| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 5/1/2007 9:56:02 PM | it would seem this is not supported by your FORUM subject. You didn't say MOTORCYLES you said HARLEYS . . .
just a thought . . . no offense . . . | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 5/1/2007 10:10:19 PM |
I give Harley Davidson tremendous credit for turning around a company and establishing themselves as the leading American motorcycle manufacturer.
There was a time when a Harley was considered a very low quality motorcycle. They were considered very unreliable. But with some serious engineering and alot of effort, HD pulled itself from the brink and now the bikes are very reliable and very high quality. Expensive, but good.
Harley also did a masterful job of marketing the lifestyle. With HOG groups all over the country and huge biker events (Daytona, anyone?), buying a Harley means to become part of a vibrant and active social community. Harley has actually managed to rescue motorcycling as a sport and social activity in this country. The Japanese manufacturers are clueless when it comes to marketing. All those guys can do is make Harley clones and ride the coattails of Harley in that market segment.
I would gladly debate this with you however, your entire post seems to be off -topic . . . "Are women scared off by harleys" . . .remember??
Ergo my response would be off topic . . . create a forum for this and I will be there my brother!!! | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 5/2/2007 1:29:09 PM | | I'm only scared off by those little Tonka Toy looking things that pass as motorcylces, the ones where the rider looks like his chest is laying on the gas tank and his butt is in the air. | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 5/2/2007 9:50:18 PM | | a woman after my own heart !!!!!! love your description of butt in the air & chest on the tank!!!!!!! | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 5/8/2007 9:43:47 AM | | THE WAY GAS IS ON THE RISE BET ALOT WISH THEY HAD A BIKE RIGHT NOW LOL 50 MPG SOUNDS PRETTY GOOD. | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 5/8/2007 10:31:47 AM | | I love bikes. In fact I was at Leesburg Bike Fest 2 weeks ago. My best girlfriend and her husband and several other couples rode up from West Palm Beach and I drove to Leesburg to meet them. I hopped on my friends husbands bike ( she has her own) and rode all weekend. Most every one was cool, but therer were the group of ***hole who were trying to grab and grope me.....Sure wish I had my own man with a bike to ride with. I bought my last boyfreind 2 yrs ago a bike but he left and stole it. I don't want a bike of my own, prefer being on the back. And just for the record, the people in our gruop were cops (SWAT Team members) Dovtors, Lawyers, schoolteachers and I am a nurse. So that whole lifestyle issue can be debated. When on the bike I wear my leather, ect, for safety as well as fashin.......... | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 5/8/2007 12:38:04 PM | | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^thats great we had a great time just a little to crowed 4 me on sat so we left and went to some friends house, but still a great time. | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 5/11/2007 2:09:31 PM | they will LOVE you for who you are!!
women LOVE harleys!!
keep on riding............you will find someone who will enjoy riding with you,well,at least I keep telling myself that!! | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 5/13/2007 6:55:34 AM | | <<<<<<~~~this woman adores bikes...tha freedom of tha road...ooooooooh, makes me drool.............however, i have a seizure alert dog so i would have ta find a biker whos got one of them little side cars for fishbait.....(my service dog)....are there any of them out there? | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 5/17/2007 7:42:03 PM | I am not scared off by the bikes. And it's not about whether a guy is "a biker" or not...I like to judge each individual as an individual and I have much admiration for bikers.
I used to date a road rally racer on and off, between relationships, for about 10 years who ultimately went on to write magazine articles about his sport. But I only rode on his bike once and that was enough for me.
He may not have rode a Harley but he did have to share the highway with those who did no matter who they were and often attended many of the same events. So all I've had to base my own opinion of bikers on -- apart from him saying they were ALL good people -- are two incidents that are beyond the pale in naivety.
I became an exotic dancer when I was 23 years old. During my first two weeks a Hell's Angel asked me if I would like to get a bite to eat after work. I said sure. It was my choice so I wanted to go next door to the burger place.
When he sat down I noticed his jacket and wide-eyed asked him if he was a real Hell's Angel or whether he was just wearing a coat like that. Then realizing how silly that must have sounded, I tried to backtrack and explain myself with "not that I'm saying you would steal somebody's coat and just run off and wear it anyhow...."
In a tone of voice reminicent of "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus," he told me that indeed he was a real Hell's Angel and he was wearing his own coat. He bought me a hotdog and a pepsi and told me that I'd probably be better off going back to my fairly well-paying office job that I had quit. He did me no harm. He told me at the end that he "just wanted to take a lady out to dinner" and I took the bus home.
I also went back to office work not all that much later...it was an adventure to say the least in the meantime.
Worse still, and this is not a laughing matter, I did not even know that the Bandidos were a motorcycle club until eight people were slayed in St. Thomas, Ontario last April. I had once talked to a Bandido too and the conversation was simply that the little cartoon guy was indeed kind of like the one that used to be on the Bugs Bunny Roadrunner Hour.
Had he been on a bike at the time or walking to a burger joint etc. where I had to walk past his bike I may have made some connection. But he didn't. And HE did me no harm.
Now, an extended relative is also a Toronto Police Detective and I really don't want to play Romeo and Juliet with someone under this repressive McCathy-like crime legislation.
It's a reverse spin on the legend of Robin Hood's "All for one and one for all" as far as I'm concerned. The government is convinced that even by association if you pull into the same rest stop on the highway, then every God Damn motorcyle in the parking lot has a criminal upon it -- and sometimes two.
With cops being able to confiscate 'the procedes of crime' I shudder to think of what may happen to some poor CEO who's pleading in the middle of nowhere for his Platinmum American Express Card back -- having bought a top of the line bike during his mid-life crisis!
Anyway, I have no desire to see a man self-destruct because he came to my house for a visit. I mean really, how nervous would both my relative and he be if we were at a function socializing together? Guilt by associations goes both ways and this is not my idea of a stimulating threesome by a longshot...nor do I want one BTW. | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 5/17/2007 8:20:35 PM | You don't even want to go to what happened when I became friends with a woman who's husband used to be (almost 20 years ago) but changed his mind as did her own father. Used to be what? I have no idea...I never asked her nor do I intend to because it doesn't define who she is.
I adored her - still do - but I tried to be like her. It was one case when immitation was not considered flattery as I soon found out when I unfortunately copied many things out of context. BIG TIME. At least she forgives me.
I'm a bit of a nerd who was once offered a job writing basic income tax textbooks for adult students so everyone has some area of their life where they aren't b^tt fuck stupid -- one just has to find their niche. | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 5/28/2007 8:46:39 AM | | I dont think women are scared by harley's or any other bike. some just dont like to ride, and dont want to worry about their other half on the road. I would have the same question about men , as for me I love to ride and have my own harley. also a lot of people judge without knowing the person, if people would stop doing that they would figure out that all bikers are not bad. | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 5/29/2007 11:46:11 AM | Personally I like just putting on the chaps and leather,But finding someone to ride is the problem............lol | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 5/29/2007 8:47:52 PM |
mat: i do have a long pony tail & chains !! Thanks for the compliment.
...and Mat's right! It is the man who makes the package look.....GREAT!  | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 5/30/2007 6:32:38 PM |
I see this thread is still chugging along....
its still here lol
That's cuz bikers have staying power.... | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 6/3/2007 5:22:57 AM | | Many man truned off because woman ride. I ride but I am not a "Biker Chick" in anyway. I have had a bike on and off since the 60's. I have a Masters fom Michigan State. Retired from the world of business. I just like to ride. I am member of CMA, Christain Motorcyclists Assoc.. If a guy is not a rider but plays tennis then he can go play and I will ride. What is so hard about understanding we each have things we like to do, but not always have to be done together. I don't fish...........! I am not jumping out of an air plane......! A good realtionship is not just based on what you do, but how you feel about each other. Take that person for what they are. Don't THINK you can change someone. Well not work. | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 6/3/2007 7:29:31 PM | Absolutely not.....I love bikes....gonna get one of my own when I get my Stang paid off.....they are COOL!!!......I love them and the bikers who ride em.........yeah baby!!!   | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 6/28/2007 9:50:22 PM | I, for one, give up on a man's profile once I read that he's a biker. I know that I am afraid of riding them, and that he will want me to go places on it.
There must be a lot of women who would love to be a biker chick, but not this Fraidy Cat! | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 7/2/2007 6:54:52 PM | | Its not the bike, I have a Honda. Its the paycheck. No mater what they put in the profile, it comes down to $$$$$ I guess I don't blame them to a point. | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 7/2/2007 8:50:05 PM | (Its not the bike, I have a Honda. Its the paycheck. No mater what they put in the profile, it comes down to $$$$$ I guess I don't blame them to a point.)
egw7539, Just what in the heck are you trying to say here????????
The question was Are Women scared off by Harleys (which should have been Motorcycles) be that as it may, how do you get PAYCHECK and $$$$$$$$$ in this???
YES Harleys cost more money! My Fatboy, is close to $20,000 but I have owned a Honda in the past, and quite frankly MOST Women Love Harleys I (I can tell by the amount of dates and offers I get due to this bike) over any other bike period. Prove me wrong and take a public survey!! You will lose! It's the sound of the engine, maybe the mystique that Harley Riders are Bad Boys (some of us are), but I tell you one thing, Damn near ALL harley riders would help you out, and most of them go on Poker Runs for Charity. If I were going into battle I'd depend on a Harley Rider any day over any other biker!
One other thing most NON RIDERS don't know. IF YOU WANT TO HEAR GOOD LIVE ROCK & ROLL MUSIC, GO TO A BIKER BAR...everyone is welcomed and you don't need to be on a bike or even own one.
Do I dislike other bikes, not at all, I like all sensible bike riders and associate with them all. If you can't afford a Harley due to the expense, then buy what you can afford, ride and have fun.
CROTCH ROCKET riders --- they are stupid and dangerous (not all, unfortunately the very young like this type of bike and drive insane) this bike needs to be outlawed for the highway..  | |
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