I have had several Harleys over the years.
Now I have a Gold Wing. That S. O. B. Is awesome. Six cylinders of terror. Fastest and most comfortable bike I’ve ever owned. HD is cool. This Gold Wing is DAM COOL.
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Never heard anything bad about the GoldWing lol
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Good morning all of you. Hope your all enjoying yourselves.
I realized at an early age a bike wasn’t a good idea for me 
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U CANT CALL EM AUTOS IF YOU GOTTA SWITCH TO 12/12 !!!
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get one of those side carts and have em haul your ass around lol you can smoke a fatty while the wind blasts your face
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They’re talking about possibly getting a trike.
With plans to flip it, but Rose and me ride it until lol
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I love that Idea! I may drop that hint to my son… I miss having the wind in my face too…
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You can damn well believe, lol we’ll be riding every day!
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The absolute worst day of my life was when I dropped my bike all the way over on the side and could NOT PICK IT UP!
Part of me died that day!
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Being able to pick up the bike if it fell over, was one of the ‘rules’ we had for the boys whenever we went to buy one for em.
with permission, I’d gently lay it on it’s side, then if whichever son was getting it, could pick it up without too much struggle. it was his lol
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I taught my first wife how to pick up a fallen motorcycle. Its not hard to do. But there’s a way to do it. If you just try to pick up a heavyweight bike just by grabbing the handlebars and lift. The only thing you will do is hurt yourself unless you are a 300 pound Samoan giant.
My wife was about 110 pounds soaking wet. It took her less than five minutes to lift a HD Ultra glide and put it on it side stand.
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Indeed, lol there IS a ‘right way’ to do it. But I wasn’t gonna show the boys until they had tried (and succeeded) Like I said, their first bikes were NOT gonna be high-dollar Harley! Just rice-burners in the 600 and up range.
As they learned to ride better, their bikes got better, lol
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My bike don’t burn rice. She burns gas tho. A lot of gas.
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Good policy.
Back when I was actively riding I would follow every accident involving a motorcycle in our area. In the majority of the cases that involved a car and a motorcycle the person driving the car would say, “I never saw them”.
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Even though he Gold Wing IS what some bikers would call a ‘rice burner’ I don’t. It’s pretty nice.
I made em ride around the neighborhood only until they felt comfortable enough to give me a ride on the back around, then we turned em loose on the city roads.
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But I have had several Honda, several Yamaha, several Harley. They were ALL incredible motorcycles. I don’t buy into the ‘buy American’ thing. Every company is in a Global Economy. Also there are a shit ton of Chinese parts on American motorcycles.
My brother was the worlds worst. He would not even try my old bikes out. Except for my old Norton Commando. Always buy American he said.
Then he would get into his Nissan Miranda and go home. Haha.
Funny thing is, his last motorcycle, before he got bunged up to where he can’t ride. ???
Yup. Honda. GoldWing.
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Yeah, I started my son on a small dirt bike and taught him how to “lay it down” and get off it with out getting hurt. He got pretty good at it and did way better than me. By the time I turned 40 he could ride circles around me. I ended up buying him a 125 full sized dirt bike and bought me a 250. We had so much fun on those bikes, very fond memories. Now he only rides street bikes but we talk often about the “old days in the dirt and mud”.
He just bought a new HD that I have not seen yet. He lives out in Utah now so I don’t get to see him much these days. FUN TIMES!
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My father and mother in-law rode every state in the country except Hawaii and Alaska on a GoldWing. I don’t judge what you ride. I chose Harley’s because that’s what my friends rode. We had a neighbor who had a couple choppers in his garage with the typical old school paint jobs with the awesome metal flake in the late sixties and there was a biker group that would meet about five houses down the street. We would laugh and say the front end of their bikes would be at our house and they would still be a house away.
oh the memories.
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My dirt & motocross were Penton. But I only rode that one Harley my whole life until the boys were born. 1949 ‘E’
edit… lol just got outta bed, n came on here. hit the D instead of the E above it!
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Mine was Honda Elsinore 250. Love those little farts. You could take them anywhere.
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