"Poser" venting

[lazyboy]

I say ride your own ride and don't worry about what someone else is or is not doing!

[hunnus2000]

Years ago, somone on this board posted a link to a blogger that was critical of some dude dressed up in boots, doo rag and a patched vest that drove up in a car to the bank in freezing cold weather. This pompus and self-rightous blogger had the nerve to claim that this guy gives all bikers a bad name. I can't remember his reasoning but this thread reminds of the bloggers attitude towards what he considered some kind of poser.

From what I read, the OP sounds to me like some kind of 1%er.

[GPSchmidt]

I'll guarantee you 9/10 Harley riders look down their noses at us for riding 'jap crap'. And its for one of two reasons: they are (mistakenly) convinced that their bike is 100% American made and even tho they're paying tomorrow's prices for yesterday's technology the find some reighteous indignation in it.

Making such broad, sweeping comments don't you mirror part of the HD hoarde attitude you speak of?

It's an old, tired argument and just doesn't ring true anymore.

9/10 HD owners today came from owning metric bikes. I can attest to 100% of the HD owners on this forum either have owned, or still own metric. Because there are so many aftermarket parts for HD, most owners are familiar with their bikes and readily acknowledge that there are metric/asian parts in them. I'm just fine with that, as are most. Perhaps the old guard toss and turn at night over it, but not the current average joe.

Some drink the HD coolaide, and on the topic of posers, then there ya go.

[NuBeOnLI]

Greg...I agree

I was at a skills day this summer and half the bikes were HD. No exaggeration, every HD owner complimented my bike and related their own stories about their first bikes being metrics and how good they ran, etc.

[Aced It]

Originally Posted by NuBeOnLI

Greg...I agree

I was at a skills day this summer and half the bikes were HD. No exaggeration, every HD owner complimented my bike and related their own stories about their first bikes being metrics and how good they ran, etc.

Funny why they would drift away from a metric based on those comments, eh?

In any event, I've only ever had one 'questionable' comment from a Harley owner while sitting in traffic on a back road. I posted about it some time ago, but in short he said, "That sounds pretty good ... *pause* ... for a Honda." Not knowing if he was being complimentary or sarcastic with his comment (his tone was unclear), I simply thanked him and rode on. Other than that, all my poser Harley friends and I rib on each other all the time, however respect each other as rider no matter what we ride, much less care what we wear on or off the bike.

[GPSchmidt]

Funny why they would drift away from a metric based on those comments, eh?

The sound, the style, the chrome, wanting to see how the other half live? Who knows. Any honest HD owner will tell you that a HD isn't any more reliable than whatever else is out there. And even more honest owners may even tell you that their HD isn't as dead nuts reliable as most metric bikes are. But, to some that's the intrigue.

[MikeB]

It's not at all clear to me why the event, the cause, or the beneficiary kids were negatively impacted by this guy showing up in biker garb. Unless, of course, the main purpose of the event was to showcase the "heroism" of the participating bikers who rode in cold weather.

Like thousands of others. Every day.

[meeve]

Those that mind, don't matter. Those that matter, don't mind.

[Buicknick72]

I think they have a word for a guy who wears leather chaps but is not riding a bike.... (not that there's anything wrong with that)

I'm with the O.P., I would of laughed him out of there. Jacket/do-rag - no problem, but chaps??? really? chaps??? That's just being a grade A tool bag.

[joe in calif]

I agree with you. When I was in a HONDA GOLD WING club we did toy runs to UCR medical center for 20 years. We raised money all year long for it, this was a big deal for us. We had other groups ride with us but the run was put on by us. We always got coverage by the newspaper and TV station. One year there was a reporter interviewing a guy from a Harley group, he had him start his bike and rev it up and he took video of it, I went over and told the reported this was put on CHAPTER "O" TOURING RIDERS, the guy he was interviewing had nothing to do with setting this up. I guess the news media wants the look, not the real story.