I don't remember the last one I saw on FR, but have a few thousand posts on numerous motorcycle websites - it was through one of them that I 1st heard of FreeRepublic.
Most of 'em were dirt bike sites, but I haven't spent much time on them lately. Degenerative Disk Disease has caught up with me, so I'm not currently riding offroad, and will probably sell my dirt bikes.
I went back to street riding a couple years ago, when I moved to the foothills of the Cascade mountain range, near the Canadian border in WA state.
It's a fine spot for a "seasoned" sportbike rider and his Ducati 1098s to semi-retire in.
So you ride a Trike. I knew a fellow down in Grants Pass, Oregon, a grizzled old biker who rode his panhead powered trike 12 months out've the year, even if he had to take a propane torch to warm up the oil. He could turn that thing much faster than should've been possible.
One day his ol' lady washed & polished his trike to surprise him, and surprised he was indeed when he whipped around the 1st turn, and came most of the way off the freshly Armor All'd seat. He barely hung on, and she hid for awhile, lol.
“and came most of the way off the freshly Armor All’d seat”
LOL!!!
Hubby pulled that on me once.
The Corbin leather solo seat in the photo posted was looking a bit road weary so I re-dyed it.
He thought it didn’t look ‘shiny’ enough any more and did the same thing.
When I threw my leg over the seat of the parked bike and started to sit down, I just kept going and off the other side.
I wear lightweight lambskin riding jeans most of the time now, just for the extra “butt grab”.
[Fool me once....]...;-D
Loved the grizzled Pan rider story.
No “fair weather biker” is he....:)
I have early DDD as well. [runs in the family]
Currently, my new chiropractor is trying to “kill me to cure me”, I suspect.