Everything Changes
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Look around at the next Harley event you attend and then tell me what you think the average age is... My 25 and 23 year old sons both have been riding for 10+ years but never bought into "the Harley thing". They like 'em, but are more interested in overall performance and have little interest in a 'classic look and sound' that isn't classic to them. And like everyone else from their generation, they love their iPhones...
Harleys, and the guys who rode them in my home town (near Philly), were a different bunch when I was a kid in the '60s and '70s...the bikes and people who rode them fascinated me. The sound of a Knuckle or Pan symbolized escape from the mainstream for me. But every math teacher with a decent credit score who wants to be a 'rebel' can ride a Harley now and put on their best scowl at the red light. Motorcycles are mainstream now...they're just not that fascinating to today's kids in my experience.
My kids would probably look up because they love motorcycles...but wouldn't be that fascinated, because it's probably just their math teacher in his pirate outfit. Yep...it's sad in a way... But if you wave or nod, they'll wave or nod back...
Harleys, and the guys who rode them in my home town (near Philly), were a different bunch when I was a kid in the '60s and '70s...the bikes and people who rode them fascinated me. The sound of a Knuckle or Pan symbolized escape from the mainstream for me. But every math teacher with a decent credit score who wants to be a 'rebel' can ride a Harley now and put on their best scowl at the red light. Motorcycles are mainstream now...they're just not that fascinating to today's kids in my experience.
My kids would probably look up because they love motorcycles...but wouldn't be that fascinated, because it's probably just their math teacher in his pirate outfit. Yep...it's sad in a way... But if you wave or nod, they'll wave or nod back...
Last edited by Wheels24; Jan 31, 2015 at 06:44 PM.
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Once upon a time you pulled up to a stop, look over and see a guy and his kid in a car. Dad is staring off into space and the kid would look longingly out the window at your bike and the father never noticed.
Today, the kid has his face buried in a phone, the father looks longingly at your bike and the kid never notices.
It's sad.
I guess everything changes, not always for the better.
Today, the kid has his face buried in a phone, the father looks longingly at your bike and the kid never notices.
It's sad.I guess everything changes, not always for the better.
It's because the fathers now are the kids from then.
EDIT: Someone above beat me to it.
Last edited by DannyZ71; Jan 31, 2015 at 07:37 PM.
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I guess I was reliving my boyhood... where I was that kid in the car. I so badly wanted to be one of the big (to me) men on the motorcycles so I could just GO (and have boobies pressed into my back!).
Maybe that's what these kids are doing on their phones, escaping. Just in a different way now. What do *I* know. I noticed this probably half a dozen times in the last 10 days and was thinking about it.
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