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Well I have only 412 miles on my new 2013 black Stryker. Completely stock as of yet. Well I personnaly am a die hard hardley hater since 1973 and will always be. With that said I know alot of you metric bike riders are fed up with alot of crap you have to put up with some times when incountering a hardley head. Today im just putting around since it wasn't raining out but about too
. I past the little town of Helen,Ga on my way home to Cleveland, GA and a hardley was paceing me on what I think was a road queen with a bat wing fairing on it carring a lady passenger. Well a double lane was coming up and the cager in front of me was doing 45 in a 55MPH zone and as I went into the left lane the hardley was rite on my tail. I had down shifted to a few lower gears and nailed it. His hd was behind me but falling back. I thought I would pull away faster as I am use to toasting them with my Roadliner S. I even pulled the smaller v-snods , the 1130cc ones from 60-110mph. Most hardleys have pipes, air kits, tuners and who the **** knows what cams, E,C,G,ect. In them already. Any way I went back into the right lane and of course this hd rider wasn't giving up. So he LOUDLY passed me and I went into persuit. I swear his floor boards were almost touching the road as he was going around a high speed gental radius curve. I was gaining on him and was going to pass him around the turn and it was the first time I hit the limiter on my Stryker in third gear:nod:. So I decided no way am I going to pass him in his lane , that is pure dangerous enough and plain stupid. I already proved my jap crap (as hd boys call metric bikes) could pull away. Now I did not pull away like im use to on my Liner, but I bet when I get a different pipe, air kit and tuner my Stryker will wake up. Well to end the story we both stopped at a light and as he inched up next to me ( probably looking for the engine size emblem on my Stryker,LOl) I looked at him with my black shielded helmit and gave a freindly wave, he wouldn'y look at me at all. But the chick on back was eye balling me:thumb:. Then when the light changed he didn't go for it. I really try to be good out there with hd riders, but some of them really hate jap bikes as much as I hate hardleys. can't we all get along? Who said that?:wink:
. I past the little town of Helen,Ga on my way home to Cleveland, GA and a hardley was paceing me on what I think was a road queen with a bat wing fairing on it carring a lady passenger. Well a double lane was coming up and the cager in front of me was doing 45 in a 55MPH zone and as I went into the left lane the hardley was rite on my tail. I had down shifted to a few lower gears and nailed it. His hd was behind me but falling back. I thought I would pull away faster as I am use to toasting them with my Roadliner S. I even pulled the smaller v-snods , the 1130cc ones from 60-110mph. Most hardleys have pipes, air kits, tuners and who the **** knows what cams, E,C,G,ect. In them already. Any way I went back into the right lane and of course this hd rider wasn't giving up. So he LOUDLY passed me and I went into persuit. I swear his floor boards were almost touching the road as he was going around a high speed gental radius curve. I was gaining on him and was going to pass him around the turn and it was the first time I hit the limiter on my Stryker in third gear:nod:. So I decided no way am I going to pass him in his lane , that is pure dangerous enough and plain stupid. I already proved my jap crap (as hd boys call metric bikes) could pull away. Now I did not pull away like im use to on my Liner, but I bet when I get a different pipe, air kit and tuner my Stryker will wake up. Well to end the story we both stopped at a light and as he inched up next to me ( probably looking for the engine size emblem on my Stryker,LOl) I looked at him with my black shielded helmit and gave a freindly wave, he wouldn'y look at me at all. But the chick on back was eye balling me:thumb:. Then when the light changed he didn't go for it. I really try to be good out there with hd riders, but some of them really hate jap bikes as much as I hate hardleys. can't we all get along? Who said that?:wink:
