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Re: HELP ME...😱

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2022 5:50 pm
by Mr. Dazzle
As reasons go, there can't be very many better ones TBF.

Re: HELP ME...😱

Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2022 8:32 pm
by David
rodbargee wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 11:13 pm When Mrs rdbrgee and I went to the states a few years ago, I hired one from screaming Eagles in Cottonwood AZ. YES WE WERE ON HOLIDAY so riding gear was somewhat limited but The feeling that your feet were going to arrive first I found very un-nerving. it also displayed the feeling that it had a hinge before the tank very wobbly it had little to no lean angle, me shaving off copious amounts off the running boards, it was painfully slow and felt a little like I expect the rotivator must have driven like in the good life. we went up into the hills a place called Jerome where there were some bends The mrs was really uncomfortable on what passed as a seat and all the bends had to be carefully negotiated as though the road was an ice rink ( i was by this time worried I had shaved off so much foot board that I'd lose my deposit
here is the offending Bike and Mrs

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Image not often the youngest in town!! let this be a warning The "quid pro quo" for hiring the bike was that I had to ride a horse up monument valley! this really should put you off

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Agricultural doesn't even come close


The horse or the Harley?

Re: HELP ME...😱

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 10:52 am
by rodbargee
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The horse or the Harley?
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both for sure

Re: HELP ME...😱

Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 11:34 am
by Taipan
Yeahbut, with Harley you're still cool even if you stack it! :D


Re: HELP ME...😱

Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2022 11:23 pm
by Buckaroo
My HD......XL1200CX. Owned for a year or thereabouts

Re: HELP ME...😱

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2022 10:44 am
by Supermofo
Taipan wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 11:34 am Yeahbut, with Harley you're still cool even if you stack it! :D

Good job he had a crash helmet.


To protect his left hand :D

Re: HELP ME...😱

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:15 pm
by Bigyin
Taipan wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 11:34 am Yeahbut, with Harley you're still cool even if you stack it! :D

He was riding at slow speed in a straight line and still managed to fall off ........ and these people legally carry guns ffs :shock: :mrgreen:

Re: HELP ME...😱

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:41 pm
by Taipan
Bigyin wrote: Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:15 pm
Taipan wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 11:34 am Yeahbut, with Harley you're still cool even if you stack it! :D

He was riding at slow speed in a straight line and still managed to fall off ........ and these people legally carry guns ffs :shock: :mrgreen:
I think its in Germany?

Re: HELP ME...😱

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2022 2:42 pm
by The Spin Doctor
Bigyin wrote: Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:15 pm

He was riding at slow speed in a straight line and still managed to fall off ........ and these people legally carry guns ffs :shock: :mrgreen:
S'OK... he would probably have shot himself with it...

Re: HELP ME...😱

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2022 4:51 pm
by Skub
HTF did he manage that? Throttle still on as well as the front brake and the giant rear overwhelmed the skinny front tyre?

Re: HELP ME...😱

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2022 6:47 pm
by Le_Fromage_Grande
Yorick has just announced on Facebook that his next bike is going to be a Harley and quoting him "arseless chaps"

Re: HELP ME...😱

Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2022 7:15 pm
by ChrisW
Skub wrote: Sat Dec 10, 2022 4:51 pm HTF did he manage that? Throttle still on as well as the front brake and the giant rear overwhelmed the skinny front tyre?
I think he was hoping (fantasising) that he'd be doing a rolling burnout but panicked when he had traction, then grabbed all the front brake.