Saw ‘Dr Fox’ the chubby DJ from Cap Rad ( well he used to be ) - the one who’s just a bit too Smashy and Nicey for my taste ( but hey - he’s hip - he rides a Harley doncha know ) outside Warrs Harley Davidson off the Kings Road the other day.
He was looking over a blacked out 06 reg Hog ( I dunno Harleys - it was a soft tail something or other - Night Rider? Black Sooper? Night in Black Armour Thingy ).
By the look on his fizzog he wasn’t too pleased about summat - who knows? - who cares?
I bumped into Ian Wright guess what he was on a Harly as well, he did say nice bike to me and that was when I noticed that it was him, I did not have the heart to say NICE HOG MISSSTA
That’s nice of him - shows he’s allright ( pardon the pun ).
No offence against Harleys - I used to have a 1200 Sportster with Screaming Eagles and brakes that took 200 yards to stop… - but ‘Stars’ seem to have a knee jerk reaction when they decided to buy a bike and go straight for a Harley. It’s a bit like Cheshire housewives and ‘Considerably Richer Than Yow’ types who go straight out a buy a Porsche.
Not because they know anything about the meritys / demerits of the marque but because they have read about it in Vogue magazine!
I’d take them a bit more seriously on a Gixxer, or a Trump, Ducati, Moto Guzzi etc,
I used to love working in london all the great things you see I once saw a desk (yes you did not misread) driving through the city, it was great, the guy sitting on the chair at the back in the p$£sing rain did not look to impressed though…
…and the tank took you about 80 miles ( even though it was the bigger non-peanut type)…
Brakes? For some reason Harley think it’s a good idea to chrome everytihing - even the brake disks…!!!
However it did have it’s good points - mainly the sound - it could set car alarms off froom 100 yards. I think a soft-tail would have been a better bet ( I don’t think Sportsters are REAL Harleys anyway ).
I have seen him leathered up on TV before in summat else - Sportsbike rider for some time.
I guess a bike is perfect for a celeb as they can ride around incognito ( unless they go for a f - off Dressed up Harley ) and nobody takes a second look.
Mind you - bit part actor, cheesy third rate DJ , our mysterious Cilla…
Myu claim to fame was that in 1997 I bought a brand new Triumph Daytona 900 ( the OLD one with the slow speed handling of RMS Titanic on its nose ) …
… well I was told ( and was shown the pictures ) that the next two on the production line to mine ( both in Bannana Yellow too ) were to be delivered to … wait for it.
The Hon Patrick Lichfield and Viscount Lindley ( Princes Margarets boy )… dealer showed me the picture of them sitting on thier mounts at Hinkley.
Me?.. I’m Royal I am…
Mind you Linley’s dad used to have a BSA Thunderbolt which he sometimes took the old Gin-Soaked Margaret on sometimes,.,
You’re onto a winner there by ditchin her no matter how nice she rode.
Its like people who have Manhatten or Vogue written across the back of the Range Rovers or VW Passats.
Its a CAR, its not a dream.
The dream is what you do in your head when you are riding it.
Wild Glide…
Next year Harley are releasing “The farts of freedom”, the leather includes the heady whif of the fart you’ve been holding in whilst sat in your poncy office smuggly brown-nosing everyone. Now you’ve got your leather chaps on (with the bum cut out mind) you’re free to fart all over your leather.
The upgrade model is the “Cripes I’ve crapped meself” - it comes in absorbent leather and easy-wipe Chrome
OK, they sound good, they probably ride good, but there’s too much mid-life crisis going on there for ANYONE to have any respect for…(and Salee this only applies to the lads) - you wanna ride one go aheda. Any bloke riding one should start looking for his Shaly Glades retirement home in my book
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