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Road Master
Joined: May 2010
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From: Rijssen, the Netherlands
Being 59, doing daily rides to my work. Make trips in the weekends and do sometimes the long haul to Spain, Germany or France in two days. Make appr. 20.000 miles per year..Am I old? You are as old as you feels...and only the devil is old!
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Road Warrior
Joined: Feb 2008
Posts: 1,275
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From: Arizona
Too old to know when to come in out of the rain!
Last Sunday we were riding and rode through a couple of spots of light rain on the way to my buddies house. While sitting around outside we noticed huge black clouds moving into an area northwest of us about 20 miles away. They asked me to stay until it passed. Probably should have.
I figured that storm was about where I lived so maybe I better get home before all hell breaks loose. I got a couple of miles down the road and it started raining pretty good. Turned to the west to miss most of the heavier rain and saw lightning hitting both sides of the road about a mile ahead. Did a U-ey then turned north to avoid most of the lightning but into heavy rain. Mind you now that I had rain gear in my bags, but I was already pretty wet so I figured what the hey, and pressed on. It was now raing pretty hard but I was only 10 miles from home. During the last stretch on the turnpike it was raing and blowing so hard that the cars pulled over on the shoulder because visability was reduced to squat! I pressed on and it started to hail on top of all the other bad weather and I could just see the lines on the road and little else. The drivers in the cars on the shoulder watched me on my bike passing by and their mouths dropped open in amazement. They were probably thinking, "What a lunatic!" That's what I was thinking about myself too after chewing on some hail that got in my mouth. Yummm, fresh hail.
I got home and took off about 30 pounds of wet clothes and threw them in the wash in the mud room. All in all it was very intense but brief. Once you are out on the road and there is no cover, and no shelter of any kind, you just got to press on.
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I figured that storm was about where I lived so maybe I better get home before all hell breaks loose. I got a couple of miles down the road and it started raining pretty good. Turned to the west to miss most of the heavier rain and saw lightning hitting both sides of the road about a mile ahead. Did a U-ey then turned north to avoid most of the lightning but into heavy rain. Mind you now that I had rain gear in my bags, but I was already pretty wet so I figured what the hey, and pressed on. It was now raing pretty hard but I was only 10 miles from home. During the last stretch on the turnpike it was raing and blowing so hard that the cars pulled over on the shoulder because visability was reduced to squat! I pressed on and it started to hail on top of all the other bad weather and I could just see the lines on the road and little else. The drivers in the cars on the shoulder watched me on my bike passing by and their mouths dropped open in amazement. They were probably thinking, "What a lunatic!" That's what I was thinking about myself too after chewing on some hail that got in my mouth. Yummm, fresh hail.
I got home and took off about 30 pounds of wet clothes and threw them in the wash in the mud room. All in all it was very intense but brief. Once you are out on the road and there is no cover, and no shelter of any kind, you just got to press on.
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Road Master
Joined: Jun 2007
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From: NW Louisiana
I first replied to this thread in December of 2009. Here it is July of 2010. Amazing how time flies. Since my last reply I turned 69 (last month) and I am packed and ready to go to Sturgis for the third year in a row. This time heading West to New Mexico, then North through Northern NM and skirting along the Rocky Mountains of Colorado on secondary roads eventually turning NE through Wyoming and heading into the Black Hills for Sturgis. I have not found a need for a Bagger although I would ride one if given to me. My Deuce is like the one gun I own, I am comfortable with it and it does what it is supposed to do when I pull the trigger just like when I hit the start button on the Deuce. It is not about age, it IS all about the ride.
Last edited by snakeinthegrass; Jul 13, 2010 at 01:13 PM.
Tourer
Joined: May 2010
Posts: 348
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From: The mitten state
I'm just a kid, 59 1/2 ( 60 in Jan. ) I've retired at6 58, and ride every day I can.
I've owned and ridden a lot of different Harleys, but I bought a Superglide custom this year an can't see every having a bagger. ( I've ridden friends E-Glides, Streetglides and Road Kings) And I did buy a Kawasaki C14 Concours when I retired, so I know the advantages a bagger offers.
When I came back to the Dyna, I knew that is the correct bike for me!
I've owned and ridden a lot of different Harleys, but I bought a Superglide custom this year an can't see every having a bagger. ( I've ridden friends E-Glides, Streetglides and Road Kings) And I did buy a Kawasaki C14 Concours when I retired, so I know the advantages a bagger offers.
When I came back to the Dyna, I knew that is the correct bike for me!
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Tourer
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 346
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From: Buller Louisiana
60 and1/2 now and still enjoy my 09 ultra. Take a lot of aspirin and ibyprofin. Got artritis in wrists, and hands. Also a bad tailbone. Got the ultra for my wife to ride. If she quits may go to something smaller or this might be my last one.
Tourer
Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 420
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From: Peachtree City, GA
62 and have a Heritage and a Lowrider. Just went out for an afternoon ride on the Dyna and got sucked into a thunderstorm and got soaked, but with 93 degrees, it was refresning. No bagger or fairing for me!!