I live in Charleston, SC and it’s an absolutely beautiful city. Great restaurants, bars, shops, etc and I enjoy all the city has to offer.
That being said, when I’m on my Harley and I ride through the city, I can see a difference in the looks I get as opposed to when I’m just walking around. It’s as if being a on bike (and my Harley is kinda loud), wearing old blue jeans, boots, and a garage workshirt, makes me some kind of freak.
To make it worse is seeing today’s liberal version of men; prancing around in those skin-tight jeans, their little scarves and Justin Beiber haircuts, it just makes me laugh and shake my head.
You feel more ‘manly’ by riding your HD amongst the hordes and being obnoxiously loud? How fecking more insecure could you possibly get?
Eeewwwww...
therein is the irony.
the average harley rider:
has a college degree,
earns 65,000 dollars a year
votes conservative/republican
when they see motorcycles cities should see money. Money spent in their dying cities, dying businesses, collapsing states.
I do NOT wear skin-tight jeans, little scarves or sport a teeny-bopper hair style. I don’t sip latte, not wear Birkenstocks. I am a veteran, reasonably well-educated and a daily walker. While walking, I listen to books-on-tapes. I am regularly passed by roaring cycles and I have to stop the CD and then go back, once the cycles are out of earshot, and try and find my place. Bikers have rights, but so do I. (BTW, we share the same first name.)
Same as I laugh at "men" who derive their manhood from a vehicle.