Dwight- Sweet! And you don't look too shabby either.
I'm with Skillet....It's the Milwaukee Madness that has me rolling my eyes.
I ride with HD guys, my daughter's Dad is a flattie/pan/Indian guy and we had some gorgeous motorcycles, and the occasional HD woman- have for my 25+ years of riding (18 now on my own bike) all "bikers" in the truest sense of the word. Now a few of them have expanded their bike choices to BMWs.
My second favorite bike of ever was my 79 Shovel. My brother-in-law has it now and the deal is that if he ever goes to sell it, I get first dibs.
I know folks who have new HDs, but who don't pay child support (but he's current on thier $250 month bike payment) or play the float (on her credit card bills, car payment)regularly- but thier "@SSES are on a Harley". I'd call that Milwaukee Madness, especially since I doubt they said "@sses' before the HD purchases.
When women ask me about learning to ride and they tell me they want a Sporty or a Lowrider for thier first bike, I tell them they're nuts....That that's their ego talking and to learn on something smaller. I take them to the Honda dealership, or steer them towards a Suzuki Savage, help them work a killer deal on a small bike they can manage.
Two years ago I was visiting a friend in Western MA...Her new guy, Mr. RUB personified, and his friends, had the year prior bought brandy new Road Kings and become "bikers". (I like Road Kings, a friend of mine has a sexy black one- it's sexy cuz he runs it with apes, and I like fat bikes.) I spent 45 minutes waiting while they polished thier bikes, consulted maps, debated where we were going for to stop for lunch, and decided who was going to be "Road Captain". Road Captain- having no clue what a Road Captain's job is if you're running with a club or MC riders association.
I hadn't ridden in the circle of folks my friend Craig was close too for a number of years, all long term HD bikers, some with club history "back in the day", now they're all on Lipitor- but they embraced me like I hadn't been gone a minute, and were THRILLED that a Triumph was there at Craig's passing.
