My thoughts are that you can thank the MoCo for the way things are now! You have to admit they do a great job in marketing the heck out of their bikes and apparel. It's business they are into makin money. They take the average joe and turn him into a leather skinned biker wanabe and send him down the road thinkin he's a badass.

Here's the recipe:
1. Take one scrawny guy, that's been livin in his mothers basement (thank you tourist for your enlightenment).
2. Put some leathers on him.
3. Spread ink liberally on skin, not limited to the arms.
4. Add one Harley Davidson motorcycle.
5. Top off with attitude.

Wha la one scrawny assed guy, tattooed looser that thinks he is a badass biker.

Please feel free to amend my recipe.

I agree with everything you said. However, I got up this morning, disappointed with myself because I've been cranky lately. About the only thing I can control is to keep posers out of my life--be they posers or simply citizen time-wasters who complicate my day.

The subject of "real bikers in a fake society" will never actually be settled. Primarily because posers feel justified in wearing my clothes for a plastic existence. In the end, they cannot really effect the history us fudds lived, nor can they attain it, buy it, ink it, or be successfull in just faking it.

A twenty-something guy in 1960s clothing, with a spring-fork, using outdated slang and sporting a "Born To Pose" tattoo is a fraud. We know it, no matter how steadfast his elusion.

Let's move on to more positive and important things. Like what brand of soap is better to scrub the bottoms of our bikes...

"Let's move on to more positive and important things. Like what brand of soap is better to scrub the bottoms of our bikes..."

They make a soap for that?!?! Seeeeee, ya learn something new every day. I have never scrubed the bottom of my bike. I did not know you were supposed to. I will get right on that. Will the dealer do that for me? right after i have him install my new pegs. I just can't wait, they say live to ride or something like that...

LOL, yes I scrub the bottom of my bike. Not for beauty, per se, but I keep my cases clean to trace potential oil leaks. On an old pan or knuckle it was hard to see a new leak amid the old.

Now, there. Isn't it better, and certainly more valuable, for bikers to talk about positive things rather than listen to a poser tell us about his 175 MPH Sportster?

And yes, I did use the word "valuable." I sell this polish to posers for 60 dollars. I tell them it's from an ancient Samurai formula passed down from father to son. You know, for the bottom of your engine cases...

https://www.japanwoodworker.com/product. ... t_id=13127

LOL
That would be pretty awesome to have a dozen addresses across the country we could call friends that we could be around and know that they'd have our best interests at heart.
Yeah in a perfect world, but really what's stopping us?
So far I haven't seen any posts about 175mph sporties...

Then hang out in saloons frequented by drunken townies. Every toothless wino I ever had breathe on me had stories of his BIL's Sportster he had beefed up with "secret parts."

In one session after a townie made the "175 MPH" claim, my fellow choir member Tiny responded, "Yeah, I had a speedometer like that..."