Comparing Harley Davidsons & Women

Comparing Harley Davidson’s and women. I had a fun weekend going to a bike show, I walked in, it was early and straight off I saw a row of bikes that had entered the show.

I had a quick look and thought, wow they are all good. How are the judges going to compare?

It made think - Why do we compare and compete - is it good that we do this?

Today in this video, we are going to look at why we compare our Harley with others, why we compare people to others – when is this good and when does it get you in strife.

Stay to the end of the video and I’ll let you know in what situations this comparison is harmful to you and those around you. AND better still - what to do about it.

We all compare things and we all compete at least a little. When it comes to Harley’s I’ve compared my first Harley Fat boy from the early nineties to my Last Harley Fat Boy 10 or so years ago and then, those two – to  the last Fat Boy I rode a few videos ago. I’ve compared my current Street Glide to my last Street Glide. Street Glides to Road Glides and I’ve even done a couple of tongue in cheek videos about that.

I’ve often compared the bike I’m riding to the latest shiny one available at the dealer. Now this doesn’t do much harm – except for financial.

It can be good to compare things. Bike shows allow progress. It makes people strive to build a better bike. It gives some people meaning – something to do – build a bike

It creates businesses that support the Harley industry and it creates the beauty of individuality that we have in the Harley world. The positive side of competition moves us forward and creates excellence as we strive. 

It’s useful when you NEED a change. You might be on a Sportster and you want to go touring – so you compare your bike to one of the big touring models, then you decide - will this lead to a purchase?

This gets problematic when we compare people with others or you look at situations with clouded judgement.

First of all when we look at a situation it’s often through tinted glasses because we have emotions. When a person goes through an event – anything at all we attach meaning to it based on our past experiences, likes and dislikes, beliefs and social conditioning.

So when I look back at my first Fat Boy – it holds a special place in my heart – it was my first Harley, it was the early nineties, I was having a lot of fun and it was a great time in my life. It was an Evo and they sound so much better than m8’s - that’s what I think now and I wish I had of kept that bike.

But of course reality is different and I explain in the video what this bike was really like. I also discuss why we compare things, situations and people in the first place - when this is inappropriate and what to do about it. Join me for an interesting discussion that reaches well beyond comparing Harley Davidson’s and women.