[bootlegga]

So, last week I'm driving along around 7pm, minding my own business when some goofball on a Harley pulls up beside me, his hog roaring super loud. We stop at an intersection and he proceeds to rev the hog the entire time he was sitting at the light. Now normally, it's annoying and I usually just let fucktards like that pass me and think good riddance to bad rubbish. However this time, my 1 year old daughter was in the backseat, trying to sleep.

So I glance over and look at Joe Meathead. I open my window and ask him to kindly stop revving his engine as my infant daughter is trying to sleep in the back. He looks over and grins stupidly and revs his hog even louder. Then when the light turned green, he deliberately kept pace with me for several blocks, with his engine revving like crazy (maybe he kept it in a low gear or something - I don't know). So I speed up and try to escape from this jackass.

He does too and stays with me - mostly because there is other traffic and I can't get around him. I turned right at the next main intersection, and he follows me through the turning lane, lane splitting (driving on the shoulder), then flips me the bird and cuts across three lanes of traffic, almost causing an accident.

Now, I'm not a road rager, but if my family hadn't had been in the car, I probably would have followed this moron for blocks and blocks until I got a really good look at his license plate - whereupon I would have reported him to the police as drunk driver. And I don't generally wish ill on people, but for a while, I honestly wanted him to become a jam smear on the road. But because my family was i nthe car, I 'let him get away' and continued on my journey.

Now I know ALL Harley owners are not fucktards like this dumbass (I even have a couple of friends who own them), but this moron is one of the reasons the City of Edmonton had too institute a law about loud idling on city streets.

So to those of you who want to bitch about unjust bylaws targeting dumbasses on motorcycles - this meathead is probably to blame (maybe he did something similar to the mayor).

[andyt]

One quick flick of the steering wheel - nuff said.

Yep, it's not just the Harley owners, but most of the time it is. Don't really hear the guys on BMW's riding with straight pipes.

The other thing I hate about Harley owners is that so many of them seem to want to be HA wanna bes.

It's always surprising when you see a Harley dressed in touring gear purring along with a normal looking person riding it. Actually I used to live next to a HA and that's what he rode - no chopper for him. Probably didn't want to look like the fucktard wannabes.

[desertdude]

Harleys and Harley owners Pfffffff !

[BartSimpson]

I'm no fan of these retards. There is NO reason why anyone needs to have a loud motorcycle on the road except that they're trying to make some sort of pathetic statement. What irks the snot out of me is that if you drive a car that's only half as loud as a Harley you WILL get ticketed. But, for some inexplicable reason, if you're an asshat on a Harley you get a pass.

[SprCForr]

Their bikes are slow and when I pass it must offend their masculinity in some way because they all try to pass me.

They then get shown that it's at my pleasure that they can pass me...

[andyt]

Jeez, ease off guys, or when Martin reads these comments he's going to blow a fuse.

[Robair]

What's the difference between a Harley and a Vacuum cleaner?

It's all in where you put the dirt bag.

[ASLplease]

please help me understand, your 1 year old daughter is trying to sleep, and you rolled your window down to ask a stranger a question that you must have known would have a pretty lousy chance of success? what were you thinking?

And please dont run from my question, "What were you thinking?" is a pretty wide open question, please answer it and explain to us why you felt that was the correct way to deal with the situation.

(For the record, the Harley that I owned still had the fairly quiet stock exhaust on it, and i never did develop that annoying twitch that causes a harley owner to flick the throttle every 10 seconds at a red light.)

bootlegga wrote:

So, last week I'm driving along around 7pm, minding my own business when some goofball on a Harley pulls up beside me, his hog roaring super loud. We stop at an intersection and he proceeds to rev the hog the entire time he was sitting at the light. Now normally, it's annoying and I usually just let fucktards like that pass me and think good riddance to bad rubbish. However this time, my 1 year old daughter was in the backseat, trying to sleep.

So I glance over and look at Joe Meathead. I open my window and ask him to kindly stop revving his engine as my infant daughter is trying to sleep in the back. He looks over and grins stupidly and revs his hog even louder. Then when the light turned green, he deliberately kept pace with me for several blocks, with his engine revving like crazy (maybe he kept it in a low gear or something - I don't know). So I speed up and try to escape from this jackass.

He does too and stays with me - mostly because there is other traffic and I can't get around him. I turned right at the next main intersection, and he follows me through the turning lane, lane splitting (driving on the shoulder), then flips me the bird and cuts across three lanes of traffic, almost causing an accident.

Now, I'm not a road rager, but if my family hadn't had been in the car, I probably would have followed this moron for blocks and blocks until I got a really good look at his license plate - whereupon I would have reported him to the police as drunk driver. And I don't generally wish ill on people, but for a while, I honestly wanted him to become a jam smear on the road. But because my family was i nthe car, I 'let him get away' and continued on my journey.

Now I know ALL Harley owners are not fucktards like this dumbass (I even have a couple of friends who own them), but this moron is one of the reasons the City of Edmonton had too institute a law about loud idling on city streets.

So to those of you who want to bitch about unjust bylaws targeting dumbasses on motorcycles - this meathead is probably to blame (maybe he did something similar to the mayor).

[PublicAnimalNo9]

andyt wrote:

Jeez, ease off guys, or when Martin reads these comments he's going to blow a fuse.

Yeah, it's too bad the retards had to ruin the reputation of an otherwise classic line up of motorcycles. A guy my dad worked with at Employment and Immigration(when it was called that) was a clean cut, soft-spoken guy who had a sweet Electra Glide.
My Mach 1 was louder

[martin14]

andyt wrote:

Jeez, ease off guys, or when Martin reads these comments he's going to blow a fuse.

not worried, that guy was being an asshat.


I dont provoke, I also never developed the need to rev the shit out of my engine
at a light.


Boots is right though, whatever anti bike legislation running is usually the result
of a few idiots.

But ya know, we all look the same to the cagers.

[ASLplease]

Also, If someone rolled down their window and left me with the impression of sincerity, I would have felt a little bad about it, and for the rest of the encounter, I wouldnt have made anymore noise than I had to.

Now, I dont consider myself a 'fucktard' or a 'dumbass' but if someone rolled down their window and left me with the impression of pretentious contempt, then ( I wouldnt have drove dangerous, not my style) I might have kept the engine quieter at the red light but made no attempt to be quiet or to clear the relative area once we got going.

And, if someone rolled down their window and left me with the impression of rude intolerance, then I probably would have paced him for a block or two with the pipes rattling loud and proud. ( I still wouldnt have drove dangerously, no my style)

But this is all a hypothetical, in reality, my harley had a stock exhaust, it wasn't loud enough to be a problem even if I wanted it to.

[Zipperfish]

I would have just yelled over the exhaust "OK buddy we get it. You got a small penis."

[bootlegga]

ASLplease wrote:

please help me understand, your 1 year old daughter is trying to sleep, and you rolled your window down to ask a stranger a question that you must have known would have a pretty lousy chance of success? what were you thinking?

And please dont run from my question, "What were you thinking?" is a pretty wide open question, please answer it and explain to us why you felt that was the correct way to deal with the situation.

What was I thinking? That perhaps this jerk-off might show some compassion.

Besides, what the fuck else could I do?

If you read the whole thing, you'd realize that I was stuck beside this jerk-off at a red light while this asshat was revving his engine. No matter what, his revving was preventing my daughter from sleeping. Perhaps if I was driving a Lexus with that amazing sound-proofing they have (sit in one at a car show sometime and you'll see what I mean) it would have been no big deal. Alas, my Jetta's sound-proofing is nowhere near as good and sliding the window down 6 inches didn't make all that much difference.

[martin14]

ya, you see bootie, it your fault for not having a better car ..

[bootlegga]

ASLplease wrote:

Also, If someone rolled down their window and left me with the impression of sincerity, I would have felt a little bad about it, and for the rest of the encounter, I wouldnt have made anymore noise than I had to.

Now, I dont consider myself a 'fucktard' or a 'dumbass' but if someone rolled down their window and left me with the impression of pretentious contempt, then ( I wouldnt have drove dangerous, not my style) I might have kept the engine quieter at the red light but made no attempt to be quiet or to clear the relative area once we got going.

And, if someone rolled down their window and left me with the impression of rude intolerance, then I probably would have paced him for a block or two with the pipes rattling loud and proud. ( I still wouldnt have drove dangerously, no my style)

Yeah, like I'm going to say, "Hey fucktard, tone it down my daughter is trying to sleep!"

My statement was something along the lines of, "Excuse me, could you stop revving your Harley because my one year old in the back seat is trying to sleep."

And no, I didn't offer him Grey Poupon, I wasn't wearing a tuxedo and no I didn't look at him scornfully. I tried to be sincere but this guy was an asshat pure and simple.

Frankly, what pisses me off about the whole thing was that it wasn't until after I tried to appeal to his humanity that he became a true asshat - deliberately trying to provoke me into a response. Up and until then, he was simply an inconsiderate jerk...