OK... Dave here with a QUESTION

[flaggerphil]

If I'm sitting ON it and using handle bars (or reins) I'm riding. If I'm sitting IN it and using a steering wheel I'm driving.

To me it's pretty simple.

 

[Bfromla]

You say, TOMATO, I say TOMOTO.:roflblack::roflblack::roflblack:

:agree:


:congrats: On upcoming B-day:yes: & to the question , me personally it has always been a matter of my point of view at the time, for enjoyment vs task. (Example): I ryde to work on my bike to drive a forklift all day.....
Or "Ya I really drove that into the ground this time":banghead::roflblack::roflblack: (was having too much fun in light weight truck). & whenever talking about other drivers /riders I convey the same. I consider the amount of control(or lack there of) they are displaying will define if they are driving or just riding. :thumbup: (Hopes this make sense)

 

[garb55]

Can you imagine what would happen if John Wayne said I drove my horse :yikes:
Then again did they ride the covered wagon or did they drive a covered wagon
Dive does not sound right but they are sitting in it

 

[spyderCodes]

drove.

guilty.

repent.

 

[SteveP]

Ashamed but lesson noted

Love to ride . I " drive " back and forth to work all week so on the days off I may "drive " my truck to the store but I would prefer to ride my bike :spyder2:. I think that if you are on it instead of in it ..... its a ride

Just realized I used the word "ride" no less than 5 times in my post instead of the correct term Ryde.... My only excuse is that I had a girlfriend years ago who owned horses pps:

 

[Bob Denman]

"Ride"?

 

[jaherbst]

I have been a motorcyclists since I was 14 years old... no kidding... I am now
a few days away from 74, that makes it 60 years this year of enjoying the fun.
I have noticed here on the forum for a few years that most all people who post
stuff about the Spyder they have and the trips taken on them, they most times
say they drove to the store or they drove to Lowes or they drove their Spyder all over
the country etc. I don't remember ever saying, I drove any of the over 40 motorcycles
I have ever owned, I always said I was going to RIDE to the store and such.
Is it just me or..... When I am straddling something to go some place like a motorcycle,
Spyder, Horse I think I am riding and not driving....
Is that the reason California don't require a motorcycle lic. to operate a Spyder because
they may think because it has 3 wheels like the Morgan it's part car, hence Drove...
Just wondering....
What say You.

Well Dave, I hate to one up you but I am 76 and got a Cushman Scooter and later that year, a Harley Hummer at age 11 (1951). Grew up in the country, a Farm/Ranch in Colorado. All dirt roads and nearest house was 5 miles away so no worry about "smokie". All my friends at that age had Scooters or small bikes and we would gather every night to ride together in the summertime and winter. 65 years of never being without two wheels. I still ride a WR250R racing enduro bike and a R1200R LC along with the Spyder. How can a guy have that much fun for so long. Thank you to the "Big Guy" up there.

Jack

 

[dlby]

Think about this----
At a hot rod show or on the street
Some one looks at your refurbished 441 with custom paint, wheels, exhaust, Upholstery
& sez
Kool Ride Man

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[jaherbst]

Think about this----
At a hot rod show or on the street
Some one looks at your refurbished 441 with custom paint, wheels, exhaust, Upholstery
& sez
Kool Ride Man

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G920A using Tapatalk

Good feeling isn't it!

Jack

 

[AbNormy]

Google Shinyribs (if you need the) 442

Norm H Austin Tx

 

[Motorcycledave]

Hi Jack
you can't one up me after all the years we have both ridden
I am guessing it was and still is all fun.
by the way, you must have been rich...
my first was a doodle bug at also 11 yrs old
then a Wizzer then a Cushman then a Mustang
I bet you remember them.....also in the country
I was born in Utah on a ranch... Dirt roads and all
hated the snow, grew up and moved to San Francisco
at 17 yrs old.


Dave

Well Dave, I hate to one up you but I am 76 and got a Cushman Scooter and later that year, a Harley Hummer at age 11 (1951). Grew up in the country, a Farm/Ranch in Colorado. All dirt roads and nearest house was 5 miles away so no worry about "smokie". All my friends at that age had Scooters or small bikes and we would gather every night to ride together in the summertime and winter. 65 years of never being without two wheels. I still ride a WR250R racing enduro bike and a R1200R LC along with the Spyder. How can a guy have that much fun for so long. Thank you to the "Big Guy" up there.

Jack

 

[Motorcycledave]

Hi Jack
you can't one up me after all the years we have both ridden
I am guessing it was and still is all fun.
by the way, you must have been rich...
my first was a doodle bug at also 11 yrs old
then a Wizzer then a Cushman then a Mustang
I bet you remember them
Dave

Well Dave, I hate to one up you but I am 76 and got a Cushman Scooter and later that year, a Harley Hummer at age 11 (1951). Grew up in the country, a Farm/Ranch in Colorado. All dirt roads and nearest house was 5 miles away so no worry about "smokie". All my friends at that age had Scooters or small bikes and we would gather every night to ride together in the summertime and winter. 65 years of never being without two wheels. I still ride a WR250R racing enduro bike and a R1200R LC along with the Spyder. How can a guy have that much fun for so long. Thank you to the "Big Guy" up there.

Jack

 

[missouriboy]

...I consider the amount of control(or lack there of) they are displaying will define if they are driving or just riding. :thumbup: (Hopes this make sense)

In high school back in the '50s, when we kids were just coming of driving age, I had a teacher who said, "If you go faster than 50mph you aren't driving the car anymore, you're just aiming it." Of course, we all thought, "What a fuddy-duddy!"

But that was in the BI era (Before Interstates) and she drove a six-cylinder flat-head Plymouth. :sour:

(And in Missouri at that time, there was no State speed limit yet. As you were leaving the city limits of any town, with its local speed limit, the signs would all say "Resume Speed. Thank You.")

RYDE!