Iconic Motorcycle Dealership shuts down after 110 YEARS

[foszoe]

Riding an Indian at daybreak.

Sounds like you are reading Doug's diary.

 

[BigRed]

Sounds like you are reading Doug's diary.

No idea if the reference.

 

[foszoe]

No idea if the reference.

Doug Emhoff

 

[BigRed]

Doug Emhoff

Wouldn't touch that ****.

Oh, and **** you!

LOL

 

[Creedmoor]

Young pups.

Royal Enfield made their first bike in 1901 and hasn't stopped since.

Smoke and mirrors my friend, you forget British Royal Enfield plant shut down around 1970, The Enfields made then in India were under contract not built by
Royal Enfield. Its just another reserection with stories like Indian so folks will believe its really a British Motorcycle, but in reality its a built in India motorcycle.
Plus its not built here, in the good old USA by Union workers.

 

[Creedmoor]

Riding an Indian at daybreak.

Have a good ride, I took one down i69 earlier down to see the girl at the blackjack tournament at the casino.
Put the new tire and tube on The CHOPPER this afternoon, waiting on two new wheel bearings before going back together.
That 30 yr old tire was harder than a 10 ply michelin truck tire, I laughed at it while I cut the tire in half with a cut off wheel.

 

[BigRed]

Smoke and mirrors my friend, you forget British Royal Enfield plant shut down around 1970, The Enfields made then in India were under contract not built by
Royal Enfield. Its just another reserection with stories like Indian so folks will believe its really a British Motorcycle, but in reality its a built in India motorcycle.
Plus its not built here, in the good old USA by Union workers.

Yet the Indian is built in America.

 

[Creedmoor]

Yet the Indian is built in America.

That is true my friend. And thats a good thing.

 

[BigRed]

That is true my friend. And thats a good thing.

All aside, there is not much like riding a back road or a highway or anything else on a motorcycle.

Most folks in the population of the States have not experienced anything close to it, but riding in the open air, smelling the smells, feeling the road, moving with it all is not much like anything else on a road.

Some appreciate it. Some don't. Some never experience it at all.

 

[Creedmoor]

All aside, there is not much like riding a back road or a highway or anything else on a motorcycle.

Most folks in the population of the States have not experienced anything close to it, but riding in the open air, smelling the smells, feeling the road, moving with it all is not much like anything else on a road.

Some appreciate it. Some don't. Some never experience it at all.

I caught it as a young kid, Its never left.

 

[Cameramonkey]

Could be he was a moderator on ingo?

 

[Wstar425]

I caught it as a young kid, Its never left.

We did 70 miles today before it got too hot at 95 degrees. Made a big loop around South Mountain where there’s a mile of 15 percent grade where you can see out over a huge valley, was on scenic Route 66 for a while, which is about 4 miles from our house. 3/4ths of New Mexico’s roads are non paved and most of them end up on the side of a mountain in somebody’s driveway at a 45 degree angle. I had the V65 and wife on her Spyder. Been riding since I was 14. 52 years and my wife on her own bike since about 1982. Couple of weeks it should start cooling off and be great riding weather up into mid December.

 

[indyblue]

All aside, there is not much like riding a back road or a highway or anything else on a motorcycle.

Most folks in the population of the States have not experienced anything close to it, but riding in the open air, smelling the smells, feeling the road, moving with it all is not much like anything else on a road.

Some appreciate it. Some don't. Some never experience it at all.

I have always enjoyed riding as well for all those reasons above. The sensation of leaning into a turn, the quickness and nimbleness of riding are hard to beat.

I would hate to give riding up, but with cell phones and legal weed, and short attention spans are becoming more dangerous than ever. There are times and places where it’s possible to avoid traffic but inevitably you will still run across jerks.

Now I can drive the Corvette with its top down and it’s almost as good as riding, corvettes are pretty quick and nimble and a heck of a lot safer.

 

[Wstar425]

Harley Davidson goes woke?!

There are some brands strongly identified with America, with American values and ideals and with American design and quality. They’re known and coveted around the world, prestige symbols here and abroad. That’s why it’s so dumbfound...

www.americanthinker.com

 

[Creedmoor]

Harley Davidson goes woke?!

There are some brands strongly identified with America, with American values and ideals and with American design and quality. They’re known and coveted around the world, prestige symbols here and abroad. That’s why it’s so dumbfound...

www.americanthinker.com

As is Honda and Bombardier.

 

[printcraft]

Smoke and mirrors my friend, you forget British Royal Enfield plant shut down around 1970, The Enfields made then in India were under contract not built by
Royal Enfield. Its just another reserection with stories like Indian so folks will believe its really a British Motorcycle, but in reality its a built in India motorcycle.
Plus its not built here, in the good old USA by Union workers.

They just flushed over 100 years of prestige down the crapper with the decision to make ANY HarleyDavidson outside of America.
You are not going to wash that stink off of the brand.
And when the rubber meets the road... and they lose more sales they WILL outsource their higher dollar machines to the lady boys.
Goodbye Milwaukee workers, it's been grand.

 

[Creedmoor]

They just flushed over 100 years of prestige down the crapper with the decision to make ANY HarleyDavidson outside of America.
You are not going to wash that stink off of the brand.
And when the rubber meets the road... and they lose more sales they WILL outsource their higher dollar machines to the lady boys.
Goodbye Milwaukee workers, it's been grand.

It could happen, it certainly will not be the first company to ride that road.

I'm not to sure that the 35 and over crowd coming in really cares about it all.
You know the crowd that has never owned a motorcycle and I mean any motorcycle with a kick starter.

 

[Wstar425]

As is Honda and Bombardier.

As is what? Woke? I’m not sure what you’re referring to. I’m sure Bombardier is woke as all get out, it’s Canadian after all. They might deport me to the UK just for thinking that!!

That article is just one guys’ opinion. He could be completely wrong for all I know? But, it seemed like it fit with the topic. The author is the guy that writes all the firearm articles on AT. He strongly disagrees with open carry, which I disagree with him on. And most of his firearm articles have at least one comment that leaves me scratching my head.

Had a couple of late 70’s KZ750 and 1000s that had kick starters. Did a quick search and came up with 1986 was the last year HD put a kickstarter on a bike and 1987 was the last year for Kawasaki. But, I have no idea how accurate that is. I haven’t seen one or owned a bike with one in many years.

 

[Creedmoor]

As is what? Woke? I’m not sure what you’re referring to. I’m sure Bombardier is woke as all get out, it’s Canadian after all. They might deport me to the UK just for thinking that!!

That article is just one guys’ opinion. He could be completely wrong for all I know? But, it seemed like it fit with the topic. The author is the guy that writes all the firearm articles on AT. He strongly disagrees with open carry, which I disagree with him on. And most of his firearm articles have at least one comment that leaves me scratching my head.

Had a couple of late 70’s KZ750 and 1000s that had kick starters. Did a quick search and came up with 1986 was the last year HD put a kickstarter on a bike and 1987 was the last year for Kawasaki. But, I have no idea how accurate that is. I haven’t seen one or owned a bike with one in many years.

Yes woke, All of mine but one have kick starters on them.

Some forget that Harley Davidson has been a multi national company for 90 years or so now.

 

[Ingomike]

Some forget that Harley Davidson has been a pawn of a multi national company for 90 years or so now.

FIFY