WTF is with the bullwhips?

Well there you go Michael. Indeed why bother with the whip? Why bother making empty internet threats about how we'd show that biker how badass we are?

Get back whips are about the stupidest "aesthetic" accessory I've ever seen on a motorcycle, even dumber than the leather tassels on the brake and clutch levers.

I'm just pointing out for all the internet commandos here that as dumb as that whip is, it's still not as dumb as attacking a biker with a car. That's not self defense, it's assault and quite possibly attempted murder compounded by world class stupidity that lands you in jail.

Unless...

There's a youtube video around in which a biker and a civic? driver have an altercation on the Vegas Strip. In it the car driver leaves first, pulls up to a left turn arrow and the biker is right on his ass, revving his cruiser furiously. Arrow turns green, the car launches into the turn, the biker follows suit and halfway thru the turn the car brake checks the biker. Boom, down he goes and the car drives sedately away... I thought that was particularly well played.

I remember that, and I also remember that the rider was dicking around with the whip, figuring out that he can't operate the throttle when he is holding the whip.

Someone needs to make a throttle relocation kit to move it to the left side, thereby allowing the pirates to use their right hand to crack that whip! They could sell it as an accessory at the HD dealers.

Yep that's the one... So boys and girls, if you're contemplating using a get back whip, make sure your bike has cruise control!

Someone please find us that video!

Bullwhips save lives.

Not sure if this will work but vegas road rage is the video..

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They're for thrill seekers when ass less chaps alone just doesn't do it for'em anymore.

Too funny.
He lost that stand off.

Note also the cruiser is not an HD...

True, HD does not always equal asshole. There is someone that lives in my building, has a Yamaha cruiser, is an asshole even off the bike.

It's an imported HarleyClone...

--Bill

Well that was a timely reminder for him that pissing off a car is a losing battle...

There's another vid out there where a guy tries to kick a car as they travel down the road. Maybe 20-30 mph, he looses control and drops the bike and he and it go sliding down the road...

I was riding one day and came up behind a metric cruiser whose brake light was blinking on and off erratically. I pointed to his tail light and tried to communicate this but he thought I meant his turn signal was on which it wasn't. At a traffic light I told him what was happening. It turns out he had one of those leather braids and at speed it flipped around enough in the breeze to pull the lever enough to trigger the brake light.

They'd be decent for whipping other riders, assuming you could catch one with the throttle closed on a Harley.

Many Harley's have cruise control and almost every Harley you've ever seen has a screw under the right control pod which can be used to lock the throttle WFO if you want to. (It's perfect for whipping other riders...)

Is that why the chaps are assless? To be ahead of the game?

You should ask around... You could write a ride report!