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by MarkF55
Sun Jun 11, 2017 3:03 pm
Forum: Start Your Engines - Introduce Yourself
Topic: Older fellow back into biking with Vulcan 1600
Replies: 3
Views: 7023

Re: Older fellow back into biking with Vulcan 1600

Jack, thanks, and I gotta chuckle, because for years my license plate frame read "keep the rubber side down." They say every rider has either crashed or will crash some day. Mine was in Ventura County CA in 1989. Fixed the bike, sold it, bought another with nearly twice the engine, mounted...
by MarkF55
Thu Jun 08, 2017 11:54 am
Forum: Start Your Engines - Introduce Yourself
Topic: Older fellow back into biking with Vulcan 1600
Replies: 3
Views: 7023

Older fellow back into biking with Vulcan 1600

My name is Mark, been riding off and on for about 45 years. Just back into it last year. Always rode standards, mostly four cylinder Japanese bikes. Last machine was an 82 Susuki GS1100E, almost an early sports bike. Had a bad crush on V-twin cruisers and swore when I got back into it I'd get one, a...
by MarkF55
Thu Jun 08, 2017 11:40 am
Forum: Beginning Bikers
Topic: Helmet Fit Guidelines...
Replies: 50
Views: 321494

Re: Helmet Fit Guidelines...

This is the best thing I've ever read on helmet fit and I'm in my sixties, started riding at about 15. I realize it was posted over a dozen years ago, but hear hear!