I posted this on FB a while back:
Nigh onto 44 years ago, I had a life-altering, and almost life-ending, experience with a motorcycle and a few trees. Seven weeks plus one day in the hospital, 5 operations, various complications, one out-of-body experience, bed-ridden at home for an additional month before walking again...shot the hell out of a perfectly good summer.
Funny thing is, I still don't know what happened. Sort of like an accident on a soap-opera...knocked a couple hours right out of my memory. I don't know if anyone knows what happened, if anyone was riding with me or witnessed it; no one has ever shared anything with me if they did know. That isn't a big deal, and never was, and sure wouldn't change anything...but would be nice to know just for curiosity’s sake.
44 years of being confined to 4 wheels (my automobile). Oh, how I did love to ride cycles. I have missed it.
I'm just sharing that that is about to change. I'm losing a wheel. Yes, kiddies, Chip has a trike. I have tried to figure out for years, just how I could manipulate the controls and operate a trike. Never could quite figure everything out...close, but not completely. Then, one day, as I sat on a restaurant balcony in Gatlinburg, gazing at the cars/motorcycles below on the Parkway...wait a minute...that motorcycle has a steering wheel! Hot Damn!
A bit of Googling and I found it, a limited production trike based on a ford power train with a steering wheel and automatic transmission.
After over a year of searching I finally found one that was a sweet deal, a good buy, and is now coming to live with me.
My days of being a wild ass youngster riding a bike are over...I'm old...I have a trike...I'm gonna cruise.
UPDATE: after a short visit with my mechanic to adjust the suspension and a couple other things, it is back home with me!!
Damn, it is a sweet ride!!
2009 #607
Black Cherry
Nutting trailer
Planning to add a few things
Did I mention that it is a sweet ride?
Nigh onto 44 years ago, I had a life-altering, and almost life-ending, experience with a motorcycle and a few trees. Seven weeks plus one day in the hospital, 5 operations, various complications, one out-of-body experience, bed-ridden at home for an additional month before walking again...shot the hell out of a perfectly good summer.
Funny thing is, I still don't know what happened. Sort of like an accident on a soap-opera...knocked a couple hours right out of my memory. I don't know if anyone knows what happened, if anyone was riding with me or witnessed it; no one has ever shared anything with me if they did know. That isn't a big deal, and never was, and sure wouldn't change anything...but would be nice to know just for curiosity’s sake.
44 years of being confined to 4 wheels (my automobile). Oh, how I did love to ride cycles. I have missed it.
I'm just sharing that that is about to change. I'm losing a wheel. Yes, kiddies, Chip has a trike. I have tried to figure out for years, just how I could manipulate the controls and operate a trike. Never could quite figure everything out...close, but not completely. Then, one day, as I sat on a restaurant balcony in Gatlinburg, gazing at the cars/motorcycles below on the Parkway...wait a minute...that motorcycle has a steering wheel! Hot Damn!
A bit of Googling and I found it, a limited production trike based on a ford power train with a steering wheel and automatic transmission.
After over a year of searching I finally found one that was a sweet deal, a good buy, and is now coming to live with me.
My days of being a wild ass youngster riding a bike are over...I'm old...I have a trike...I'm gonna cruise.
UPDATE: after a short visit with my mechanic to adjust the suspension and a couple other things, it is back home with me!!
Damn, it is a sweet ride!!
2009 #607
Black Cherry
Nutting trailer
Planning to add a few things
Did I mention that it is a sweet ride?
