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ChoccieMuffin
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 Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 1:04 am Post subject: Owners' Clubs for specific makers - compare and contrast |
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OH has a very cute Triumph bobber (as Biggus will confirm) and he's a member of the Triumph Owners' Club. We pop down to their weekly watering hole, peopled by both genders, on old Triumphs and new ones, and their membership blokey collars me and gets me to join up as an associate member.
Several weeks later I become the very proud owner of a HD Fatboy, and after a false start (well it started, but then I ran out of petrol on the way there but that's another story...) I eventually turn up at one of the TOMCC weekly meetings on said Harley. And although subjected to the almost obligatory ribbing I was still made very welcome, mainly because I have a machine with two wheels that I like to ride, whoever made it. (I should probably mention that the president of the branch even went and sat on my bike just to see what it was like. I probably shouldn't mention that he didn't put it back on the side stand properly and the bloody thing fell into the bushes I'd fortunately parked beside, but that is another story again.)
Compare that with the HOG members who I bumped into at Rykas the other week who, when I mentioned that OH has a Triumph, snootily looked down their noses and said pretty bluntly that he wouldn't be welcome at their meetings or on their rides. WTF! It's a bike, and a very nice one too (and he also happens to have a Fatboy as well) but they just exemplified the cliquey nature of so many Harley owners.
No wonder nobody nods at Harleys, if they all have that kind of attitude. (I nod at just about everything on two wheels with an engine, whatever kind of bike it is.)
What are other owners' clubs like? Inclusive like the Triumph lot, or snooty and snobbish like the Harley lot? |
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biggus
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| Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:31 am Post subject: |
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Try a BMW club...  
The Triumph is very cool... would OH mind if I posted a pic of it?
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ChoccieMuffin
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| Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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| Biggus, I'm sure he wouldn't. And even if he WOULD, he's not gonna know! I think it's dead cute so post away. |
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biggus
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| Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 10:51 am Post subject: |
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| ChoccieMuffin wrote: | | Biggus, I'm sure he wouldn't. And even if he WOULD, he's not gonna know! I think it's dead cute so post away. |
Here you go...
Quite a different bike to the one I picked up from Fareham still with the 1984 Donnington Park race scrutineering stickers on it!
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98% of all Harleys ever sold are still on the road. The other 2% made it home |
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