09-17-2018, 11:36 PM
63 now... oh man, that sounds old. I have been riding since I got a Kawasaki Bushmaster when I was 15 and hid it in my friends barn so my folks wouldn't find it. We bombed all around the timber and old inter-urban rail lines. No helmets or anything of course. I had to de-tassel many corn fields to pay for it. Also, I was a bus boy at night. Then got a job on a bridge building crew and got into the heady area of 4.25/hour.
Got away from it until I started working in Venezuela as an ex pat, and got an old Ducati 750 Desmo and got it running. Most useful was a Vespa 150 just to be able to get around in traffic. I got to be expert at filtering and lane splitting, although it did result in some spills. A marvelous conveyance that. Just put in gas and oil and change the clutch cable every couple years.
Now I am down to a gsx-r750, the cb1100 and a Yamaha XT 250 which I use to explore the bush around here. It is a gas. I go a few times / year up to the track, JenningsGP. I am dieting hard now to be able to get into my leathers and doing 100 or so miles per week on the bicycle since Jennings opens the season in September. That is much less than I used to do but I have a day job so I fit in what I can.
I commute pretty much every day, 23 miles on a tollway either on the CB1100 or the Suzuki. I do like to go fast. On the tollway, speeds in excess of 95 are pretty common. On the days when I can't or don't ride, if feel like a surfer on a day with no waves. Sort of bummed out a bit.
Got away from it until I started working in Venezuela as an ex pat, and got an old Ducati 750 Desmo and got it running. Most useful was a Vespa 150 just to be able to get around in traffic. I got to be expert at filtering and lane splitting, although it did result in some spills. A marvelous conveyance that. Just put in gas and oil and change the clutch cable every couple years.
Now I am down to a gsx-r750, the cb1100 and a Yamaha XT 250 which I use to explore the bush around here. It is a gas. I go a few times / year up to the track, JenningsGP. I am dieting hard now to be able to get into my leathers and doing 100 or so miles per week on the bicycle since Jennings opens the season in September. That is much less than I used to do but I have a day job so I fit in what I can.
I commute pretty much every day, 23 miles on a tollway either on the CB1100 or the Suzuki. I do like to go fast. On the tollway, speeds in excess of 95 are pretty common. On the days when I can't or don't ride, if feel like a surfer on a day with no waves. Sort of bummed out a bit.