Flooding the market

Man Please.

Cowboy had a birthday too.
Happy Birthday Cowboy.

Try not to sleep too much dude.

Happy B-day Cowboy, hope those knees holding up ...

Had to feel good to git out and take a ride dude.............

When I'm knee deep in snow and freezing weather up here in NE your weather should be perfect for riding. I'm always jealous of that but thats all. Its crazy hot in the summer there, I don't know how you stand it.

You use your head man'
Climb yer buns out of the bed earlier during the summer, Ride till noon and head to the house, In the afternoon take off around 6 and ride till 9 when its sunset.
If you sit in the house all the time, you can't get used to the heat.
I rode over 300 miles saturday and it was 97*

Cruising thru Barstow one time in September and it was 107 degrees at noon. I was like F'that and headed for a hotel. It didn't even cool off by 10PM. Luckily the hotel had a bar/restaurant inside the same complex as the rooms. We headed out at 4am the next morning and called it a day early again. Good strategy. That heat is dibilatating. My wife, bless her heart, thanked me for stopping she said she felt like passing out, I was like why didn't you say something earlier?

When its that hot, you got to pay attention. Sometimes if its over 100* you just got to stay home in the air, and or take very short rides to places to eat and all.
Would hate to see somebody have heat exhaustion on a bike.

Cruising thru Barstow one time in September and it was 107 degrees at noon. I was like F'that and headed for a hotel. It didn't even cool off by 10PM. Luckily the hotel had a bar/restaurant inside the same complex as the rooms. We headed out at 4am the next morning and called it a day early again. Good strategy. That heat is dibilatating. My wife, bless her heart, thanked me for stopping she said she felt like passing out, I was like why didn't you say something earlier?

Thats crazy. HD's are air cooled..100+ degrees does not equal air cool. Texas ain't good for Harley motors. Illegal beaners maybe, air cooled motors not so much.

Nothing compares to NE in the summer. You catch one of those blue skies,sun shining, slight breeze spells it makes those mt roads magical. Kangamangus,the Presidentials, Mohawk trail to name a few.
Upstate NY is pretty good too with the finger lakes, Adirondacs,Lake Placid and the Catskills. Its too bad one has to wade thru so much urban ghetto to get in or out. There is no easy way. Best I've found is I-91 South to Hartford,CT and catch I-84 West to Scranton,PA and catch I-81 south from there.

I had an AMF bike too, a 1981 Sportster XLS,2 tone grey and metallic silver.

The AMF years were a mixed bag of good and bad. The bikes were sloppily produced,sucked and were fraught with issues as a rule. I thought my Sportster looked pretty slick, I was proud of her. But even mine leaked gas for no reason the very first day I owned it. The good things are AMF introduced the assembly line process to Harley, kept HD going like you said.

AMF didn't want Harley any more. It was a pivotal do or die time in HD history. Luckily it was do! And boy has Harley gotten so much better in every way since those AMF years, its unbelieveable.

That wouldn't bother me as much if there was a modicum of sincere brotherhood involved. More often then not those types exude superficialility and better then though attitudes known as snobbery and wouldn't put themselves to iss on you nif you were on fire. I think they think thats how you're suppose to play that role..cause they don't know any better....the me me generation. I was never one for that chest pounding attention whore behavior.

I've always tried to make a place better for being there and encourage others to do the same. I may have been wrong all these years but whenever I've walked into a tense and potentially criminal situation and have been the difference maker I've always felt better for the risk. I always felt that HD riders were the apostles of the road sorta like the crusaders for the pilgrims to Jerusulem. Whether it was a damsel in distress or a broke down vehicle I'm there. So far I haven't been stabbed or shot.....close but no cigar,lol.:roflmao:

On a recent ride I was waiting on the side of a relatively busy highway for the crew to come by so I can jump in. I won't do that anymore due to the hazard I was creating sitting there. They were late so I was sitting on my scooter for about 40 minutes. When I realized what I was creating there I started to count. No less than 8 Harleys went on by. 7 Japanese bikes stopped to see if I was OK. 1 Mecerdes stopped and 1 Kia. None of the Harleys even slowed down! Reminded me of a morning last year where I pulled over on a deserted road on my way to the HOG meeting. I wanted to put on a sweater since I was freezing. As I was getting off the bike one of the Road Captains went right by me I had my vest on so he HAD to see I was a member. At the meeting I went up to him and thanked him for checking on me! So much for the "brotherhood" at least here on Long Island.

That wouldn't have happened 25-30+ years ago. Thats the new age watered down superficial lets do lunch Harley riders world of todays me me generation.

I agree for the most part BUT, I think also that many of us Ol' Timers have that opinion so why should we stop for the "new" crop of Harley riders! WHICH in itself promotes the who cares attitude on both sides of the story. jmo

Why? Because we lead by example. Two wrongs don't make a right. And most importantly you are who you are. Your values,ethics and inegrity got you where you are today. You set the bar high daring others to exceed it. Thats why. Hows that?

I stop for other riders on the side of the road no matter who, why, or what. Most of the time it's nothing serious and most riders have cell phones these days and have already called for help. But once in a while you can help somebody.

Riders can have AAA and get a recker drive to tow them and they can git discounts on Hotels, that are better than AARP