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OT: Harley Davidson Rally

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scootergarren
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I know this is late but I believe Mark would still be downloading pictures right now. :D



My post was in front of the Harley Davidson shop in Myrtle Beach













and in front of this bar...











This one is for you Blacky! She was a bartender at the bar...







They estimated there were about 300 to 400 thousand bikers in attendance this year, putting Mrytle Beach ahead of Daytona Beach and second behind Sturgis....























Just 2 of our bikes out of the 20 that were in attendance....











Another bartender from HUTD, if I could only photoshop the rookie out of the picture....







Check the guys out in the background... Ya think they know I'm taking the picture?







I know that the pictures aren't much but I wasn't able visit SBB in Murrells Inlet. That is where the craziness is located! Maybe next year?
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scootergarren
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^^^^^7 out of 400,000 .....
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scootergarren wrote:
^^^^^7 out of 400,000 .....

theyre getting safer
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Zeus
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Crazy, you guys are the first law enforcement office that I've seen use BMWs for duty. Usually its a big Harley or Suzuki (in my experience).



Looks like it was fun Scoot. Keep the TRs comin'.
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Zeus wrote:
Crazy, you guys are the first law enforcement office that I've seen use BMWs for duty. Usually its a big Harley or Suzuki (in my experience).



Looks like it was fun Scoot. Keep the TRs comin'.



K-Town switched to Beemers about 2 years ago, I heard the reasoning was the maintenance was way cheaper. (May have been the Sheriff's Dept. rather than the City now that I think about it though.)
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GreshamB wrote:


scootergarren wrote:
Check the guys out in the background... Ya think they know I'm taking the picture?









no actually i think they are smiling because they are looking down her shirt as she bends over in the cooler...



:lol:



nice pics scoot..

That's exactly what I was thinking!
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teledave wrote:
K-Town switched to Beemers about 2 years ago, I heard the reasoning was the maintenance was way cheaper. (May have been the Sheriff's Dept. rather than the City now that I think about it though.)



Hard to imagine a beemer being cheaper than anything when it comes to maintenence (one of my roommates has a BMW car, and I get to hear about how $$$ parts are, etc, all the time).



But after working on HDs, I'd believe it. Those can be troublesome bikes. Gimme a yamaha inline four any day of the week...
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they way most law enforcement agencies do it is that they just don't keep the bikes long enough for them to go out of warranty. If BMW has a longer warranty, the repair costs are cheaper.
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Zeus wrote:
Hard to imagine a beemer being cheaper than anything when it comes to maintenence (one of my roommates has a BMW car, and I get to hear about how $$$ parts are, etc, all the time).



I had a 325ic for 10 years...durn things, you got this maintence schedule staggered every 15k I & II, and they were $650 a pop. minimum. They find something, which they always did, and a kilodollar. I did get 240k out of it though...before the frame litterally fell apart...
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I do love the look of a Beemer bike, if I had the cash I would certainly get one for my next motorcycle. Well, it would be a toss-up between a BMW and a Ducati.



Instead I'm looking at the Suzuki cheap-get-around-town bike. heck, anything is better than what I have now- a non-running 1987 yamaha.
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