Welcome to Interactive Friday week #304 What’s Your Next 2025 Motorcycle? Bike Thefts & Pet Peeves! This week we asked our 425 million readers, @totalmotorcycle followers and visitors some great questions, polls and surveys like: Biggest pet peeve on the highway? Have you had your motorcycle stolen? Your next bike brand is…? International tariffs on bike prices? Do you remember Can-Am Motorcycles? Least favorite road type? Ever won anything motorcycle related? And the biggest question TMW has for you is did you participate and get your opinion, answers and questions in this week?
Our Total Motorcycle community Forum saw the most users ever online this week with over 19,291 beating our previous record of 16,612 on August 23rd! That’s A LOT of engagement with tens of thousands of riders viewing, hundreds and hundreds of replies as well as likes! Plus and additional 2,199 followers in the past 30 days at @totalmotorcycle! We are the fastest growing motorcycle channel on X by a long shot. Now that’s engagement extravaganza!
Join us and enjoy all the interaction this week here and next week too in our community forums and at @totalmotorcycle on X. Follow @TotalMotorcycle we got 🥥🥥 coconuts!
Now let’s go through some of the great questions, polls and surveys links below:
Our current topic from this morning! Get over to it and post your replies! What is your biggest pet peeve on the highway? 😬
This should be a great question as we all have to ride the highways and let me tell you, sometimes it just isn’t fun…
POLL: What is your biggest pet peeve on the highway? 😬
1. Poor Mergers
2. Slow Drivers
3. Rubber Necking
4. Reckless Drivers
5. Truck Convoy’s
6. Construction
7. Road Conditions (pot holes, speed bumps)
9. Crashes
10. Other (tell us!)Photo: 2023 Harley-Davidson Breakout 117… pic.twitter.com/JAbqWWN1Cc
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Happy Skynet Day! 🤖🤬
Did you know in Terminator (the Movie) today was the day?
Happy Skynet Day!
Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14am EST, August 29.
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“I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle.”
Just saying…
X: Grok
OpenAI: GPT-3.5, GPT-4, GPT-4o
Google: Gemini
Meta: LLaMA family
IBM: Granite… pic.twitter.com/XOPB9AKXEK— 𝙏𝙤𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙈𝙤𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙮𝙘𝙡𝙚™ 🇺🇸 🥳 25 Years! (@TotalMotorcycle) August 29, 2024
Have you had your motorcycle stolen? If so, how and was it recovered? 🏍️🔫 = 😭
No one likes it when a stranger touches their stuff, but steal your bike? Now that’s low.
Bike Theft Poll: Have you had your motorcycle stolen? If so, how and was it recovered?
🏍️🔫 = 😭
(I’ll run a poll below as well)
In Canada: The first 6 months of 2024 was a 72 per cent increase from the same period last year, and a 52 per cent jump over five years!
In the… pic.twitter.com/tGKLmpEbdO
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What motorcycle brand(s) are you looking at for your next bike? 🏍️😙
So many great brands of bikes out there, do you have your eye on a few motorcycle manufacturers that you like the models from?
What motorcycle brand(s) are you looking at for your next bike? 🏍️😙
1. Aprilia
2. Beta
3. BMW
4. Buell
5. Cagiva
6. Can-Am
7. Ducati
8. Harley-Davidson
9. Honda
10. Husaberg
11. Husqvarna
12. Hyosung
13. Indian
14. Kawasaki
15. KTM
16. Kymco
17. LiveWire
18. Moto Guzzi
19. MV… pic.twitter.com/N5o0xqQJis— 𝙏𝙤𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙈𝙤𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙮𝙘𝙡𝙚™ 🇺🇸 🥳 25 Years! (@TotalMotorcycle) August 28, 2024
How do you think the new 25% on steel & aluminum, 50% on semiconductors and 100% tariffs on Chinese eBikes will impact the motorcycle industry? 🤔 🏍️💬
Donald J. Trump plans to put an “American First” policy into place if he wins the 2024 US Federal Elections come November. These policies comes with hefty tariffs that are expected to be passed onto consumers… What do you think this will do to affordability?
How do you think the new 25% on steel & aluminum, 50% on semiconductors and 100% tariffs on Chinese eBikes will impact the motorcycle industry? 🤔
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Did you know China produces 54% of the worlds STEEL and 55% ALUMINUM?? For me, the DOUBLE price on eBikes won’t affect me, but… pic.twitter.com/LnKlkb6l1H
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Do you remember Can-Am Motorcycles? 🤔🏍️ Because they are back! 🗣️
Can-Am motorcycles released their first bikes this week in 16 years! Are you excited?
Do you remember Can-Am Motorcycles? 🤔🏍️
Because they are back! 🗣️https://t.co/wB2iYXCA7q
– 2025 Can-Am Pulse 73 – New model
– 2025 Can-Am Pulse – New model
– 2025 Can-Am Origin 73 – New model
– 2025 Can-Am Origin – New modelFollow @TotalMotorcycle on X for a great… pic.twitter.com/qmaH7htjLt
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What is your least favorite road type to motorcycle on? 🛣️🏍️
Roads, roads, and roads. What do they all have in common? A surface type! Sadly, road surfaces are not as good as they used to be and sometimes you ride on one that’s bad… what’s your worst type?
What is your least favorite road type to motorcycle on? 🛣️🏍️
A. Gravel
B. Dirt
C. Wet
D. Debris Covered (leaves)
E. Mud
F. Metal Grid
G. Asphalt
H. Concrete
I. Flooded
J. Snow
K. Stone (cobble)
L. Flexible (rubber)
M. Railway/Street Car/Tracked
N. Other (tell us!)#Road… pic.twitter.com/QRzkMlSKj0— 𝙏𝙤𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙈𝙤𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙮𝙘𝙡𝙚™ 🇺🇸 🥳 25 Years! (@TotalMotorcycle) August 25, 2024
Poll! How many tires does your bike have? o🏍️o
A fun, jibe of a question! Although I guess trike and sidecar owners have 1 more than two tires…
Poll! How many tires does your bike have? o🏍️o
1. One tire, big or small!
2. More than 1 tire but less than 3
3. 3-1+1 = 3 tires (ie, trike/sidecar rig)
4. I like Cheeseburgers!(Today’s Poll has been suggested by my wife)
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Have you ever won anything motorcycle related? Raffle, Content, 50/50, Give-a-way…Big, small or nothing yet? 🥳🎁🥰
Let us know!!!
Have you ever won anything motorcycle related? Raffle, Content, 50/50, Give-a-way…
Big, small or nothing yet?
🥳🎁🥰
👥Follow @TotalMotorcycle and be a WINNER by growing and being part of a great motorcycle community on X!#win #Prizes #contestgiveaway #ContestAlert #raffle… pic.twitter.com/44HF2216p6
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