On Thu, 04 Feb 2021 19:55:44 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 04 Feb 2021 13:44:33 -0500, Wayne B
wrote:

On Thu, 04 Feb 2021 11:47:03 -0500, John wrote:

On Wed, 03 Feb 2021 17:13:05 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 3 Feb 2021 19:13:30 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote:

justan wrote:
John Wrote in message:r
That is the
question:https://www.motorichmond.com/New-Inv...=list--Freedom
Isn't Free!

HERE'S THE ANSWER I THINK YOU WANT. GO FOR IT. YOU'RE ONLY YOUNG
ONCE.

I still have my motorcycle endorsement on my license, but I think the
reaction time is not there anymore to ride.

I just stopped because this is not a motorcycle friendly place. Too
many people who can't seem to see one in the city and not enough roads
to make it interesting in the country. Southern Md used to be a great
place to ride with lots of little winding country roads criss crossing
the 3 or 4 southern counties. There is really nothing like that here.
Roads tend to be long straight 2 lane blacktops.

We have some great roads over by the mountains, or over the mountains in WV.
Southern MD is too boring.

===

We were on some great windy roads in WV a few years ago, over near
Cass and Green Bank. There's also a very cool steam railroad in that
area.

https://wvstateparks.com/park/cass-scenic-railroad-state-park/

I was never committed enough to ride from Southern Md to WV. I did
ride up to the GW Forest once but I was usually just a short ride guy.
Someplace we could go and stay off the interstate. Annapolis on the
back road was a nice ride. Maybe out near Harry's house, loop around
through LaPlata and back up through Chuck County. There are lots of
little roads only locals know about down there.

I'll bet I've been on every one of them. My neighbor had a Harley, and was not
into WV roads at all - too wild and curvy. So we would ride the small roads in
MD. I called it 'dorfing' - no map just picking a direction at each
intersection. He could never understand why his Harley, with 1700cc engine,
couldn't out drag my Guzzi with a 953cc engine.
--

Freedom Isn't Free!

On Fri, 05 Feb 2021 07:45:59 -0500, John wrote:

On Thu, 04 Feb 2021 19:55:44 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 04 Feb 2021 13:44:33 -0500, Wayne B
wrote:

On Thu, 04 Feb 2021 11:47:03 -0500, John wrote:

On Wed, 03 Feb 2021 17:13:05 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 3 Feb 2021 19:13:30 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote:

justan wrote:
John Wrote in message:r
That is the
question:https://www.motorichmond.com/New-Inv...=list--Freedom
Isn't Free!

HERE'S THE ANSWER I THINK YOU WANT. GO FOR IT. YOU'RE ONLY YOUNG
ONCE.

I still have my motorcycle endorsement on my license, but I think the
reaction time is not there anymore to ride.

I just stopped because this is not a motorcycle friendly place. Too
many people who can't seem to see one in the city and not enough roads
to make it interesting in the country. Southern Md used to be a great
place to ride with lots of little winding country roads criss crossing
the 3 or 4 southern counties. There is really nothing like that here.
Roads tend to be long straight 2 lane blacktops.

We have some great roads over by the mountains, or over the mountains in WV.
Southern MD is too boring.

===

We were on some great windy roads in WV a few years ago, over near
Cass and Green Bank. There's also a very cool steam railroad in that
area.

https://wvstateparks.com/park/cass-scenic-railroad-state-park/

I was never committed enough to ride from Southern Md to WV. I did
ride up to the GW Forest once but I was usually just a short ride guy.
Someplace we could go and stay off the interstate. Annapolis on the
back road was a nice ride. Maybe out near Harry's house, loop around
through LaPlata and back up through Chuck County. There are lots of
little roads only locals know about down there.

I'll bet I've been on every one of them. My neighbor had a Harley, and was not
into WV roads at all - too wild and curvy. So we would ride the small roads in
MD. I called it 'dorfing' - no map just picking a direction at each
intersection. He could never understand why his Harley, with 1700cc engine,
couldn't out drag my Guzzi with a 953cc engine.

I had a 72 Sportster that might give you a run for your money but it
wasn't a stock Harley. There was quite a bit of engine work done on it
before I got it. It was fun for a while but I am not much of the cafe
racer type.

On Fri, 05 Feb 2021 15:19:51 -0500, wrote:

On Fri, 05 Feb 2021 07:45:59 -0500, John wrote:

On Thu, 04 Feb 2021 19:55:44 -0500, wrote:

On Thu, 04 Feb 2021 13:44:33 -0500, Wayne B
wrote:

On Thu, 04 Feb 2021 11:47:03 -0500, John wrote:

On Wed, 03 Feb 2021 17:13:05 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 3 Feb 2021 19:13:30 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote:

justan wrote:
John Wrote in message:r
That is the
question:https://www.motorichmond.com/New-Inv...=list--Freedom
Isn't Free!

HERE'S THE ANSWER I THINK YOU WANT. GO FOR IT. YOU'RE ONLY YOUNG
ONCE.

I still have my motorcycle endorsement on my license, but I think the
reaction time is not there anymore to ride.

I just stopped because this is not a motorcycle friendly place. Too
many people who can't seem to see one in the city and not enough roads
to make it interesting in the country. Southern Md used to be a great
place to ride with lots of little winding country roads criss crossing
the 3 or 4 southern counties. There is really nothing like that here.
Roads tend to be long straight 2 lane blacktops.

We have some great roads over by the mountains, or over the mountains in WV.
Southern MD is too boring.

===

We were on some great windy roads in WV a few years ago, over near
Cass and Green Bank. There's also a very cool steam railroad in that
area.

https://wvstateparks.com/park/cass-scenic-railroad-state-park/

I was never committed enough to ride from Southern Md to WV. I did
ride up to the GW Forest once but I was usually just a short ride guy.
Someplace we could go and stay off the interstate. Annapolis on the
back road was a nice ride. Maybe out near Harry's house, loop around
through LaPlata and back up through Chuck County. There are lots of
little roads only locals know about down there.

I'll bet I've been on every one of them. My neighbor had a Harley, and was not
into WV roads at all - too wild and curvy. So we would ride the small roads in
MD. I called it 'dorfing' - no map just picking a direction at each
intersection. He could never understand why his Harley, with 1700cc engine,
couldn't out drag my Guzzi with a 953cc engine.

I had a 72 Sportster that might give you a run for your money but it
wasn't a stock Harley. There was quite a bit of engine work done on it
before I got it. It was fun for a while but I am not much of the cafe
racer type.

He was looking for ways to beef up the engine in his bike. After some research,
he came over and said he could spend about $2000 and maybe get an additional
eight horsepower out of it. He was disgusted. Traded the bike in on a Gold Wing,
six cylinders. I couldn't outrun that!
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Freedom Isn't Free!