"The Power of the TEST RIDE"

[RAT900]

Excerpts transcribed for the benefit of RAT900 editing...

"Stop half way though the ride at the busiest convenience store or any location with a lot of walk-in and out traffic to get water. Let the customer be seen with the bike. Someone is likely to walk by and say 'Nice bike.' sealing the customers emotional attachment to the bike"

"Create routes that give the rider more opportunities to be seen. A huge part of the experience is the attention a rider receives on a genuine Harley Davidson"

I wouldn't know where to begin...this reads like a recruitment manual for how to exploit a lonely maladjusting homesick college freshman into a religious cult

"I didn't know who I was until I found my personal savior in Harley, he has made me whole"

[RAT900]

^^ How the freak did that happen?  Did he lock up the rear or the front?

maybe went for the rear brake on the left like an old Brit bike...realized his mistake and promptly locked up the rear when he remembered it was on the right side of the bike?

[Popeye the Sailor]

I was once told by some douchebag that owned a Beemer GS that if you went into a corner too hot on a BMW, you could lean it over and catch the low-side head on the pavement and it would lift the front wheel off the road until the bike slowed down enough and you could then stand it back up and continue through the turn.

This is totally true. He left off the part about crashing to slow down and falling off the bike before continuing through the corner is all.


And if you drag head on a boxer, you're cornering wrong.

[Monstermash]

Harley Wreck on the Tail of the Dragon

ROFLMFAO!!!

I NEVER get tired of seeing that video!

I love the woman's question..... "Why would he do that?" Why? Simple.... because he has NO CLUE HOW TO RIDE A make the beast with two backsING MOTORCYCLE!!!!

You can just tell he hit the rear brake as hard as he could trying to slow down. Which I find hilarious because the moron instructor at the MSF course my friend Karen took was a Harley rider and he told her, and I quote "90% of your braking should be done with your rear brake."

HUH??? 

[ducatiz]

You can just tell he hit the rear brake as hard as he could trying to slow down. Which I find hilarious because the moron instructor at the MSF course my friend Karen took was a Harley rider and he told her, and I quote "90% of your braking should be done with your rear brake."

HUH??? 

90%?  Sure.  If you ride this:

[NoisyDante]

90%?  Sure.  If you ride this:

Or the Gent bike from 'Hell Ride'

Madsen pointed out no front brake was dangerous, and putting one on would cause continuity errors as they'd already begun shooting, so he said he'd sign a waiver if they gave him the bike after production.

[Speedbag]

I had high expectations for that flick, but it sucked balls....

[NoisyDante]

That it did.  I had to work on the home theater version of it, so I saw it waaaaay too many times.