Has anyone came across this before.
Coming home from Geelong and seen a fella sitting on his ride pushing it, me thinkin he ran out of fuel,Pulled into the servo grabed a jerry can filled it up drove down the road until i came across a over pass,drove back towards him jumped across the highway pulled up behind him to ask him if he ok and he told me he had a electrical problem helped pushit into the garage (2ks) with the wife following.This bloke had no idea were his battery was or anything, so i took of his seat got the jumper leads out and jumped it with the car.took a while but got it started.As he didnt want the fuel i put into my car, I put his seat back on and as i went to take back the jerry can to get my deposit and change the ASSHOLE took off no thanks No nothing not even to the wife. As we got back onto the freeway i was so pissed off i was out to chase him, I was in the fair lane with the boot into it come across a hill and there he was in the emergency lane broken down again...HAHA pissing myself laughin i couldnt get over cos of the traffic .... so i just kept going and went home....
The fuckwit register would be a long list. I had plenty of them ride past me and wave while I was stuck on the side of the highway with a flat tyre. I personally stop and check every time and we have stopped a club run many times to help a bloke out. I have met plenty of good people on the side of the road and have been mates with some for years since.
I don't know about the rest of you but this new breed of Harley riders is different. With the redneck state in the West and Qld having major increases in new Harley sales I can only put the increase in dickheads down to the mining boom. Maybe having one will just be a fad and they will get rid of the bikes and in doing so fix our reputation.
Owning a Harley doesn't make you a biker, you need to love the bike, love riding it - wet or dry, love the lifestyle and enjoy waking up next to it.
Good on ya man! Helping stranded bikers is part of the code of being a fellow biker. It's all fun and games until your ass gets stranded and no one helps out.
Yup - easy calling yourself a "biker" these days. Any idiot with money lyong around can by himself the best and stake claim to being a biker. Numbnuts won't even think of driving it in the rain.... I know the type. Bloody pseudo cagers.
out one day , there was probly 12-15 BACA and we see this guy comming outa a side street on a hill ,with a dropt 250cc, he is on his Ls and he is the guy who is skinny as ,wears glasses, u all no the type , no show of picking the bike up ,well we all stop n pick it up n got him going again, recon he'd shit his pants wen we all stopt, he is one who would remember all HD riders arnt total cunts
the look on his face PRICELESS
Shees mate - touch a nerve there did we?
But no, seriously, no offence intended - not that anything I said was directed at new Harley owners eh? If you're such a distinguished "bike person" (wouldn't want to upset you by calling you a biker, as apparently you don't like the term) that you felt you had to list credentials, then why did my rantings upset you so much? Really mate, I only said you get blokes who try to buy the biker image, when it's more a state of mind, irrespective of what you ride.
BTW, "hypocrisy" is when you tell the world nonsense you don't really believe yourself - interesting that the term sprang to mind so readily.
Well, didn't this thread smack a few nerves with a "sledge" hammer.
I admit that I will drive past a jappa on the side of the road unless it has a flat tyre or lots of plastic smashed everywhere because the things just don't break down.
Harleys today are very reliable but for those of us that have been around long enough to have spent a few hours on the side of a road getting an old shovel to behave itself will tell you that not so long ago you spent as much time thanking people for stopping as you did fixing the old girl. That doesn't happen like it use to.
There has always been an unspoken code of ethics within Harley riders that included stopping to help a bloke out, this once included all Australians but we seemed to have stopped that somewhere along the way, maybe due to everything getting more reliable and the introduction of the road side assist programs. Who knows why.
I too was not having a go at anyone with a new bike as I again fit into that catagory or Qlders or the redneck state but again havin a Harley does make you part of a very small group of motorcyclists and as such we have always and still need to stick together. One of the best things for me about riding a Harley has always been that when you meet another HD rider there were no so called class barriers.
Yes we all work hard to pay for our toys and some maybe harder than others but the ability to write a chq doesn't mean you have to stop being a good person. Being Australian has always been about helping a bloke out, owning a Harley just continued that on to the next level.......I guess that maybe this is one of them times where " if I have to explain you wouldn't understand " comes into it because this shit doesn't come in a booklet but is part of who you are as an Australian.
I just cant believe some people. Before the prick took of i even offered to go back home and grab the trailer, But when i seen him pushin that bike i new god didnt hate me
Good onya Finny..regardless of how the mongrel behaved u did the right thing, i doubt that if the roles were reversed he would have done the same. I've stopped for cagers & bikers in the past and on all occasions the recipients have been grateful ,as have i when it was my turn to park on the side. As in your case this has very little to do with bikes, you were just beiing decent bloke. And as for being sensitive...i have ridden bikes in one form or another for 40yrs & apart from my younger bulletproof days i would never intentionally y ride in the rain..your back gets wet ,it runs down your leg into your boots ,your undies get soaked, i bloody hate that , & the bike gets filthy, apart from the added danger of falling off the bloody thing...call me soft but it's not a job i don't have to do it..& besides my bones don't heal all that fast nowdays..lol
Give me a fine day cold or not, good company, or not , no particular destination ,full belly, full tank & i'm in heaven..shit i'll even look forward to finding a strandard motorist...
And Bli Bli Bandit i take acception to the redneck tag..we're a sensitive bunch over here in the West...lol
Finny I read your opening post and the ones that followed and something seemed a little fishy.
It's one thing to own a bike and not know what to do if it breaks down on you but to not even know where the battery is? WTF?
Sounds like that fucker might have pinched that bike - stranger shit has happened - and it might help explain
a) why he was a fuckin idiot and
b) why he wanted to get away from you and yours.
Just a thought.
Wildgoose you might be on to something. Never thought of that. Well if so hes on cctv footage from the servo
Well then if thats the case i hope i get called in to interveiw him
i need more POPCORN
F@#K yer , u need to get out more
BACAMICK, your comment is bloody GOLD
I nearly pissed myself loughing. Gold, absolute gold.
