There is a aussie show on tv called HD TV its sponsed by Harley Australia and of course all about Harlies, I watch it sometime but get so annoyed as its all one sided with a lot of peole with to much money, the producers of the show are ex Harley meckenics or ex sales men, they go on a lot of group ride with HOG members but the funny thing is when they go for rides its from one Harley dealers to another Harley dealers in a diffrent towns and they sit around talking how good their Harlies are and of course showing off the latest models.
One or two times a year they oganise a week long trip or more to some far away place for the same reasons as above but I laugh as they only do about between 300 to 500 ks a day they have a back up Harley truck that follows them in case of any break downs and when they pull up at a fancy motel for the night they are so worn out from doing such long distant in their book anyway, to me those ks are only short rides for me, I use to do 1,000 mile rides in a day on my Norton when traveling visiting friends interstate etc and now I am retired I do a few trips a year on my Thruxton that are over 1,500 ks rides in a day stop for a few days drinking then back home, I ride to Agnes Water every month which is over 5 1/2 hrs away from my place without any problems at all fully loaded with gear.
I ask my Harley friends to come with me on some of my adventures but they are such soft cocks and don't want to travel those distants with me because I only stop for fuel and a feed when needed, WTF they pay so much for these Harlies, they brag how good they are yet they don't like to do the distants with me on my bike that I call the baby of the group, but not all Harley riders are like that and I do know a few who will do long distant rides they are only a few.
But back to the tv show when they leave one Harley shop to go to another town with a Harley shop, the women on the back or some do ride their own Harlies they are always spending and buying Harley merchandise, its like a addiction they need to spend money on Harley things and most of the things they buy aren't cheap, but when I think about it HD have got it right their marketing of their product is pretty good, sort of hey come in sucker have a cigar and spend spend spend.
Ashley