I love to Ride
Incredibly, I didn’t start riding until an adult, though I’ve had the itch since I was a kid. As a pre-teen, I remember having dreams of riding motorcycles, but in those dreams, I was always pedaling the damned things.. maybe I was a bike rider in the early 1900s in an earlier life? (Just kidding!). I always wanted one of those fat tire Honda or minibikes we’d see around. However, due to moving a lot and lack of peers who had bikes, it never happened. While in the USAF, my neighbor was selling his Kawasaki LTD440. Now at 6’4 235 back then… this was a small bike! However, I got my feet wet with it. Two years later, a buddy let me ride is V65 Magna… then a few days later I’d traded up to an LTD1000! With a few moves (I’m retired USAF now), I’d sold the LTD1000, rode a Suzuki GL 1100, and in ’02 after retiring, made the jump to a Vulcan 1500 Classic. I rode this bike a lil’ here and there, putting on only 5500 miles over the next 7 years. My wife wouldn’t ride with me bac