A record of owning My Harley-Davidson® motorcycle. It's here for my ongoing analysis of ownership, and because my memory's rather shit. If you read it I hope you find something in it for you.
Oran Park is on tomorrow, hopefully it won't get rained out this time. Today, however, was the trip down. My son came along and we left around 3pm for the 200k trip to Narellen for the overnight stay. A quick fuel stop 10.31l @ $14.94. Great riding weather, we headed down the freeway and took the old Pacific Highway (of course)
After spending two months or more getting my wife ready to hop on the back of the Road King for the first time I arrived home this morning to a request of an immediate ride. Very surprisingly though, the request wasn't from my wife, it was from my 11 yo daughter. My daughter hadn't previously expressed any interest in going for a ride, in
I'd made a tentative booking for a ride with a school buddy ("old" is assumed) to go for a ride this morning weather permitting. The sky was black in the early a.m. but I was determined to head out, so I called and told him I was prepared to get wet and was going anyway. He thought that was a plan and we decided to meet at
It's been 14 or 15 days (other than the reshoeing trip) since I've had the opportunity to take the Harley out. Last weekend was stupidly hot (very high 30's - low 40's) and today was an eagerly anticipated opportunity to take my second ride with the local HOG chapter. Except it fair pi$$ed down all day again. It was doubly unfair because my
I thought when I bought the Road King that I'd get a thousand or so k's out of the well worn rear tyre, I managed 2k k's, so as happy as I was about that, it was time for a change. A new rear white walled tyre plus new rear brake pads makes the new shoes story complete for the bike since I bought it. All just in time for my second try
After the second wash of the Road King last Saturday I realised that the bike was getting nearly as much dust on it from sitting in the garage for the week than it was from riding on weekends. It was also almost time to start storing the bike in a location set aside in our offices and return my car to it's spot in the garage. So I had
Some kidless free time with my wife presented the opportunity to shop for the final piece of the bike gear puzzle for her, the helmet. We tried the big bike store and Harley dealer first, no luck there for size and colour, so we went back to the place I bought my bike. She tried on Nolan's, BMW's and others without too much luck and
Roy and I decided to head south today with a 9am start. A quick fuel topup for $7.66 (6.69litres) and I was ready to go. My son, of course, was ready too. Roy arrived on timeish and we decided to take the meandering route via the Swansea bends and along the coastline through the central coast, a quick jaunt up to the freeway and
After returning home from Metal Mayhem via Roy's Cafe my son was keen to head out, despite the heat, for an hour or so cruising around. We were the only ones home at the time, so away we went, with no plan about where we were going. First west out the link road and I intended heading south. Too many cars going that way so a snap
The local dealer hosted the Metal Mayhem tour today. A chance to see and ride the new 2009 Harley Models. I took my son down and there were people and Harelys everywhere. Saturday mornings at the Dealer's is the informal meeting place for the local HOG Chapter and they were there in force. Some of the HOG's partners were