A Rant

[themostepotente]

So sue me. I'm overdue :P And what with being sick and losing the first draft of my recs, I'm about as murderous as Lucius Malfoy in a room full of Muggles.

The Remus/Sirius fans might agree with me here.

You're reading that Remus/Sirius sex on the motorcycle fic, and the author doesn't know shit from shinola when it comes to motorcycles and corresponding periods and countries. Crotch rockets, people? Harley Davidsons? Somebody needs a bitchslapping, man.

Triumph. Possibly an Indian. Never a Honda.

And if you must be an ass and put Sirius on a Harley -- there is a fucking 'd' before the 's' in Davidson.

That is all.

--P

Comments

[atalantapendrag.livejournal.com]

Anything but a 1952 Vincent Black Lightning is sacrilege.

[lovepanic.livejournal.com]

Oooh perfect op. I'm about to do a painting of Sirius on his motorbike for the sirius fest... what sort do you think he'd ride? I'm afraid I'm really ignorant on things like that, but as you pointed out, I dont want to display this ignorance to the world by putting him on a godawful OOC bike :O

[meredyth-13.livejournal.com]

Just so I can stop feeling paranoid? Which R/S/Motorcycle fic?

*looks worried*

thanks...

[catnamedbuffy.livejournal.com]

LOL.

I've always seen Sirius on a '65 BMW R60. Or maybe a really old army R12 that he was constantly tinkering on. But that's probably just cause I love those bikes. :)

[danxsunday.livejournal.com]

amen

[hansbekhart.livejournal.com]

Word.

I'll also add to that another fandom complaint, for LOTRips RPS fics. The boys surf, but most authors know absolute crap about surfing and it leaves me wanting to scream. There's just some things that HOWL out that the author has no practical experience about it.

[froda-baggins.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's why I never specify when I write motorbike fic. Because everything I know about them I learned from my father, who uh...is a Harley man 4eva!!111 So that's the only kind I know anything about. Hah.

[huntress1013.livejournal.com]

LOL I know how you feel bad fanfics are a pain in the rear. Is it so hard to do some research and ask for a beta?

I haven't updated my rec list/community (Twisted Fantasy) in ages because it is so hard finding some new snarry and drarry fics which are NOT WIPs and great at the same time. =(

[ariadneelda.livejournal.com]

Harley Davison??? *snickers*

Hope you get well soon, dear. *hugs*

[a_belladonna]

And that is why I stay away from writing or drawing motorcycles. ;)

But I really can't imagine Sirius on a Harley Davidson...you can partially blame it on the "Harley Davidson leggings" every girl wore in the mid-nineties. Or simply because it's a too "American" motorcycle.

And who'd put him on a Honda?

[nassima.livejournal.com]

Norton :)

Heh, it's English! And it won races during the seventies. And a model from the early seventies would have been second hand enough for Sirius to buy it!

[underlucius.livejournal.com]

eep! *smoochies for the illness babes*

I agree that people should get their facts straight and I'll always check that a make or model existed in the time frame I'm writing about - drives me insane when people don't.

just out of interest hon - what's Sirius got against Honda? In 1977 I was pillion riding on one of these... brummmm. bruuummmmm........oh those vibrations... However I do understand that he's quite likely to favour the british bikes.

http://www.motorbike-search-engine.co.uk/classic_bikes/honda%20cb750k.gif

[http://users.livejournal.com/rantipole_/]

there is a fucking 'd' before the 's' in Davidson

YEAH.
*cough* (used to live in Muwaukee...)

[thistlerose.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Uh, that's why I never describe Sirius's bike in detail. I know NOTHING about motorbikes. In my stories, he rides either a Triumph or a Vincent Black Shadow. I saw the latter once in a museum and dear God, that bike is SEX.

[fer-de-lance.livejournal.com]

Haha, I fear I must confess: all motorcycles look alike to me. Flipping through the various pictures linked in the comments, I found myself nodding, 'A black bike... another black bike... yep, looks like a motorcycle to me...'

The only way I can really differentiate them is by general build -- Harleys, for example, look very heavy and, erm, overloaded, to me, usually. Very bulky and overdone. Smaller, lighter-looking models look, well, smaller and lighter, but that's the limit of my classifications. :D

[likethemodel.livejournal.com]

This is kind of random, but why was that motorcycle so big?

[netbyrd.livejournal.com]

I've been in the middle of searching for good Triumph pictures to use as a model for a really big charcoal or blackwash picture of him on the bike. My dad has a Triumph from way back when, but it's a bit rusty right now.
But yeah.
Just curious, but what year bike would you think he'd have anyhow? New for his year? Something older that'd been tinkered with for a while to make it fly? It's been bugging me greatly.

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear.

And she's a 1970 Norton Commando, 750ccs, black with gold trim, damnit.

And if not, then yes, a Triumph.