Thread: It was the Journey/Not the Destination

Done it, I have taken on most of the rides in the east and some in the west, after 46 years of riding,I head over to the blue ridge park way, bootlegger , and Devil's Triangle,,Cheroholla skyway , that's just good ridin Over there,, I will be going again in October when the leaves change, always go for 2 weeks to travel all over the mountains and see old friends. But yes that's a great run too

Wow, what an epic trip! Amazing, makes me wish I had a still had a bike (though to be frank, I'd be terrified to ride nowadays with all the idiots texting and driving-yikes!).

Anyway, another stunning ride if you love the Rockies is the Beartooth Highway from Cooke City to Red Lodge, MT. Charles Kuralt called it "The most beautiful drive in America." The San Juan Skyway from Durango to Silverton, CO is equally breath-taking. I've done both on road trips with family, but just imagined myself on a hog the whole way!

Y'all keep the shiny side up, and the greasy side down as they say!

My apologies for being delinquent on posting however after a day or two of getting the Boar's Nest in order, I took off to visit pinklather just north of Portland OR.

I guess that 'IF' I can include that trip, my total mileage for my first long trip with my Harley would be right at 5000+ miiles

We'd met several years ago at a Meet in Spokane but had been in correspondence for quite awhile. Damn was it good to once again see him in the flesh. With that said, it was an absolute pleasure to meet his lovely wife in person.

I'd taken a couple of natural hones for him to play with and he chose the Zulu and he sent me home with his Gokumyo 20K to play with.

He'd taken a quick shot in black and white right after I'd landed and had just taken my helmet off. I"m really surprised that I didn't break his camera!

Wow, Roy-If you photo-shopped out that bad bike and replaced it with a horse, you would look like on of those gunfighter dudes in the old daguerrotype photos in the Time-Life Old West series. Just strap on an old hogleg .44 and the picture would be complete! Aaron

Originally Posted by ScoutHikerDad

Wow, Roy-If you photo-shopped out that bad bike and replaced it with a horse, you would look like on of those gunfighter dudes in the old daguerrotype photos in the Time-Life Old West series. Just strap on an old hogleg .44 and the picture would be complete! Aaron

Well there are those who call them bikes 'Iron Horses'.

I've had the leather jacket since 1969/that's when I got my first bike. It was a little Honda 90 with a pressed steel frame. I had ridden up to a cabin that belonged to a friend of my dad's and an old boy by the name or Ray was there and after talking to him a bit he said, "Ride me up to my place". (Ray lived at his place 12 months out of the year).

Ray 'place' was an old single wide trailer under a reinforced cover so his trailer didn't get crushed with the snow and he heated and cooked on a small wood stove. Anyway he went to a closet and dug out this old black leather jacket saying "This is an old motorcycle cop's jacket and I want you to have it". I thanked him very much and tried it on. It was a little big and it stank of old wood smoke.

I took it to our local dry cleaners and was told it would be $15 for a cleaning and it would be a week before I could pick it up. Once I saved enough to have the jacket cleaned I took it to the cleaners. A week later I went to pay for the cleaning and was then given a jacket that looked brand new! It was redyed and it smelled fresh as a daisy!

I've worn it while riding every bike I've ever had and 47 years later it looks about like it did when Ray gave it to me (minus the smoke smell) and it needs a new satin liner/which I plan on having made this winter while the bike is parked. But I don't plan on redyeing it, I like the character

ps; The jacket is no longer a little big/I just hope it doesn't get a little 'snug'.

Roy, ya should include, for human interest, the visitors we had while we were sitting in the front of my house.

Originally Posted by Razorfeld

Roy, ya should include, for human interest, the visitors we had while we were sitting in the front of my house.

If you recall, when the visitors arrived you had not yet seen them however as I got up I told you that I'd be going inside but you could stay on the porch with the visitors if you wished.

Here's a relative of those 'visitors'.