weekend event.....motorcycles....

[misstia]

i confess (should i admit this in writing? HAH) i absolutely ABHOR loud ass motorcycles (no offense to motorcycle owners/fans)...i've also never understood the 'harley' thing....even as a kid in hell iowa, there'd be people working on their harleys and i'd ask them why in the world they bought pieces of junk that made too much noise....i never got a satisfactory answer, if i got one at all....i had someone once a few years ago attempt to explain me that they HAD to 'fix' their brand new harley--that cost more than a new car---and to them that made perfect sense and to me? not one particle of sense....i have a good friend i went to high school with and he has a harley and he doesn't get the 'fix it' mentality either but he DOES like the noise....any south park fans? the 'f word' episode is one of my favorites.... the f word episode and if you ARE a SP fan, that site has ALL the episodes, including super best friends AND 200 & 201!!

in 1959 harley had a hummer.....

Comments

[rejectomorph]

My older brother was a motorcycle fan and did things to his bikes that made them louder than they were coming out of the factory. Even as kid I thought motorcycle noise was like a vastly amplified flatulence, and I suspect that for a lot of riders that is precisely the appeal. They love to fart really loud so everybody will notice them.

I'm surprised nobody has ever come up with an additive that can be put in the gas tanks so the exhaust will also smell like farts. Then those guys would really be in "Hog" heaven.

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

I am back,
And boy that sounds annoying

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

i've ridden on a harley. on a BSA (which is a british bike). on a honda (meh). about killed myself on a kawasaki mini bike (protip: don't try to ride under a low-slung wire clothesline. you WILL get scraped off, the helmet will be scraped off, and you WILL land on top of the hot engine. just sayin'.)

harleys...feel better. more solid under the rump. there are other twin-engine bikes out there now, but harley actually has a patent on the way theirs SOUND. (trufax) yeah, they tend to be a bit bad about marking their parking spot, but so are corvairs and they are a DREAM to drive. (the cork gaskets used in corvairs leak. from day one. neither jack nor shit can be done about it. yes, i used to have one. ass ex #1 demanded i sell it...and the guy who bought it wrapped it around a telephone pole the next week and totalled it. revenge.)

so yeah. those that love them, love them just like anything else LOL

[kshandra]

Owning a trike has been at the top of my bucket list for quite some time now (I don't have the upper body strength to get myself out from under a standard bike if I were to lay it down). There's a definite line between the right sound and just being noisy, though. People who do things to their engines solely for the sake of making them louder are missing the point. When a bike is tuned properly, it resonates, like a big cat purring. (There's a reason the big bike get-together in Reno is called Street Vibrations.)

And none of this is meant as an attempt to convert misstia - we can't all like the same things! As the saying goes, think of the haggis shortage... ;-)

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

yep, there is a HUGE difference in noise and the right sound!!

and OOOOooo not a haggis shortage!! that stuff is SOOOO good. we got to have it 2 years ago, in a fucking SCOTTISH CASTLE. the one across the valley from where william wallace defeated the british, the one that mary, queen of scots, was raised in by her mother.

and were given a private pipe-and-drum concert after. it was so lovely i can barely think straight remembering it. :D