To Harley Or Not To Harley, That Is The Question?

[likitlikeyoulikeit]

Me too!

garage. Needs work, but...

neither do I.

So funny

 

[TSJMajesty]

So funny

Could never get that bike to wheelie like I could my 900 Ninja though! I think it had to do with a loose nut..., the one on top of the seat!

 

[la szum]

This lady agrees...don't like side by sides

1600ccs of rubber throwing gravel all over the pavement. They can all f**k themselves.

It's like Mad Max's Thunderdome where I live. Only with Suburbanites escaping the
'Burbs for the weekend.

 

[la szum]

I vote Harley!!!!!

Im getting it once my midlife crisis starts…..


Happy riding.

Just remember. You only mid-life once!! Make it count!

 

[6string_Lydia]

Just remember. You only mid-life once!! Make it count!

That's how i ended up riding lol

 

[likitlikeyoulikeit]

Could never get that bike to wheelie like I could my 900 Ninja though! I think it had to do with a loose nut..., the one on top of the seat!

I did it all the time....but not like a Crotch Rocket. That damn shaft drive!!!!

 

[duzie]

1600ccs of rubber throwing gravel all over the pavement. They can all f**k themselves.

It's like Mad Max's Thunderdome where I live. Only with Suburbanites escaping the
'Burbs for the weekend.

Speaking of throwing gravel
I don’t know if this is a thing elsewhere but…
The rural roads around here are oil and chipped every few years.
Now that can be both annoying having that smutz stuck to your bike.
Even worse was the loose gravel to ride on.

 

[likitlikeyoulikeit]

Speaking of throwing gravel
I don’t know if this is a thing elsewhere but…
The rural roads around here are oil and chipped every few years.
Now that can be both annoying having that smutz stuck to your bike.
Even worse was the loose gravel to ride on.

Damn chip'n'seal, hate it......hot water wash.....then alcohol for the residue.

 

[la szum]

Speaking of throwing gravel
I don’t know if this is a thing elsewhere but…
The rural roads around here are oil and chipped every few years.
Now that can be both annoying having that smutz stuck to your bike.
Even worse was the loose gravel to ride on.

Yup. Same here in spots. I usually turn around if I am on the bike. I ain't riding
on that shit.

 

[6string_Lydia]

I'm taking mine out today...few errands to run. Short but sweet.

 

[la szum]

Have fun!

I rode 2 miles roundtrip Friday night to gas up and get beer.

 

[6string_Lydia]

Short rides are good. Gotta finish laundry, get dressed, then im off. Thought id go see my dad, but he went fishing lol

 

[6string_Lydia]

It was a good ride. Short but fun. Filled the tank. I took the long way. I might ride it again tomorrow.

 

[la szum]

Premium? Use any fuel additives when you gas up??

 

[6string_Lydia]

Always premium. Usually put stable in there. Thats all. Or is it called stabil. Something like that. My boyfriend usually puts it in because he knows how much.

 

[la szum]

Yeah, the Ethanol is crap for combustible engines in the long-term.... and Ethanol
is in pretty much all consumer fuels at this point. Smart to treat it with something.

A friend recommended Startron. I have used Sta-bil in chiansaws for years.

 

[ᛗᛜᛜᚺDᛜᎶ Ꮤᛨᚳᚴ]

I never used Sta-bil in my bikes, but use it for my fuel that I have around for lawn mower, chainsaw, weed whackers, generator, power washer, etc. I only use it when the fuel is going to sit for a while (fuel don't last around here, so not often). I also use some stuff called Sea Foam to keep things tidy inside the engines and I used that stuff on my bikes as well (as recommended from a HD shop in Cali years ago). I always use premium fuel in the bikes and my preferred vendor was Phillips 76 ;~))

@likitlikeyoulikeit , when it comes to not riding I can't help but think "what would Dad say"! Maybe a winter project to get that drunken bovine on the road!! I know, what the hell am I talking about with the drunken bovine? It is a bad joke a wrote many years ago! Are your ready for it?

What do you call a drunk Japanese bovine on two wheels? Kaw a sake!

As for stories, my stories got stories! Literally!! If I were to make it to the Murder Mitten Mayhem shindig/hootenany/hoedown/throwdown, I will tell a few ;~)) As for you and your pops, I am sure there are some good stories lurking in those memories as well!!!

Safe and sane you crazy kidz! And don't do anything I wouldn't do, which of course leaves the door wide open!!

 

[duzie]

Cow a sake
Now that’s funny

 

[ᛗᛜᛜᚺDᛜᎶ Ꮤᛨᚳᚴ]

Yup. Same here in spots. I usually turn around if I am on the bike. I ain't riding
on that shit.

Interesting you say that because I recently experienced a new situation in road repair. Early this year, we had a landslide that took out a bridge about a mile from where I live. It is one of only two ways to get to the house, and the other way is a LOT longer. Anyway, in the repairs, they have decided to lay a bunch of new asphalt both before and after the bridge blowout. Now for decades, I have hated when they are laying down new asphalt because as you drive through those areas, your vehicle gets covered with little bits of that stuff as it is kicked up by the wheels. Well this new stuff is different in many ways. First of all, I have not heard or seen the remnants of, any asphalt on our white vehicles that my girl and I both drive. I have not even heard a bit of it getting kicked up into the wheel wells and such. On top of that, they lay this stuff down, and you are driving on it literally less than half a day later! OMG!! I can only pray that this new asphalt method/material has better durability and if it does, I am big smiles ;~)) I have not looked into what this new stuff is and how/why it is different in these ways, but me likey ;~))

 

[TSJMajesty]

When I did that first ride with the older guys, I had to stay in the middle of the pack, since I had only been riding for less than a year. But I was SO eager to get that KZ750 leaned over in some turns, especially when we got up into the mountains. Jeff led the whole way on his KZ1000 J2, and Uncle Charlie, whom we called 'Beer Truck Chuck', because he had one of those pvc containers mounted on his luggage rack on his LTD1000, filled with beer and ice, usually brought up the rear.

But as it turned out, Ralph on his KZ650 CSR would ride slow, falling way behind, even past Charlie. He'd get so far back we couldn't even see him behind us! So I decided to "ride the gap," a trick I picked up from Motorcyclist Magazine that basically said, when you're on twisty roads with cars going slower than you want to, but are unsafe to pass, when you catch up to a 4-wheeler, you pull over until the next one comes up behind you, and jump back in, ride at your speed, catch up to the car again, and repeat. (This only works in light traffic though.)

So I did that with the bikes. I'd catch up to Jeff, then fall back to Ralph, then ride at my pace, enjoying the curves, until I caught up to Jeff again. This was on 211 in VA, and the Blue Ridge Parkway. I had a ball, and was still able to stay inside the group!

Then a cop stopped to check on us, because we decided to pull off and wait for Ralph, not knowing where he was!

Before we got to the camp site, we pulled into some podunk town to find a spot to change back out of the rain gear, and there were these guys just hanging out on a porch of what looked to be a closed store. I was the only one who was down for parking the bikes right up at that porch, and making some new friends! But after we got introduced, we all ended up smoking some weed with them, and the next thing I know, one of the guys is riding off with one of them in his truck. He gets back with some home-made moonshine! Perfect! LOL

Fun times, but it ended up being the only year I did that ride with them. Many years later, when I got the Concours, and later the Electra Glide, I'd do that same ride, but with my wife, and later my gf! I LOVE getting out to those mountains!! Probably been there about 6 times. It's so peaceful up on the Blue Ridge Parkway. I always pick it up at the south end of Skyline Drive, then ride it down to around Staunton.