SPEED Test Ride - The Rocker

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Feb 6, 2008 | 03:31 PM

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domenicp7

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RE: SPEED Test Ride - The Rocker

I watched it also. Could have done better job reviewing the bike. Why don't make a weekly or monthly show and showcase all the models? We might even get to see a dyna on there. All we have to choose from is American Thunder and OCC Geez. OCC is dead(really dead lately) American Thunder is all repeats.

Feb 6, 2008 | 04:05 PM

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RE: SPEED Test Ride - The Rocker

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I watched it also. Could have done better job reviewing the bike. Why don't make a weekly or monthly show and showcase all the models? We might even get to see a dyna on there. All we have to choose from is American Thunder and OCC Geez. OCC is dead(really dead lately) American Thunder is all repeats.

I still watch OCC for what it is - entertainment. I'm not looking for any ideas from it. I like American Thunder but it's gotten to where even when it's not a repeat, it's just a new episode of them going to the same event they went to at the same time the previous year (J&P cycles open house, Laughlin River Run, Daytona Bike Week, Kuryakyn this, Arlen Ness that, blah, blah, blah). If it were some dude instead of Michelle Smith, I'd probably never even watch it again.

I enjoyed the V-Twin Magazine show but only saw 1 season of it - was there more than 1? I think a HD sponsored show on SPEED would go over HUGE myself. It wouldn't have to be about every model. They could show maintenance (of course they wouldn't do that), new products, off the shelf mods, etc.

Frankly, I'm a little tired of watching a custom chopper get built or more Kuryakyn chrome get bolted onto a Fatboy. Someone needs to take the bikes we all ride every day and do the same things, but better, that we do to them everyday. Hell, I could write an outline to a season's worth of episodes myself.

Feb 6, 2008 | 06:08 PM

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RE: SPEED Test Ride - The Rocker

My Dad's retired and now works at a local HD shop to keep from driving my Step Mom crazy. He was telling me that the Duracell's aren't selling at all and HD is trying to get rid of them.Each HD shop is sent bikes many od which they don't haver a choice in picking. Every time one of these bikes comes in the sales guys get fired up. Just what I heard and after looking at the bikes at different HD shops I believe it! They're the same bikes that I saw early in the fall! I think HD picked a terd for their Anniversary float. Just my opinion and you know what they say about opinions. I also believe that you buy what YOU want and not what everyone else thinks you should buy. I'm stuck in Grand Rapids MI b/c they just 13" of snow. Hurry up Spring, I'm gettin' really cranky. . .