Last night, as my wife and i were coming home from a long HOT day at the 4th annual denver comic arts festival, we pulled up behind a group of three Harleys, sitting under the overpass waiting to turn onto I-70, the harley riders started to rev their engines.....I thought it was proclaiming that they were ready to punch it, on the onramp......so being ready for a fast ride, I decide to rev.....they all turn around and look at my wife and I, and start to laugh, they rev, I rev, they laugh.....so on and so on....Right after one of my last revs, I saw one of them put his hand up to his ear, as if he could not even hear my engine.....that i had weak sounding pipes....
OH....I see why you were laughing, because my bike is quiet.....ah. But we all know what lurks behind that silent engine on the GTS. Even my wife saw that man gesture...and quietly told me to put them away. Anything you say honey....anything for you. (BTW...we were the only ones in helmets, jeans and boots.) So the light turns green, they throttle up quite hard, and start up the ramp....traffic was very light, and they begin their climb up the ramp....i held back ....trying to grow a gap inbetween us......at the top of the ramp, two of the ladies on the back of their bikes look behind at us,....still only doing 30....they smile and turn around to again mock me (thats what I felt from them)..... I drop it into second gear, and within a split second I have closed the gap....we all merge over according to safe group riding methods......I decide to go one more lane, because who wants to ride with a group that doesn't respect you..... still in second gear at 9K, I slowly get next to them.......my wife waves goodbye...drop third gear, and we rocket forward.....nothing like going 50 to 100 in two to three seconds.........Poof......never saw them again. I love to ride with found groups, I love to talk with people you find on the way.....motorcyclists are all brothers.....but some of the Denver Harley riders are stuck up, pompous bandana wearing, skanky ho' riding mothers. I didnt laugh at their overpriced, hard to maintain headache pounding motorcycle..., why should they laugh at me for having a near silent bike (which I love).....Do you guys have problems with harley riders too? Ive met alot of friendly harley riders...but that group last night was too much. THOR
