pierrelogic
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Every ryde is still better than the last.
Here's my useless stats:
150 ryding hrs - 6000 miles - 96 days
(Thats 40 mph and 62.5 miles a day and 1.4 hrs of ryding every day...on average.) :yikes:
Still right on 31-32 mpg regardless of how i ryde
I've had to change tail lights once due to the pounding I did getting a luggage rack on.
pps: Two oil changes..1 by dealer, one by me.
I'm not the kind of person that goes on and on about things that make me happy. I've always been the type that gets a kick out of helping others more than myself. That changed when I bought the Spyder. I always used to hear others talk about the freedom of riding a cycle and never really understood it. I do now...I really get it.
I've had countless conversations with people about the Spyder. I think yesterdays ryde sort of summed them all up in one conversation. I was out ryding with no particular place to go...one of so many rydes to no where when I hit upon a detour (I now LOVE detours). This one took my to this little town I would never have visited without the spyder under me. I needed a break so I pulled over at the only gas station in town.
2 minutes after hitting the kill switch I had a crowd around me asking all the nomal questions. I was patient with them like I always am. Then this old beat up truck pulled right up behind me and this older man got out walking those short old man steps..took one look at me and came right over to talk. Must have been someone everyone in town knows because when he walked up all the questions stopped except from him. We had a great conversation. He was 71 years old and a former cyclist. As our conversation was wrapping up he started to turn to walk away and I ask him if he'd like to sit on the spyder. He lit up like a kid in a candy store and said "are you sure?" I nodded as he walked back (with those old man steps) flung his foot over the seat and sat there for a second. The crowd was completely silent. I can not describe the smile that grew on his face. Normally I don't shut the spyder down in neutral but for some reason I did this time. While he sat there I reached up put the key in hit the M and UNkill switch and pointed to the starter button. He looked at me in shock...I just nodded my approval and he hit the button. I don't think I've ever seen someone go from 71 to 17 years old so fast in my life. He just sat there for a moment and I could tell he was someplace else in time..if for only a moment as he just smiled away revving the throttle.
When he got off, he reached out to shake my hand using both hands and just said "thanks brother...nice ride you got there" and he turned and walked away. I stood there sort of in a daze aobut what just happened. Others in the crown came up and shook my hand, some patted me on the shoulder. Everyone was smiling. One lady said that was the nicest thing she's seen in a long time. She said that man lost most his family years ago and she hasn't seen him smile since...until he got on my spyder.
Random acts of kindness....I was on cloud nine all the way home.
Here's my useless stats:
150 ryding hrs - 6000 miles - 96 days
(Thats 40 mph and 62.5 miles a day and 1.4 hrs of ryding every day...on average.) :yikes:
Still right on 31-32 mpg regardless of how i ryde
I've had to change tail lights once due to the pounding I did getting a luggage rack on.
pps: Two oil changes..1 by dealer, one by me.I'm not the kind of person that goes on and on about things that make me happy. I've always been the type that gets a kick out of helping others more than myself. That changed when I bought the Spyder. I always used to hear others talk about the freedom of riding a cycle and never really understood it. I do now...I really get it.
I've had countless conversations with people about the Spyder. I think yesterdays ryde sort of summed them all up in one conversation. I was out ryding with no particular place to go...one of so many rydes to no where when I hit upon a detour (I now LOVE detours). This one took my to this little town I would never have visited without the spyder under me. I needed a break so I pulled over at the only gas station in town.
2 minutes after hitting the kill switch I had a crowd around me asking all the nomal questions. I was patient with them like I always am. Then this old beat up truck pulled right up behind me and this older man got out walking those short old man steps..took one look at me and came right over to talk. Must have been someone everyone in town knows because when he walked up all the questions stopped except from him. We had a great conversation. He was 71 years old and a former cyclist. As our conversation was wrapping up he started to turn to walk away and I ask him if he'd like to sit on the spyder. He lit up like a kid in a candy store and said "are you sure?" I nodded as he walked back (with those old man steps) flung his foot over the seat and sat there for a second. The crowd was completely silent. I can not describe the smile that grew on his face. Normally I don't shut the spyder down in neutral but for some reason I did this time. While he sat there I reached up put the key in hit the M and UNkill switch and pointed to the starter button. He looked at me in shock...I just nodded my approval and he hit the button. I don't think I've ever seen someone go from 71 to 17 years old so fast in my life. He just sat there for a moment and I could tell he was someplace else in time..if for only a moment as he just smiled away revving the throttle.
When he got off, he reached out to shake my hand using both hands and just said "thanks brother...nice ride you got there" and he turned and walked away. I stood there sort of in a daze aobut what just happened. Others in the crown came up and shook my hand, some patted me on the shoulder. Everyone was smiling. One lady said that was the nicest thing she's seen in a long time. She said that man lost most his family years ago and she hasn't seen him smile since...until he got on my spyder.
Random acts of kindness....I was on cloud nine all the way home.
