From wearing flip flops on a 750 lb motorcycle, to getting ever-fatter and using that as an excuse to buy ever-bigger, more pricey bikes, why does the IQ of the average Harley rider seem so low these days?

I love the bikes. But I have to say the dimwit ratio seems to have gone up significantly in the last several years.

If we are not careful, we are going to be as stupid as crotch rocket and metric riders pretty soon.

 

Who pissed in your coffee today?

 

There is a certain perceived "Cool" factor with riding a Harley. This attracts all kinds. Good, bad, ugly. I fall into the latter category (ugly). Or so I'm told.

 

What do you expect? Harley markets itself as a symbol of freedom and individuality. So it only makes sense that we can't all be as cool as you.

 

Maybe because I didn't get to ride today.

Seriously though, I see more and more that just makes me shake my head. The other day some fat **** in leather sandals, Bermuda shorts and a T shirt almost got taken out by a rig on the freeway because he thought he could fit himself into a lane split he had no business attempting.

He actually burped his short pipes before he tried, I guess thinking that was going to part the waters like Moses did the Red Sea.

Then again, if he's not worried about diabetes getting him, guess he shouldn't worry about an 18-wheeler on the I-10.

 

Jesus loves all his children.

 

 

Harley riders aren't becoming idiots....But more idiots are becoming Harley riders.

Ignore them, They'll find a new hobby after their first wreck.

 

You might be on to something there, Greezy.

I just wish they didn't have Boom! Audio systems on their bikes now. Because I have to hear their crappy taste in music too.

 

I used to ride my dirt bike barefoot when I was in my teens.

I totaled my first bike wearing only tennis shoes and shorts. no shirt and nothing else.

I'm willing to bet that almost all of us who have ridden since the 60s and 70 know someone who broke their leg in a bike wreck and continued to ride afterward with the cast on.

Idiots (me included) have been around forever.

People in glass houses... I'm not the one to throw the first stone.