WILDBILLII
Look Ma, No Hands!
Last October at the Pacific Airshow in Huntington Beach.
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Actually Riding Your Classic or Antique Bike
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byke!punk
MY WALLET'S GONE! MY WALLET'S GONE!
This reminds me of the torn sack thread - Explain it to me...
Health and fitness? Ok, I'll take it easy on the beer the night before I know I'm going for a ride! So there's that. Truly, I just get immeasurable pleasure in the hunt, salvage, and caretaking of these classics. I love most of all bringing them back from the grave. I get sentimental imagining the lives these things lived long before we've crossed paths, and how much further they'll go now since we have. Every ride is a revisiting my first taste of freedom as a kid on a new bike crossing the "highway" alone for the first time! The pre-ride inspection ritual, taking my time before, during and after a ride. So it's not just about the ride. But for sure, coasting slightly downhill through a wooded trail on a well-tuned classic is a high worth every ounce of energy it took to get me there. I get the modern bike mentality and I'm trying to think of a way of saying it bores me without calling it boring. Oops. It's either your cup of meat or it isn't.
Health and fitness? Ok, I'll take it easy on the beer the night before I know I'm going for a ride! So there's that. Truly, I just get immeasurable pleasure in the hunt, salvage, and caretaking of these classics. I love most of all bringing them back from the grave. I get sentimental imagining the lives these things lived long before we've crossed paths, and how much further they'll go now since we have. Every ride is a revisiting my first taste of freedom as a kid on a new bike crossing the "highway" alone for the first time! The pre-ride inspection ritual, taking my time before, during and after a ride. So it's not just about the ride. But for sure, coasting slightly downhill through a wooded trail on a well-tuned classic is a high worth every ounce of energy it took to get me there. I get the modern bike mentality and I'm trying to think of a way of saying it bores me without calling it boring. Oops. It's either your cup of meat or it isn't.
razinhellcustomz
Riding a '38 Autocycle Deluxe
Great job Billi, LIVE the video by the way. Happy Valentines day.
62typhoon
Finally riding a big boys bike
Yes all my bikes are pretty heavy, ride the 62 Typhoon the most as it has the 2 speed, ironically the newest the 81cruiser deluxe seems the heaviest...always make me think of those poor paperboys with a full bag of papers strapped on...kids were tough back then.
GTs58
I'm the Wiz, and nobody beats me!
I had a 1961.5 or 1962 Flambo Red American heavy duty with springer and 2 sp kickback equipped with the double wire saddle baskets and the Newspapers canvas bag wrapped on the handlebar. I had a fairly decent sized route and Sunday morning was my worst nightmare, hated Sundays. Bag and baskets packed full. Once you get the bike rolling, you don't want to stop for any reason! One of the reasons today that I despise the kickback hubs.
