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About six months after getting the Bonnie I embarked on the following adventure.

We had originally planned to ride Saturday to an antique motorcycle rally in Luckenbach, but my riding partner showed up so late that we blew it off. The $25 entry fee helped make that decision.
We rode south starting ...

Wrider wrote:Wow... Didn't even know they made em, I just thought they made convertible Solaras... Nice though!
Wrider

Let me rephrase that... It's a Toyota Camry Solara convertible.

Wrider wrote:reading through, she's got a Camry convertible? As in Toyota?
Wrider

Yep, the one and only.

Late winter 2006
I was flipping through the Austin Chronicle one day and I saw an ad for a Royal Enfield. Something clicked inside me and I started to vaguely lust for the bike. I loved the old-school retro look of the bike. It reminded me of some of the bikes I had admired as a kid but could not ...

After sifting through a fifty year accumulation of photos I finally found a couple of pictures of my beloved '69 Kawasaki TR-90.
We moved to Austin that year and the UT football team won the National Championship. I had the perfect color scheme to drive down the Drag for the celebratory pandemonium ...

The events that pulled me back to motorcycling are vague... at best.
Motorcycles were an intense experience of my distant past, but now had become but a dull memory.
They were always on the background, although I rarely paid much attention.
Bikes are habitually cruising the streets of Austin and ...

I finally found a picture of the Honda 65. Unfortunately it is painted up for the 1968 Odem High School Homecoming. It won first prize in the motorcycle decoration division. The prize was a bucket and sponge. After washing it went back to being a black and chrome motorcycle.
It was capable of ...

I don't know about the Sportster, as I have never ridden one. I do like the look though.
I have been riding an '06 Bonnie T-100 for about ten month now after a twenty-five year hiatus from motorcycles.
I ride the city of Austin and the surrounding Hill Country when I can.
The upright position works ...

Personally, I wouldn't even bother.

I wear black from top to botttom and have come to the realisation that it does not make a lick of difference what colour you wear.

+1
I heard one theory that all black was better. The eye saw the larger mass of black better than a wild, bright color pattern ...

The alternative being pushed now by the emergency services here is to include an enter called ICE on your phone as authorities can just inputn it into your phonebook in emergencies.


I use the ICE code.
I have an ICE WIFE and an ICE HOME entry on my phone, although the first time the wife saw ...