Get an inexpensive, cruiser type bike from Craigslist and ride it for the summer. While your learning and gaining experience you can narrow down the model of Harley you want.

 

I would suggest that 45 is too late in life to start riding a motorcycle. But I have been wrong in my life many times.

 

You are way wrong, my wife started at 53, having NEVER ridden bike before after taking proper training her FIRST bike was a 2009 HD Deluxe, she is a great rider, better than a lot of her friends who have been riding many years!

 

My number is written on the walls of women's bathrooms all across the country. That's got to mean something.

 

painey - That's great but the exception. In mass man is predictable but the individual is not.

 

Of Course, I have to say "riding a bike safely dwn the street hardly makes one a safe".
In fact, being able to do backflips through the air is not the trick needed to ride dwn the street!