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Old Sep 7, 2019 | 12:49 AM
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Guy pulls up on me with a brand new super clean Road Glide 114 M8. His partner pulled up behind us.

He says nice bike and I say yours as well. Then he says what you got a 103 or a 96. I say 96 with a Cam.
He then gets really proud and says good luck keeping up.

I let him and his buddy take the lead to see how bad they were. The first sweeper we got to I went around them like they were standing still. The rest of the road was a mix of fast sweepers and some semi tight corners. I couldn’t see them in my mirrors after just a few minutes.

I stopped to get gas in town and as I was done fueling they pulled in.

I said where’d you guys go... They responded damn you can ride the hell out of that bike.

I responded, “ Harley sales a lot of stuff but Big ***** isn’t one of them!
 

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Originally Posted by BONEFYD
One of my fav lines to drop on metric dudes when they turn their nose up at my harley is to say "yea well all my life I might not have always had a job but as long as I had I harley I always had a woman!" They don't like that one too much either.
Depends on the woman I guess.

Most lonely middle-aged midlife crisis guys who go out and buy a Harley have visions in their mind that they are going to attract this:




What they do end up attracting will be something more like this:


 
Old Sep 7, 2019 | 12:51 AM
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cool story bro
 
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Old Sep 7, 2019 | 01:03 AM
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cool story bro
So glad I could entertain you! It wasn’t you on the Road Glide was it? If so I didn't mean to hurt your feelings!
 
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Originally Posted by jz78817
cool story bro

 
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Old Sep 7, 2019 | 07:10 AM
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You showed them!

 
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Old Sep 7, 2019 | 08:16 AM
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BTW, it's sells not sales...just sayin'.
 
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Originally Posted by GalvTexGuy
You showed them!

Mine have been shrinking. Guess OP would smoke me....
 
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Old Sep 7, 2019 | 09:07 AM
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Originally Posted by GalvTexGuy
You showed them!

Yeah...good thing you got that 96 cammed...those big nuts of yours would be slowin’ ya down 😏
 
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Originally Posted by MiniWolf
That must be OP running those sweepers!!!
 
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