how many people in here like to ride motorcycles. i was just interested
in hearing from you because i do not currently have a drivers license so
i cannot ride on the streets but i would be interested in meeting some
people with dirtbikes or atv's.
you don't have to be from michigan to post here, would just like to hear
about your last ride or maybe an upcoming trip you have planned. take
care

Yea i can, i got a bike also..

I don't have a bike but I did ride to sturgis with a friend of mine on
his bike and it was alot of fun!

good to hear from the both of you. what kind of bike do you have mary?

got any plans to go back soul? i've always wanted to go but don't
usually take time off of work.

Ride a 1974 H/D Firefighter Special Road King.
Giacomo

if it's the same one in your profile it's a nice one, do you get to ride
very often?

Ride a 1984 HD FXR/SuperGlideII)

I always wanted a street bike but bills and other things came
first(like my horses). I ride a 4 wheeler often, but it is just a way
around the farm. I have taken the kids out for a ride through the
nursery roads/paths. With this bad back I can no longer ride trails
through the mountains as they are to rough. So IF I can ever get a bike
it will have to have good shocks and it will only be good for short
rides as my back would give out without a back rest.

i'm sure with all the new stuff that they are coming out with that you
could find a seat with a bit of a backrest(or make one). i saw a couple
of months ago that they have automatic cruisers now

A custom made seat may solve the problem but it would be pricey. I know
where there is an 81 honda 400 SS. The engine has locked up from being
stored so long(22 years). I rode it as a kid with my dad. I thing it
would be light weight enough, low enough for me to get my leg over even
if I had to mount it from behind, and I know it has a smooth ride. Dad
has a couple 550s, the 400 above, and a 750. They are all honda super
sports except one of the 550s. It is a shame they have been parked in
his basement for 20+ years.

they should be in fairly good shape though. i've been messin with the
idea of making custom motorcycle seats because i like to do leather work
and i'm gonna buy some tools and get better at tooling the leather but
the seat pan would be easy enough to make

corbin makes some touring seats with a flip up back rest, i wonder how
hard it would be to rig something up for one rider

Mechanicly it should be easy to do. It is something that I wonder why
it is not being done. Yes I has seen many of the pop up back rest for
the second rider. And many seats will a back made for the second rider.

The bikes in dad's basement are in great shape but all of them have
locked up. It maybe as simple as using the solvent poured through the
spark plug hole to release them or it may require tearing the engine
down and rebuilding it. I treated the leather seats of the 3 with real
leather a few times over the years. The 750 and one of the 550s has
custom paint jobs. I think the 550 is ugly but the 750 is nice.

My husband would love to get a motercycle but I'm kinda scared of them.

Bikes have to be respected by the rider and those on the road with you.
Part of the reason the people on the road do not respect them is the way
people that ride them do not respect them. The crotch rockets are just
furthering the bad name of bikes. I was going down the interstate
yesterday morning and I was stuck behind a semi passing another semi
going up a mountain. So yes these trucks were going slow. The one in the
fast/passing lane was going about 40mph in a 70mph zone. This idiot on a
crotch rocket blows by me on the white line and goes on between these 2
trucks nearly loosing the bike in the turblance once. I just knew he was
getting ready to come out the back under the wheels of the trailer. He
did bump the side of the one trailer. Just because a bike will fit down
the emergency lane and such does not give us any right to do so.

Bikes being respected by other drivers to give us a bit more space kind
of like people giving semis a bit more space is needed. Bikes being
lighter can stop much faster than cars. So do not tailgate a bike. On
the other hand riders please give turn signals in advance. I hope you
get these points I tried to get across. Bikes are alot of fun but misuse
can be deadly.