| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 11/27/2007 4:12:47 PM | | I've owned all sorts of bikes over the years and I haven't noticed that they ever did a thing to attract women... As for them being scared off that could very well be true... | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 11/30/2007 7:39:06 AM |
but the ones who have embraced the whole biking image...and tha'ts what my mom is into...almost every item of clothing she owns is emblazened with some harley image...and her friends do have the long hair and the beards...
takes more than hair and a t-shirt to not be a poser. ever met a REAL biker? last time i checked 99% of the ones that do bikes for a living, i mean ride, breathe, eat, and sleep bikes, the hard core, bad ass gang types dont even own a harley shirt.
the $14 t-shirt and $20 coffee cups sell best to the ones that cant affoerd the $18000 lowrider or $40000 dresser | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 11/30/2007 8:08:00 AM | | Well stated, indianoutlaw. I now await, patiently, for a response from another hardcore (with the exception of the "gang" reference) "bikerguy45" who rides tank, to tank, to tank; who takes an annual 5,000 mile road trip each July; and who is a likeminded brother to you.............grins................... | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 11/30/2007 11:41:07 AM | | indianoutlaw : you & bellalynda have it correct...it is about riding...not just talking about riding... have a o4 dresser with 72,00 miles..have a 00 softail with over 90 thousand miles....I am very active with ABATE of Florida & take my rights to ride very seriously.. Bellalynda is a great lady, wonderful friend & a recent convert to over the road riding...i understand the thinking about the styler, profiler & poser subculture...i encourage people to ride tank to tank to tank as opposed to bar to bar to bar...For me its about being in the wind & i share that with all likeminded sisters & brothers....I am in a situation to ride more & work less..For me its about the more miles i put on the odometer the happier i am !!!! LOL !!! I would proudly ride with you & yours !!!!!! | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 11/30/2007 10:48:26 PM | riding is my drug, a therapy of sorts, and since i logged just a tad over 44k on the 3 bikes combined since jan ( i live in the hoosier, if its warmer than my age and the roads are dry, my ass is in the saddle) id say the amount of miles means either as a drug, i have an addiction problem, or as therapy, i have ALOT of issues lol (keep in mind, i run 150-180,000 miles a year in a semi, so yeah, ridin beats sleep).
ANYTIME any real bikers wanna ride and are comin thru, let me know, ive put up more than 1 in an extra bedroom for the night and gave em a garage space, even easier to do now that the wife is the ex, and more room in a 3 bedroom house with her crap gone too
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 11/30/2007 10:52:33 PM | BTW, by real i dont mean a "sturgis wanna be", dont go hidin your trailer up the road thinkin because ya ride in it makes you legit (not talkin about either of you, meanin that 'haul em to the rally while i fly in to meet my bike' mentality makes me sick)
my next bikes conna be a custom with big ol honkin boob shaped tanks....think ill call it the "Hooter Scooter"  | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 12/1/2007 5:15:30 AM | | indianoutlaw: i understand..I live in florida & cant imagine why people are trailering their bikes to daytona when they are healthy & able to ride...kinda like driving the pickem up truck 4 hours to unload a scoot & ride it for a couple hours..kinda thot the idea of owning a scoot was to ride it just not trailer it..i understand there are always exceptions..the older i get the more i understand exceptions. LOL !!! however, i am going to put as many miles as i can on the scoots. ride safe !!! | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 12/1/2007 7:11:01 AM | one of my close friends just turned 77 (he and his wife celebrated 50 yeasrs the week after his b-day, and yes, they took the bike out to their anniversary party- how friggin cool is that?), anyhow, he RIDES his bike from here (with his 74 year old wife on the back) down to brownsville TX every fall and back every spring (roughly 1500 miles each way, then figure in the miles while theyre there)
im sorry, but to me- THAT mans hard core 
(does it on a 99 heritage, not a dresser even) | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 12/1/2007 9:50:53 AM | | indianoutlaw: the couple you described are my kinda people.. the oldest member in our ABATE chapter is appx. 84..still rides & treated himself to a new softail...it is so great to see him on the road..gives everybody encouragement... that would be a biker.. nuff said !!!! have a good weekend | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 12/3/2007 4:18:43 AM | | I think most of us know someone that met their demise on a motorcycle. It was never their fault. For me it was my cousin. He had three small children when he died. But having said that, none of us know when our number is up. It can happen in the blink of an eye. All the more reason to live each day as if it were the last. Dawn | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 12/5/2007 6:21:55 AM | | I love my Harley and not scared of men who ride them. But I don't judge a man because he has a bike. Its all about the ride. I will be in Flordia near Ocala in a couple weeks getting out of this cold weather. | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 12/5/2007 10:54:10 AM |
I think most of us know someone that met their demise on a motorcycle. It was never their fault. For me it was my cousin. He had three small children when he died. But having said that, none of us know when our number is up. It can happen in the blink of an eye. All the more reason to live each day as if it were the last. I think all of us have known someone who was killed in an automobile, an industrial accident, crossing the street, heart disease, lung cancer, etc.... Someone elses experience, or reaction to, does not equate to your own. We get from life what we put into it ... if watching the big eye (the TV) is your idea of a wild weekend then by all means live it up! Some like things a little more on the edge, like riding motorcycles, eating food with transfat or not flossing every day!
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 12/6/2007 6:58:02 PM | ive been hurt ALOT worse in the semi then i ever have on a bike- broke a leg once layin one down, rain, blind drivers, yadda yadda..... versus head on by a drunk 17 year old KID in MI, drove 44,000lbs of swingin beef sides thru a woods when he pushed my steer axle back unde rthe fuel tanks- 9 broke ribs, multiple skull fractures, 2 broke legs (lower left, upper andlower right), rt arm broke 2 places, bruised heart and left lung, fractured pelvis.....Talk about Humpty Dumpty, laid in Jacksom MI for a week before wakin up wonderin wtf happened, took another 3 days to even remember who i was.
yeah, i hear about bikers dyin all the time, ive seen i dunno how many bike wrecks, but i also noticed somethin---- a good 90% of them are kids on crotch rockets. Speed kills, plain and simple. when youre doin 100+ on somethin as small as a bike, you pop up outta nowhere to another motorist, ESPECIALLY when youre doin that crap on city streets.
how many times have you come up to an intersection and saw a bike a block away and assumed you had plenty of time to pull out, assuming he was doin roughly the speed limit? Ever have a 2nd thought and asked yourself is he really only doin 35? At 1 city block a bike movin 100 mph will be in the next intersection in roughly 4 seconds, you would hardly finish turning out before he hit you.
before i get hate mail, im not sayin ALL bike accidents are kids speedin- hell, adults do it, harley riders do it, its just a case in point, base on what i see all the time. | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 12/7/2007 5:00:57 AM | | tater salad: excellent points..ABATE of florida has a safety program we give. It shows that very same concept of approaching at different speeds & different size vehicles.. there is no substitute for common sense ,safety skills & keeping your eyes open regardless of what u r driving or ridin'..thanks for ur input..as a long term driver & rider u have seen it all..thank u for ur insight..bruce | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 12/7/2007 2:33:50 PM |
WOOHOO................Santa rides a Harley!
What fat man dont like a lil class under his assss? | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 12/10/2007 4:14:45 AM | I too live in Florida, have rode many miles on the back of a harley and to this day I have to shake my head at the wusses.. who have their bikes on the trailer pulling it to a bike function. Why in the hell do they pay the money for a bike if they are scared of a few sore cheeks in the saddle??? The callasses will come and they'll toughen up.. or maybe they'll just keep on pushing the bike on and off that nice trailer they have. Even the case of the fancy "chopper" type bikes. I personally think "sure they look cool" but you can't ride them for a distance then why do you spend that kind of money for something to LOOK at? Spend it on a nice dresser that people can look at but you can at least ride. Just like with my horses, I'm not saddling up to ride for less than 4 hours!!! And I usually pack my saddle bags for the DAY!! I ride with people that a 2 hour trailride is "rough"... OMG.. why not stay home on the couch!!! | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 12/10/2007 5:56:16 AM | Laffs re: Taters comment......................I think you have a point there!
Mesna:..........for some it's all about "lookin' good", and to them I say, "If I have to explain, you wouldn't understand"! | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 12/15/2007 4:05:13 PM | | I've been thinking about harley riders lately. My ex seemed to use his to 'appeal' to women. He rarely took me riding, and I'd ask him often, seems he'd prefer to take off by himself. Sooo, I thought it was an 'off alone' thing, but I've seem him on another personals site stating right off he was a harley man and showing pics of the bike. What's up with that? | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 12/15/2007 10:17:33 PM | hes tryin to impress the lil girls with his "money" lol.
i cant tell ya how many times ive heard "wow, you can afford a harley??"
i have it in mine for 1 reason. I RIDE ALOT. therefore if i get with someone they need to enjoy bikes as well, and probably learn a new defination of the term "ALOT".
as soon as a woman comments on my appearent financial state because i own multiple bikes, i automatically count her out of consideration..... its not about money, its about something thats a very BIG part of what makes me who i am. If shes seein $$ when she sees a Harley, then shes seein the wrong thing, and frankly i dont need the drama involved with a gold-digger.
daaamn, im startin to sound a lil harsh, wait, no im not..... im just honest | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 12/16/2007 8:31:59 AM | Laffs at "Tater"..................spoken like a true biker, if I do say so myself! I have a very good friend who is your "brother" thru and thru and a 5000 mile rode trip each July is part of what he's all about! It's all about ridin' tank to tank to tank..........unless of course........one just happens to be a styler and profiler..........but if I have to explain they wouldn't understand........but I'm sure you do, Tater!
dum dee daa daa dooooooooo.............just sort of humin' to myself here as I wait patiently for a certain  "bikerguy" to see  this and respond................ | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 12/16/2007 8:56:14 AM | im twisted in that area i guess....i ride tank to tank to tank, AND look good doin it. I never understood why people give me strange looks when they find out the amount of miles i put on the bikes because they look better than new. im one of those meticulous (sp) maint. people, and chrome polish and show car glaze happen to be a part of my daily (if it get rode, it gets detailed when im done) routine (i carry 1 saddle bag full of all the stuff i need to detail it with me on trips, and yes as i relax at the stop of the night and maybe have a drink, i sit down and clean her up)
im not knockin the guys out there that dont, i like a "worn look" as much as the next guy, im amazes how "bad" a harley can look and still look "BAD", but its just not my style.
btw, im as bad with my 4x4, 200k miles, looks almost new, 13 yrs old...... i beat the crap out of it in mud, or today, 11" of snow and 30mph winds, yet she'll get all polished out by the end of the week and be lookin good again......i know, theres somethin wrong between my ears  | |
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| Are women scared off by harleys
Posted: 12/16/2007 9:10:28 AM | NO NO leave the photo this way we know if you are a harley or biker person that is what I look for, for same interest... been a biker for 43 yrs come this 23 rd of Dec and mom at 82 still is on license, and it may be true about there is a differences with guys who ride... well hereis a good one, I met a guy here on this site when he met me felt, that women who ride horses are different also, now what does that make me, if I do both lol lmao ..
Ride s iron horse, a real horse, and...... wink, omg .... blah: did I say that lol.. He never came back for another date lol .. He had something happen to him with a women who ride horses geez and he was a biker too omg to funny.. :  | |
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