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And what is your response? I can think of some great responses for that.
"Gosh, you must be rich if you own a Harley"
A lady pulls into the parking space beside me and then states, " I could have hit you if I hadn't missed" I,m still thinking about that one!
Just recently . "Well what the heck is that , a Moto , er , Gussi ? '" No , explaining just a bit of the history " been around since 1921 " . " Hey Fred , c'mere and look at this 1921 Moto Gussi " :o :D Now Fred isn't anymore clued in than the other fella , so he says ," Well daayemn , sure in good shape for a 1921 motorscooter" . I just walked away.Dusty
Kawasaki sounded pretty strange back in 1968
While gearing up in a McDonald's parking lot, one of the employees walks by and ask "What kind of bike is that?"I respond, "It's a Moto Guzzi."And he replies, "Moto Guzzi, they sure do have some strange names for motorcycles these days, it use to be everything was either a Harley or a Kawasaki."
BMW makes motorcycles too?
I asked if he'd had some trouble that kept him so long, and he said, no, he just lost a lot of time when he'd get off to push the bike around the curves.
Seriously? Maybe the Griso wasn't the right bike for him to be riding? ::)
He'd grin and explain that it "that guy's" bike, and he didn't know squat about it. When someone asked him if it was water cooled, he said he guessed so if it was raining.... he said, no, he just lost a lot of time when he'd get off to push the bike around the curves.
No, not seriously. He was joking, but he was seriously disinterested in speed.Come to think of it, maybe the stupidest thing anyone ever said regarding motorcycles wasn't said to me, since I was pretty young, but to my Dad. We were on a Saturday morning cruise on his Lambretta, and stopped at a motorcycle shop in an old wooden barn beside the corn field. My Dad wanted to see the new Japanese motorcycles they would be selling along with their normal line of HD, Triumph, etc. Another customer told my Dad that he didn't think those Honda motorcycles would ever catch on.
From On any Sunday 2 " From the land of the rising Sun comes a YA MAH HA , and from the looks of things it might be the last one we see " . Commentary from the Big Bear circa 1958 or '59 . Dusty
Yet this is why Walmart has done more to improve the living standards of lower-income rural Americans than any bazillion-dollar government program.
Since moving to the US, I've given up worrying about why locals asking why my CalVin's cylinders point in the wrong direction. I recently met up with a friend from UK who used to ride Japanese bikes. After looking over the Guzzi for 10 minutes, and asking what size engine it was, he finally said "is it a 4 or a 6?". When I looked at him strange, he replied 4 or 6 cylinder.......? I thought a European engineer would be more knowlegeable :beat_horse