Some questions...Some thoughts!

[calscrazy]

      first can you explain to me how if bike A (cost 27000 requires service every 5000 @ $350 per service) is cheaper than bike B (cost 8500 requires service every 7500 @ $500 per service). isn't it pretty darn close to the same maintenance wise. i had this arguement today picking up a birthday gift for a friend at the harley dealer.
      second how is it that when my son comes to pick me up at ams-a after dropping off my bike that the only bike in the store he seems to notice and thinks he should have is the 1098r. even mark was chuckling at him "not for a first street bike!"
      third i intend on doing my oil change instead of having the dealer do it. i did at 3k because it's the best way to see what's happening internally w/o tearing the motor apart. does that seem wrong because it sure felt awkward telling him no oil change on the service.
      fourth and final why do people insist on giving the "wheelie" sign when i am on cooper street at 1 in the afternoon. i won't do it on my own street much less somewhere else. get yuor own bike!! thank you for your time just venting a little.

[WonderBoy]

Answer to #4:  Any time someone makes the "wheelie" sign at me, I make the "pay me money first" sign.  Usually works every time.

[fastwin]

On #4, it's funny that little kids in cars always want me to wheelie when I pull up next to them on my bike. I guess it was like me wanting 18 wheeler drivers to honk when I was a kid... except wheelies are cooler than honking!

[cdc]

      first can you explain to me how if bike A (cost 27000 requires service every 5000 @ $350 per service) is cheaper than bike B (cost 8500 requires service every 7500 @ $500 per service). isn't it pretty darn close to the same maintenance wise. i had this arguement today picking up a birthday gift for a friend at the harley dealer.
     

It's called IZ_ math.  It works anyway you want it to.

            second how is it that when my son comes to pick me up at ams-a after dropping off my bike that the only bike in the store he seems to notice and thinks he should have is the 1098r. even mark was chuckling at him "not for a first street bike!"
     

Kid obviously has good taste.  Or he may be a varmit, attracted to shiny things.  My guess is the former.

           third i intend on doing my oil change instead of having the dealer do it. i did at 3k because it's the best way to see what's happening internally w/o tearing the motor apart. does that seem wrong because it sure felt awkward telling him no oil change on the service.
   

Do the oil change before you bring the bike in and tell them that it's already done.  How awkward can that be?

            fourth and final why do people insist on giving the "wheelie" sign when i am on cooper street at 1 in the afternoon. i won't do it on my own street much less somewhere else. get yuor own bike!! thank you for your time just venting a little.

venting is good.  The answer to your existential question of why people do what they do is: 

THEY DON'T HAVE THEIR OWN F***K*NG BIKE.  If they did then they should wheelie their own bikes and embarass themselves when they dump the bike upon landing. 

If you have other similar questions, I would be glad to come up with more BS to entertain you and me.

Bored in Fort Worth,
cdc

PS I heard you rode the Monster to Alan's place and got home in one peice.  GOOD JOB 'CRAZY.

[Duc L'Smart]

Words of wisdom from ***
too bad you're bored but at least we're benefitting
gotta love the DMF

[calscrazy]

IZ_ math!!! now i know how that get these numbers in budget meetings. scott happy to entertain you

[never2loud]

Damn, Scott is awake awake at 4am!!!  Dude, it's just the Hill Country; calm down     

Couldn't you be frying some ribs or something? 

[fastwin]

OK, Scott may be up at 4:00am but he could be drunk or restless or there could be a snoring competition going on... who knows. But the real question is what the hell are you doing up a six something on a Sunday morning posting???

[NorDog]

"first can you explain to me how if bike A (cost 27000 requires service every 5000 @ $350 per service) is cheaper than bike B (cost 8500 requires service every 7500 @ $500 per service). isn't it pretty darn close to the same maintenance wise. i had this arguement today picking up a birthday gift for a friend at the harley dealer."

Yeah, can't speak to that beyond the "IZ_ math" answer already given.  There are some bikes for which I would pay $27K, but not any H-D fits that category, at least not one made after about 1940.  (Okay, I MIGHT pay $22K for the fully loaded Ultra Electra Glide Classic, but would proably go Gold Wing first)

At $15K my H-D is right on the same cost of my Monster.  The service costs average out at about the same.

As far as the wheelie sign, I never get that from people.  There was a drunk outside of that Mexican place across from the Dubliner one night.  As I got on my H-D he kept yelling "WHEELIE! WHEELIE!"  I wanted to slap the bee yatch.

Now, if a kid gives me a wheelie sign, that's just cool.  Reminds me of being 10 years old and doting on all things McQueen.



I don't do wheelies though.  Not because of some uber prudence on my part.  I just don't know how.   

[Duc L'Smart]

I think the WiFi here has me on west coast time somehow...

I've wheelied a coupla times, but never intentionally!!!

[NorDog]

I think the WiFi here has me on west coast time somehow...

I've wheelied a coupla times, but never intentionally!!!

Well, yeah, me too.  But does it count if you didn't mean to?

[cdc]

I think the WiFi here has me on west coast time somehow...

I've wheelied a coupla times, but never intentionally!!!

That's sounds about the same as ole Billy Boy saying he didn't inhale.

cdc