ORIGINAL: truegentlemann

OH I FORGOT
I DIDN'T GET PERMISSION FROM MY WIFE TO BY THE BIKE
NOR DID MY WIFE BUY IT FOR ME!!!

ORIGINAL: Roadrat

When Saturday rolls around do you mow the lawn or take the bike out and leave the lawn until Monday?

ORIGINAL: fatboyemt

Not long after I landed my first full time job I went to the local Suzuki dealer and got that GL550L I'd been dreaming about for over a year. I rode it straight to my older brothers house to show it off. The temperture was 22 degrees F and I wasn't dressed for it. He wasn't home and his wife, who doesn't "approve" of motorcycles, would only open the door enough to tell me such. I rode the thirty + miles home then got intimate with the woodstove.

I rodethat bike30 miles one way to work everyday till the first snow. The weeks into the following spring a car driven by a 137 year old man who should have had his license revolked decades ago pulled out of a gas station into my lane and stopped. He never saw me until I slammed into his door. Leathers, helmut, and a $#@* load of luck I limped away. The bike was totaled, I was upside down in the loan and about to be married.

Fast forward 20 years I am now standing in the local HD dealers showroom trying to work a deal on that 06 Firefighter edition Fatboy. Two days later I ride the FB straight to my younger brothers house to show it off. He's not home but his wife invites me in and wants to know all about it. I continue the three miles home in 70 degree weather. Over the next year I ride the FB as much as I can. The job I have now requires I drive a pickup so I seldom ride to work. I put 5K on the bike and traded it this past may for an 07FLHTC. I went to my first rally in June, Americade. Stayed the whole week and wished it wouldn't end. Rode to and from in the rain.

I put off house stuff to ride, ride in the rain if I have too, would consider trailering but only as a last resort, I am a HOG member, Red Knights member, ride by myself if no ones around to ride with (and enjoy it emensly), ride with the wife 2 upwhenever we can steal time alone, wave to everyone on 2-3 wheels, make it a point to start a nice conversation with those that give me the "wrinkled" nose look, get a kick out of old ladies that comment on my "pretty" bike, give little kids on peddle scoots the low two finger wave, use the horn liberally with the cagers but not the one finger wave, and for the biggest one of all...get that "first time gettin laid" feeling every time I hit the starter.

Does that make me a biker? Don't know, don't care, didn't think about it much until reading this post. I'll keep riding, god willing, until I spend more time on the side than upright. Then I'll start lookin at the trikes. If I cross your path and you feel I'm a wannabee then so be it. I'll ride on happy to have met you but just as happy to ride my own ride and not try and fit into yours. In the end I don't want to have any regrets. Atleast not ones I could have changed.

ORIGINAL: harley0711

Do you really care what others think??

ORIGINAL: THABULL

Well darn I thought I wasfinally about to achieve truebiker status. But I guees according to these guide lines I'll haft to wait 25+ yrs until my kids grow up and move out and I retire from being a OTR truckdriver! But anyway I sure do enjoy being a wannabe when the time allows. At least I'm not in the Army now because of all the time I would haft be overeseas these days I wouldn't evenhave time to be considered a haft wannabe.

ORIGINAL: Sanebiker

Do what I did, get a local job hauling fuel in a tractor trailer.I work rotating 6 on 3 off and guess what I do for 3 days? I don't bar hop. I truck stop hop.