At what point does it cease being a motorcycle and become something else? Because this looks like something else to me.
Its sad but I completely understand. One motel I stayed at knew me and let me stay but they had big issues with a motorcycle gang and no police in the "town". We as a society let garbage ride bikes with no mufflers and destroy the sport. I wonder what they would do in Japan or Germany if someone showed up driving that POS that Frosty shot?Bikes like this are not good at all for ALL of us bike riders. I was turned away once at a campground because they have a "no motorcycle" rule. Owner said the bikes are loud and disrupt campers. I was on a STOCK GoldWing!! I also had the police come and order me to leave a local A&W restaurant because they also had a "no motorcycle" rule. Again, I was on a STOCK GoldWing.
I've never gone back to either place.
Cliff
Bikes like this are not good at all for ALL of us bike riders. I was turned away once at a campground because they have a "no motorcycle" rule. Owner said the bikes are loud and disrupt campers. I was on a STOCK GoldWing!! I also had the police come and order me to leave a local A&W restaurant because they also had a "no motorcycle" rule. Again, I was on a STOCK GoldWing.
I've never gone back to either place.
Cliff
Dont go to Japan. You will see many "Japanese only" signs...and a few Japanese language only signs.A fast food joint turned you away? You pull in laying a fatty burnout? All that is bonkers to me, and I tour heavily (I'm 500 miles from home right now). I've usually found the public to be overly nosy if anything, "where you going?" "Where you coming from" "is that a Harley?" "Aren't you hot?" "Aren't you cold?" "Doesn't that helmet make you sweat?" Etc.
I've never had a business say "I don't want your money"
Dont go to Japan. You will see many "Japanese only" signs...and a few Japanese language only signs.
22.6 percent say they dont want us, and Koreans, Chinese, etc.
Oh dont get me wrong. I LOVE post war Japan...and I read books on HOW they got from a burned out country to a 345 mi long Bullet train in 20 years. (WA state cant even build 10 miles of road in 24 years despite the highest gas tax in the country and thats a fact) I love how they teach their kids, the school uniforms...the politeness...and I can see exactly every day why they think we have no manners...cause we dont. They are certainly not perfect...but you dont have to be afraid of your 8 year old daughter riding public transportation.....The only thing I really dont like is that their politicians changed their text books after 1992 to where they have no idea what the Asian Holocaust is (11 million died).Sure, probably there's xenophobia and racism all over the world, but I have family who visited Japan and loved it. The difference being they didn't exude the loud-ass cowboy stereotype. The whole YouTube influencer waving cell phones in people's faces is obnoxious enough stateside. I see a few at bike meets narrating for their phone like they are a correspondent for a major network. I can only imagine what goofballs are doing overseas.
Sadly, such is not the case. Shinzo Abe made sure of that. Dont want to get political here so I will send you a PM. But I will say that when he was assasinated, Every South Korean in the World said, "Yes!" (I will say also that there is a Japanese prof at the University of Tokyo who wrote a book about the truth and it has been published in English and I have read it.)I don't think the Japanese are trying to sweep the Asian holocaust under the rug, rather I think they have sense enough to realize that no one in Japan today is in anyway resposible for what happened back then. Just as we in the US should not have any responsibility for what happened during slavery. Both we and the Japanese can learn from our societal mistakes, but we can't atone for them.
Mike
Japanese 20th century history fasinates me....I am going through a pile of books right now...One is on how Hollywood helped Japanese reconstruction. It is very awkward to ask a Japanese person, even a friend, what is taught in Japan high schools in 2025. I wonder if Dirtflyer has any input?Well, you are obviously more up on Japanese history that I am. I do recall reading about the Asian holocaust but I don't recall any attempt to obscure it from history.
Mike