I finally got a longer ride on the Trophy. The stock seat needs to be replaced, I miss floorboards as my knees don't like being bent all the time and my right foot is getting cooked by the heat coming off the radiator.

I've already bought the crash bars on which I'll install some pegs to rest my feet and straighten my knees. I'll also install a deflector to send the waste heat away from my foot. There seem to be a lot of choices for a replacement seat.

As big and heavy as the bike seemed at first I've gotten used to it. It still takes some care at very low speeds but once I'm going fast enough to keep both feet up it handles like a dream. And it is FAST!!

My America isn't going anywhere but neither is the Trophy.


We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.