HELP ME...😱

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As reasons go, there can't be very many better ones TBF.
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rodbargee wrote: Mon Dec 05, 2022 11:13 pm When Mrs rdbrgee and I went to the states a few years ago, I hired one from screaming Eagles in Cottonwood AZ. YES WE WERE ON HOLIDAY so riding gear was somewhat limited but The feeling that your feet were going to arrive first I found very un-nerving. it also displayed the feeling that it had a hinge before the tank very wobbly it had little to no lean angle, me shaving off copious amounts off the running boards, it was painfully slow and felt a little like I expect the rotivator must have driven like in the good life. we went up into the hills a place called Jerome where there were some bends The mrs was really uncomfortable on what passed as a seat and all the bends had to be carefully negotiated as though the road was an ice rink ( i was by this time worried I had shaved off so much foot board that I'd lose my deposit
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Image not often the youngest in town!! let this be a warning The "quid pro quo" for hiring the bike was that I had to ride a horse up monument valley! this really should put you off

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Agricultural doesn't even come close


The horse or the Harley?
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The horse or the Harley?
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both for sure
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Yeahbut, with Harley you're still cool even if you stack it! :D

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Taipan wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 11:34 am Yeahbut, with Harley you're still cool even if you stack it! :D

Good job he had a crash helmet.


To protect his left hand :D
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Taipan wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 11:34 am Yeahbut, with Harley you're still cool even if you stack it! :D

He was riding at slow speed in a straight line and still managed to fall off ........ and these people legally carry guns ffs :shock: :mrgreen:
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Bigyin wrote: Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:15 pm
Taipan wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 11:34 am Yeahbut, with Harley you're still cool even if you stack it! :D

He was riding at slow speed in a straight line and still managed to fall off ........ and these people legally carry guns ffs :shock: :mrgreen:
I think its in Germany?
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Bigyin wrote: Sat Dec 10, 2022 12:15 pm

He was riding at slow speed in a straight line and still managed to fall off ........ and these people legally carry guns ffs :shock: :mrgreen:
S'OK... he would probably have shot himself with it...
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HTF did he manage that? Throttle still on as well as the front brake and the giant rear overwhelmed the skinny front tyre?
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Yorick has just announced on Facebook that his next bike is going to be a Harley and quoting him "arseless chaps"
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Skub wrote: Sat Dec 10, 2022 4:51 pm HTF did he manage that? Throttle still on as well as the front brake and the giant rear overwhelmed the skinny front tyre?
I think he was hoping (fantasising) that he'd be doing a rolling burnout but panicked when he had traction, then grabbed all the front brake.