Quote: I am also involved in some good natured Hardly (ooops) bashing with some of my friends. But this is my experience. A good many of the Hardly(ooops again) riders have an attiude about other bikes where as most of the Trumpet riders I know are into Trumpets and all other kinds of machines. It's just true, Trumpet riders are cooler people.
LOL.
People are people. It doesn't matter if you are talking about bikes, trucks, or whatever. You are going to have a certain group that uses their (fill in the blank) to indentify themselves. The use of another kind of (fill in the blank) by another is a threat to thier identity and to their ego as only they know what is best.
My experience with the only three Triumph owners I know personally is that they have the chip on their shoulders. I want to talk bikes and trips and such and I am always met "the Harley guys" type comments from them. Not in a good way either. Coincedentally all of them put maybe a thousand miles on their bikes in a year.
I've met and road across the country with some of the dozens of "Harley guys" met on a forum just like this one. Not one of them gives a crap about what you are riding.
I guess it comes down to who you hang with.
I bet if you took a poll of the Harley guys with an attitude most of them got their first bike at 40+ years old fulfilling a life long dream. Real bikers don't give a crap what the next guy is riding.
