mph and fell down with one of those two dollar pisspots on his head and splattered his brain all over the road. Most of the anamosity toward bikes comes from harley staight pipes, not somebody going fast.
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
@MrJimmy1437 You must live in a very small county!! I live in London a city if you haven't heard of it, in ~Europe! We have thousands every year, mainly due to cars pulling out of T junctions not seeing the biker, the second cause was speeding, most bikes involved range from sccoters to high powered sports bikes, out of all, sports bikes came top, due to excess speed! Now if you are such a big dick, why don't you post your own vids, and stop watching Harley vids and pretending to hate them.
h4rleyhog 1 year ago
Please don't start bragging about Harleys dirt track acomplishments. In 1924 Harley
bought the AMA that makes the rules. They have been twisting the rules for 80 years
so Harley could win. From the days when harley could run a 750 and everybody else
had to have a 500. Read the true history of Harley-Davidson and you will never find a bigger bunch of crooks in your life, Price fixing, taxes on other brands to give
them an advantage, ect. Walter davidson made Dilliger look like a choir boy
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
look at those people using a harley for dirt track recreation, LOL
FullBloodedHmoob 1 year ago
Davedrave jimmy 1437 if you are refering to me with the sactimonious bitch remark
i am not female. I have been riding and racing bikes for years. Won a lot, lost a few. Also sprint cars. The beautiful thing about racing sprint cars is that there are no phonies, the bullshit stops when you throw the car sidways in turn one. With Harley riders they stand and brag on the steps of the local bar, and showboat but never put their money where their mouth is
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
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TheSHOVELHEADFREAK 1 year ago
sanctimonious bitch
davedrave 1 year ago
How come no comments about my latest note about the V-8 bike, if you can call it that. I find that everytime, I back a Showboater into a corner they seem to be at a loss for words. Perhaps because there is nothing to justify, spending twice the money for something that is slower, heavier, and awkward. Example Harley-Davidsons, V-8 bikes and other tanks.
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
Here is how stupid some of these so called bikers are. At several bike meets every
year a couple of clowns show up with these bikes with a big chevy v-8. And all the other fools are impressed. This over grown piece of dog doo couldn't beat a teenager on a yamaha fz 600. I would like to have a movie camera on one of these clowns when he lays it over at about 90 trying to catch an fz600 or a gs1000. He He. They would be picking chevy valve springs out of this blowhards posterior!
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
1337- Yep the fools keep coming in the show room demanding bigger and bigger bikes. not faster and faster. If brains were Dynamite these fools couldn't blow their nose. At a popular Bar on the main road these Harley rider stand around
and brag. I've got 105 inches, another i've got 110. To the uniformed they may have refering to their Phalus. However most nights, just at dusk a bunch of crotch rockets come by on one wheel doing 90. You can almost hear the wind come out of these harley riders.
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
@MrJimmy1437 Do you honestly think most people buy a Harley for speed? Honestly??People buy Harleys to cruise around on, If I want to go stupidly quick then I go to the track and use the track bikes, not speed around town like a stupid juvenile!! Most people that dislike bikers, dislike the dickheads on sports bikes doing stupid maneuvers and acting like twats, like wheelies at 90! Those are the idiots that end up on a morgue table, sometimes taking one or two people with them,Grow up Dick Head!
h4rleyhog 1 year ago
@h4rleyhog People buy "Hardleys" , take off the factory pipes, put on the loudest pipes they can find, then cruise around in the lowest gear possible while making as much noise as they can to attract attention to themselves.
CrudeDude 1 year ago
@CrudeDude You old dog, thought I'd catch you on here!!!! :)
h4rleyhog 1 year ago
The best bike I ever owned was a Ducati. When I got old I bought a loud, 96 inch Dyna and it proved to be a real a pig in the corners and a pig to stop. Sure it looked nice, bu it was the worst bike I ever owned. I eventually went back to basics and picked up a dirt cheap piece of crap Sportster and bumped it out to a 1250 and am having a lot more fun on it. Bikes are for riding, not posing.
louisvonbeethoven 1 year ago
@louisvonbeethoven
I like harleys, but their engines are getting ridiculously big.
I mean, seriously? 1600 cubic fucking centimeters? The ones I like the most are the Sportster 1200 series (carb, not EFI), 90's Dynas with reasonable size engines, like the 1340, but I'd never, EVER buy a brand-new model.
Seriously, it's supposed to be a fucking motorcycle: lightweight and with a "just powerful enough" engine. Not an elephant-sized monster with a truck engine.
1337soldiahs 1 year ago 2
Goldfalcon i don't understand your comment. Were you making reference to my comments about noise? If you were, i stand by my remarks. i have heard Harleys
that were quiet because they had stock pipes. They bother nobody. However almost every clown that buys a harley rips the exaust off before he takes the bike home. It's not about power, it's about being noticed. If the government ever cracks
down, Harleys will be as extinct as dodo birds. Harley riders can't survive without an audience
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
I love motorcycles. I average about 8,000 miles a year, for the last 46 years but i'm
sick and tired of listening to loud Harleys going past my house 24-7 making enough
noise to wake the dead. How do these windbag-showoffs pass inspection? I thought there were laws on the books about noise polution? If these clowns piss off a biker, imagine how other people must feel?
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
She sees the unblocked sights of this god-given country. Everybody else gets to hear the intrusive, annoying roar of her bike's engine.
That's some typical hypocrisy from a typical ignorant biker.
CommentClown 1 year ago
rfs 12345 I couldn't agree with you more. Standard was the word mi was looking for.
I would love to see the standards brought back to this country. Not naked road racers
with ugly gas tanks. I look on English web sites and droll over that Susuki gsx 1400. Honda and Yamaha also build bikes like that but only for the rest of the world not the USA. I know americans rider for the most part are shallow and stupid, but, Japan give us another chance.
Feet up by the handle bars and do-rag. no thanks
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
omg 1936 hardley do 100mph?? haha ya right the new ones can hardley do that. or maybe that shows how sorry the new hardleys truly are. haha loud, non handling, non braking, non accelerating, rough riding,oil leaking rattling piece of shit motorcycles.
rfs12345 1 year ago
@rfs12345 reason you watched the video?
4bucks08 1 year ago
@4bucks08 i just needed a laugh.
rfs12345 1 year ago
I would like to say how proud i am of John Ryan. He road from Prudhoe bay Alaska
to the tip of Florida on an yamaha fjr1300 in 86.5 hrs. That's in under four days. I know of four Harley riders who were bragging of how they went from Burbank to Upsate ny in 14 days. Here is a statistic that Harley riders can stick where the sun doesn't shine. John's bike had 140,000 miles on it when he started the trip. This is what a good man can do on a great bike.
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
@MrJimmy1437 wow that's some serious riding. The best I managed was port lincoln to eucla (in Australia) in a day and that took 15 hours. That was easier though because I was chasing the sun the whole time. Once the sun goes down the roos come out and if you hit one of them you're fucked.
syncstation 1 year ago
Thanks for the kind words drunckk. I would love to see Triumph build a bike that looks
just like a 1968 bonneville only with modern stuff like fuel injection, four valves per cyclinder. The bonnies there making today are too bulky looking and too heavy.
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
@MrJimmy1437 Modern Bonnies now have fuel injection. And weigh about the same as modern 1000cc superbikes...I have a Bonneville T100: take one out for a test-ride mate, you might like 'em!
;)
daveyshrike 1 year ago
Thank you jamn83. I rode my fjr1300 six hundred fifty miles over the three day mem
day weekend. I can ride the fj 250 miles before i have to get gas. i like that. I rode 120
miles to rochester ny without stopping and did the same thing on the return trip. No big deal. The iron butt guys would think this just a walk in the park. When I mention to some HD guys, this trip their jaws dropped as it was some big deal
p.s. i didn't even have a do-rag or a chain drive wallet.
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago
@ 5.50- "That's my harley!" Go die you yank bitch!
unstplmadman 1 year ago
Harley?! yeah ride a bike of 500 pounds with 70 horespower that's the stuff... Effin yanky wankers- ride japs, that's what REAL bikers do
unstplmadman 1 year ago
drunckk A Harley rider with high bars and foward pegs is showing off, so is some clown laid down with full leathers. What to hell ever happened to bikes like the 1970.s , flat seat, normal medium bars and just using the bike for all around transportation. Not a stupid fashion statement.
MrJimmy1437 1 year ago