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From: lake charles la
Wow. what the hell am I reading, democrats vs republicans, liberal vs conservatives. Did my first trailering vacation this past summer. First off we did make better time, but what I hated most was watching my bike bouncing on that trailer form La. to Ga. The gas that was burned in the truck was terrible, but at the same time was getting tired of riding in 100 degree plus heat so we elected to trailer to Athens Ga. Everyone do you own thing but just don't touch mine. If you paid for my bike then maybe you have the right to critize my riding, so far I still do what I want in the US.
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From: NoVA
Yeah, and just like liberals in America you guys believe in free speech. As long as it's just the same speech as what you believe. I believe that you should ride a motorcycle to a motorcycle rally. Simple, no?
If you go to a BMW rally packing your bike in a pick-up or trailer, half a dozen guys will show up with their tool rolls in hand to help you fix the bike. It's just a different mind set.
If you go to Sturgis the estimates of 500,000 attendees is thrown around. From what I've seen, three or four hundred thousand of them trailer. That puts anyone, including me, who have ridden there, in a vast minority.
I know that. But I still think you should ride there. Always have, always will. If you trailer there because you want to party, fine. It's your loss not mine. I believe in the pilgrimage. Yes, that's right. To me attending Sturgis is a pilgrimage. A sacred right of passage to the Mecca of motorcycling. Those who ride there, understand this. Those who don't, maybe, never will.
From the forty some posts there seems to be not only a lot of hostility, but a lot of guilt. Why come on here with all the excuses? If my opinion has no meaning or value either say so, or ignore it and treat it as a troll. But please stop with the reasons and excuses. Ride or trailer, your choice. I really don't care. So put on the pirate gear, hop in your truck and drive off into the sunset.
If you go to a BMW rally packing your bike in a pick-up or trailer, half a dozen guys will show up with their tool rolls in hand to help you fix the bike. It's just a different mind set.
If you go to Sturgis the estimates of 500,000 attendees is thrown around. From what I've seen, three or four hundred thousand of them trailer. That puts anyone, including me, who have ridden there, in a vast minority.
I know that. But I still think you should ride there. Always have, always will. If you trailer there because you want to party, fine. It's your loss not mine. I believe in the pilgrimage. Yes, that's right. To me attending Sturgis is a pilgrimage. A sacred right of passage to the Mecca of motorcycling. Those who ride there, understand this. Those who don't, maybe, never will.
From the forty some posts there seems to be not only a lot of hostility, but a lot of guilt. Why come on here with all the excuses? If my opinion has no meaning or value either say so, or ignore it and treat it as a troll. But please stop with the reasons and excuses. Ride or trailer, your choice. I really don't care. So put on the pirate gear, hop in your truck and drive off into the sunset.
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I believe that you should ride a motorcycle to a motorcycle rally. Simple, no?
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I believe in the pilgrimage. ... To me attending Sturgis is a pilgrimage. A sacred right of passage to the Mecca of motorcycling. Those who ride there, understand this. Those who don't, maybe, never will
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From the forty some posts there seems to be not only a lot of hostility, but a lot of guilt. Why come on here with all the excuses? If my opinion has no meaning or value either say so, or ignore it and treat it as a troll. But please stop with the reasons and excuses. Ride or trailer, your choice. I really don't care. So put on the pirate gear, hop in your truck and drive off into the sunset.
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I believe in the pilgrimage. ... To me attending Sturgis is a pilgrimage. A sacred right of passage to the Mecca of motorcycling. Those who ride there, understand this. Those who don't, maybe, never will
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From the forty some posts there seems to be not only a lot of hostility, but a lot of guilt. Why come on here with all the excuses? If my opinion has no meaning or value either say so, or ignore it and treat it as a troll. But please stop with the reasons and excuses. Ride or trailer, your choice. I really don't care. So put on the pirate gear, hop in your truck and drive off into the sunset.
You remind of a Jehovah's Witness.
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Yeah, and just like liberals in America you guys believe in free speech. As long as it's just the same speech as what you believe. I believe that you should ride a motorcycle to a motorcycle rally. Simple, no?
If you go to a BMW rally packing your bike in a pick-up or trailer, half a dozen guys will show up with their tool rolls in hand to help you fix the bike. It's just a different mind set.
If you go to Sturgis the estimates of 500,000 attendees is thrown around. From what I've seen, three or four hundred thousand of them trailer. That puts anyone, including me, who have ridden there, in a vast minority.
I know that. But I still think you should ride there. Always have, always will. If you trailer there because you want to party, fine. It's your loss not mine. I believe in the pilgrimage. Yes, that's right. To me attending Sturgis is a pilgrimage. A sacred right of passage to the Mecca of motorcycling. Those who ride there, understand this. Those who don't, maybe, never will.
From the forty some posts there seems to be not only a lot of hostility, but a lot of guilt. Why come on here with all the excuses? If my opinion has no meaning or value either say so, or ignore it and treat it as a troll. But please stop with the reasons and excuses. Ride or trailer, your choice. I really don't care. So put on the pirate gear, hop in your truck and drive off into the sunset.
If you go to a BMW rally packing your bike in a pick-up or trailer, half a dozen guys will show up with their tool rolls in hand to help you fix the bike. It's just a different mind set.
If you go to Sturgis the estimates of 500,000 attendees is thrown around. From what I've seen, three or four hundred thousand of them trailer. That puts anyone, including me, who have ridden there, in a vast minority.
I know that. But I still think you should ride there. Always have, always will. If you trailer there because you want to party, fine. It's your loss not mine. I believe in the pilgrimage. Yes, that's right. To me attending Sturgis is a pilgrimage. A sacred right of passage to the Mecca of motorcycling. Those who ride there, understand this. Those who don't, maybe, never will.
From the forty some posts there seems to be not only a lot of hostility, but a lot of guilt. Why come on here with all the excuses? If my opinion has no meaning or value either say so, or ignore it and treat it as a troll. But please stop with the reasons and excuses. Ride or trailer, your choice. I really don't care. So put on the pirate gear, hop in your truck and drive off into the sunset.
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Yeah, and just like liberals in America you guys believe in free speech. As long as it's just the same speech as what you believe. I believe that you should ride a motorcycle to a motorcycle rally. Simple, no?
If you go to a BMW rally packing your bike in a pick-up or trailer, half a dozen guys will show up with their tool rolls in hand to help you fix the bike. It's just a different mind set.
If you go to Sturgis the estimates of 500,000 attendees is thrown around. From what I've seen, three or four hundred thousand of them trailer. That puts anyone, including me, who have ridden there, in a vast minority.
I know that. But I still think you should ride there. Always have, always will. If you trailer there because you want to party, fine. It's your loss not mine. I believe in the pilgrimage. Yes, that's right. To me attending Sturgis is a pilgrimage. A sacred right of passage to the Mecca of motorcycling. Those who ride there, understand this. Those who don't, maybe, never will.
From the forty some posts there seems to be not only a lot of hostility, but a lot of guilt. Why come on here with all the excuses? If my opinion has no meaning or value either say so, or ignore it and treat it as a troll. But please stop with the reasons and excuses. Ride or trailer, your choice. I really don't care. So put on the pirate gear, hop in your truck and drive off into the sunset.
If you go to a BMW rally packing your bike in a pick-up or trailer, half a dozen guys will show up with their tool rolls in hand to help you fix the bike. It's just a different mind set.
If you go to Sturgis the estimates of 500,000 attendees is thrown around. From what I've seen, three or four hundred thousand of them trailer. That puts anyone, including me, who have ridden there, in a vast minority.
I know that. But I still think you should ride there. Always have, always will. If you trailer there because you want to party, fine. It's your loss not mine. I believe in the pilgrimage. Yes, that's right. To me attending Sturgis is a pilgrimage. A sacred right of passage to the Mecca of motorcycling. Those who ride there, understand this. Those who don't, maybe, never will.
From the forty some posts there seems to be not only a lot of hostility, but a lot of guilt. Why come on here with all the excuses? If my opinion has no meaning or value either say so, or ignore it and treat it as a troll. But please stop with the reasons and excuses. Ride or trailer, your choice. I really don't care. So put on the pirate gear, hop in your truck and drive off into the sunset.
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Yeah, and just like liberals in America you guys believe in free speech. As long as it's just the same speech as what you believe. I believe that you should ride a motorcycle to a motorcycle rally. Simple, no?
If you go to a BMW rally packing your bike in a pick-up or trailer, half a dozen guys will show up with their tool rolls in hand to help you fix the bike. It's just a different mind set.
If you go to Sturgis the estimates of 500,000 attendees is thrown around. From what I've seen, three or four hundred thousand of them trailer. That puts anyone, including me, who have ridden there, in a vast minority.
I know that. But I still think you should ride there. Always have, always will. If you trailer there because you want to party, fine. It's your loss not mine. I believe in the pilgrimage. Yes, that's right. To me attending Sturgis is a pilgrimage. A sacred right of passage to the Mecca of motorcycling. Those who ride there, understand this. Those who don't, maybe, never will.
From the forty some posts there seems to be not only a lot of hostility, but a lot of guilt. Why come on here with all the excuses? If my opinion has no meaning or value either say so, or ignore it and treat it as a troll. But please stop with the reasons and excuses. Ride or trailer, your choice. I really don't care. So put on the pirate gear, hop in your truck and drive off into the sunset.
If you go to a BMW rally packing your bike in a pick-up or trailer, half a dozen guys will show up with their tool rolls in hand to help you fix the bike. It's just a different mind set.
If you go to Sturgis the estimates of 500,000 attendees is thrown around. From what I've seen, three or four hundred thousand of them trailer. That puts anyone, including me, who have ridden there, in a vast minority.
I know that. But I still think you should ride there. Always have, always will. If you trailer there because you want to party, fine. It's your loss not mine. I believe in the pilgrimage. Yes, that's right. To me attending Sturgis is a pilgrimage. A sacred right of passage to the Mecca of motorcycling. Those who ride there, understand this. Those who don't, maybe, never will.
From the forty some posts there seems to be not only a lot of hostility, but a lot of guilt. Why come on here with all the excuses? If my opinion has no meaning or value either say so, or ignore it and treat it as a troll. But please stop with the reasons and excuses. Ride or trailer, your choice. I really don't care. So put on the pirate gear, hop in your truck and drive off into the sunset.
Buzz, I tried to explain it to you earlier in this thread, but I guess you either didn't read it or understand or aren't smart enough to know the words. So I'll try again in simpler terms.
You think it's a great physical feat of endurance and skill to ride your bike to Sturgis, the pilgrimage as you call it. Well here's a news flash. You're sitting in a saddle on the interstate holding the throttle on. Anyone on the planet can do that. It's not that big of deal. If you were riding over the ice cap from Russia, or through the jungles of Central America then you could brag about how hard core you were about riding there. You rode down the fckn highway! It's paved! Why do you find it sooooo difficult to ride down a highway? That's not a rhetorical question. I really want to know why you consider it such a big deal that you can sit on your bike for a day? Do you not realize that even though someone might trailer their bike there that they too know how to ride down a paved highway with wide shoulders and painted lines?
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Buzz, I tried to explain it to you earlier in this thread, but I guess you either didn't read it or understand or aren't smart enough to know the words. So I'll try again in simpler terms.
You think it's a great physical feat of endurance and skill to ride your bike to Sturgis, the pilgrimage as you call it. Well here's a news flash. You're sitting in a saddle on the interstate holding the throttle on. Anyone on the planet can do that. It's not that big of deal. If you were riding over the ice cap from Russia, or through the jungles of Central America then you could brag about how hard core you were about riding there. You rode down the fckn highway! It's paved! Why do you find it sooooo difficult to ride down a highway? That's not a rhetorical question. I really want to know why you consider it such a big deal that you can sit on your bike for a day? Do you not realize that even though someone might trailer their bike there that they too know how to ride down a paved highway with wide shoulders and painted lines?
You think it's a great physical feat of endurance and skill to ride your bike to Sturgis, the pilgrimage as you call it. Well here's a news flash. You're sitting in a saddle on the interstate holding the throttle on. Anyone on the planet can do that. It's not that big of deal. If you were riding over the ice cap from Russia, or through the jungles of Central America then you could brag about how hard core you were about riding there. You rode down the fckn highway! It's paved! Why do you find it sooooo difficult to ride down a highway? That's not a rhetorical question. I really want to know why you consider it such a big deal that you can sit on your bike for a day? Do you not realize that even though someone might trailer their bike there that they too know how to ride down a paved highway with wide shoulders and painted lines?
Now he's gonna have to google rhetorical....
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Nevada 72 has great road trip threads.
I don't trailer but I wish I could. It would be nice to get out of the frozen tundra, and cycle in a warmer clime.
I do think the fun of going to Sturgis would be the journey and not trailering, but it is no skin off my butt how others do it. I try to mind my own business unless others are imposing on my freedom.
I don't trailer but I wish I could. It would be nice to get out of the frozen tundra, and cycle in a warmer clime.
I do think the fun of going to Sturgis would be the journey and not trailering, but it is no skin off my butt how others do it. I try to mind my own business unless others are imposing on my freedom.
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From: NoVA
Let's see. I got a guy with over seventeen thousand posts in three years telling me I run off at the mouth? That's way beyond ironic, that's in the realm of sanctimonious absurdity. With that post count I suppose you fancy yourself as the worlds foremost expert on everything. And with that, the need to have the last word in everything as well.
Well then, go for it. This will be my last post to this thread so you can feel free to run up your postcount. You're ahead of me anyway.
Larry, BTW the BRP is 469 miles long not 460, just to enlighten your expertise.
And Zeus, I take backroads to Sturgis not Interstates. And, I do understand why people north of I-10 would trailer to Daytona in March. Snow. And if you're on the east or west coast with only a week vacation why you would trailer to Sturgis. What I don't get is why someone from a state away has to trailer. You go to Laconia and see guys towing all the way from Vermont??? But man do these guys have the pirate thing down pat. Sorry, but I find that $#!+ funny and I'm way to old to change. Rip away.
Well then, go for it. This will be my last post to this thread so you can feel free to run up your postcount. You're ahead of me anyway.
Larry, BTW the BRP is 469 miles long not 460, just to enlighten your expertise.
And Zeus, I take backroads to Sturgis not Interstates. And, I do understand why people north of I-10 would trailer to Daytona in March. Snow. And if you're on the east or west coast with only a week vacation why you would trailer to Sturgis. What I don't get is why someone from a state away has to trailer. You go to Laconia and see guys towing all the way from Vermont??? But man do these guys have the pirate thing down pat. Sorry, but I find that $#!+ funny and I'm way to old to change. Rip away.