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Blowing off some steam.
Oakie
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Not a bad day, but crazy busy day. Time to go catch some wind and enjoy a nice afternoon. Talk to you guys later tonight.
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Leaving is not going to be a problem but the drive back up that hill is going to be murder! Don
Enjoy your ride
Remember, rubber side down
Beautiful ride! Just don’t let it fall over. It would take a man in the boy to pick that one up!
Just to add a few smiles to your day I post this.
😁
Beautiful weather for riding here in the mtns of WNC.
Actually, I was taught how to pick this bike up, buy a woman who weighted 105 lbs.!!!! I was at the NYC cycle show, and this lady was teaching everyone how to easily pick up a heavy bike. After the short demonstration, she had us all picking up a 1,000 pound Goldwing. It is all in the technique.
I remember when I first got a Goldwing and it fell over in a sandy parking lot. Took three of us to pick it up. Wish I had that demonstration before the bike fell!!!. I think I left a testicle in that parking lot. ☹️
I was on that road last year, when we were in Tennessee, NC, Alabama and Georgia. We are suppose to go back there next month. I'm gonna trailer the bike and take a ride through the Cherokee National forest, down to Helen Georgia, from Chattanooga Tenn. My friend Wayne McHorney, is from WNC and rides. He is more like my brother than a friend.
We were taught that technique by a deputy sheriff who was escorting our “ride”. When he laid his big sheriffs department Harley down on the asphalt you could hear a collective groan from the crowd. The bike mostly laid on the front and rear crash bars but still …,
I too have seen that demonstration on picking up a heavy motorcycle. I will have to practice it with my sportster. It is not nearly as heavy as my 1981 super glide was.
Jim your bike looks just like Oakie's............
Actually, mine looks very similar. 2011 Ultra Classic. I haven't been out on it since I had shoulder impingement from a fall in the woods last year.
I've owned one bike. I scared myself with it trying to see just how fast will it really go. Realized it was time to get rid of it.
I never owned one, but I got on one owned by a friend of mine and decided that I shouldn't ride motorbikes. Did you know that a Kawasaki Ninja will raise the front tire off the pavement at 135 MPH? That was in 1992 and I haven't been on a motorcycle since. The dang things just don't go slow enough!
I'm jealous, since my stroke my balance is iffy. My t100 has been idle since.
Sold my horse at age 14 to buy a motorcycle. 1967 yamaha 60cc trailmaster. Started a lifelong love affair . Sold out at quit riding 5 or 6 years ago due to arthritis. Sure do miss the freedom of the road.
a nice ride is like therapy