I use to buy a Harley T-shirt at just about every Harley dealer I visited, of course they had to have a shirt I liked.
I was going trough my T-shits the other day and just for the hell of it I decided to count my HD T-shirts and to my surprise I had 32 T-shirts.
Now I know that the price varies on the T-shirts so just using a average price of $35 a shirt I ended up spending $1120 on these T-shirts :surprise:
I haven't bought a T-shirt at a Harley dealer in quite awhile but I don't really need another one anyways.
I would have had a bunch as the shop gives you one when you buy a bike, some shops two - I always used that as a way to get something for the OL and Kids.....I got a bike, they got T-Shirts - As of late, I got some for myself and I think I have (4) - I also have (4) Short Sleeve "Shop Shirts" that I like wearing.
I swore for years I would not fly the HD brand on my clothes...........that changed
Damn if I ant sporting one rite now!
course wita perfectly folded bandana.
To my defense, she hunts for em at the thrift stores.
seem plentiful, ya think they'd keep a stack on a garage shelf
next to their 20,000 dollar HD clothes hangar
I have to be close to the 100 mark. I get bitched at all the time for the room my collection takes up. I love grabbing a bad as shirt when I visit a cool new destination.
One for every day of the month with spares if you get sloppy every now and again or for wash day (once a month), they also allow for a change in sequencing/rotation. lol
Had way too many at one point but donated most of them and a lot still with tags. People I know still get me shirts whenever they go away somewhere even when I tell them not to. All good, some homeless dude walking around somewhere with some cool shirts
Probably somewhere around 200. 95% of those came from Goodwill or a different thrift store. Why not when they're $4 each? The ones I've actually bought have been from traveling overseas.
I probably have around 30 HD T-shirts and long sleeve shirts and about another 25 from Bike week and biketoberfest. I shop the sales rack at every dealership i visit. I will never pay full price for their over priced Tshirts. Even tho their quality is Excellent, the price is still too high. Sams clubs here in Florida usually have bike week and biketoberfest T's for around $8 2-3 weeks before the events. I buy bike week and biketoberfest
Tshirts weeks before i get to Daytona.
50 give or take..We don't make it a destination to ride to dealerships,
but if we see one on the hiway we will stop in and check out the "on sale" racks.
I have also traded a few (from Maine) with others at some gatherings...
My shirt collection is way cheaper than the collection of bourbon I used to try to accumulate....
all I ended up with then was empty bottles on a shelf !!!
25 or so.. only from places I have personally been too. Great memories.. I have now started collecting the ball caps with the dealers names on them.. Harder to come by and get noticed more... Shirts shrink, the ball caps last forever...
I've got about 10 shirts. The OL probably has about another 5.
I quit buying the shirts when, after I bought a few and started doing the math, I realized it was going to be an expensive habit.
So I get the poker chips instead. About 60-70 of them over the past 2+ years since I started. I haven't ridden to that many dealerships, but I do a fair amount of traveling for work and it gives me something to do after work besides sit in the hotel room. Company pays for the rental car and gas, so, why not?
I don't keep count, but since my collection is more than 20 years old, I know I have more than 100. Recently I'm trying to do more pins and poker chips, shirts are getting too expensive and take up more space.
I had a bunch of them and the damn things shrunk around the middle. Bought another bunch in a bigger size and damn if they didn't shrink around the middle too. I think we need a new washing machine. I really would hate to count them all, started with a Robison HD shirt form Daytona circa 1985.
You must have the same brand washing machine I have :grin:
Between my wife & I, we lost count. I'm a packrat and never throw anything away, so I still have Harley shirts going back at least thirty years. My favorite is one I bought from Arlen Ness when he was still actually behind the counter of his shop in Oakland California in 1987....though its "shrunk" so badly that I haven't been able to fit in it for many moons (OK, it's not actually an official Harley T-shirt, but it's still my favorite).
We also live about a half-hour from Daytona Beach, so a few weeks after Bike Week & Biktoberfest, they are basically GIVING the things away....and my wife can't pass up a bargain.
When I did an epic coast-to-coast tour back in 1990, I picked up a shirt at every Harley dealer I went past. I had to ship them back home at various points along the trip because I didn't have room to pack any more. I still have most of them (plus many more). My wife is a quilter, and eventually, plans to make them into a "memories" quilt. Funny thing is; I don't even remember buying half of them
Close to 100 HD T-shirts spread all over the planet; Australia, Europe and TX.... This does not include event T-shirts e.g. Surges, Longhorn rallies etc....
I just started on my third drawer. Plus about 8 or so collared shirts than hang in the closet.
I have a problem, although i will say 99% of them have been purchased on clearance, unless they were a gift. The wife and I once started adding up all the money on clothes, jackets, all that stuff. We have 3.5 kids. 3 plus the oldest boys GF who we buy stuff for. I stopped adding when I realized I probably could have another bike in the garage. I will now go hide in the stall at work and cry..............
I have enough to make me feel like an idiot. I bought them when I was young and dumb. $35 to $40 for a T-shirt? Bullshit!!
HD can kiss my ass!! If they want me to advertise for them...PAY ME MF's!! But I don't see that happening....LOL
Yup too many. But thats is ok I learned a lesson HD is all about the money.I will say they are all made in the U.S.A I would purchase one made elsewhere.
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