Well, I call mine the "Leafmobile" - mainly cause I was born in Toronto, and my favorite hockey team - but also had to opportunity to actually be called up from the minor's (Marlies) for one game to replace Keon - way back in the 60's ....... so, that's my story and I'm stickin' with it .....
Bottom of the page you'll see the one and only "Leafmobile" .... albeit, now in 1000 pieces in my kitchen - it will never die, as long as I'm alive !!!! n' by the way - the backrest emblem is original n' the one I wore - way back when my knees were strong - the good ol' days eh !!!!
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Cheers, n' Happy Trails Ahead,
Bryan
I remember that movie - n' actually cried when they had to shoot him !!!
Cheers,
Just kiddin' n' won't be sleeping it off for a while yet !!!! As Charlie Daniels n' too much on my mind to really relax - typical Friday night !!!!!!
Cheers, n' Happy Trails,
<LOL> Tim ....... Better upgrade those shocks er you'll be callin' it "Ball Eraser" !!!!!!!
Harold - you must be possessed - as a first for me with the gauges going backwards ???? <LOL> ....
Cheers, n' Happy Trails Backward ......
Woops, I'm gettin' drunk - you didn't say the gauges went backwards like Christine - so only your persepetions upon riding her - whereas - Christine was a car - n' I do enjoy ol' horror flicks ..... n' kinda hard to ride a car <grin> ..... n' I never had a girlfriend named Christine - so I can't say either way ........ but watch out for my first two wives as they'll smother you and everyone else in their path <grin> !!!!!! So,. I have made peace with the devil's choice as well as hell's angel's - n' still kickin' !!!!!!1
I call it " My ol' bunch of junk".
As in " hey, what kind of bike is that?" I Say "My ol' bunch of junk."
My bike had her name when I bought her. I decided to keep it after hearing the story behind the name. Here it is as best as I can remember it after 11 years.
The guy that sold me the bike told me that his wife had suffered from chronic depression. He owned 11 or so Goldwings. He kept them in an climate controlled shed, and cleaned them after each ride. He bought a Silverwing to commute back and forth to work on, his wife came out to look at it and wanted to take it for a ride, so he let her.
He said she returned from the ride and there was a light in her eyes that had not been there in years.She said she wanted to take it to the Hoot, and he told her that there were only 6 months till then, and her response was " She'll make it, She hasta.
She tore the bike down to the frame, it became her goal to ride to the Hoot, and her mantra was always the same "She Hasta make it" they bought another bike for parts, and all of the markland parts they could find. Then, one week while she was off visiting her parents, he took the parts off the bike and painted it, Candy Red, and had someone named Mark Dalton do the pin-striping, and put the name SheHasta on the tank.
I never took the name off. Seems that any bike with that much good kharma I wasn't gonna mess with.
I just named mine "ironhorse" because of my love of trains and motorcycles. I may change the name if my planned paint job gets done. I loved the stainless steel passenger trains on the Santa Fe railway, one being "The Chief". I hope to get a silver metallic paint job, red stripe, and have the same logo cutom made of the indian with his war bonnett. Ought to be pretty!
Vince