Dear Dave,
Inward directed angst isn't culturally correct any more -- this is now the Me/I generation and you need to adjust your internal cultural tilt more towards getting even with the bastards that have been putting you down all these years rather than gushing over them.
Harley riders are the worst of the bunch as they like to cop a HUGE attitude while riding an overweight substandard machine that cost them WAY WAY too much money for what they got out of it.
The ultimate expression of your new attitude needs to be polite, but a pointed ignoring of your old oppressors as you outperform them. Go up into the North Carolina mountains during the next mountain trip and pass a long line of Harley riders on a curvy road.
Odds are at least 1-2 out of the group will cop "the attitude" again on seeing your puny Granny bike and they will attempt to show you what's what, only to find out they have willingly followed you into a situation that they could only come out of horizontally (if at all, the outer edge is waiting for them).
And, with them having done it willingly to themselves, just leave them there trapped under their own overweight ego machines, with their folded up sideboard smashing vice-like down on their inside foot and holding firm to their Hurley
R riding boot all tight like as the still spinning machine wallows over and slips off over the edge of the grassy margin and down the long drop.
And, if you do it right, you will already be long gone around the next curve when they actually complete their ballet of destruction, so you can respond honestly during whatever that "Hey, I never saw them speed up, I never saw them crash, I don't know a thing about it."
The Goldwingers won't crash, they'll just pick verbal fights with you at the next stop.
Sportsbikes blow past you so fast that they aren't worth the effort to even think about, they are totally LONG GONE after all ....
Signed Serobot with no "W"