I'm not going through my second childhood

[peternap]

I never got out of the first one.

I got this tonight:



Suzuki Boulevard C50 Special Edition

[Redoverfarm]

Good for you Peter.  I had three "graveyard ponies".  Then the children arrived and sold the last to my BIL and bought a tractor that I could get more use out of.  

[MountainDon]

When I read the topic title I had a feeling it was by Peter.   


I have to admit to not liking the idea of me on a road bike and sharing the road with the local road maniacs so much anymore.



Although my neighbor with the one of a kind Big Dog cycle, who open carries says he never has any problems with cars crowding him.     

[glenn kangiser]

Still got my license but decided the roads are too crazy anymore.  Last road was a Suzuki 500 - had a Honda 750-4 before that or maybe it was after.  Crimoney... that was 40 years ago.

[NM_Shooter]

Nice bike! 

I have only owned dual sports, which are not very comfortable bikes to ride.  I will sometimes take them for a ride on pavement, but I don't like to have to pay that much attention to other drivers.  I look for eye whites at every intersection.  Too much work for me! 

[Grimjack]

This was my Baby! I sold her after a friend and his wife died together in a motorcycle crash. I started counting all the people I knew who had been injured or killed on a bike and came up with about 1/2 a dozen. Then I tried to think of the people I knew who had the same thing but in a car crash, couldn't come up with any. And I know a lot more people who drive cars.

Have fun with your new toy, but be careful!

[ChuckinVa]

There have been 2 motorcycle deaths on our road in the last year and two in our area in the last week. The last 2, number 1 was a drunk driver at 2:30 in the afternoon crossed the yellow line and hit and killed a 36 year old man on a bike. The second, a driver did not see the motor cylclist and  pulled out in front of him. The driver of the motor cycle is in critical condition. The passenger, the drivers 9 YO son, died at the scene.  Please be careful out there. We sometimes feel like we are invincible but when it comes to taking on a car or truck with a motor cycle we are going to loose most of the time.

CHUCK

[Windpower]

Looks like fun

I still have my 1976 Husqvarna 250 WR but I don't ride it much

maybe time for a trip around the airport

[peternap]

I love riding a motorcycle and in 50 years of doing it (I started before I had a drivers license) I've never had a major accident. I think it's because I've never gotten compkletely comfortable on one and I watch traffic like a hawk.
I never had a V twin before and I have to admit...I love it

I may take over a small town or two next week.

[Redoverfarm]

Peter stay away from Bayone NJ that is where I lost my middle Aspencade that was a year old.  Escape that one virtuallu unscaved.  Didn't learn a thing. Turned around a year later and bought a new one.  Then life started seeming more precious and people around me.  Thats when I went out of the motorcycle buisness.  You would have thought I would have learned long before after picking up pieces on the road over my carreer.  Do be carefull.  They actually don't see you.