View Full Version : Trailers and motorsickles, an observation.
As some of you might know it's time again for that gathering of the lameasses known as Biketoberfest.
I gotta tell you that I was truly disturbed today on I-4 by the numbers of bikes on trailers from such far away locales as the counties of Polk, Seminole, Hillsborough etc heading to Daytona. BTW these counties are all in Florida, these bikes were all stock modern bikes, not bar hoppers or unwieldly pristine choppers. If you can't ride a bike (any bike) from any county in Florida to Daytona then why not just park the fucking thing and take a godamn Greyhound?
You can bring yer HOG chapter colors with you and your crunchy chaps too.
Lame O.
The HOG owner's chick sits on the bike and makes revving sounds while going down the highway? She'd have the mandatory fringe leather on to match the grips, soft bags, and seat, of course.
Assdragger
10-16-2003, 09:50 PM
A friend of mine lost his mom to one of those trailers. His parents where touring on thier Goldwing in Texas (which is cool if thats your thing) back tire blew out on thier brand new bike, she fell of the back and the trailer ran over her!! Dont think I`ll be towing one after that!
leadsled
10-16-2003, 09:51 PM
Tell me about it. I was on my way home from work, (no wind shield, hard tail, 3 gallon tank) and these white collar fucks towing dressers wave at me like, "hey we ride too" So I gave'em the old this is your IQ/how many friends you had before your dog died. Last Sunday on my way home from Cruzin the Coast some faggot rolls by me towing a Mach I. Tim
Obviously she wasn't on the trailer, but how did the trailer run her over and not the vehicle that was towing it? Sorry if that sarcastic scenario brought back and bad memories...
Assdragger
10-16-2003, 10:02 PM
I dont know how it happened, I figure with the high seat backs on those bikes,she must have came off the side as he was laying it down??? All I know for sure is the trailer is what gathered her up! I never asked.Sore subject for my Bro and his dad. His dad passed away with cancer a couple years later!
I feel your pain Nads...I live 20 minutes from Sturgis. Status quo is a Suburban or Escalade pulling a 30 foot enclosed trailor followed by thier "bros" in a 50 foot motorhome!
Thats almost sounds like Miles or ElP at MOKAN http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif sorry guys.
tomslik
10-16-2003, 10:12 PM
tman, i heard $250 (a night)and up for rooms in sturgis.
good reason for a motorhome.....
ya know, i thought rodders got reamed for parts untill i bought a hardley....
k9racer
10-16-2003, 10:20 PM
If I see some one parked with a scooter on a trailer I always ask where did they break down and whats wrong with their EVO. most of the time I get dumb looks or they say its easier to drive the car and haul the bike.I then say your not much of a biker.I have seen very few Goldwings or BMW,s on trailers most of them ride I guess its the gold chain thing that happed to rodding.Thanks for listing to a old man rant I have not been without a bike for over 47 years I am I am 58 and got my Wizzer for my 11 birthday. Thank You
$250 is high but it depends on the place. Our average rate in the off season at a big hotel is $90 a night. I can see the reasons for hauling a bunch of bikes but most of these wankers dismiss riding before they have EVER done a cross country trip! Hell, I have ridden my bicycle farther than most foks willl take a Harley!!!!!!!
And ANY HAMBer that comes through the Black Hills gets a place to stay iffin they want.I will even cook up real BBQ!!!
Sam F.
10-16-2003, 10:24 PM
im gonna ride my bike to "trailer week"
k9racer, back before my young 'un was born and I had tons of time on my hand I'd camp with the Beezer boys at the Bulow camp ground. You'd better believe that these guys rode, and rode hard.
HD ain't nuthin' but a synonym for poseur these days.
PS, I can't hardly claim to being a biker, seeing as how I've barely ridden my bike 1500 miles in the last two years, but I don't dress up like one for special occassions either.
k9racer
10-16-2003, 10:30 PM
leadsled did you ever go to the slapout blowout put on by the Dixie Bikers association out side of Montgomery in Electic good times had by all and no trailers except for vendors. a lot of hardcore riders. Keep the rubber side down..
Sam F.
10-16-2003, 10:45 PM
ok,i prob wont go to bike week,but i do trip out on the influx of instant bikers...myself ,im just a fuckin punk,so who am i to critize,but i think its pretty sad ..
i was at a rally a couple weeks ago,,,i overheard a longbeard questioning the whole "new scene"... mainly criticizing the whole camping /rally experience
ie: RV's with trailers of bikes that get unloaded and parked,never ridden,then reloaded back on the trailer(i sware i saw said bikes that never got moved all weekend),generators.4 wheelers(quads to you city slickers) local folk cruising around in the area and doing burn outs in their pedestrian transportation(for those who have never had the opourtunity to go to a biker rally a lot of shit goes on,some of it is cruising back and forth trough the campgrounds,sometimes with nekkid chicks on the back some times doing burnouts,some times both)
anyways,i think its kinda cool,the posers that is,i mean,its kinda cool to trip out on them
Assdragger
10-16-2003, 11:13 PM
OK, like a dumbass, I misread the original post.... http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gifI thought we were talking about bikes pulling trailers, not bikes on trailers! Sorry for the brain fart! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
FRITZ
10-16-2003, 11:30 PM
I own an old chopped Panhead!
I dont own trailer.
I dont go to "bike" events either.
not much math to do there.
FRITZ
I've been riding for over 30 years and still have a Kaw in the shop, problem is the guys who all went and got themselfs a new HD all want to play "dress up" before they will ride. I took several of them with me and the wife and nearly lost half of them on one twist in the road. The wife and I have been riding together for the 27 years we have been married, she knows how to lean with me, we didn't think about all the guys dressed in their black leather and do rags not knowing how to lean deep in a tight twist. They we sure cutting the grass, but luckly none when down. They do not ask us to ride with them anymore because we never would play "dress up" or join their club they started. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
I grew up on a dirtbike and when I do get on a streetbike, I wear boots, long pants and a long jacket(leather or denim) along with a helmet. Open face with goggles, Euro style http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
I am certainly not cool.
Yea, that another thing we have the full face helmet that flip up (flip chin). We might not have been cool enought for them.
I raced dirt bikes for years, I don't ride any bike without a helment, it's saved my pumkin more than I can count. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
36-3window
10-17-2003, 12:09 AM
what really kills me about this H-D thing is that it's pretty obvious that most are just in it for the look.they are all dressed up with their black leather jackets,leather chaps,doo rags,etc. my neighbor is one of these new bikers,all his buddies and their women get all dressed up in the standard Harley uniform,meet at his house on a sunday afternoon...then they roar away in a big group to a bar 4 blocks away and sit there all afternoon trying to look cool. i've been over there for some of the late night stuff....some aren't too bad of people,but most are like my neighbor and bought their bike in the last year or two. they have even asked me to ride with them.....but i won't after the shit i get about my 1966 Sportster(which i have owned since 1973)...."sportster's are girl's bikes....and my favorite....."when are you gonna get a real Harley?"
my answer: "when are you gonna be a REAL biker?"
hell,i'm not even a real biker......sorry for venting
man, i tell you i felt so GUILTY, when the first week my triumph was rideable, i had to be in MN with my ol lady for a wedding, so i hauled the bike in the back of my truck with us, so i'd have something to keep me occupied while i was there.
coming back to CO, we came thru Trentville the week before sturgis, which made the guilt really bad! i never seen so many bikes on trailers before! at least here in colorado they actually ride! fucking thousands of them though, and every goddamn one has to do their silly wave at you...bro....
ah, and my "trailer queen" on the way home from the hamb drags was a sight to behold, crammed in the bed of the truck, along with 56 olds fenders mercilessy piled on top of it, not to mention wheels and other misc. crap. you could not even tell there was a bike under there.
i think i just figured out the whole harleys on trailers thing. see, the people (using the term people loosely here) who own the trailered harleys, are ignorant SUV driving idiots, who know, they, themselves run motorcyclists off the road on a daily basis. they know better than to risk their own personal wealth on two wheels. they know it aint fun when the guy trying to split lanes with you is driving a fucking hummer "suv" not a harley. not to get off on a rant or anything....
maybe it comes down to the suburban bikers are STREET RODDERS with SMALLER DICKS? they have more to prove? they spend as much as street rodders, if not MORE...but they got that peter fonda thing going, see american grafitti was a low(er) budget version of easy rider, no? but ron howard, well he just wasn't peter fonda now, was he? thinkaboutit. of course i could just be talking out of my sphinchter.
tomslik
10-17-2003, 07:16 AM
"coming back to CO, we came thru Trentville the week before sturgis, which made the guilt really bad! i never seen so many bikes on trailers before! at least here in colorado they actually ride! fucking thousands of them though, and every goddamn one has to do their silly wave at you...bro...."
hey ray, pick up this months Thunder Press newspaper(if ya got a bike shop down there that carries it)
there's been letters about the "wave" and one guy wrote one letter that MAY change your mind about it.
at least it made sense to me.
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