Hahahahaha... It's okay. The price of admission was well worth the tasty rant that I got out of it, and then seeing the dude on Amazon.com, acting like a kook... I've actually gotten my money's worth!

Just goes to prove that the single greatest thing about living in this country, is the ability to be a "biker" a "rider" an "enthusiast" a "squid" "spode" "wanabe" or whatever you want to be, without anyone telling you you can't be. I have ridden them all, worked on them all on a regular basis, raced quite a few, and if my Roadstar would have been $30,000 or $30.00 I would have bought it. Thats the cruiser I wanted. The greatest thing about motorcycling, is that it is an individual "sport" "hobby" "obsession". Whatever you want it to be, that is what it will be. I was engaged for two years to a Hooters calendar girl and in the end refused to marry her because she wanted me to give up racing motocross, because it cost too much, took up too much time, and the constant reconstructive knee surgeries were a pain in HER ass! My best friend got married several years ago, has two beautiful kids and a great house, borrows my dirtbike once in awhile, and has spent several hundred miles aboard my Roadstar, I don't consider him any less of a "biker" or "rider" than I am. Jay Barbershop, or whatever his name is, is nothing more than a corporate sellout, and Frank, if you continue to stay true to you'r heart, you will always be something he will always hope to be. We can all write our own books.

Mark7 wrote:
As any person who has ridden a motorcycle for any length of time already knows: You don't need a handbook to be a biker. The effort this guy has made to create one is laughable on it's face. You don't study up to be a biker, you suck it up and ride. The lessons come on the road and each and every day that you live.

Talk about a poser, this guy set the standard.

M7

Exactly. I was a hard core biker back in the 70's and 80's that rode nothing but HD. I've already been that and now I ride a Yamaha. How can I be a wannabe if I have already been? I have found that people who write such things are parroting what they have heard others say. They read too many Easyriders rags.

Frank_W wrote:
If you had yourself shipped to the nearest Wendy's every time, ate a couple of french fries and made everyone else eat the rest of your food, and then wrote a book about how you were an expert on Wendy's food and said that anyone else who eats any other kind of fast food is a "wannabe," and couldn't possibly know anything about fast food, and anyone who disagreed with you or gave your book a poor review, you replied to them as "Mrs. Harper" and cried like Nancy Kerrigan, my impression of you as a fast food expert, as well as my opinion of your book, might become just a tad tarnished.

cartersta wrote:
smhouse wrote I love Harleys and someday I will own one because I like them BUT I'm not going to eat top raman, drive a 25 year old rust bucket car and live in a trailer just to have a Harley


heck i do that just to have a roadstar, why you haten on us just caust we live in a trailor, the parking brake came loose the other day and we moved, not far tho

So your still in the same zip code.

mxrider920 wrote:
Frank, if you continue to stay true to you'r heart, you will always be something he will always hope to be. We can all write our own books.

Right on and ride on, brother. I don't know how to be anything other than exactly who and what I am. Spending my life around dogs and horses, I'm pretty sure that human beings are the only animals who try to be something they're not.

A dog will always be a dog, no matter how people try to make them seem like people. A dog doesn't know how to be anything other than a dog. He was born a dog and he will die a dog. Same thing with horses. They are smart, but they are not humans, and they were born as horses and they will die as horses.

I am who I am. I don't have to be a bad-ass biker or anything else. I'm proud of my bike and I ride the piss out of it, and if that makes me a biker, that's groovy. If it doesn't, well... big damn deal.

As for Jay Barbershop, (I love it! LMAO!) I have but one thing to say:

Is this the same dork that does some of the HD upgrades on V-Twin TV. Sounds like him. What a waste of good paper.

One and the same, GS. Hahahahaha... Kook Extraordinaire!

I'm sorry to say I actually bought this bokk too. I THOUGHT it would be worth a laugh, with idiotic sychophantic worship of club members/clubs. It was (full of worship, but not laughs)_, but it was also mostly stories of "Stretch gets drunk and wrecks his bike..." "gopher gets drunk and wrecks his bike..." A dreadful waste of money.
Hey, anyone want to buy it?? Only partly read one time! Maybe a few drool stains where I nodded off. Gee, maybe I should keep it by the bed for insomnia??

Yeah... I'm considering "donating" mine for the cause. Lord knows, I'm getting tired of wiping my butt with pages ripped out of catalogs and ad pages from motorcycle mags. The paper for this book seems a lot softer... riiiiiiiiiiiiiiip!!