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Old Sep 5, 2007 | 10:58 AM
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Last week the wife and I rode over to Eureka Springs, Arkansas for a three night stay. We decided togo out to a nice resturant Saturday evening (Ermilio's) for some fine dining, so our standard riding gear really wasn't appropriate. We both put on some nice dress shorts and Polo knit shirts along with our flip flops. Well, off we go only to get caught in traffic right in front of the Pied Piper biker bar. There must have been about 150 Harleys there and everyone is seated outside dressed like Biker Demons from Hell. I've still got blisters from the stares drilling into my back and my ears are still ringing from the hoots and hollers. So, if any of y'all were among my tormentors, I just wanted to say 'You can kiss my butt."


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Old Sep 5, 2007 | 11:01 AM
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Old Sep 5, 2007 | 11:04 AM
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just to make it interesting you should have flipped them all off!
 
Old Sep 5, 2007 | 11:06 AM
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i know i'm a safety **** and everything, and i ride a sporty with midmounts, not floorboards, but i don't even see how it's possible to shift with flip flops.

do you work up callouses on your toes or something?
 
Old Sep 5, 2007 | 11:08 AM
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I thought about lifting up my shirt to expose the Colt 1911 .45 ACP that I had stuck in the back of my shorts, but if a cop would have seen me, I probably would have got in trouble.
 
Old Sep 5, 2007 | 11:08 AM
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holy coincedence. I was ridin monday and saw your twins. guy had on shorts, a t-shirt, and deck shoes. chick on back had shorts tight t-shirt and flip flops. talk about a hot foot. you wouldn't happened to be ridin a fat boy would you
 
Old Sep 5, 2007 | 11:09 AM
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just to make it interesting you should have flipped them all off!
Might have made it interesting but also might not be telling us this story now.
 
Old Sep 5, 2007 | 11:09 AM
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now that what happens when you dress down. you should have kept your good clothes on.to some people it does make a diffence.
 
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Old Sep 5, 2007 | 11:10 AM
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i know i'm a safety **** and everything, and i ride a sporty with midmounts, not floorboards, but i don't even see how it's possible to shift with flip flops.

do you work up callouses on your toes or something?
Nope. I use the heel shifter. This is not something I do on a regular basis. Engineers boots just wouldn't have looked right with my shorts and shirt.
 
Old Sep 5, 2007 | 11:10 AM
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If you aren't dressed like a bad ***, outlaw, "real" biker some ignorant fools make fun of you even though you have been riding longer than most of them have been alive. I do not dress like that either, (but I do not wear shorts andgo- aheadsfor safety reasons),and have had comments made and have been ignored by people who think there is only one way to dress to be a biker. I don't care because I do not want to know anyone that stupid anyway.
 



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