Stories from the road ?

May 11, 2013
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I thought it would be cool to read some stories about your past travels.

A lot of us had 2 wheelers back in the day and traveled all over.

Plus road trips takin with a friends or you wife..

Some could be funny or just good reading.

I've been riding since 1981 by Accident that's what I tell everyone is how I got into motorcycles .lol. True story.

So let see who has a couple of Good stories for us.

THANKS .....................Rick
 
I thought it would be cool to read some stories about your past travels.

A lot of us had 2 wheelers back in the day and traveled all over.

Plus road trips takin with a friends or you wife..

Some could be funny or just good reading.

I've been riding since 1981 by Accident that's what I tell everyone is how I got into motorcycles .lol. True story.

So let see who has a couple of Good stories for us.

THANKS .....................Rick

You started it. You should go first...........
 
Ok :laugh: Bill.

4 of us were going to a motorcycle race up in Canada.

We got across the Ambassador Bridge to Windsor, Ont.

Can't remember the little town we had to get to it was 30 some yrs ago.

But we pulled over on the side of a 2 lane rd.

Checking our map.

When who comes up behind us is t OPP ( Police).

What's the problem gentlemen ?

Are you guys lost ?

No sir we just don't know where we are.

We all laugh.

Tell him where were going an he says you pasted it up about 5 miles back and shows us on the map we have.

We thank him and he walks away. As were getting our bikes back together he comes back.

1 MORE thing Gentlemen before you leave.

I notice your friend here has a saddlebag that's dripping wet on the out side !

We all turn around an smile as he does.

Says to us I know where that wet line is and it better stay there till you get to the park.

We all bust out laughing and he follows us to just before the park entrance then pulls ahead an puts his left turn signal on an points to the rd to turn on .

We all waved at him on the way in.

Guess he didn't notice the other guys with us the had beer in their bags also ;)
 
On the way back to Mn from Sturgis trip 2010 we were running hard til we got to I 35 North in Albert Lea Mn. Traffic was dead stop that Sunday afternoon.

A car pulled up along side me( I was in the hammer lane ) the driver said Hey you are un fire. Holy crap I was. The positive battery cable had shorted out on the exhaust pipe and started a fire. I put the kick stand down and hopped off and beat the fire down with my vest.

I reached in and moved the cable off the exhaust, wrapped it in electrical tape and tied it up out of the way with zip ties. It is always good to carry tools and some supplies. Also a good thing no real damage was done to the bike. It belonged to a good friend of mine who loans me bikes when I fly to Mn. I replaced the battery cable and routed it the right way before I returned it . What a trip.
 
My 1st trip to Daytona for Bike Week. Well I worked at G.M. and had a few guys that rode bikes of all kinds. 1 friend of mine had the same type of bike that i did, So naturally we hit it off and talked motorcycles most of the time. He comes up to me 1 day an ask me hey want to go to Daytona for Bike week. Well me being a 1st yr rider and never heard of it, so he sat down and explained to me what goes on there. WELL From his point of view of what goes on there, so i mentioned it to my wife and she said go for it. It we just going to be a short trip there an back and take in a few races at the Speedway. We got there and all he wanted to do was sit at the race track an watch.:(

I asked if I could borrow his car to go see what's going on. Just a plain NO was the answer, So I sat there with him for the couple of days. Then on the way out of town he drove past Main Street and OMG. I never saw so many bike in my life in 1 place like that. I said let walk down there an check it out. Again 1 word NO. Well it was a QUIET ride all the way back home. The next time I went i went with a few old friend I had from the custom Truck club we belonged to. Totally different Experience an a lot more fun and too much to do in a long weekend. SO the next 22 years we did 2 weeks sometimes 3 . Depending on what was going on at home at the time an the weather. 1 year we all packing up to go home after a 3 week vacation all centered around Motorcycles. It was just the 4 of us Dennis & Paula and us 2. Stayed in the same rooms at motels and ate together & rode every where together for years. But this particular year he was going to stop by his Aunts place for a few hours and say hello. So we all decided to meet up in Georgia at the same motel.

So off we went headed North. Bikes were loaded up and we were in our Suburban all nice an warm. Up to that time NO one listened to any weather reports. We stopped at a gas station / Truck stop. I'm getting gas in the truck when this biker pulled up to do the same. We started talking an he said he was heading south away for the Huge storm up North. That's when I started to pay attn to the weather.

"STORM OF THE CENTURY" we go to our motel just in time as it was hitting Georgia Hard. Traffic was a total mess to say the least. At that time we didn't have cell phones yet. His called the motel an got a hold of us and want to check if we made it an how was the roads up where we were. He left 3 hours after we did from Daytona. It took him for ever to get to our place. I think it was 10 PM when we heard a knock on our door. I called my boss at G.M. an told him that I'm NOT going to make it back in time. He said don't worry about just be carful. COOL DUDE.

Our bikes in a open trailers didn't look good at all. We stayed there 1 more night. I 75 N was shut down for 2 to 3 days with the National Guard trying clear the highway. Believe me the next year and till this day we always check on the weather . As years go by Dennis bought a bigger trailer where the 2 bikes would fit and still have living quarters . I bought a Motorhome with an enclosed trailer. So No matter what happened we were Prepared lol.

THE END
 
me and a friend left WV to go spring nationals in tenn. ihad early 70s sportster, he had 70 electra glide,the rivets had came lose that hold the sprocket on the sportster. remember i was young. used roofing tacks to replace them,made it there and back when i took wheel off there were five nails left. good times,
 
me and a friend left WV to go spring nationals in tenn. ihad early 70s sportster, he had 70 electra glide,the rivets had came lose that hold the sprocket on the sportster. remember i was young. used roofing tacks to replace them,made it there and back when i took wheel off there were five nails left. good times,

The same thing happened to me on my panhead. Three of us were headed home from an overnight trip when I lost my rivets. One friend stayed with me on the side of this two lane country road while the other one went looking for something to fix it with. He came back with a package of 8-32 screws and nuts. We put them on, and I made it home. (no burnouts for sure)They were half way sheared off by the time I got home.

If that had happened on the first day, I would have been fixing it in the rain.
 
Morning;

At the time this happened we lived in Michigan near Ann Arbor.

We decided to take a Bike ride up to Minnesota to see our daughter.

Spent a few day with them an they were Surprised to see Mom on her Harley.

So after a few days an nights with them we started back for home.

Sunny an warm as toast so it should be a good ride home.

No sooner then we hot the freeway thunderstorms hit us.

We're on 94 E so we pulled off and tried to get our rain gear on.

Well hell I too soaked to ever try it.

Carmen got her rain jacket on and we took off again.

I'm telling you thru driving rain an lighting we finally got into chi town an pulled over it a Nice Hotel.

I sent her in While I watched the Bikes.

She came out a few mins later and waved me inside.

As I sloused thru the lobby with water coming off everything I had on and my boots Squeaking ALL THE WAY ACROSS IT LOL.

After we got into the room the rain really slowed down so I went back out and got our stuff.

Thank God we have fresh dry clothes to put on.

I swear to you I let her lead so I could keep an eye on here while riding thru all of that.

Only thing I could see was her little tail light at times.

I became a Friend of the Weather channel lol right after that happened.

Riding down I 94 in Sunday evening traffic is bad enough but add pouring rain an lighting that blind you for a few seconds to make matters worst.

When we got up the next morning all the rain was dried up and Me Sun was out.

Out bikes were a total mess to say the least.

Off we went after gassing up to Ann Arbor.

Got home about 5 hours later an everything got a bath .
 
Short story;

I was thinking the other day about riding in cold weather.

1 yr while we still live in Michigan I was watching football of a Saturday morning.

Then a Harley commercial came on :xzqxz:.

I thought about it for a few mins and then said nope too damn cold.

The temps were in the teens with Snow on the ground from a few days before.

So the streets were cleaned off but ply's of snow was off to the sides.

The more I thought about it the worst it got lol.

So I put on my leather and heavy T shirt and sweatshirt.

Then walked out to the garage to start up the Bike.

It started right up and I let it warm up for a few mins.

Backed it out of the garage and just sat there for a few mins.

Let the driveway and headed down the street into small town USA.

Rode thru and got a few are you crazy looks at me lol.

Did about 10 miles then headed to the little store in town.

As I came back near home I saw a cop pulled over on the side of the rd just sitting there.

I got off the bike an walked in the store.

I know the guy behind the counter and as I wallked in he said I thought it was you lol.

He asked is it a little chilly out there ?

I said Chilly Hell No its cold lol.

Picked up a paper and a talked a bit an got on the Bike.

I was still running and sounding GREAT.

No sooner I saddled up an took off I see blue lights behind me.

You got to be kidding me :mad:.

So I pull over a block from the store and he comes walking up.

He asks me Cabin fever or is it stolen.

I laughed and said cabin fever.

I handed him my papers and he walked back.

When he came back he was laughing and said just had to get out for a few mins I take it ?

I said yeah can't stand being cooped up all winter and had to get out of a few miles.

I only had about a 1/2 mile to go .

I asked are we done so I can get back home an warm up.

He said yup hope it was worth it.

Ya know what if you don't ride you'll never understand .

His reply was NO I completely understand mines in storage till spring.:laugh:

I took off for home and got a HOT cup of coffee and sat in front of the TV the rest of the day.

Then End......................Rick
 
I was heading home from a week solo trip on my GL1500. Just east of Leavenworth, Wa. traveling west on the 2 lane at 50-55 MPH. The car behind me was hanging back and then coming closer and then backing off. A little odd I thought. Next thing I know I heard the chatter of his anti-lock brakes. His front bumper kissed the right rear trim of my bike. I did not go down. Pulled off the road with him behind me. He asked it he had hit me..... Told me he had been driving more that 24 hours and was falling asleep at the wheel. As evidence he showed me the right side of his car where he had scraped the guard rail some time previously. I was close to decking the little weenie. Suggested he take a break and nap before he kills somebody. He said he would. But he didn't. I went to town and doubled back and he was gone. I had a blemish on the trim of my bike that I kept until it was sold. Looked at it often to remind me about defensive riding..... Jim
 
riding in one night in southern wv, when bike just died no lights or anyhthing. It was 67 honda dream , i was 16 teen had no idea what was wrong. pitch dark about 15 minutes a truck stops.. I tell driver I have no idea whats wrong.he starts to look under seat finds fuse blowed.Neither he nor i have a fuse ,he takes a piece chewing gum wrapper wraps around old fuse. Says try it, starts up, I thank him ,go home he says. you can't learn this in books.
 
riding in one night in southern wv, when bike just died no lights or anyhthing. It was 67 honda dream , i was 16 teen had no idea what was wrong. pitch dark about 15 minutes a truck stops.. I tell driver I have no idea whats wrong.he starts to look under seat finds fuse blowed.Neither he nor i have a fuse ,he takes a piece chewing gum wrapper wraps around old fuse. Says try it, starts up, I thank him ,go home he says. you can't learn this in books.

I've used a paper clip once....
 
Part 3.

this is going to be a shorter story then I planned.

On my 1st trip across country I was on my way back from taking a 2 week trip to Arizona.

I was headed East on 60 towards Globe, Az.

Things were going great nice scenery with tall trees an mountains.

After getting gas I looked at my map an I wanted to hit I 40 and now I'm in a little town just before Show low, AZ.

Something doesn't feel right with my front end.

SO in the middle of nothing I pull over and I hear pssss.:xzqxz:. What the hell is that !!

Front tire has a leak in the side wall NOW WHAT !!.

I have the bike up on its center stand and the front tire is off the ground a little.

I sit of a huge rock and thinking to myself now what an I going to do.

I get my tools out and start to see if i can get the tire off the bike.

Incase someone stops and asks if I need help.

Its still early in the day cause I left at 6 am.

I'm sitting on the ground and working on the bike when a Motorhome pulls up just past me.

2 older guys with white beards come down to me and asks what going on ?

I tell them what happened and the driver says to me.

Do you think we could help you any ?

I said I hope you can I'll need a front tire this one has a leak in the sidewall.

Guy says to me their a cycle shop down the rd a piece if that will help you.

I say to him it sure would But I don't want to leave my bike out here by its self.

He says No problem an he points at his friend and says he'll sit here with it till we get back.

All hell breaks loose as they argue this I'm sitting there an crackin up.

They argue like old friend do and its funny.

So he get a folding chair out and sits behind my bike and we take off for town.

About 40 mins away he says.

WE get there and the shop has just opened and the guy behind the counter say sure we can give you a New tire where's it at.

I left it by the front door as we walked in.

Mean while the driver an I start talking about hunting & motorcycles.

Seems these 2 guys have rode all over in their younger days and now they just hunt.

So shortly my tire is ready and we take off after Thanking the guys for the tire.

WE pull up and I don't see his buddy moving any.

I say i think your friend fell to sleep. He says oh hell he might have died on me :xzqxz:.

He was reading his book is all they cracked me up when they started all up again.

I can't remember their names but they were so funny :D.

I get the tire on an take it for a short ride doing figure 8's an everything looks and sound s good.

So I say to them Let my treat you to lunch up the rd.

NOPE you don't have to do anything they say.

I then ask if i can buy them a cup of coffee in town.

That they agree on an we head out.

During coffee and I find out they met years ago on the rode and have been friends since.

WE shake hands and say our good byes.

I head out towards I 40 and home back in Michigan. 2 days later.

The end.
 
some friends left for Daytona in school bus one year, loss oil pressure, started smoking real bad half way there. stopped check engine found a crack in block. this one guy went and bought several boxes of kotexs and case of cheap oil wired the kotexs to block stopped to change rag every so many miles . made there and back. its the trip not the destnation
 
Alan I was stationed at Navel Station SD right after Boot camp there.

Got real lucky an got a Harbor tug for the next duty station 60 to 62.

Then got a ship out of Frisco/ Oakland.

I remember some damn good times up an down the coast for sure lol.
 
Navy

Signed up June 1965 in California

Recruuter, where would like to go/bootcamp-i said Great Lakes........did my time/San Diego

What would like do/storekeeper. Ended up-radioman

First duty station-atop a mountain-Army base ASMARA, ETHIOPIA for 18 months

the remainder of my 4 yrs. were aboard ships out of Little Creek, Virgina.

Seriously though I enjoyed my entire time (almost stayed for 20).

THOSE were the DAYS.

:Coffee:

Today I SALUTE ALL SERVICE MEMBERS!!!!!!!!
 
four of us were riding on 460 in southern wv one time. when the ride in front got hit by a tomato . some kids on hill were through them at cars. if he hadnt been riding a dresser he would have been ,kids ran hid . to this day we call him mater head. good times
 
A few years ago I was leading my (at that time) wife and another couple on a 20+ day tour. We were in eastern Utah traveling on secondary roads going about 60 MPH. I was on a Spyder pulling a trailer. My wife was on her (really mine) Goldwing GL1800 and the other couple were following on their Spyder, also pulling a trailer. A truck came at us carrying bales of hay from the opposite direction. Out of the corner of my eye I saw "something" . My former wife later said she saw a bale of hay in the air. The trailing couple saw a bale of hay "explode" in the road in front of them. No injuries. No damage. But an experience to remember. Our angels were riding with us that day..... Jim
 
some friend and i had stopped at parking lot after a long ride to say good by. leaving i pulled on up grade to road. in second gear bike bogged down, almost turning over. quickly pulling in clutch in shifting to first' came on road spinning side ways. my wife hit me in ribs said you always got to show off don"t you! she didn"t know how close we came to going down. good times'
 
One thing that happened to me when I was young. Will probably show how much different the world was back in the early sixties. 15 years old and no money. I had a Harley hummer with a 250 ariel arrow engine, yup weird stuff even back then. So ridin through the woods on a cold fall day. The master link gives up. Push it out of the woods to a pull off on the main rd. Sat for about 10 minutes contemplating my fate. No money for anything. Just then a Rambler pulls in draggin his muffler. Guy gets out got his church suit on. Looks under the car says I guess I'll have to get under there. Nah I got ya covered got some rope on my bike. He asks if it'll catch fire I assure him it won't. All done he says to me what's wrong with your cycle. I show him the part. He says I'll give you a ride to the cycle shop. I just passed it and it's open. Nah I got no money. He says, I do hoppin. So down the road we go. Get there, go in. Says boy here needs a part, show him what it is son. Show the guy and he gives me the part. Guy pays, might have been 30 cents. Anyway drives me back to the bike,waits makes sure it fixed and moves. Yup it works we shake hands and thank each and both go on our way. That would never happen today.
 
One thing that happened to me when I was young. Will probably show how much different the world was back in the early sixties. 15 years old and no money. I had a Harley hummer with a 250 ariel arrow engine, yup weird stuff even back then. So ridin through the woods on a cold fall day. The master link gives up. Push it out of the woods to a pull off on the main rd. Sat for about 10 minutes contemplating my fate. No money for anything. Just then a Rambler pulls in draggin his muffler. Guy gets out got his church suit on. Looks under the car says I guess I'll have to get under there. Nah I got ya covered got some rope on my bike. He asks if it'll catch fire I assure him it won't. All done he says to me what's wrong with your cycle. I show him the part. He says I'll give you a ride to the cycle shop. I just passed it and it's open. Nah I got no money. He says, I do hoppin. So down the road we go. Get there, go in. Says boy here needs a part, show him what it is son. Show the guy and he gives me the part. Guy pays, might have been 30 cents. Anyway drives me back to the bike,waits makes sure it fixed and moves. Yup it works we shake hands and thank each and both go on our way. That would never happen today.

I too had a similar experience back in the mid sixties. Details not necessary but you're right that we do live in much different times these days. Damn I miss those kind of days. People helped each other, even complete strangers and all.
 

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