Never had a problem at my local HD dealers. Doc's, Gateway, St. Charles, Frieze and Ted's. Have rode up to all of'em on the Dog countless times and always been treated cool. (Not that it really matters to me one way or the other, anyway; because if they dont like the Dog, that's their problem. Not mine. Because the way I see it: my money spends the same wherever.) The local watering holes, however...well, now that's a different story. Couple years ago, got into it with a cluber at a local dive. Admitttedly, both of us were somewhat inebriated (or however the hell you spell it), and he started badmouthing my K9. "Big Dogs are this," and "Big Dogs are that." So we eventually wound up out in the parking lot. Turned out he actually had a pretty nice one-off himself. (Late model shovel. The paint was absolutely GORGEOUS!) But after awhile it started to get kinda personal. Kept sayin my baby was a piece of shit that couldn't do the speed limit without a trailer. Blah, blah, blah. So (and this was EXTREMELY stupid on my part) I decided to prove him wrong...Got on the bike, fired her up, pulled her out and backed her up to where he was parked. Then ripped a monster burnout all over his precious little lowrider! Rubber freckles EVERYWHERE!!! It was awesome!!! But, perhaps understandably, wound up leading to a whole bunch of other crap. Now, though, believe it or not, we're actually pretty cool. Ride together. Party together. It's actually kinda cool. (But he still can't beat me! :roll: :2thumbs:
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And that's faaaaar from the only instance at a local pub. But I love my bike. Always have. Always will. And I'll be damned if I let anyone badmouth her!!!
Just goes to show money can buy you friends. And oh yeah I never let anyone touch my bike now, hell its just a bike if I can't fix it after 3 tries I take it too the pros.
