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I think in some cases it's not the style of bike so much but the image the riders of those bikes have created. I'm guilty of it myself, but hate is not the proper word. When I see 3 sport bikes doing wheelies and stoppies and constantly changing lanes on a busy highway the mind registers sportbikes = asshats.
When I see 6-8-10-20 Harleys in a serpentine line running red lights and doing 30 on a 45 mph road with open exhausts and the "required" rev the crap out of it at every stop my mind registers Harleys = asshats.

I can look at both styles of bikes in a showroom or a parking lot and admire them for what they are....
Add an asshat and put them on the street and the broad brush comes into play, even though I know better.



Sorry Z-man, but after readin' Deon's take on all this here, I'm now gonna have to add my "+1" to his thoughts here also!!!

Now, I sure hope this doesn't "dilute" in any way my "+1" to your thoughts here Z, 'cuz I STILL kind'a like your take on all this too!

(and BTW...has ANYBODY around here taken the time to inform that MORON at the other website about Triumph cruisers handling better than he realizes they do, AND like I ASKED ya to do???!!!...If NOT, then COME ON you friggin' SLACKERS around here, DO IT!!!...Heck, I'D do it, BUT I ain't a member of THAT website and so I CAN'T...uh huh, ya see how I'm savin' myself ONLY for YOU dear folks around here?!...what a guy, huh???!!!)



Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)