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Tassles - Make Them Mandatory!

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Old Aug 22, 2011 | 12:43 PM
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Default Tassles - Make Them Mandatory!

Just saw a posting to ban tassles so I thought I'd make a PRO TASSLE posting! I like the look on MY BIKE! Mabey it's the way they "hang" when the bike is sitting still, or the way they wave in the breeze when scooting around local, or the way they snap in a steady fast ride down the highway against my forearms (the pleasure of pain)! Never really cared to figure it out, don't think I'll bother to!!
Let them wave for the freedom of the open road. You do things your way, I'll do them mine! Basic leather trim has always been an accessory to these machines. I won't say anything unkind about your ride if you don't hassle my tassles!!
 

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Old Aug 22, 2011 | 12:53 PM
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Glad you like them, not a fan, but glad you can live in a place where you get the choice to like them or not. Unfortunate that others will put you down for your choice. I kind of that that was what owning a Harley was all about.
 
Old Aug 22, 2011 | 01:04 PM
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who is in control of the asylum????

should I wear lace-up boots or pull-on???
 
Old Aug 22, 2011 | 01:06 PM
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Yo no quiero thank you.
What you do or don't do to your bike is up to you.
 
Old Aug 22, 2011 | 01:07 PM
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Don't hassle the tassels! I don't care for them myself, but I don't hate or want to ban them either.
 
Old Aug 22, 2011 | 01:12 PM
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They're not for me but I'm not anti-tassle I do think they look good on Heritage Springers with the fringe bags.
 
Old Aug 22, 2011 | 01:13 PM
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No worse than that Willie G skull on everything!
 
Old Aug 22, 2011 | 01:25 PM
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who is in control of the asylum????

should I wear lace-up boots or pull-on???
Pull-on.
 
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I love the tassels on my Ultra Classic. But maybe I'm the wrong guy to ask about good taste as I also wear chaps when its cold out or I'm on the freeway.
 
Old Aug 22, 2011 | 01:58 PM
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I'd have to say I'm not anti-tassel, anti-fingerless glove, anti-assless chaps, anti-loud pipes, anti-etc... either.

just think, we'd all be Honkawasuki riders if we wanted to look alike. thank God we have so many choices.
 



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