Saturday it was overcast and windy just north of Atlanta where I
live. They were predicting rain as the tropical storm was moving up
from Florida. What the hell, I thought, the wife and son were gone
and I couldn't do yard work - after all it was going to rain - so I
packed my rain suit and took off for the North Georgia mountains. I
guess the threat of weather scared everybody off because I had the
roads to myself. It was windy and in the 70s with no rain. Perfect
riding weather.

I stopped for lunch at a little place in the mountains, and as I was
leaving, a group of 10 or so riders asked me to take their picture.
They were young, old, men, women, and had every conceivable kind of
bike there was. There were Harleys, BMWs, sport bikes, dual sports,
you name it. The one thing they had in common was they were really
enjoying themselves.

That got me thinking about my riding. My usual group has a wide
variety of bikes and I've ridden most of them, but after riding a
$20,000+ BMW, I'm content to get back on my 13 year old Nighthawk.
After all, it's not the bike, it's the ride that matters.

--
Lew

"Lew" <notme@notmindspring.invalid.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9B05DB2D81013notmenotmindspringco@69.16.18 6.50...
> Saturday it was overcast and windy just north of Atlanta where I
> live. They were predicting rain as the tropical storm was moving up
> from Florida. What the hell, I thought, the wife and son were gone
> and I couldn't do yard work - after all it was going to rain - so I
> packed my rain suit and took off for the North Georgia mountains. I
> guess the threat of weather scared everybody off because I had the
> roads to myself. It was windy and in the 70s with no rain. Perfect
> riding weather.
>
> I stopped for lunch at a little place in the mountains, and as I was
> leaving, a group of 10 or so riders asked me to take their picture.
> They were young, old, men, women, and had every conceivable kind of
> bike there was. There were Harleys, BMWs, sport bikes, dual sports,
> you name it. The one thing they had in common was they were really
> enjoying themselves.
>
> That got me thinking about my riding. My usual group has a wide
> variety of bikes and I've ridden most of them, but after riding a
> $20,000+ BMW, I'm content to get back on my 13 year old Nighthawk.
> After all, it's not the bike, it's the ride that matters.
>
> --
> Lew

Nice bikes are great but in-the-wind is in-the-wind regardless of the
age, size and bling involved.

You got some sweet roads down there as you get north too.

Lew wrote:

> ... I packed my rain suit and took off for the North Georgia mountains.

Isn't that where some general (whose name I won't repeat in the presence
of a Georgian) added an expression to the English language by saying
"Hold the fort!"?

SQ

One fine day in rec.motorcycles, Lew <notme@notmindspring.invalid.com>
wrote:

> Saturday it was overcast and windy just north of Atlanta where I
> live. They were predicting rain as the tropical storm was moving up
> from Florida. What the hell, I thought, the wife and son were gone
> and I couldn't do yard work - after all it was going to rain - so I
> packed my rain suit and took off for the North Georgia mountains. I
> guess the threat of weather scared everybody off because I had the
> roads to myself. It was windy and in the 70s with no rain. Perfect
> riding weather.
>
> I stopped for lunch at a little place in the mountains, and as I was
> leaving, a group of 10 or so riders asked me to take their picture.
> They were young, old, men, women, and had every conceivable kind of
> bike there was. There were Harleys, BMWs, sport bikes, dual sports,
> you name it. The one thing they had in common was they were really
> enjoying themselves.
>
> That got me thinking about my riding. My usual group has a wide
> variety of bikes and I've ridden most of them, but after riding a
> $20,000+ BMW, I'm content to get back on my 13 year old Nighthawk.
> After all, it's not the bike, it's the ride that matters.
>

Woo-hoo! I hear ya!

--
Uncle Vic
04 Kawasaki Nomad 1500
92 Honda Nighthawk 750