cbnovascotia, NO, you just get given the term "bike polisher" untill you have done more posts..!!
When you have done a very lot of posts you get given the term "expert"
I believe ( probably unwisely) that when you have reached 1.12 million posts you get given the term;
"Supreme Lord of the single camshaft" and no one is allowed to argue with you or the moderators will intervene and demote them to the very lowly "I look in shop windows at shiny things that I'm not allowed to buy" avatar, which,( as you may imagine) would be embarrasing.
A quick word on Harleys,
In the seventies when I worked in a motorcycle shop, some folk did want to buy a Harley brand of motorcycle. BUT, Harley would not sell to the UK (they must have been embarressed about their product I think) Anyways, for these poor lost souls that did want a Harley brand of motorcycle more bad news was learned. If they did go and secretly import a Harley motorcycle, Harley would not send parts to the UK, thus making it a silly thing to do, to secretly import a Harley motorcycle.( Harley must also have been embarressed about the quality of their parts or something , not wanting to sell to the Uk an all)
So, for some seventies motorcyclists, this became a matter of principle..the "Not ever wanting to own a Harley then"
In my hayday,
Having any motorcycle was a good thing, made even more so if people thought it was (a)fast (b) looked good (c) shiny.
The reasons for having a motorcycle did vary , but on the whole they were as follows;
(a) to get to and home from the pub without walking or buses.
(b) to impress the girlies.
(c) to take the girlies to the pub or home from the pub without the need for walking or buses.
(d) to go out at the weekends for big rides with the girlies.
(e) to go out at weekends for big rides with the said girlie riding pillion.
(d) and (e) are not the same thing.
There appeared ( at the time) to be only one problem, and that was this....
money.
Money was in short supply, so a constant "juggle" had to take place, between Fuel, and beer, you needed fuel to get to and back from the beer, it was uncool to run out of fuel and have to push you motorcycle with the girlie walking next to you...this is not what girlies wanted to be seen doing.
BUT, if you put in to Much fuel, then you might not be able to buy beer, and the girlie might have to buy her own beer.
this is something that the girlie did not like doing too much and made them complain sometimes.
Or, you might have to make your beer last for a very long time, ( which some of us learnt to be very good at) But you did not want the girlie to make her beer last for a very long time, in fact you wanted to get as much down her as possible, in the given time , in the hope of accomplishing (d) above.
Nobody, Nobody at all, had a "Harley credit card"
Honda goldwings were not called Honda goldwings, they were called "armchairs"
Pulling a trailer with a motorcycle, was deemed as odd and would not get you a girlie.
