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Don't take it to personally man, some of the gruff is for the Harley just because we like to 
See you in October
I'll ride the America 
2005 America 145 mains, , #48 pilots, , k&n pod filters, ported intakes manifolds, nology coils and wires, pro com CDI, 62 HP at wheel 68,000 hard miles still runs great gone "traded"
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Don't take it to personally man, some of the gruff is for the Harley just because we like to
See you in October
I'll ride the America
you better, cause you know we don't do much straight line riding 
Always remember to be yourself. Unless you suck. Then pretend to be someone else.
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Don't take it to personally man, some of the gruff is for the Harley just because we like to
See you in October
+1. You know we like to rib the Hardly stuff. Most of the good fella's on here would worry about a member on here joining a 1% club. It could be you're right about them. I personally wouldn't take the chance. But good luck to ya.
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you better, cause you know we don't do much straight line riding
I've gotten the glide out in the twistys it does better than the rocket did
2005 America 145 mains, , #48 pilots, , k&n pod filters, ported intakes manifolds, nology coils and wires, pro com CDI, 62 HP at wheel 68,000 hard miles still runs great gone "traded"
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you better, cause you know we don't do much straight line riding
I've gotten the glide out in the twistys it does better than the rocket did
That ain't sayin' much! 
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you better, cause you know we don't do much straight line riding
I've gotten the glide out in the twistys it does better than the rocket did
Thats like saying, my dump truck handled better that my 18 wheeler
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I was just yanking your chain, thus the smiley after my post. I do agree that you better think long and hard before you commit. Like I said I know quite a few 1%ers and most regret it in time and want to fade out of sight. Some of the old guys that can just sit back and watch the young ones do stupid crap stay with it.Grew up with a few guys that are now Pagans, have a couple HA friends and a couple Breed friends. The one HA friend would crack you up he is a short stereotypical biker, short stocky always unshaven, chews a stub of a cigar most of the time and covered in tattoos. He makes cheese cakes for a living! Even has a couple patented flavors. He sells them to fancy restaurants , if those rich people only knew who just made their desert! As for the rocket , if I had the problems you described I would probably trade it too but for another Triumph.
I learned all I need to know about life by killing smart people and eating their brains.
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Btw, I hope by now everyone realizes that whenever the topic of 1%-ers comes up around here, I HAVE TO post my standard lament of:
The world would be MUCH better place IF ONLY more people on this freakin' planet would just adhere to Groucho Marx's famous pronouncement..."I refuse to join any club that would accept me as a member!"
Ah, Dwight, we're really going to miss you!
 
Well Mark, this isn't exactly a "club" around here, ya know.
(...I mean it's not as if we sport spiffy little vests with spiffy little "colors" on 'em, ya know)
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)
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I still have my America it's got 60,000 miles on it Ive got a 06 scrambler and I sold the rocket for the road glide I hate victorys I worked in a motorcycle shop and hated working on them I don't like the way they run or handle if I would of known the response I would have got from this post I wouldn't of posted I love my new bike it rides better then my rocket ever did I can actually see out of the mirrors clearly on the road glide gets better mileage And is more stable at high speeds than the rocket
Yea, i hate how the Victory has all that pesky HP and Torque, and how the bike will lean WAY over in the turns... (scary) and how i have to wait for my buds with their HDs to catch up,(I just play around when i get to the straight a ways) and now when i change my oil i only get to use 1 oil and its all done...1 hole 1 oil.. now i have all this free time....what to do.. what to do. Oh well i guess ill just ride 
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I still have my America it's got 60,000 miles on it Ive got a 06 scrambler and I sold the rocket for the road glide I hate victorys I worked in a motorcycle shop and hated working on them I don't like the way they run or handle if I would of known the response I would have got from this post I wouldn't of posted I love my new bike it rides better then my rocket ever did I can actually see out of the mirrors clearly on the road glide gets better mileage And is more stable at high speeds than the rocket
Yea, i hate how the Victory has all that pesky HP and Torque, and how the bike will lean WAY over in the turns... (scary) and how i have to wait for my buds with their HDs to catch up,(I just play around when i get to the straight a ways) and now when i change my oil i only get to use 1 oil and its all done...1 hole 1 oil.. now i have all this free time....what to do.. what to do. Oh well i guess ill just ride
Indeed.
So when you say you hated working on a Victory, you hated changing oil, the air filter and tires? 
Because that's pretty much all a Vic needs. Other than fork oil at 15,000 miles. They're bullet proof and just don't break. 
Yalls know I'm already with Milo on the Victory thing.
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I cant for the life of me figure out why a grown man would get involved with clubs like that... I grew up around some of that chit. Started hanging around biker bars when i was 15, didnt take long for me to figure out that was gonna lead down a bad road for me, ended up on some other bad roads anyway but...(whole other story)...Most every one i ever knew was a high end douche bag who had no respect for anyone.
To me, some of those clubs are no better than the low life street gangs that are out there, they pretend they are, but there not. I dont know the bunch your hangin with and maybe things have changed and im way off base, ive been known to be wrong before...
But if you roll on down that road, hopefully you stay out of jail and live long enough to see your kids grow up....
good luck..
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Don't take it to personally man, some of the gruff is for the Harley just because we like to
See you in October
I'll ride the America
you better, cause you know we don't do much straight line riding
Go ahead and ride the Harley, Damien. That way Donny won't feel like such a social outcast on his Dyna Glide Sport.
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FWIW, I like your new Glide. Good luck with it.
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Btw, I hope by now everyone realizes that whenever the topic of 1%-ers comes up around here, I HAVE TO post my standard lament of:
The world would be MUCH better place IF ONLY more people on this freakin' planet would just adhere to Groucho Marx's famous pronouncement..."I refuse to join any club that would accept me as a member!"
Ah, Dwight, we're really going to miss you!
Where the He!! do you think you're going? I didn't say you could leave!
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Btw, I hope by now everyone realizes that whenever the topic of 1%-ers comes up around here, I HAVE TO post my standard lament of:
The world would be MUCH better place IF ONLY more people on this freakin' planet would just adhere to Groucho Marx's famous pronouncement..."I refuse to join any club that would accept me as a member!"
Ah, Dwight, we're really going to miss you!
Where the He!! do you think you're going? I didn't say you could leave!
He couldnt take the heat........ 
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pretty sure that's not it 
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Well, he took his ball and went home
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I was refering to Dwight in that post. He's not going anywhere, is he?
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Dwight took his ball and left? 
And you may see me tonight
With an illegal smile
J. Prine
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Well, he took his ball and went home
I'm quite sure you have it all wrong, but since you're a newbie I guess we can't expect too much
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Dwight took his ball and left?
No, no no, his wife took his ba11z and went shopping.
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but since you're a newbie I guess we can't expect too much
Huh!, I've been here a while and I DEMAND low expectations of me!
Fidelis et Fortis
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LOL on all accounts
Newbie here maybe...ive got quite a few miles on quite a few bikes, and quite a few miles on me...not my first rodeo
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that's a given, Rich 
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Well, he took his ball and went home
I'm quite sure you have it all wrong, but since you're a newbie I guess we can't expect too much
I calls it the way i sees it....
Thats the way uh huh uh huh i like it uh huh u huh
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Dwight took his ball and left?
No, no no, his wife took his ba11z and went shopping.
Eww!
I hate it when that happens.
(AND, it happens to ALL of us, sooner or latter!)
And you may see me tonight
With an illegal smile
J. Prine
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Yeah I know, last time mine bought a new house in a sub-division, I wanted 30+ acres and a log cabin. Oh well, at least I'm on a 8 acre lake and gaining equity and not in city limits.
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