time...

[sloper10]

I debated over posting this, but....those of us that have been riding for many years and have finally seen the "light" sometimes bring a bit of luggage along.....this is me in Daytona about 1980....I think that we were about to set fire to the Honda in the background but events are a bit ..hazy.....

[PeteSC]

UH, Lynn, the Harleys still pretty much look the same, but you don't.....

(I don't either after 25 years.....)

[sloper10]

Hey Pete...that's just about exactly what I thought.....I don't recognize that person....Low Rider looks ok though....

[PitterB4]

What a great pic!  Thanks for sharing, Lynn.  

Now if I could just find a pic of me from '80....  let's see, that was 6th grade....  

[NCBANDIT]

Hmmm, In the latter part of '80 I was a fetus. Let me see if I can find a pic...



Just had to remind you how old you are lynn

[sloper10]

Ok, that was mid-life.  This next one takes you back to December, 1958.  I was 16 and as bullet proof as a boy can possibly be.  The 1957 FLH...my first love....I learned how to do things mechanical on this bike.....

[PeteSC]

You probably had to learn  how to do some mechanical repairs after riding that hog in the snow, Lynn.
   

[sloper10]

Could have ended my bike riding forever that day had events gone differently....three of us, a '55 FL, a '56 BSA and me.  Rode most of the morning like flat trackers and no one fell, not once....we did not know that bikes, of those types, were not supposed to go in the snow...on those hard, squared off tires that were the norm back then...not the first time, nor the last that I was blessed on a bike.....my first fall came a few months later when I was waving at future wifey at the local Dairy Queen and rear ended a 1950 Packard at about three miles per hour....hurt my right wrist, it still hurts today....strange....

[B6Matt]

Hmmm, In the latter part of '80 I was a fetus. Let me see if I can find a pic...

I got my D/L in 1980 when Lynn was terrorizing Daytona on his Sportster and NC was growing in his momma's womb (and Rob was hoping to grow some hair on his nuts).  Gas was about a buck and a quarter per gallon (more expensive than it is now, adjusted for inflation).  Lynn, you looked pretty damn cool at the time, I'm sure.  

Surely that's not Nashville snow!  From an FLH to a Busa.  My, how things have changed.

[sloper10]

Hey Matt...actually that is 75 miles south of Nashville snow in the little middle Tennessee town of Fayetteville....my Mom still lives there....I'm going to visit her on the Busa tomorrow.....btw, I found that pic of me holding my daughter between the ape hangers (I'm trying to organize old pics and scan them to DVD, that's actually what caused this thread) ...  

Josh, my compliments to your Mom, but please, spare us the fetus pic....

Rob, at Willville I mentioned still having my original jacket...that's it, my wife, three daughters and two grandchildren have worn it to date....the next child won't be ready for about six or seven years...

[PitterB4]

Lynn - somehow I think that jacket has stood the test of time better than my JR Atomic from last year will!  Great pics.  Keep 'em coming.  (Don't worry - I won't ask the last time YOU wore that jacket!    )

Matt - I don't remember if I had crossed that important threshold towards manhood yet.  I DO remember that a certain Mary Ellen from my class HAD sprouted if you know what I mean!  We used to write notes to her and then drop them right in front of her.  When she would bend over to pick them up her shirt would hang open for us to take a peek.  When she opened the note it said, "Ells - we just saw your boobies!"

Sorry Lynn... please continue!  

[sloper10]

Lynn -  (Don't worry - I won't ask the last time YOU wore that jacket!    )

Sorry Lynn... please continue!  

Ha!  I remember very well.  It was bike week 1983... or '84...I think

[sloper10]

It's November, 1963.  I'm in the 101st Airborne Division stationed at Ft. Campbell, KY and we have our first daughter, born in August.  The bike is a rigid frame HD, K Model front end, 112 inch stroker, 11:1 pistons with a cobbled together twin carburetor manifold.  No battery, just a magneto that would launch your ass into low orbit when it kicked back...and that was fairly often.....Daughter will be 42 in a few months...and those little dark locks turned blonde as wheat.  Her daughter graduated from The University of South Florida last December......I'm feeling old now....time for a little Busa pick me up.....

[PeteSC]

Damn, Lynn, you're posting photographic evidence you got funnier looking as you got older!!!!!!

  I hope your daughter has copies of these pictures!

  I actually don't have any pictures of my early bikes.....

[Red01]

hurt my right wrist, it still hurts today....strange....

Ya, but does it hurt from the accident - or "other" activities...