Well, after the Indian adventure there was about a 10-year hiatus away from motorcycles. Then in 1975, in Boston, the bug bit me again. It didn't hurt that a motorcycle shop in Lexington was going out of business and wanted to clear it's inventory. So, I got a good deal on a brand-new Honda 550-Four.
My girlfriend (now my beautiful wife) and I rode all over New England on the thing. The most memorable ride was when we rode from Cambridge, MA to Rhode Island and back. I did not have proper attire, including gloves, and we froze our tooshies. This was strike 1 against motorcycles as far as my wife was concerned and she CAN hold a grudge for a very long time.
Next day I went out and purchased a Windjammer Fairing, leather coat and gloves. The next month we moved to Arizona where a Fairing, leather coat and gloves were kind of a bad idea.
While out in Arizona my wife was about 9 months pregnant (with Boojr) and she got tired of carrying this large watermelon around. She talked me into taking her for a ride over the bumpiest roads I knew of (there were lots of them in Sacaton, AZ where we lived). Well that did the trick. The next day, while I was out riding the following note was left on the kitchen table...
"IN LABOR! DRIVING SELF TO HOSPITAL! COME !". Now the drive from Sacaton to Phoenix was 40 miles and she was not particularly happy to be driving herself while in labor. Strike 2. But everything came out OK and little Boojr was born.
Well, we stayed in Arizona for two years and then I got a job offer back in Ohio. So back to Ohio we came. After I got run off the road 2 or 3 times by cagers, I decided to give up Motorcycling and sold the Honda to my wife's brother. That was in 1978.
I withstood the call to get another bike for 26 years but the urge finally got the best of me and I got back into motorcycling with an '83 Suzuki 850. That only whetted my appetite so in March of '04 I made the big step to a Harley-Davidson Sportster. Oh, Oh, Strike 3. See
"How to Buy a Motorcycle...NOT" in the March Blog.
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2 comments:
Thanks for finishing the story! Will Alaska be Strike 4? :-)
Nah...
Strike 4 would be "Game Over"
Wife is pretty supportive of the Alaska Adventure. She's just glad I didn't ask her to ride "bitch" for 10,500 miles on the back of my Sporty.
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