Where Shall we Meet for Coffee on Sunday?

[Tired Iron]

   ....I hated the "boat tail" fender deal Mervin...

   The 70's were totally the "let's modify from new" years...


    Now, just to clarify..   during the "Panhead" era, we experienced the Hydra Glide, the Duo Glide, and in it's last year of existence, the Electra Glide.     ...which was awesome on account of it being electric and kick at the same time. 

   The Shovelhead era brought it's own morphism with going to an alternator from a generator and changing the bottom end look for the next few decades, the introduction of the "bat wing" fairing in 1969 which continues to this day, the FLT "Tour Glide"  ...forgot about that two headlighted rubber mounted five speed couch with the backward triple tree deal, and much much more.
  Many really cool models like Merv touched on, like the Wide Glide, the Factory Custom Wide Glide, The Low Rider, The Sturgis with it's belt drive primary, and many others.

   Much due to Willy G's vision, name, and character.

   God bless him for continuing his Family legacy with his own, very personal, vision.


   Harley Davidson.

   What a history.

   What a story.


   ....don't see a lot of proud Kawasaki, Suzuki or Honda tattooed people.

[Runningdog]

Tattoos are in more subtle, private locations on the body....eewwwww.....

[Evil-Kawood]

Kawasaki Heavy Industries a builder of freighters among other things doesn't need me to advertise for them,
besides I don't like to do free branding for anyone if I can possibly avoid it.

[Tired Iron]

   ...of course..

[Six To Go]

Kawasaki Heavy Industries a builder of freighters among other things doesn't need me to advertise for them,
besides I don't like to do free branding for anyone if I can possibly avoid it.

I agree Bill...

[754]

Well then... You can turn off the neon on them green shirts..

 Or maybe its greenshirts..like the old days.. In the old country , far away..

[Evil-Kawood]

You should have bought one Frank, they were to support Dale and Vintage in the Valley not Kawasaki.

[754]

Man i tried to get down there, could not make it. Went to the first one.. Great event..

[Runningdog]

"I don't like to do free branding for anyone "

Bill has a point......never had an interest in tattoos, so I have not checked out how many HD tattoos are actually on HD riders......maybe most of the art depicts things that have nothing to do with actual brands.....comments from those closer to tattoos?

Does HD culture include tattoo culture (TC), with no bike affiliation or use, or is TC an urban thing? 

[Twisted_Twin]

Tattoos are an urban thing now.

It's wierd, tattoos on a guy from my grandfather's generation usually meant they were a veteran.

Tattoos on a guy from my father's generation usually meant they were a badass at one time or another (or in my father's case, make bad decisions. The only name you get tattooed is yours or "mom")

Tattoos on my generation simply mean "look at me, I'm complex and moody".

The last movie I saw, Will Farrells character was a discount mattress salesman who had a tattoo of arabic writing on his neck that apparently translated to "make good decisions" That sums up the tattoo thing for my generation right there.

I really don't get the piercing thing. Why would you want to look like you fell face-first into a tackle box?

I have a plan. I don't have any tattoos or piercings. When all of my generation's kids are used to their parents and their parents friends having tattoos, they'll look a me an think: "that guy has no tattoos, he's probably a psychopath or something!"  

Some examples:

[bccap]

I thought all Harley shops had a resident tattooist on site ? 

[mervin]

 When I was young it was the sailors (Navy sailors) that got tattoos.
 I don't Get tattoos because my grandfather always said not to because you can always be identified. He probably was thinking of Hitler tattooing the Jews and the big fear of communism and the communist purges in the USSR. However it did seem like a good idea to me to not have identifying markings.
 I remember when people hated us when I was young, and I mean HATED us because we had long hair, so I don't criticize the latest trends in personal looks. Bob Dylan sang that after the guys in the bar finished beating up the guy with blue hair they figured out that he was just a Guy, who had blue hair.

[Twisted_Twin]

Damn longhairs 

[mervin]

 To the origins of this thread, is there a meeting at the wired monk this sunday? I am looking for an excuse to try out this side hack.

[Evil-Kawood]

I agree with George Carlin's tattoo quote " Why would I want something on my body that I wouldn't hang on my wall"