The Classic MotorCycle

The attractions of tractors

During the years I ran a Harley-Davidson, I admit to becoming bored by people thinking it was clever, funny and/or original to refer to the American V-twins as tractors.

It wasn’t just the casual rudeness – although I couldn’t think why anyone would deliberately criticise another person’s preferred motorbike when they (hopefully) would be more polite about their choice of clothes, partners or whatever. But what I found really puzzling, was that they seemed unable to comprehend that Harleys weren’t all

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