Hi yall, hope everyone had a wonderful thanksgiving!
Mine was great!
My hubby is a mechanic, and he works on bikes also.
I started riding my own bike this past spring. Its a yamaha. hubbys is a 67 flh rigid with stroked 108.
anyway..my dream bike is 76 electra glide or 78 electra glide.
i love those bikes. i always have.
So, i always said id ride my yammy till i got my dream bike.
Well a couple of months ago, i started saying, that i would just get me a harley of some kind, sportster or something and then if i ran across my dream bike, then get it. well billy (hubby) said, to hold out, not to get something that i dont really want, to not give up on the electraglide.
well..make this long story short...this lady we know, she called and wanted new chrome rocker boxes on her bike, repainted and the electrical system rewired. She has a 78 electra glide.
I take billy over there to pick up the bike, he leaves, i hang around and talk a bit. she tells me when i get home to drive her bike around and see if i like the feel of it and all. she said "i hate for you to get the bike of your dreams you have your heart set on and not like the way it handles, or it doesnt hold up to your expectations"...well hell, i rushed home then.
This bike is pearl white, chromed out, its just awesome.
we live in the country so theres lots of back roads. when i got on the road, MY GOD! i was shaking at first, cause i was scared id drop it, but then, this power came over me i cant explain and i let her rip. man i was gone. i drove it about an hour..hooting and hollering the whole time! I have never felt such a wonderful feeling from a bike! it was purely awesome!
when i got home, i told billy i WILL have one by this spring!
I have driven billys, not far, but i have driven it, too much for me.
I have driven sportsters
i have driven yammys and hondas
None of those, nothing compared to me driving my dream bike! it was pure joy! i have to have one now. I HAVE TO! man it was awesome! it handled great, rode smooth, and the damn rumble, and the power. hell i dont wanna ever ride my yammy again..haha.
Ride Safe
Kelly

you ride that hing until you get tat glide! you know you will and the glide will come soon!!! i personally prefeer my sporty! swetie prefeers the glide, for comfort but you keep in the wind and then when you get it go girl go!!!!!!!!!!!!!! REDNECK!!!!!!!!!!
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lol thanks redneck...man i still got the fever..i gotta have one!
im telling ya it was awesome. i havent ridden my yammy since...but thats not the real reason i havent. the real reason is..i dropped it a few days ago. yes i hang my head in shame, but the fact is, i did drop it. we have a real long driveway. and we had just had a dump truck come and pour spread gravel for us...we left out to ride, we came home much later, i forgot about the new gravel, busted my ass. scratched myself up, dented the and scratched the tank all to hell..but..its ok..i got back on it and rode it on back up the driveway..but i have the tank off to fix it and repaint it....but im taking my time on that...but believe me, when i drove that flh i was really really really careful with the new gravel.
Kelly

Every word of your little diddy was WAY familiar! I DO remember that and I too came from the Honda Yamaha rut. Sorta explains why we had to buy so many of them, huh? Our soul was seeking and looking but we didn't know for sure what it was. I truly understand what is meant, "If I have to explain it...you wouldn't understand it..." My Dyna is my dream scooter, and when I got on for the first time I knew why. ;)

[SIZE=3][FONT=courier new][COLOR=red]Hang on Darlin' I sold my 72 FLH 10 years ago,figured I'd get another in a few months,last month FINALLY got MY dream bike RED 75 FLH,I've ridden it everyday since I bought it including the 500 mile ride after I picked it up!!!!!!!
:D It's worth the wait, just don't wait too long.