Wife did 30 miles today
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Sounds very familiar, my wife got her 1200 sportster, took the course and within a year she wanted more than her "minibike" so we got her Tejas. Enjoy the rides, nothing like having your wife riding along side of you..Beautiful day,wife is getting much better, she went out and bought a new Harley so she could go with me. came home in the back of her truck and said unload it and teach me how to ride it. She now has 80 miles under her belt. She is doing fantastic.
Brent Herridge
Active Member
Great pics Doug !!
I got my first dirt bike when I was 13. Then I got rice rockets when I was in college. Started work, moved to Austin (from Houston) with my new wife, and got a new rice rocket right away. Then, for whatever reason, I wanted a Harley. I was the only 20-something kid in America with one, but damn I loved it.
Sold it after my first daughter was born. Then I watched all the TV shows like you guys 15 years ago and wanted one so bad. I waited till that same girl graduated college and rewarded myself with the K9.
I rode for years with no MC license, but had to get one so I could test ride dealer bikes when I was looking for the K9. The class is mandatory to get a license, so I spent the weekend and $250 and it was interesting. We had guys that rated themselves 10 on all aspects of riding to little girls that had just inherited mopeds and had never ridden anything. I just kept thinking - as we rode figure 8s in a single parking spot on Honda Groms - that nobody could ever do any of this on a chopper. I still don't think any of those exercises would work with a chopprer. Knot may be able too after he and Bakie win the slow drags, but not me......
I feel lucky that the wife really doesn't want to ride her own bike. I really think the childhood experience in the dirt is invaluable. Plus she's only 5' 0", so only a Big Bear SLED might fit her.
I'm thrilled y'all get share this with the wives though.
I got my first dirt bike when I was 13. Then I got rice rockets when I was in college. Started work, moved to Austin (from Houston) with my new wife, and got a new rice rocket right away. Then, for whatever reason, I wanted a Harley. I was the only 20-something kid in America with one, but damn I loved it.
Sold it after my first daughter was born. Then I watched all the TV shows like you guys 15 years ago and wanted one so bad. I waited till that same girl graduated college and rewarded myself with the K9.
I rode for years with no MC license, but had to get one so I could test ride dealer bikes when I was looking for the K9. The class is mandatory to get a license, so I spent the weekend and $250 and it was interesting. We had guys that rated themselves 10 on all aspects of riding to little girls that had just inherited mopeds and had never ridden anything. I just kept thinking - as we rode figure 8s in a single parking spot on Honda Groms - that nobody could ever do any of this on a chopper. I still don't think any of those exercises would work with a chopprer. Knot may be able too after he and Bakie win the slow drags, but not me......
I feel lucky that the wife really doesn't want to ride her own bike. I really think the childhood experience in the dirt is invaluable. Plus she's only 5' 0", so only a Big Bear SLED might fit her.
I'm thrilled y'all get share this with the wives though.
figure 8's are possible in a parking space on a K9. Shane and I both did it when we took the class at MCAS Beaufort, SC. the key is to hang your ass off the opposite side for counterbalance. first people to do it for that instructor and he had been teaching for a long time.
pknowles
RETIRED
My wife is the same height as yours and she rides a heritage classic. you can lower them just about 1.5".Great pics Doug !!
I got my first dirt bike when I was 13. Then I got rice rockets when I was in college. Started work, moved to Austin (from Houston) with my new wife, and got a new rice rocket right away. Then, for whatever reason, I wanted a Harley. I was the only 20-something kid in America with one, but damn I loved it.
Sold it after my first daughter was born. Then I watched all the TV shows like you guys 15 years ago and wanted one so bad. I waited till that same girl graduated college and rewarded myself with the K9.
I rode for years with no MC license, but had to get one so I could test ride dealer bikes when I was looking for the K9. The class is mandatory to get a license, so I spent the weekend and $250 and it was interesting. We had guys that rated themselves 10 on all aspects of riding to little girls that had just inherited mopeds and had never ridden anything. I just kept thinking - as we rode figure 8s in a single parking spot on Honda Groms - that nobody could ever do any of this on a chopper. I still don't think any of those exercises would work with a chopprer. Knot may be able too after he and Bakie win the slow drags, but not me......
I feel lucky that the wife really doesn't want to ride her own bike. I really think the childhood experience in the dirt is invaluable. Plus she's only 5' 0", so only a Big Bear SLED might fit her.
I'm thrilled y'all get share this with the wives though.
Brent Herridge
Active Member
Man I'd sure love to see it. The bike is as long as the parking spot is wide, so there's no room for error.
I'd try it after y'all show me how.
Something else to try at Mastiff Dave's.......
would make a great challenge for the get together if there is a parking space available. it is super tight but it is do-able, would be fun to watch.
knothead
Second Chance Customs
Well i started at 5 years old on a 1972 honda z-50....my grandaddy bought it for my uncle brand new...yeah my uncle is 8 years older than me lol and we still have the z-50 its still factory orange but dinged up ofcourse from to wild boys...anyway rode that for years then got a 3 wheeler when i was 10, it was a honda 125...then when i was 14 had a 1987 yamaha 350 warrior sold it when i was 17....then drag bikes came along when i was 18... had a total of 9 honda 250r 3 wheeler at one time and a yamaha tri-z 3 wheeler plus a 1987suzuki lt500r and i made a chromoly chassis for it, wheeler bar to nose its was 11' 3"...so yeah i had 11 in the shop at one time....3 wheelers, 5 of them was on different types or race fuel for different classes from super stock on up...the other 5 where on alcohol or nitro methane mixtures....the 500 was on 60/40 nitro and usually had to put a new piston in it every 6 runs so i got fast at that between rounds of racing...so i decided 3.6s in a football field was slow to me so i sold 8 of the 250r's and started my next project...i stepped up to a gsxr 1000 and punched it out to a 1460 with a kit of nitrous and air shift....back halfed the bike an used a honda 350x 3 wheeler rearend, that was the only rearend i could find to hold up to the power...let me tell u that was a damn blast....on motor it would run 3.8s and that was on c14 race fuel....change my carbs out and go to alcohol with nitrous asset and it would run 2.6s in a football field with .07 tenths of a second nitrous shot...used 1st and 2nd gear only...i loved that bike...i still hold the tn and ky state record since 1998 ....had my daughter in 1998 so racing stopped at the end of the year...so hadnt started the bike in 6 years...friends called and said hey get it out there is a race this weekend 3 hours away in ky, so that week i tore it down inspected all and put it back together...went and won the 5000.00 purse, old girl still running the same numbers...so to back this up a little bit while i wasnt racing drag bikes cause of my daughter and financials and the price to racing completely i started back messing with dirtbikes and hillclimbing competition between 1998 and 2007 cause it was way way cheaper...anyway i always wanted a chopper cause my dad road choppers in the 70s..so in november 2011 i bought, not running, a 2004 big dog ridgeback, old blue, which i still have and god willing i always will...i knew not shit about one of these type of bikes....well let the learning start and god what i headache i had and no one around here new shit about one either...so i said to myself i will win and make u run...so alot of cussing and throwing tools, some that i have never found, old blue has been up and running an been good to me for 28,000 miles with minimal problems just general maintenance..now i have 3 big dogs and building the 4th from scratch...these bikes are most fun i have ever had and it led me here in 2016 to a great forum and some great people....i have meet alot of you and i cherish that...thank you big dog motorcycles and thank you guys for being a friend....hope to meet more of you as the years come
Jersey Big Mike
100K mile club
I Call BULLSHIT -- a standard parking space is 9'x20' Hell they don't try to make crotch rockets do a fig 8 in that little space.
Now in a parking lot with say the standard 4 parking spaces setup 2x2 yes if your good and do that I could see that.
But a single parking space as stated -- Will not believe that till I see it!
Jersey Big Mike
100K mile club
And if you want to prove me wrong, I'll drive down to Hilton head as soon as it gets a little warmer and you can show me. And I'll video it for proof to the world.
now, I didn't say I could still do it. that was back in '07 when I was still just old, back before I turned "fuckin' old".
TapioK
Well-Known Member
I was pretty surprised to see this discussion alive.
you can make kind of figure 8 on one parking place by turning the bike around the axis clockwise and anti-clockwise using a dolly.
Can we agree on typo?