How many motorcyclists here?

[db79]

Had many street and track bikes, but currently the garage is empty. Thought I would miss not having a bike more but not necessarily having time to ride I haven't missed it much.

[weshallseeII]

We have a BMW K1600GTL. I use it as my daily driver. My wife enjoys being pillion so we do several multi day trips a year. Next year the plan is to rent one in Europe and tour the Alps.

[Tetto]

One of mine and DW's favorite things in the summer is to ride to Misquamicut beach in Rhode Island for the day, then head home before sunset with the Goldwing pointed west, watching the sun set all the way home.

[Ginny]

2015 Harley Trike (DH drives & I watch the world go by) and 1998 Harley Road King for DH by himself.

[CindyBlue]

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Originally Posted by Tetto That sounds like lots of fun; I’d live to take the Goldwing across country with my wife, once we have time...

Do it!
Our bike are very easy to ride, but on a Goldwing (my dream bike!) you will be so comfortable! With cell phones and GPS available, it will be so much easier now than when we did it in the early 2000's.

[COZICAN]

2015 Dyna Wide Glide. We rode a 1998 Fat Boy for seventeen years.

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[sengsational]

I don't own one, but I do have state and international motorcycle permits and drove one like this from Sighetu Marmației to Vama Veche.

[winger]

Still riding. Honda GL1800 Goldwing. Had a 1994 1500, wife made me sell it because she wanted heated seats.

A motorcycle was involved in many of the best days of my life.

[Spock]

Currently have a 2015 Victory Vision
1995 GL1500SE Goldwing 25th Anniversary Edition - for sale (3 bikes, 2 riders)

Wife rides a 1998 Suzuki 800 Intruder - in active
I had a 2012 GL1800 Goldwing, but found it way too cramped.



Last big ride on the Vision was Oct 2017 from Southern AZ to NE South Dakota.

The ride on the map is from the Mexico border to the Canadian border all on Highway 191.

[COZICAN]

"The ride on the map is from the Mexico border to the Canadian border all on Highway 191"

That's one hell of a ride!

[GravitySucks]

Last was a Yamaha 850 Special. Very reliable. Sold it and used the proceeds to buy a Specialised Roubaix. Pedaling is much better for me.

[Uncle Lumpy]

I currently have a Honda ST1300 and a Suzuki SV1000N. The SV1000 is the "play bike" for short rides (less than 250 miles or so) or for just zooming around. The ST1300 is the bike I turn to when I'm collecting Grand Tour locations or make an Iron Butt Association ride. Nothing like trying to crank out 1500 miles in 24 hours in the Eastern half of the U.S.


Lumpy

[ChiliPepr]

I currently have two... a 1998 Harley Softtail Custom, and a 2014 Harley Street Glide Special. I do not drive the '98 very much any more, but put a fair amount every year on the Street Glide.

[griffithee]

Sold my 2009 Kawasaki Vulcan 900 last summer. I miss getting my knees in the breeze occasionally but since retiring I just don't like to wear pants. Especially with the Houston heat. And I refuse to ride without safety gear. My loss. Maybe one day I'll get a hankering to start wearing pants again and then go all in on a Goldwing.

[aja8888]

Early Connecticut years after the military and in college, had a Suzuki X6 Hustler, a BSA Lightning, and a Bultaco Matador (strange mix of bikes!). Then graduated to Harleys. Moved on to a C2 Sting Ray (I was nuts to sell this!) and gave up nice riding stuff when I moved to LA, Ca to work for Big Oil.

Now in Texas I just bang around with a old BMW ragtop and 10th gen F150.

[Breedlove]

Last bike I had was a Yamaha FZ 600R , DW preferred Her Ninja 300 . We sold them both last April . Remember one night a Harley dude flew by us on hwy . 290 on his nice Harley . DW wouldn't stand for it so here we go . The little baby Ninja ruined the Harley . No problem for my Yamaha we left the boy around 105MPH . Although DW wanted to race a friend who had a Hayabusa , she found out that her Ninja had a reverse . we mostly rode back roads twisties . We always wore safety gear also sure makes it hot in Houston. The bike I loved the most was the BMW James Bond Bike R1200C
Sold the bikes and now fool around with A 2002 Mustang / member Northside Mustang Club . For anyone in Houston Conroe is having an all Ford show this weekend . Lots of Mustangs!

[Walt34]

The last bike I had was a 2008 Suzuki C90T touring bike, I thoroughly enjoyed that! I never did any long trips with it, but lots of local "follow-my-nose" rides to the extent that I eventually put a small GPS on it to make it easier to find my way back home on those WV or sometimes PA back roads. I remember once seeing a sign "Mercersburg, (PA) 2 miles" and thinking "Huh? How'd I get up here?" That was when I got the GPS for it because I had little idea of how to get home other than head south until I ran into something I recognized, which did eventually work.

In five years I put a bit over 25k miles on it, but sold it when I developed afib and was on anti-coagulant medication for a couple of years and figured that what would be minor bruising for most people might well be catastrophic hemorrhaging for me. So that tipped the scales on the risk-taking equation. And at the time I bought it I had figured that five years was about as long as I could reasonably hope to keep it.

[KCGeezer]

My favorite bike was a ‘65 Triumph 650. Still kick myself for selling it (and the various now collectible cars that I had in my 20’s).

[aja8888]

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Originally Posted by KCGeezer My favorite bike was a ‘65 Triumph 650. Still kick myself for selling it (and the various now collectible cars that I had in my 20’s).

I'm pretty sure there are a whole group of us here that would like a magic carpet ride back to our youth to put all those collectable bikes, cars and trucks we had into long term storage for our later years.

[N02L84ER]

We ride a Honda Goldwing.