Got the bike back, met a Harley dood....

Got the bike back last week, and this past weekend it was beautiful. 70's and sunny so I hopped on for a nice four hour ride through some country roads. On my way back home I stopped to fill up, and met a Harley dood. I've gathered that being a Harley dood means telling everyone else who rides a bike all about your sweet ride and making sure to add a few excuses in there as to why you ride nice and easy.. He preceded to tell me all about his '90's something Harley and about how fast these newer bikes were and that he couldn't keep up anymore. Being a newer rider I'm trying really hard to be friendly, so I just smiled and said "yup". As we were both rolling out at the same time, I yelled over to him "It's actually an '87..."otstir: One last glance in the mirror and he was still waiting to pull out.... :biggrin:

 

I know the feeling! About three years ago my son and I were filling up with gas in Spring Green Wisconsin. A Harley Dood pulls in, two up, on a New (Not Sure) XL or XR 1200. Whatever they are. He proceeded to tell us how fast that thing was. Never mentioned our bikes.

I know I could hve smoked him on the VFR but my son was on the RC51 SP1. This guy had no idea that there were a total of three bikes in the station and he was riding the slowest!!!

My son and I still laugh about it to this day!

 

My lawn mower motor packed it in and I was going to just put a harley motor on the mower. But all that oil would just kill the grass anyways. So I converted my wife's old Singer and made my lawnmower electric.

Have never really had much interaction with any harley riders out on the road and am devastated that I have not had that opportunity. Your encounter reminds me of a few meetings at gas bars I had on a 5 week tour last spring. A few times while filling up in Arizona or Nevada, I ran into blue haired oldies who after seeing my plates (BC) commented that I was a long way from home. OMG, I missed a turn! Then they go on to tell me their life history with bikes as if I was super excited to hear about it. Come on peeps. I just want to get some gas and get back to my ride.

 

You should just mutter something about Canadian GPS and drive off.

 

Yeah. Tell them something like our GPS is metric and doesn't work worth a shit in that imperial dust bowl. You made me laugh!