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Old Dec 29, 2010 | 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Other Sheep
Touring bikes are baggers. Softails are softails. Dynas are dynas. Get it?
Yeah I agree. just becasue you install bags or it has bags does not mean it's a bagger.
 
Old Dec 29, 2010 | 02:06 PM
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if a person gets "Tea Bagged" are they now a bagger by having bags on them.
 
Old Dec 29, 2010 | 02:48 PM
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Anything other than a touring bike is a Bagget.
 
Old Dec 29, 2010 | 04:05 PM
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My buddy was telling me how ugly his wife was, I didn't believe she could be that bad, so I said prove it to me. He invites me over and hollers down into the basement, " Honey, come on up here!" She replies, " Should I put the bag over my head? " He say's, "No, I don't want to F@%k you, I just want to show you off!"
Now that my friends, is a BAGGER!!!!!!
 
Old Dec 29, 2010 | 04:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Wallaby
There's the "3 Bagger"

One bag for her head
One bag for your head
One bag to vomit in if your bag should fall off.....

And here I thought I was going to open this thread and explain what a bagger was, and a double bagger. But a triple bagger? I never heard that one before, good one!

lucky for me, I don't have experience in that area. Unfortunate for me, I think I know what a bagger is. haha, same as a 10 beer chick. She starts looking good after you've had 10 beer.
 
Old Dec 29, 2010 | 04:36 PM
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Well touring bikes are baggers but personally I also call any bike with just the hard saddle bags a bagger since I've seen bikes with just hard saddle bags and nothing else like a fairing. But if it just has the soft leather saddlebags then it's not a bagger.
 
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A bagger is the kind of bike you ride when you're too old to care what you look like any more; kind of like wearing sweatpants.
 
Old Dec 29, 2010 | 04:48 PM
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the mrs has some funbags (see avatar), does that make me a bagger rider once a week or so?
 
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Originally Posted by CaptJIM
Dresser, Full Dresser, Bagger, Decker, and Geezer Glide all describe one thing - a fully equipped H-D touring bike with fairing, saddlebags, and a trunk period. A Heritage Softail Classic is not a bagger, it is a Softail.
no, but a road king is a bagger, and it does not have a fairing.

Originally Posted by SouthernGuy8503
Well touring bikes are baggers but personally I also call any bike with just the hard saddle bags a bagger since I've seen bikes with just hard saddle bags and nothing else like a fairing. But if it just has the soft leather saddlebags then it's not a bagger.
except in the case of the road king classic. it is a bagger, but it has soft leather bags.....

i say, if it comes from the factory with bags, then it is a bagger. if you add bags after the fact, then it is an 'x with bags'......

a dresser is the full deal, with tourpak and fairing and bags.
 

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