The day had arrived, I was to pick up my new second hand 1998 Harley Davidson Road King and take it home.  The $19,000  balance was deposited in the dealer's account, I had a helmet, insurance was organised so over I went about 2pm.  All was ready when I got there so the paperwork was done efficiently, the Harley Davidson had been

The decision about the helmet was made, I was looking for a full face.  The difficulty was finding one that suited.  The Nolan XL size fitted the best but I couldn't find one in black at any of the motorcycle stores in the area that I wanted to visit. Which left the one I had decided not to revisit.

One last chance, so in I went.

I've never seen the sense in slapping copious amounts of sunscreen (or risking the alternative), going out in the breeze at speed and having bugs hit me in the chops.  Putting on a material mask to stop that seems hardly worth it.

I've never poo-pooed those who enjoy the open faced part of the motorcycle experience, but it's just not

Tomorrow is the day I pick up my 1998 Harley Davidson Road King.  Work commitments have limited my time to spend at the dealership so I decided to get a couple of the preliminary things out of the way, Insurance and a helmet.

Insurance first.  I decided to go online to see what was out there.  I found InsureMyRide and got

Saturday morning is busy at our place.  It kicks off about 5.25am to get one of the two of the kids to swimming and having the third ready to start at 8am.  The weather during the week was nice, there were a few clouds around at 7, by 9 it was threatening to rain, but hadn't.  I went over to the BMW dealership with my gear ready to

General net research on the pricing of the Harley Davidson Road King at bikesales and bikepoint came up fine, it seemed on the money.  As an aside it seems that Harley Davidsons might be cheaper in Queensland. I wonder why that is?

Googling the Road King came up with some interesting stuff.  I'd do a quick review that does not

With all the financial decisions made about what I was looking for I decided to do some serious looking. It was Friday lunctime so I slipped down the the bike shops (all except for the Suzuki Dealer).  I wanted to organise some test rides in the morning if there was anything worth looking at.  I went to the Harley-Davidson dealer and told

OK, now that my wife's had some input, here's the true logic.  She is dead right, there is an attraction to owning a brand spanking new expensive bike, and I could afford it.  I had definitely made up my mind to go down the cruiser path.  Two problems with doing that though...

1. If I spent 35k on a nice new Harley,

So I went home and thought the whole thing through. The attraction of the expensive bike was definitely getting my hormones racing, and as my caring and sharing wife had already so correctly stated, it was almost irresistible to me. Fortunately though, together with that same caring and sharing wife I chose a bike costing somewhere in the middle,

Armed with some information from my accountant I returned to the Big Bike Dealership and plucked up the courage to walk into Harley Davidson Land.  The helpful sales person I had spoken to earlier in the day handed me over to the Harley Davidson specialist.  Looking at the prices that conveniently showed the weekly repayments and residuals