However, in the sixties the ability to simply purchase one of these machines was almost impossible. The normal way to acquire one was to purchase a stock Harley- Davidson and then modify it beyond recognition. The average person wasn't equipped with tools, knowledge, or the contacts needed to do these kinds of modifications. .
There is another aspect to this. Just about the only people riding these machines were "bikers". That meant people that fit into the "tough guy" images that were willing to wear dirty Levis, sleeveless Levi vests, long hair, and would fight at a moments notice. The biker crowd wasn't for everyone. In fact it was an exclusive club reserved for those outcasts of society that didn't fit in anywhere else. For an average male that was working a forty-hour week, had a wife, and buying a house, this image and lifestyle just didn't work. .
In the nineties, it became fashionable to ride a Harley, just like it became fashionable to have tattoos. No longer was it necessary to belong to an outlaw biker club in order to ride a chopper and have tattoos. Suddenly all of the normal people that had worked hard all their lives had the opportunity to buy a custom motorcycle, get a couple of tattoo's and hit the open road without having to be an outcast from society to do it. All of the fantasies these people had been dreaming of for years were able to come true without the complications and situations that would have occurred if they attempted this in the 1960's. .
So here we have it. People that wanted to be a part of a culture but were unwilling to make the social and financial sacrifices suddenly find themselves in the position of being able to have the best of both worlds. They get to keep their jobs, their wives, their kids, and their houses, and still have a custom chopper and tattoos. On the weekends they put on their leathers and hit the open road with other boomers doing the same thing.
One overall affect, then of the decision to do away with analog television for the United States is that landfills will pick up about 6 million energy hogging televisions and over the course of a few years, electronic sellers will benefit from a boom in the sales of converter boxes and new televisions. ...
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To this day, all of the facts about the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 are still not known. There are many controversies about what exactly happened, but most people will agree that it was a true tragedy. On May 31, 1921, a black man by the name of Dick Rowland was on an elevator operated by a white wo...
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