Given only one option

[Hamish]

Ham, I have no explanation for motorcycle fascination either, I have had an instinctive draw to them since I was a child. I have owned at least one for most of my adult life, and something about them just feels right for me. I also have a private pilot's licence, with about 150 hours flight time, and I am not nearly as attached to airplanes. My wife and sister also have motorcycles, and I worked as a motorcycle funeral escort officer when I was in college.
My uncle was an Army motorcycle dispatch messenger in WW2.

Wow! That's an impressive record.

I am currently shopping for a used sidecar-equpped motorcycle to add to my collection. As much as I love Harleys, I might get a BMW for my next new bike, just to try something different.

Well, I suppose we all collect something or other! I know what I'd prefer to Kollect however!!! ;);)

[arrogcow]

Can't answer because as things are with my Handyman business I have to dress to the work involved. Crawling under houses or in atics No way would I wear a Kilt. Sort of goes with leathers and My Goldwing.

As long as it doesn't involve paint, stain or other caustic chemicals I'm kilted. I have done plumbing, and carpentry kilted.

Adam

[Pleater]

I rebuilt a 1959 BSA A10 in my flat when I was a student - it had a Watsonian sidecar I had to leave parked outside as it would not fit through the doorway as a combo.

When the two parts were sucessfully reunited I trundled around on it for quite a few years.

Sigh.

They are great on icy roads - by the way - the flexing of the universal joint creates an unusual sideways grip which seems to counteract sliding to some extent.

[dwg]

Ham was you a Mod or a Rocker ? LOL
Derek

Ron, as always, I like your style! Personally, I have never understood the fascination with motor-cycles - although I did own one (cannot remember what it was though!) back in the '60s before I was driving a car. Thesedays I have a car - out of necessity - but only a small one: Renault Clio.

[mbhandy]

As long as it doesn't involve paint, stain or other caustic chemicals I'm kilted. I have done plumbing, and carpentry kilted.

Adam

I don't know about you but I just feel that a kilt in an atic with insullation ??: just might be a bit much. Coveralls.

MrBill

[Hamish]

Ham was you a Mod or a Rocker ? LOL
Derek

LOL! Derek, neither really, but if I had to choose one or the other it would have to be "Mod"!! Prior to the one motorcycle, I had a Vespa scooter which I polished tenderly although I had no idea at all what made it 'tick'. That was probably the only motorised vehicle I have owned with which I was truly comfortable.

On the other hand, I never wore a Parka, never had a squirrel's tail attached to the Vespa's arial - in fact, never had an arial - so, on second thoughts, I don't think I could have been a Mod. But I was NEVER a rocker either!!!

[dwg]

I was much the same, but I had a LI 150 Reg 606 CXD, I also never had a Parka
but I did pass my test at 16 and went on to drive M/bikes of one sort or another winter and summer untill I was 48
back to Kilts, today is going to be a Kilt day for me, Chat latter
Derek

LOL! Derek, neither really, but if I had to choose one or the other it would have to be "Mod"!! Prior to the one motorcycle, I had a Vespa scooter which I polished tenderly although I had no idea at all what made it 'tick'. That was probably the only motorised vehicle I have owned with which I was truly comfortable.

On the other hand, I never wore a Parka, never had a squirrel's tail attached to the Vespa's arial - in fact, never had an arial - so, on second thoughts, I don't think I could have been a Mod. But I was NEVER a rocker either!!!

[bikercelt1]

My choice is to wear a kilt, but I would have to keep a pair of Tourmaster overpants hidden in the back of the closet where none of you can find them. I've been a Harley guy most of my life, I'm a life member of H.O.G. with over 200,000 miles since I started keeping records in '93. I ride in my kilt (I can't figure out the bungee thing either Sciuropterus) but I use the riding pants over the top of my kilt to go any distance. It might be a bit rough in a wool kilt but it works fine with my poly-v's. I was on the committee for the Washington State H.O.G. rally in 2005 and I wore a kilt every day of the tour. When I was in Milwaukee for the H-D 100th in 2003 I met a fairly large contingent of Scots who rode clear across the U. S. wearing their kilts the whole way!

Jamie

P.S. I figure that I'm still answering the "only one choice" question since my riding suit is safety equipment, not pants in the traditional sense. I get out of the riding suit as quick as humanly possible when I get where I'm going.