No... YOUR Motorcycle Needs a Windshield and a Fairing!

I've got a good friend... who rides a Touring bike... Windshield, fairing, radio... the works.

That Motorcycle works, and works well, for him and his lady...

We can't ride together often enough 'cause we live some 400 miles or so apart... But, when we do and make a stop along the way, as we're walkin' up to the door of some cafe, with me brushin' bugs and such off my jacket he'll say; "If you'd get a windshield you wouldn't have to do that!" :o)

My Reply? ... "Well... it only bothers YOU!" :o)

and that boys N' girls is the answer to a whole lot of questions... Ride what YOU need... NOT... what somebody ELSE tells you ... YOU NEED.

Some folks have got to have that crouched over, screamin' crotch rocket of a sport bike... others the windshield, radio, gps and bags and trunk of a dressed out Touring Bike...

Then... there's the one time workin' cowboys... who only dream of Naked Cruisers...

Uh... the bikes you perverts! :o)

I may not want the type of Motorcycle they ride... it may not toot my whistle... my vision of that Ribbon of Highway may be considerably different but I understand; "Hearing Your Own Drummer", for sure and for certain.

... and I truly understand when they tell me; "I'd never do it that-a-way"...

'Cause I tell 'em; "Great Minds think alike! That's Exactly what I thought... the first time I saw you!" :o)

That FREEDOM... to be who I am... is one of the Greatest Parts of Splittin' the Wind on a Motorcycle that captures my imagination...

Grab Your Handles and Ride!
Brian

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You just have to see this Motorcycle Video!

Watch this sucker... makes me giggle ever' time I see it... the thing is hilarious!



Closing our House tomorrow morning (selling)... and then that Monkey is off our back... after only three years of tryin'! Hoo! Ya!...

... as soon as that is done... it finally frees us up to pursue things I've been wanting for some lil' while... Like Yamaha Star Raider Motorcycles! Suh-Wheet!

... Hmmm ... think I'll be havin' a change of opinion for "my Best Touring Motorcycle" ? :o)

Grab Your Handles and Ride!
Brian

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The Grass is Always Greener When Motorcycle Adventure Touring......

..if your Motorcycle Adventure Touring is done on foreign roads... right?

... or is it?

Do you have to ride in foreign lands to find good Motorcycle Adventure Touring?

Or, can you find the Spirit and Healing power of the Open Road, right here at home, on American Roads?

What is it we're really looking for? What is your definition of Adventure Touring?

Enough with the questions, and let's have some answers!... Right? :o)

Well, Ok... but I don't know that I have any! Just my "Opinions" and what works for me.

When I'm out, Splitting the Wind my primary goal is finding Freedom. That is the Great Adventure I hunger for.

Now... since that one, singular, thing, is sorely deficient over the majority of the rest of the globe... it turns out I find little to attract me to those foreign lands.

Let 'em keep their mordida and various tyrannies... and all their 'stuff'...

All I need to feed my soul is...

• The simple joy of living... with a motorcycle! :o)


• The Glorious Visions you see around every bend on almost every road in this country :o)


• The Scent of rain freshened air, splitting the wind on a Mountain Morning...


• The Joyous feeling of my ladies arms wrapped around me as we follow a Ribbon of Highway... after a night of my senior carcass provin'... I ain't dead yet! :o)


• A fresh view of a road I've not yet ridden...


• or finding that riding an old road again, is like huggin' a treasured friend I've not seen in a long time...


• Conversations with interesting people I meet along the way...

They all combine to prove that I can find all the Adventure Touring I need... all the Motorcycle Touring... I require.

All the Healing Power I can stand... from two wheels on asphalt!

... Right here in what has always been to me... Heaven on Earth...

The Great American West!

Anyone who claims this place or that country has beauty surpassing that of the Grand Canyon, Alaska, The Canadian Rockies, Yosemite, the Pacific Coast Highway, The Great Smokies, Glacier, Yellowstone, The Black Hills, Tonto Basin, the Sierras... and on and on...

... has issues we just ain't gonna address, or cure, here! :o)

...and yes... I consider the Canadian Rockies as part of the "American West"... The Great North American West! Canada ain't a part of the good Ol' U S of A... but she's darn sure her Sister!

Do you need a passport to find acceptable Adventure... Motorcycle Touring?

Nahhh... Not Even!... Just...

Grab Your Handles and Roll!
Brian

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*Share... Your Personal Motorcycle Philosophy with us!
*Tell us about your... Great Motorcycle Roads