Ride or Drive???
#42
09-24-2009, 04:14 AM
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I have, back in 1980 on a WestPac in the Navy. Riding season is 365/24/7. I can't remember any bugs, but I'm sure there have to be to keep the damned gigantic spiders alive (well, I never really saw the spider, but as I was stumbling through the jungle on a trail, I ran between two palm trees and these two trees were about 8 feet apart, but the spider web got me from just below the knees and over my head. It was an instant sober experience and provided a buddy of mine great entertainment to see me thrashing around on the ground like a dying cat and screaming bloddy murder the whole time!).
If the island hasn't changed much from that time period, and I had the money, that's where I'd go again if I was to take a vacation...it was that fantastic. Clearest waters I've ever been in, and I've been in a lot. 100 foot visibility wasn't stretching it at all. It put Hawaii to shame (Hawaii didn't impress me one bit...crowded, expensive, the natives hate howlies (phonetic!) for the most part, and the waters weren't anything special).
If the island hasn't changed much from that time period, and I had the money, that's where I'd go again if I was to take a vacation...it was that fantastic. Clearest waters I've ever been in, and I've been in a lot. 100 foot visibility wasn't stretching it at all. It put Hawaii to shame (Hawaii didn't impress me one bit...crowded, expensive, the natives hate howlies (phonetic!) for the most part, and the waters weren't anything special).
Riding is 365/24-7...I wish it was like it was in the 80's life was simpler then...now its kinda getting crowded...not like Hawaii crowded but still more than the 80's...
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#43
09-24-2009, 05:46 AM
Well, yes, as a matter of fact. But admittedly, I wasn't there for a great deal of time.
#45
09-24-2009, 06:07 AM
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#46
09-24-2009, 06:11 AM
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Drive cuz I don't trust anybody at work when they're envy of my toys and had somebody key-scratch my ol' Road King's gas tank in the past. I certainly know who it is and have been at his *** when I get the chance to sweet revenge him.
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#47
09-24-2009, 06:48 AM
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If I ride or drive doesn't make me more or less a rider or driver. Average about 12,000 miles a year between two bikes and only live eight miles from work. Would give more of an answer but what for? Don't have anything to prove.
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09-24-2009, 07:29 AM
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I ride the little TW200, I call it the commuter. Ride it every day. Even in the rain wich sucks caus I yanked the front fender. The pix is on my way to work as well.
It got the FB reflectors, p-pegs for highway pegs and back seat as a drivers backrest. 80 mpg!
It got the FB reflectors, p-pegs for highway pegs and back seat as a drivers backrest. 80 mpg!