How I bought my Harley Davidson
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02-26-2013, 10:02 PM
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#34
02-26-2013, 10:31 PM
I had metrics from a kid until my early 30's. Family etc just like the OP. Didn't have time anymore so sold the last one back then. Always wanted a HD. My youngest went off to college the same year my Dad died in 2010. Turns out my Mom had been giving my sister some money to help her out over the years and wanted to even things out for me. She unexpectedly came through with some cash from a life insurance policy to even things out. First thought was to put it away for college etc. On a whim, started looking at used bikes on craigslist. That was it, done deal. So at 49 I got my 06 FLHRC and absolutely love it. So for the 3rd winter, I really can't wait for spring!
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02-26-2013, 10:57 PM
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02-26-2013, 11:17 PM
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I inherited a 2000 Indian Chief from my father when he died. That thing was high on the coolness factor scale, but nickel and dimed me with repairs all time. I finally got fed up, walked into a HD stealership for grins just to "look". Yeah right! Thats all it took. I saw my RK on the floor and made a deal right then and there. Been smiling ever since!
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02-26-2013, 11:34 PM
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Great stories
I had been riding metrics for some odd years, had a few HD's but never a new one. Always fixer uppers.
We were use to riding cruisers. So one day I told my wife I want a true touring bike. She says a Harley, I say yea.
so she says if we can afford it go for it.
When I got home with it she said lets ride. We rode for a week before we cam home. She loved it.
Picked up a 07 Ultra, we put 60,000 miles on it in 3 years. Then she got sick, real sick-cancer.
I bought her a goldwing trike so she could ride by herself, she always wanted to to that. All she said it ain't no Harley.
Go her favorite color. She went and and seen it and started crying. I got her on it. She rode to the end of the driveway and came back.
That was the last of her riding. She passed away not long after that but I will never forget the look on her face when she rode by herself.
That was 2 years ago.
I sold the trike and bought a 2012 CVO Street Glide. I never rode the trike, just could not bring myself to ride it.
She would really love the SG just like I do.
I have remarried and my new wife is nothing but a Harley girl. If it ain't loud She don't like it.
Like my dad once said, you only live once enjoy it while you can.
I had been riding metrics for some odd years, had a few HD's but never a new one. Always fixer uppers.
We were use to riding cruisers. So one day I told my wife I want a true touring bike. She says a Harley, I say yea.
so she says if we can afford it go for it.
When I got home with it she said lets ride. We rode for a week before we cam home. She loved it.
Picked up a 07 Ultra, we put 60,000 miles on it in 3 years. Then she got sick, real sick-cancer.
I bought her a goldwing trike so she could ride by herself, she always wanted to to that. All she said it ain't no Harley.
Go her favorite color. She went and and seen it and started crying. I got her on it. She rode to the end of the driveway and came back.
That was the last of her riding. She passed away not long after that but I will never forget the look on her face when she rode by herself.
That was 2 years ago.
I sold the trike and bought a 2012 CVO Street Glide. I never rode the trike, just could not bring myself to ride it.
She would really love the SG just like I do.
I have remarried and my new wife is nothing but a Harley girl. If it ain't loud She don't like it.
Like my dad once said, you only live once enjoy it while you can.
#39
02-27-2013, 12:30 AM
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From the time I saw my first motorcycle (in the late 50's) I knew that I would have one someday. They were very rare where I came from but in the mid-60's the little Hondas were starting to show up occasionally and that's when I really started getting the bug.
No one in my family had ever owned a motorcycle, so naturally my folks thought they were protecting from certain death by not allowing me to get one.
I started a "real" job in October, 1968 and 6 months later I had my new '69 Honda 175!!
For the next 5 years, I bought and sold a bunch of Hondas, and one BSA but in the '74 the H-D bug was getting to me.
Again, no one that I knew or rode with had a H-D and all I knew was that I liked the looks of the Sportster, so I bought one.
I can still remember my cousin (who had just bought a new 750-4 Honda) taking a ride on my Sportster and putting his bike up for sale and ordering a '75 Super-Glide!
Eventually, the other cousin who rode with us at the time, finally accepted the fact that he also wanted a Super-Glide even though it was over $3000 dollars (BTW, he's the only one who still has his first Harley).
No one in my family had ever owned a motorcycle, so naturally my folks thought they were protecting from certain death by not allowing me to get one.
I started a "real" job in October, 1968 and 6 months later I had my new '69 Honda 175!!
For the next 5 years, I bought and sold a bunch of Hondas, and one BSA but in the '74 the H-D bug was getting to me.
Again, no one that I knew or rode with had a H-D and all I knew was that I liked the looks of the Sportster, so I bought one.
I can still remember my cousin (who had just bought a new 750-4 Honda) taking a ride on my Sportster and putting his bike up for sale and ordering a '75 Super-Glide!
Eventually, the other cousin who rode with us at the time, finally accepted the fact that he also wanted a Super-Glide even though it was over $3000 dollars (BTW, he's the only one who still has his first Harley).
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02-27-2013, 12:31 AM
