I ride to work every day of the year that the temperature is above 35 deg, the streets are dry and there's not frost or snow on the pavement. Now in the mid west that still limits riding in winter but I get out as often as I can. I have a 99 Valkyrie Interstate as a daily rider and use the excuse that my bike gets far better mileage than my cars do so I'm doing my part to conserve gasoline, there really isn't a whole lot of truth to that explanation though as the mileage is about the same as my small car. I just like riding, always have and as far as I can see, always will. Anyway as I am just about to turn 60 in October and the thought occurred to me recently that I have only so many years left to ride, on two wheels that is. Not that I'm planning to get a trike, a sidecar, one of those new three wheeled scooters or other hi-bred machines any time soon, I'm just covering my bases so hopefully I never have to stop until such time as I'm scrapping my pegs making that final steep banked turn onto that big highway in the sky where there are no speed limits, no traffic jams and no matter how long or how many miles you ride that sport bike you'll never get butt burn.
I had the opportunity to see a Scorpion, the new hi-bred three wheeler on I-80 in Nebraska while riding back to Chicago from Denver this summer and that pretty much did it for me, I can't picture myself on one. I've thought about a Ural, the Russian bike with a sidecar and I run hot and cold on that idea, they're a little slow for me, although having reverse would be cool and they look like they are pretty simple to maintain and I do want to move to the mountains in Colorado and the two wheel drive and reverse might really come in handy off road, ah, who knows they're still a little slow. My wife and I talk about a Wing or at least did until Honda decided to move manufacturing out of the US. There is still nothing like one and there are an awful lot of options from side cars to trike conversions if it became too much to handle as a two up rider. Then there's always an Ultra, my wife has been after me for the last three years to test drive one and make the move over to the dark side, I have absolutely no objection to that whatsoever, HD has finally got it right all the way around.
Well, it's all just a fleeting thought since I estimate I have between twenty and thirty years before I have to begin to worry about geriatric motorcycling. For the time being I am just going to keep going down the highway, taking everything in that I possibly can and enjoy the ride.
Ride safe.
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