[ST] for Les - H-D hatred

[don draper <donnydogood@xxxxxxx>]

     Well spoken, Les!...  let's save our hatreds for the truly 
deserving!!   When Massachusetts put in their Helmet Law back in the 
late '60s, I was so disgusted I - and many others - sold my bike and 
quit riding.  My dealer and best friend, with whom I'd been riding for a 
dozen years, put things in perspective.  "You're playing right into 
their hands by letting them take you off the road," he said, "The whole 
purpose of Government is to BAN what they don't like or understand.  
What is banned is irrelevant; what's most important to them is to 
actively participate in the banning process."  The following Spring, I 
bought a new bike and got back riding.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend!   Harley riders are having the same 
defensive wars with Government restrictions that we are; like it or 
not,... they're our brothers.

>>>the Sportster was basically the same bike they've been making since 
the 50's--and it rode like it. Which is fun in the same way that driving 
a 50's Porsche 356 is fun. I considered my 2001 1200 Sportster to be a 
2-wheel time machine... I ground almost half the diameter of my 
forward-mounted footpegs off.<<<

   A perfect description!... except I don't think forward controls were 
available for Sportsters during the first 20 years they were built.  
They're a chopper innovation.
Also, in the '50s & '60s the big. fat Harleys were ridden only by women 
with short legs and big, fat old men; virile young men rode Sportsters 
with the Brit-bikers.  BMW riders then, as now, were a different breed 
of cat; some even wore helmets!

>>>Sportster riders who actually ride are a completely different group 
than your stereotypical "Harley riders".  They tend to have multiple 
bikes, all brands. I'll bet there are some of those guys who are also on 
this list. A Sportster is like a blank canvas. You can take a Sportster 
and turn it into everything from a full-on touring machine to a 
cafe-style peg-scratcher to a drag racer with huge back tire and way way 
more power than a Sprint.<<<

   I have one!... Viagra's Hammer.  It's a street-legal dirt-tracker 
with Sun rims, Koni shocks, RaceTech forks, rearset pegs, dual Mikunis' 
and a 1200cc engine with a great deal of magic dust sprinkled inside. A 
$20,000 stone ax; CA plate OL T-BONE

                                Hug a Hugger (883 Sportster) today;     
        =8o)

                                                                       
       ol t-bone      - - - o&\o                            



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