What's with the bull whip?

[davedude]

A genuine "get back whip" will have an about 1/2" dia bearing ball woven into the end of the whip. There is a connector that facilitates quick access to the goofball behind the bars and is used to wap folks' windshields that they deem have been to close or looked at them wrongly. It's a 1%er thing; prospects in some bottom rocker clubs are required to sport them (use them?) on their sportsters (yep some outlaw clubs require riding a sportster by prospects). You have to consider the personalities that are attracted to outlaw clubs.
There you have it. Is it now seeping into the weekend warrior culture? Outlaws will do anything, but if there are no colors, I think there would be a chance of being confronted by some wearing them (colors).

What do you call a herd of black sheep?. Sheep!
I do like H-Ds though. 

[Cage Free]

Here in Ca we can split traffic, every time i see someone with these stupid whip things splitting on their bike i wonder how long before it catches a mirror and ruins there day.

[GuzziDog54]

A few years back I was selling my VRod and a guy rode up to see it on an old Sportster with a huge .44 Magnum strapped to his hip and a one-legged girlfriend on the back. These were not posers, they looked like they had permanent hangovers and were dressed like they couldn't care even a smidgen less about how they looked or smelled. He had a "whip" dangling from his handle bars and when I asked him what it was for he explained "it's for cracking the windshields of bad drivers". They turned out to be pretty cool people.

[Two Checks]

When you have a .44 mag on your hip who needs a whip?

[Lannis]

When you have a .44 mag on your hip who needs a whip?

If you smell horrible and have a one-legged girlfriend on the back of your Sportster, who needs a whip OR a .44?   

Not making fun of amputees, mind you, and good on 'er for getting out on the bike, but if I'm ever sporting a prosthetic limb, it's going to be under my leathers like the rest of me .... !

Lannis

[Vagrant]

Sorry, you're all wrong. It dates back to the cowboy days. when they had no toilet (or outhouse) paper and had to make an emergency stop, a couple of quick swipes with the whip and you're good to go. explains the smell too.

[Caffeineo]

They use the whips because there is no place for the trunk monkey. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW8iAVwt_Yc&index=2&list=RDAdeIpLTjD3M