SFDCAR3B
03-17-2006, 17:08
Have been married to a Fireman type for about 20 years. Children nearly all grown.
Fireman has six motorcycles, three of which are Harleys. Fireman can only ride one bike at a time, I figure, so I often "borrow" one FXSTS "Springer" and ride around town (Las Vegas, NV) while he's at work -- just to help keep it lubed and everything, you know.
Don't hang out at bars, no other dudes -- just ride ... God, it's so much fun.
I'm VERY careful about garaging it perfectly, and have never put a scratch on it.
I didn't exactly have an endorsement or any training but I rode dirt bikes with my brothers as a kid, plus I'm a "natural."
One fine morning I'm dressed and ready to go, but out in the garage, all the bikes are actually locked, no keys in sight and to add insult to ego injury, a long heavy chain links all the bikes together!
A little note left behind mentioned a nosy neighbor who asked my husband why we always ride two-up when together, when I have my own bike ... Busted and bummed.
The next day, after a really harsh lecture about me, a novice, daring to ride his $20,000 bike yada yada yada, I pointed out that over a few months time, I had put over six hundred miles on his precious baby without a scratch OR a ticket.
Two long months later -- Christmas 2003 -- you guessed it, gotta new bike, got training, got an endorsement -- still no tickets! March 2006. Yippee! -- Dorothy
http://motorcycles.about.com/library/ucstory109.htm
Fireman has six motorcycles, three of which are Harleys. Fireman can only ride one bike at a time, I figure, so I often "borrow" one FXSTS "Springer" and ride around town (Las Vegas, NV) while he's at work -- just to help keep it lubed and everything, you know.
Don't hang out at bars, no other dudes -- just ride ... God, it's so much fun.
I'm VERY careful about garaging it perfectly, and have never put a scratch on it.
I didn't exactly have an endorsement or any training but I rode dirt bikes with my brothers as a kid, plus I'm a "natural."
One fine morning I'm dressed and ready to go, but out in the garage, all the bikes are actually locked, no keys in sight and to add insult to ego injury, a long heavy chain links all the bikes together!
A little note left behind mentioned a nosy neighbor who asked my husband why we always ride two-up when together, when I have my own bike ... Busted and bummed.
The next day, after a really harsh lecture about me, a novice, daring to ride his $20,000 bike yada yada yada, I pointed out that over a few months time, I had put over six hundred miles on his precious baby without a scratch OR a ticket.
Two long months later -- Christmas 2003 -- you guessed it, gotta new bike, got training, got an endorsement -- still no tickets! March 2006. Yippee! -- Dorothy
http://motorcycles.about.com/library/ucstory109.htm