haha...hahahahaha!

http://www.goingfaster.com/angst/noharley2.html

 

His girlfriend left him for a Harley rider...

 

My, some people _do_ go on.

-----sharks

 

http://www.goingfaster.com/angst/noharley2.html

"I think I've finally figured out just *WHY* Harley Davidson motorcycles
are so popular... Harley Davidson isn't a motorcycle company, it is a
cult religion."

YAAY...It only took him / her 4000 words to get there!
As with all religions you either join it or ignore it.

 

I actually got a nod from a Hardly rider yesterday, so it's not all bad.
Lisa wasn't even riding topless at the time!

As if.

Cheers,
Dave
(I'm dead)

 

"

As Americans, we live in the greatest country, the greatest country in the
entire world. We, as Americans, are driven to be the first in everything.
It's our nature. We're not slackers. We take second best to no one. It's a
national point of pride. No one can beat our military [1], our pride, our
technology, our determinedness, or our ingenuity. There is nothing in the
world, no problem, no tragedy, no foe too great that America cannot triumph
over them."


And none as humble and self-effacing, of course.

 

Yes indeed. A bit frightening is the thought that there probably are a
large number of Americans who actually think this way. Very little
reference to the outside world will create such short-sightedness - wasn't
it true that Bush had never been abroad when elected??? Anyway - not really
meaning to get into this debate. Just unfortunate that such a nation weilds
such power.

There are more recent examples, unfolding every day.

Cheers,
Dave

 

I showed two harley riders where the bike shop was the other day. They
pulled up beside me at the lights and asked me, I suck at giving
directions so I just told them to follow me. Personally I don't know
why he didn't buy some oil from the servo next to the traffic lights,
but they seemed quite happy when I left them at the bike shop

Ash.

 

To give them a thrill did you sneak it into second for a few stretches?

Years ago (on the ZZR) I lanesplit next to a stereotypical accountant
looking guy on a brand new Harley in North Sydney. He asked me for the
quickest way to Rockdale - I told him to get himself a Jap bike and turn
right at the end of Berry St.

Cheers,
Dave
(It's fun to be harsly critical of a breed I've never ridden).

- there's an opening or two there...

 

Determinedness, eh?

 

Determinedness, eh?[/QUOTE]

Yeah, thats the American habit of detering other countries from building
better technology than them by leaving minefields behind after enforcing
their idea of democracy with their own puppet regieme in control...

big

 

More of a political loss than a military one.......

 

The most clueless and least classy act of fellow-bikie manners I have had
the displeasure of experiencing:
Harley rider (30ish, middle-class clean-shaven type) needed an allen key set
to fix a wiring problem on his wristgrip kill-switch. My mate was working in
a petrol station where this guy pulled up, and rang me up to see if I
wouldn't mind bringing the toolkit around.
Did the job, problem solved, and as he was about to leave, Mr HD, said unto
us words to the effect "thanks, and if you go and see Bob at xyz bottle
shop, tell him Mr HD sent you and he'll give a pack of stubbies".

My most unmissed friend: Harley rider mate I'd known for a few years from
interstate cruised by, but was fretting about reliability of beast to get
home again. I lent him $400 to make sure he had a safety net for
transport/storage/repair if necessary.
He got back home without any majors, and after I reminded him on the 'phone
a few months later that he owed me $400, I haven't heard from him since.

Another mate of mine owned a couple of harleys for a while, but he recovered
and gave them up. Now he's a a member of Parliament. (meant to be a
compliment, but I realise some readers may read that differently).

Harley Davidson faced the crisis in the mid to late 70's when they were
effectively insolvent. They took the advice of McKinsey and Company (?)
corporate consultants to the effect that their one exploitable asset was
their image, and to devote their entire corporate strategy to that end.
You'd have to admit, the advice was effective.

McKinsey and Company are a story in themselves. Try reading "Dangerous
Company. Management Consultants and the Businesses They Save and Ruin "
James O'Shea & Charles Madigan.


Larry

 

It would if you're in the military

 

What odds that, had he not gone ca-ca-cuckoo by then, George III
would've put the loss of the American colonies in those exact terms?

 

Harley get used so often as a case study in our Operations Management,
Supply Chain, Change Management (business, MBA, etc) courses that
they're becoming a bit of a cliche. A bloody big turnaround from
a near-death experience apparently. Thankfully, you can't order
a custom bike online yet, so I won't have to use them in *my*
classes!!!

G

 

Wars are fought by more than just the guys on the ground.

And how about Korea? Somalia? or Iraq? Not too many success stories there.
Don't get me wrong, the yanks have the best hardware money can buy. But with
kill ratios greater than 10:1 and you still don't win, useless is the only
word for it.

 

McKinsey's did such a job on the Commercial Bank of Australia that we had to
merge with the least-efficient bank in Australia to avoid folding.

One of McKinsey's star performers was the Liberal Party's president, darling
of the Melbourne establishment John Dorman Elliott, now a serial defaulter,
soon-to-be bankrupt, insolvent trader, and accused thief and swindler.

 

.....but, hang on, those words also describe me!

 

"Performance and technology; two words synonymous with America."


I would've thought Overweight and Tacky were more appropriate...