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Post by Village Idiot on Jun 8, 2023 12:26:53 GMT -5
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Post by howard lee on Jun 8, 2023 12:29:04 GMT -5
Mother said he could go.
"Rolling Thunder" Good one.
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Post by dradtke on Jun 8, 2023 14:07:43 GMT -5
Why does this make me think of the Village People?
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Post by jdd2 on Jun 8, 2023 14:53:30 GMT -5
Dressing up as in drag.
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Post by millring on Jun 8, 2023 18:07:28 GMT -5
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Post by aquaduct on Jun 8, 2023 19:24:56 GMT -5
Don't bother explaining it to them John. They're just in it for cheap political laughs at the expense of "gay" guys who like to ride their motorcycles to support wounded and missing service members in their leather. Which, incidentally, is the preferred safety garb of those who ride motorcycles. Like my son in law who's a wounded veteran of campaigns in both Iraq and Afghanistan and my daughter who met her husband while both were working as prison guards. Go ahead, tell him he looks like the Village People. Just be ready to beat a hasty retreat before he cleans the floor with your scrawny butt. |
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Post by howard lee on Jun 9, 2023 7:26:16 GMT -5
Don't bother explaining it to them John. They're just in it for cheap political laughs at the expense of "gay" guys who like to ride their motorcycles to support wounded and missing service members in their leather. Which, incidentally, is the preferred safety garb of those who ride motorcycles. [...]
I find it hard to believe that a sleeveless leather vest is going to protect the skin on his forearms and elbows if he were to dump that hog.
These are protective leathers.
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Post by aquaduct on Jun 9, 2023 7:36:53 GMT -5
Don't bother explaining it to them John. They're just in it for cheap political laughs at the expense of "gay" guys who like to ride their motorcycles to support wounded and missing service members in their leather. Which, incidentally, is the preferred safety garb of those who ride motorcycles. [...] I find it hard to believe that a sleeveless leather vest is going to protect the skin on his forearms and elbows if he were to dump that hog. These are protective leathers. Have you ever driven a motorcycle? |
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Post by howard lee on Jun 9, 2023 7:40:17 GMT -5
I find it hard to believe that a sleeveless leather vest is going to protect the skin on his forearms and elbows if he were to dump that hog. These are protective leathers.
Have you ever driven a motorcycle?
Yessir, when I was in my 20s and living upstate, in Cooperstown, NY. It was a Honda 350. I did wear a leather jacket, even in July. That was like being in a sauna.
On edit: it kind of looked like this one, but not as clean.
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Post by jdd2 on Jun 9, 2023 7:51:12 GMT -5
Rather than leather(s), I thought armor was the way to go
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Post by Marshall on Jun 9, 2023 7:57:36 GMT -5
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Post by howard lee on Jun 9, 2023 7:58:49 GMT -5
Are you mocking me, Marshall? 
That's a classic.
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Post by Marshall on Jun 9, 2023 8:01:13 GMT -5
 I know a lot of old biker dudes (my age) that look like that. I've got a nice biker leather jacket, but I rarely ride in anything but tee-shirt weather these days. (I really like that bike, Howard. Very cool in it's day.... Like you  ) |
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Post by howard lee on Jun 9, 2023 8:06:39 GMT -5
[...] (I really like that bike, Howard. Very cool in it's day.... Like you )
Thanks a lot, buddy. Keep in mind, that was 44 years ago. I may not have the same cool factor I allegedly had then, but at least I'm alive. Ha!
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Post by aquaduct on Jun 9, 2023 8:18:23 GMT -5
Have you ever driven a motorcycle? Yessir, when I was in my 20s and living upstate, in Cooperstown, NY. It was a Honda 350. I did wear a leather jacket, even in July. That was like being in a sauna. On edit: it kind of looked like this one, but not as clean. OK, have you ever served in the military and actually seen combat? |
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Post by drlj on Jun 9, 2023 8:19:53 GMT -5
Howard, have you ever rocketed to the moon and collected rock samples? I’ll bet not.😡
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Post by Marshall on Jun 9, 2023 8:23:00 GMT -5
Rolling Thunder is a good cause.
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Post by billhammond on Jun 9, 2023 8:25:25 GMT -5
[...] (I really like that bike, Howard. Very cool in it's day.... Like you ) Thanks a lot, buddy. Keep in mind, that was 44 years ago. I may not have the same cool factor I allegedly had then, but at least I'm alive. Ha!
I had one just like it, only red, whilst in the Navy. Four years, Peter, no combat, but I'm not ashamed, at least I served. |
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Post by howard lee on Jun 9, 2023 8:25:45 GMT -5
Yessir, when I was in my 20s and living upstate, in Cooperstown, NY. It was a Honda 350. I did wear a leather jacket, even in July. That was like being in a sauna. On edit: it kind of looked like this one, but not as clean.
OK, have you ever served in the military and actually seen combat?
Peter, what does that have to do with wearing leathers on a motorcycle? My joking was certainly not aimed at military veterans.
(I almost served. They ended the draft a month before my 19th birthday. I had a low number in the lottery that year, and besides, I had other plans for my life. Had I gone to Vietnam, there's no doubt in my mind that my name would be on that black wall in Washington DC. I was a 125-lb pacifist poet.)
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Post by aquaduct on Jun 9, 2023 8:39:45 GMT -5
OK, have you ever served in the military and actually seen combat? Peter, what does that have to do with wearing leathers on a motorcycle? My joking was certainly not aimed at military veterans.
(I almost served. They ended the draft a month before my 19th birthday. I had a low number in the lottery that year, and besides, I had other plans for my life. Had I gone to Vietnam, there's no doubt in my mind that my name would be on that black wall in Washington DC. I was a 125-lb pacifist poet.)
Pence was riding in a Rolling Thunder like event looking like a gay Village People character to honor fallen veterans just like my SIL and daughter did over the Memorial Day weekend (only they rode with their comrades into DC). At a minimum, a certain amount of honorable respect is due. |
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