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Title: Dover July 13 2012
Post by: Sabre093 on July 15, 2012, 12:18:14 PM
Here is some pics from Dover,they figuered 150000+..I got there @ 10 am and parked 5 blocks away.
(http://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh578/Sabre093/IMG108.jpg)(http://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh578/Sabre093/353.jpg)(http://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh578/Sabre093/356.jpg)Hope i figured out posting pics the right way
Title: Re: Dover July 13 2012
Post by: A11an0n on July 19, 2012, 01:28:13 PM
I wasn't there this year, but at least my FJ was ... lent it to my brother inlaw....he had a blast.
Title: Re: Dover July 13 2012
Post by: dbelch on July 19, 2012, 04:08:23 PM
I didn't get down until after 4 pm.  Only saw one FJ and that was in the Simcoe Boston Pizza lot on the way by.  The crowd was thining out by then and we got a good parking spot...just in time to see a Harley rider dump his bike...lots of busker's on the street, lots of beer/band stages throughout the town.
 
Way too many Harley's...I'd say over 90%.

And all the crazy's also..the thong guy was there again parading around in nothing but a thong and a smile...he's way too old, and it was way too hot a day..things we're really hangin low....scarey.  Most chicks weren't much better.  I'd say the majority otta not show so much skin, they were way too old and should've known better.  One women was dressed in leopard skin, tight shorts, knee high boots, long mane flowing off of her helmet, and driving one of those VW trike things...onece again, scarey. 
Title: Re: Dover July 13 2012
Post by: Sabre093 on July 19, 2012, 07:25:29 PM
I was at BP Simcoe around 2:30...and your right there was some scary Chit!!!!!
Title: Re: Dover July 13 2012
Post by: Zwartie on July 19, 2012, 09:41:19 PM
I was at Dover as well - arrived around 11:30 with my brother and two other riders. Saw two FJs parked beside eachother on St. Andrew Street. I believe they were 89's (black/blue). We left the madness around 3:00. Got stuck in stop-n-go traffic on our way in and had to shut down my bike a couple times to keep it from overheating. What a zoo!!!

Zwartie
Title: Re: Dover July 13 2012
Post by: Dan Filetti on July 19, 2012, 11:45:00 PM
I just never understood the fascination with these rallies, just not my speed I guess.  There is no riding to be done anyway. Plus, any event that is 90% Harleys is not my cup of tea...

Dan
Title: Re: Dover July 13 2012
Post by: andyb on July 20, 2012, 08:44:58 AM
Quote from: Dan Filetti on July 19, 2012, 11:45:00 PM
I just never understood the fascination with these rallies, just not my speed I guess.  There is no riding to be done anyway. Plus, any event that is 90% Harleys is not my cup of tea...

Dan

+1

Got to ride a harley today.  It was an experience.  And not a particularly good one.  It definitely didn't fit the bill of "like really fast man!" either.  A vmax would slaughter it in a straight contest, and my wife's little VF700 would have been a good fight for it.  The vibration quite literally put my feet to sleep, the handling was terrifying, the brakes worked but only just, and the ergonomics.....imaginne riding a birthing chair (google for lithotomy position!) down the road.

What kind of morons....
Title: Re: Dover July 13 2012
Post by: Dan Filetti on July 20, 2012, 09:55:00 AM
Quote from: andyb on July 20, 2012, 08:44:58 AM

+1

Got to ride a harley today.  It was an experience.  And not a particularly good one.  It definitely didn't fit the bill of "like really fast man!" either.  A vmax would slaughter it in a straight contest, and my wife's little VF700 would have been a good fight for it.  The vibration quite literally put my feet to sleep, the handling was terrifying, the brakes worked but only just, and the ergonomics.....imagine riding a birthing chair (google for lithotomy position!) down the road.

What kind of morons....


imagine riding a birthing chair...  Very funny.

In fairness, I did ride a Hardley Street-Rod (the FI, liquid cooled, Porche built 'metric Harley') a couple of years back for 2,500 miles or so all over WA, ID, BC, AB, and it lacked in many many ways but the damn thing excelled in passing cars.  I must of passed 1,000 cars that trip.  The riding position was about the best Harley offers, better than a Sportster, I can tell you.   However, stuff did literally vibrate off, and handling was fairly horrible, brakes were marginal, and it's weight could be felt, even at speed, but I did not complain, as I was on a motorcycle through some of the most beautiful scenery in the world.  So you see, we all can get along, as long as we do not actually need to be around each other...

Dan
Title: Re: Dover July 13 2012
Post by: yamaha fj rider on July 21, 2012, 07:54:49 AM
I test rode a harley some years ago and was impressed not in a good way. It seamed to be everything the FJ is not. Besides a motorcycle that needs to be ridden more than twelve miles before in can be delivered (new bike) makes me wonder why? If harley doesn't have any more confidence in there motorcycle than that why should I?

Kurt