which do you think is more badass...
2007-10-30 14:01:10 · 16 answers · asked by Fallen Rose 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Motorcycles
neither
if you want to ride a paint shaker, go to the hardware store
2007-10-30 14:04:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 10⤋
Harleys only because contemporary choppers are ridiculous bar bikes that are uncomfortable to ride show pieces. Are they artful yes. are they functional? no. Harhey balances both so I would give my vote to them. Also No bike gets a "badass" rating unless it's 15 years old in my book. Anyone can buy parts and pay someone to spray and paint. A bike with a heritage and a story with personalization that the owner ( or previous ) did even if it isn't artistically sound beats the pants off what you see on TV in my opinion.
2007-10-31 02:11:55 · answer #2 · answered by dirty_jerzee99 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
depends on what you want to do with it ....... I ride my 883 Sportster to Daytona 124 miles cruising at 85 mph and sometimes have to accelerate to pass people and the handling of the bike is great for lane changes and evading tailgaters ; I have a broken tailbone so the touring seat,mid pegs for standing up and shocks really help me;I cannot imagine really getting out on the interstate and riding a chopper the way I personally need to ride however I have personally never been on a chopped out bike;however for simply appearance sake I would definately say a customed choipper is pretty "bad ***";my favorite was the show on the "Captain Japan" bike made by some Jap dude over in the LA area as his interpretation of the "Captain America" bike from the Movie "Easyrider" ......... but I want to customize my Sportie,but it was the last model Sportie with a carberator and now they are disconiuing the 883 so I will eventually purchase an older bike to customize and leave my Sportster Stock .........
2007-10-31 01:37:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All depends on the bike and person on it. Perference wise I like Harley -full dressed or a heritage. Choppers are good for sort rides only not for touring
2007-11-02 05:55:40 · answer #4 · answered by carndog64 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The chopper craze is weening.
Most of the guys I've riden with that have them are not to keen on there reliability. The do not trail like a regular bike and that may be the reason that chopper deaths are extremely high.
2007-10-31 08:31:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I quit caring about 'badass' 20 some years ago. I prefer style and function. Harley.
2007-10-31 00:08:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've never understood choppers...except as an art form, I guess. But let's take a quick look at what a chopper is all about...
A motorcycle is a fast, manueverable, superior-handling machine that, in the proper hands, can outrun, outmanuever and even outbrake a car.
Now chop it...extend the fork, so it can't corner worth beans...take off the front brake, where a motorcycle derives 70% of its braking power, put on struts or use a hardtail chassis, so it's as uncomfortable as possible...sidemount the tail and brake light so it can only be seen from one side, and take off the turn signals so cage driving feebs who are used to having a light flashed in their faces can look at your hand signals and wonder, WTF? (Do they even teach hand signalling in driver's ed nowadays? I doubt it—they don't teach driving a standard shift or parallel parking...)
Anyway, what you have left is an ill-handling, rear wheel-locking, almost invisible POS bike that's unsafe at any speed other than parked in front of the bar where all the alcoholic bad*sses go...sorry didn't mean to rant...just my opinion...peace out and ride safe...K ;o)
2007-11-01 11:50:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think the question should be which group of formerly bad-*** bikes has been more taken over by more posers and wanna bees?
Harley by numbers, choppers by percentage, sportbikes by bad outcome.
2007-10-31 03:13:56 · answer #8 · answered by ninebadthings 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Real choppers are Harleys. Mine is a 55 pan.
2007-10-30 14:43:55 · answer #9 · answered by jrrysimmons 5 · 5⤊ 3⤋
I would go with a chopped Harley. Now that is 1 bad assed bike
2007-10-30 22:58:09 · answer #10 · answered by bisquedog 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
They are inanimate obejects... they can't be badass. Only the person riding it can be a bad *** and from what i've seen most bad asses are riding Kawasaki KLR 650s these bad asses are known as the United States Marine Corps and are by far the only group of people (as well as people in other military divisions) who could truly defined as "badass". All of these people on the street claiming to be badass are just worthless punks. You wanna be a badass go enlist otherwise your just a punk no matter what you ride or do.
2007-10-30 15:17:46 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋