The Harley Owners Group Canberra ride in pictures

breda said :

Nope. I was referring to this thread, where the event was originally announced:

http://the-riotact.com/the-harley-owners-group-are-coming-to-canberra/84160

Commenters couldn’t wait to hope that participants would be hounded and booked by the cops. I defended them.

Just as you have confused the HO’s and the Rebels threads, perhaps you have confused me with someone else?

Evidently. Sorry ’bout that.

PoQ said :

I was at a petrol station on Saturday when at least some of them were filling up. One of them had a “Loud Pipes save lives” patch on his jacket. If I had had my sewing machine with me, I could have added “…and cause Industrial Deafness”.

And bleeding of the ears.

I was at a petrol station on Saturday when at least some of them were filling up. One of them had a “Loud Pipes save lives” patch on his jacket. If I had had my sewing machine with me, I could have added “…and cause Industrial Deafness”.

edward said :

Do you think they realise nobody is impressed with their bikes and just want them to keep it down?

Nope. Attention whores never get it.

edward said :

Do you think they realise nobody is impressed with their bikes and just want them to keep it down?

No, they don’t realise that, because that’s not the case at all.

Do you think they realise nobody is impressed with their bikes and just want them to keep it down?

breda said :

Nope. I was referring to this thread, where the event was originally announced:

http://the-riotact.com/the-harley-owners-group-are-coming-to-canberra/84160

Commenters couldn’t wait to hope that participants would be hounded and booked by the cops. I defended them.

Just as you have confused the HO’s and the Rebels threads, perhaps you have confused me with someone else?

I think it was a case commentators confused the two events.

Nope. I was referring to this thread, where the event was originally announced:

http://the-riotact.com/the-harley-owners-group-are-coming-to-canberra/84160

Commenters couldn’t wait to hope that participants would be hounded and booked by the cops. I defended them.

Just as you have confused the HO’s and the Rebels threads, perhaps you have confused me with someone else?

breda said :

Nice pix – the featured bike was especially lovely.

I remember the thread on this a few weeks ago where NIMBY humanhaters predicted terrible degradation of the pristine ACT thanks to the invasion of these barbarians.

I think you’ll find that thread related to an influx of members of the Rebel motorcycle gang. They are generally not nice people, as evidenced by the fact (for example) that a couple of them were shotgunned to death in a Canberra suburban street a few years ago.

I know one of the Canberra HOGs, and he’s a nice bloke, and helped organise this gig. I took my sons along to watch the Thunder Run and check out the bikes at the show-and-shine. All peaceful, and they loved it.

Nice pix – the featured bike was especially lovely.

I remember the thread on this a few weeks ago where NIMBY humanhaters predicted terrible degradation of the pristine ACT thanks to the invasion of these barbarians.

I mean, people who are not just like me? It’s a slippery slope, whereby a whole lot of people who are not just like me might decide that the national capital belongs to them as much as anyone else. Why, this could lead to … democracy! /sarc off/

Personally, I think that the bikes are mostly more a tribute to form rather than function, and the clothes ditto. Once upon a time, that used to be called art.

If a bunch of stilt-walkers invaded the town, the luvvies would be in raptures. It’s “Art”, y’know?

Hope they come back sometime. The juxtaposition of their ‘look’ and the monumental aesthetic is certainly striking. Plus, they are Aussies who apparently had a great time!