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Wife used to ride on the back of my EG. She took a 3 day motorcycle course through a local college 8 years ago when she was 50. Top of her class, got to take one of the training bikes home for a day as a reward.
Now rides a Sportster 1200L, done the Cabot Trail and the Gaspe Peninsula as few times, been through New England, caught the CAT Ferry at Bar Harbour over to Nova Scotia. Did PEI, Cape Breton, New Brunswick etc. I'm talking about on her own bike.
If I want to push her buttons, all I have to do is start talking about selling her bike, she's 58 now....Grandma rides a Harley
Gotta be honest, I can't say we "ride" together anymore, but we rode side-by-side for several years mid-'90s thru early 2000s. They weren't "matching," but they were both yellow in color and both FXRPs that I bought at auction from the Nashville PD in like '94 or '95. Built both of 'em out to show-off quality, even if not really show quality. Wife always has been, and still is, however, show quality:
Post-paint/stripped of bags etc:
Post-internals upgrades plus powder coated jugs/heads, polished fins, chromed inner primary and other stuff I can't remember now:
I thought I had a before picture of what both of 'em looked like straight from the auction, but can't find it right now. This was mine after the entire build though:
When I told her I was getting one to build for her, the only thing she said was, "It better not be a Sportster! I want a Hog!" OK, Dear, Hog it is then.
We sold 'em together to finance our business expansion at the time. Never could afford to replace 'em until we bought my RK a few months ago. Now she's ready for a Sporty just so she can ride by herself again, and we can more easily afford one. Hope she'll be back in her own saddle by Spring, certainly by this time next year, but either way, both of us are thrilled to death to be two-up in a saddle again after such a long expanse of time without even one.
My wife and I rode just shy of 20,000 miles together this year; she on her Road King Classic and me on a Road Glide Ultra. I put a CB on her bike so we can communicate and since our riding styles are vastly different I let her set the pace in the lead position.
If we spend the night on the road more times than not she'll just jump on mine when we head to dinner. Likewise, if we're paying admission into a park say, we'll park her's and ride two-up so she can sight see and take pictures.
My wife and I rode just shy of 20,000 miles together this year; she on her Road King Classic and me on a Road Glide Ultra. I put a CB on her bike so we can communicate and since our riding styles are vastly different I let her set the pace in the lead position.
If we spend the night on the road more times than not she'll just jump on mine when we head to dinner. Likewise, if we're paying admission into a park say, we'll park her's and ride two-up so she can sight see and take pictures.
Here's the GF. She's on a Fatboy Low, and I'm on a bagger of some sort. These are rented bikes on the Big Island of Hawai'i. Yeah, we rode all over the island for 24 hours! DO IT!
My wife has no interest in riding her own (i would like it if she did though), I envy everyone that have a SO that does. Just seems to add to the adventures you can have.
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