Thread: Getting power out of a harley

Originally Posted by Finnwolf

But the expression’if I have to explain you wouldn’t understand’ comes to mind.

Ah yes , that wee chestnut . what my mate used to constantly say to any questions regarding his harley. Even had the sticker with that quote on his locker door and used to just point at it....
almost sounds like the sort of thing a populist feminist would scream at you when there is no logical explanation ...

Keen to try a Harley when opportunity arises .. Plenty of people like em - good to check one out.

Originally Posted by Shearer

It's easy to explain. It's all about the image and looking cool because there is nothing a Harley does that some other bike doesn't do better.

you forgot to add that the straight pipe unbaffled sound they put out tells everyone.."hey look at me I've just payed 30 plus grand for 70 hp"....

You can’t polish a turd, but you can put glitter on it .

Originally Posted by mimms2

Well first you need the assless chaps so you can feel the full thrust and throb of the thing...

That sounds disconcertingly like the voice of experience @mimms2....

Getting a lot of bites from those that wouldn’t understand!

Originally Posted by Finnwolf

Getting a lot of bites from those that wouldn’t understand!

I've had one and still not sure I understand...

Originally Posted by Finnwolf

Getting a lot of bites from those that wouldn’t understand!

It's not the inherent appeal, it's hearing some really loud noise which announces something that can't perform which appears silly

It's like when some tosser playing his doof doof shit really loud pulls up next to you at the lights in his 1982 Honda Civic - yes I know you're an eedjit but do you have to actively impinge upon my headspace to announce you're a bit of a dick?

Originally Posted by mimms2

Well first you need the assless chaps so you can feel the full thrust and throb of the thing...

That made me laugh. A good mate took a bunch of friends to Amsterdam for his' bachelor-party' (from England). He lost all his mates but one after getting too trashed. They ended up in a bar full of guys wearing G-strings and chaps . Big, Gay, Dutch-Bikers. Somehow they got swept into the street with these guys, who proceeded to have an all-out fight with Police in full riot-gear. Somebody in a random shop, pulled them both inside and probably saved their ass. Only at that point, did they notice a large line-up of Harleys...So they DO, apparently (in Holland at least) wear assless chaps

I liked Southparks take on it.

Come on guys... they are not that bad.... nearly 63% of all the Harleys ever built are still on the road...…

The other 37% made it home.... Boom boom....

Originally Posted by rewa

That made me laugh. A good mate took a bunch of friends to Amsterdam for his' bachelor-party' (from England). He lost all his mates but one after getting too trashed. They ended up in a bar full of guys wearing G-strings and chaps . Big, Gay, Dutch-Bikers. Somehow they got swept into the street with these guys, who proceeded to have an all-out fight with Police in full riot-gear. Somebody in a random shop, pulled them both inside and probably saved their ass. Only at that point, did they notice a large line-up of Harleys...So they DO, apparently (in Holland at least) wear assless chaps

'Saved their ass" ?!!!

Originally Posted by rewa

That made me laugh. A good mate took a bunch of friends to Amsterdam for his' bachelor-party' (from England). He lost all his mates but one after getting too trashed. They ended up in a bar full of guys wearing G-strings and chaps . Big, Gay, Dutch-Bikers. Somehow they got swept into the street with these guys, who proceeded to have an all-out fight with Police in full riot-gear. Somebody in a random shop, pulled them both inside and probably saved their ass. Only at that point, did they notice a large line-up of Harleys...So they DO, apparently (in Holland at least) wear assless chaps

‘Assless chaps’?

Is there any other kind?

All the chaps I see on Bonanza etc are sans asses...

Originally Posted by Finnwolf

‘Assless chaps’?

Is there any other kind?

All the chaps I see on Bonanza etc are sans asses...

Well.....normally....when chainsawing, for instance, I have jeans or shorts under mine, and not a Harley in-sight