Obnoxious Bikers

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Tis the thankfully short tourist season in Northern New York and the roads are full of obnoxious motorcyclists.
100% Harley-Davidson riders, in my experience.
Had my first experience with a blocker and club running multiple red lights while they backed up traffic.
The RV ahead of me couldn't hear me screaming at him to just run them over..

So today my feed is full of videos like this one. It's worth searching for and watching but I mostly posted this to share the comment section

 

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This video is about some whiny Harley rider complaining to the sport bike guy with the GoPro that he should have asked pretty please before he passed him.

As before the best part of these videos is the comment section

 

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If you're curious about the 1%, this is what Google AI has to say about it

 

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Just goes to show that you can't trust AI.

Here's the real origin of the term





FYI - 70 is the generally accepted cutoff for a clinical diagnosis of mental retardation

 

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I'm reminded of the iconic Honda ad that first aired when I was 3 years old.

 

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While Honda and the other Jap manufacturers - primarily Kawasaki, Yamaha and Suzuki - were selling fun, youthful enthusiasm, clean-cuttedness, Archie comic stuff and later, performance, Harley instead decided to focus on enhancing its image of the loner, the outsider, the antisocial one percenter for whom the rules didn't apply.

Is it any wonder that the general public including the motorcycle riding portion of the public views Harley riders as wannabe tough guys. Obnoxious loud attention seeking. Narcissistic and sociopathic.
Retards.

I've known several professional people - many of them PhD's or MD's from my past career of working in hospital lab work who rode.
None of them rode Harleys.
Jap bikes were very common.
And a very high proportion of BMWs.

 

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It's worth noting that the most popular and visible motorcycle in culture including television in my youth was a Triumph TR5 Trophy