What Went Wrong?
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What he did wrong was concentrate of posing for the cameras on Mulholland Drive instead of concentrating on what he was doing. Looks like that will buff out though.
Last edited by dribble; Oct 9, 2014 at 06:09 PM.
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Joined: Jul 2014
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From: Idaho
Why in the blue blazes would you get mad at the Harley guy. I loved watching some of those guys ride fast in the corners. Heck I have almost wrecked watching them in the mirrors trying to keep up with me when I was on the sport bike. 
Remember it's more fun to ride a slow bike fast than a fast bike slow.
Remember it's more fun to ride a slow bike fast than a fast bike slow.
What the rider did wrong in the video is how he set up his bike for riding. He LOWERED an alreadly too low motorcycle and it scraped dangerously along the road and eventually flipped his rear end right off the bike.
Harley sells motorcycles that are set up wrong on purpose to make more sales. They discovered if they tune the bike wrong and forget about safety and handling they can get short little riders with short stumpy legs to BUY their huge motorcycle IF they can touch their little bitty toes on the ground. Presto! More SALES.
Then the not-so-intelligent "custom bike add-on doo-dad" guys jumped on the bandwagon and lowered the bikes even MORE. Because they could BUY some gadget doo-dad , slap it on their bike, LOWER it and declare "I HAVE A CUSTOM."
The only time you see a low Harley that works even CLOSE to correctly is with a solid Hardtail which does not have any up and down travel in the rear because it has NO shocks in the first place. THESE bikes can be a little bit lower without crashing.
But LOWERING a shock mounted motorcycle which was sold set up TOO LOW in the first place?
I don't know. Darwinian natural selection will eventually purge us of all the bad designs out there?
Probably not. Last weekend I was on my sportbike and a hairy Harley guy RACED me through the curves using 12" ape-hangers and no shield. And he was doing over 100 through the corners.
I would have NEVER ridden that fast on what I consider a terrible set up but HE did not have a care in the world.
So I give UP. Do what you want to do. I realize some of you get a thrill from DELIBERATELY setting up dangerous bikes in the first place. It is your THING.
I just hope my buddies will stop dying at such an alarming rate from bad setups. I am still not over the last one which was caused by scraping his bike and flipping it head on into a bridge abutment.
Carry on.
Harley sells motorcycles that are set up wrong on purpose to make more sales. They discovered if they tune the bike wrong and forget about safety and handling they can get short little riders with short stumpy legs to BUY their huge motorcycle IF they can touch their little bitty toes on the ground. Presto! More SALES.
Then the not-so-intelligent "custom bike add-on doo-dad" guys jumped on the bandwagon and lowered the bikes even MORE. Because they could BUY some gadget doo-dad , slap it on their bike, LOWER it and declare "I HAVE A CUSTOM."
The only time you see a low Harley that works even CLOSE to correctly is with a solid Hardtail which does not have any up and down travel in the rear because it has NO shocks in the first place. THESE bikes can be a little bit lower without crashing.
But LOWERING a shock mounted motorcycle which was sold set up TOO LOW in the first place?
I don't know. Darwinian natural selection will eventually purge us of all the bad designs out there?
Probably not. Last weekend I was on my sportbike and a hairy Harley guy RACED me through the curves using 12" ape-hangers and no shield. And he was doing over 100 through the corners.
I would have NEVER ridden that fast on what I consider a terrible set up but HE did not have a care in the world.
So I give UP. Do what you want to do. I realize some of you get a thrill from DELIBERATELY setting up dangerous bikes in the first place. It is your THING.
I just hope my buddies will stop dying at such an alarming rate from bad setups. I am still not over the last one which was caused by scraping his bike and flipping it head on into a bridge abutment.
Carry on.
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Joined: Mar 2009
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From: Niles Canyon Ca.
What the rider did wrong in the video is how he set up his bike for riding. He LOWERED an alreadly too low motorcycle and it scraped dangerously along the road and eventually flipped his rear end right off the bike.
Harley sells motorcycles that are set up wrong on purpose to make more sales. They discovered if they tune the bike wrong and forget about safety and handling they can get short little riders with short stumpy legs to BUY their huge motorcycle IF they can touch their little bitty toes on the ground. Presto! More SALES.
Then the not-so-intelligent "custom bike add-on doo-dad" guys jumped on the bandwagon and lowered the bikes even MORE. Because they could BUY some gadget doo-dad , slap it on their bike, LOWER it and declare "I HAVE A CUSTOM."
The only time you see a low Harley that works even CLOSE to correctly is with a solid Hardtail which does not have any up and down travel in the rear because it has NO shocks in the first place. THESE bikes can be a little bit lower without crashing.
But LOWERING a shock mounted motorcycle which was sold set up TOO LOW in the first place?
I don't know. Darwinian natural selection will eventually purge us of all the bad designs out there?
Probably not. Last weekend I was on my sportbike and a hairy Harley guy RACED me through the curves using 12" ape-hangers and no shield. And he was doing over 100 through the corners.
I would have NEVER ridden that fast on what I consider a terrible set up but HE did not have a care in the world.
So I give UP. Do what you want to do. I realize some of you get a thrill from DELIBERATELY setting up dangerous bikes in the first place. It is your THING.
I just hope my buddies will stop dying at such an alarming rate from bad setups. I am still not over the last one which was caused by scraping his bike and flipping it head on into a bridge abutment.
Carry on.
Harley sells motorcycles that are set up wrong on purpose to make more sales. They discovered if they tune the bike wrong and forget about safety and handling they can get short little riders with short stumpy legs to BUY their huge motorcycle IF they can touch their little bitty toes on the ground. Presto! More SALES.
Then the not-so-intelligent "custom bike add-on doo-dad" guys jumped on the bandwagon and lowered the bikes even MORE. Because they could BUY some gadget doo-dad , slap it on their bike, LOWER it and declare "I HAVE A CUSTOM."
The only time you see a low Harley that works even CLOSE to correctly is with a solid Hardtail which does not have any up and down travel in the rear because it has NO shocks in the first place. THESE bikes can be a little bit lower without crashing.
But LOWERING a shock mounted motorcycle which was sold set up TOO LOW in the first place?
I don't know. Darwinian natural selection will eventually purge us of all the bad designs out there?
Probably not. Last weekend I was on my sportbike and a hairy Harley guy RACED me through the curves using 12" ape-hangers and no shield. And he was doing over 100 through the corners.
I would have NEVER ridden that fast on what I consider a terrible set up but HE did not have a care in the world.
So I give UP. Do what you want to do. I realize some of you get a thrill from DELIBERATELY setting up dangerous bikes in the first place. It is your THING.
I just hope my buddies will stop dying at such an alarming rate from bad setups. I am still not over the last one which was caused by scraping his bike and flipping it head on into a bridge abutment.
Carry on.
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From: Lansdale, Pa
Good thing he had a helmet on 
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