All My Rowdy Friends have Settled Down!
The older I get, the truer that statement becomes. At a young-at-heart 51, it’s getting harder to find spunk among my peers. That is, it was until I got lucky and discovered “Ride Oklahoma.”
My wife and best ever friend, Susan, tells me that my search for compadres is a lot like a Dual Sport ride. “When you start out, you never really know where you’ll end up.” Notwithstanding you techno-geeks with the GPS, of course. Luckily, there are a few fellow crazies out there who are still willing to embrace adversity a long way from home.
As we move on into the fall and winter seasons, a time when I’ve historically shelved my bike and any ideas of riding it, I find myself looking forward to getting on the trail again. If my memory serves me at all, there are several benefits to getting out during months beginning with letters like N, D, J, F and M. Not the least of those benefits is a glaring lack of heat! Also, there’s no poison ivy. I can see my fellow wintertime wanderers through the woods, where dense vegetation would only serve to help with the occasional game of hide-and-go-home-alone during greener months. My gas doesn’t get stale, and those deep engine mods I’ve been itching to do over the winter take a back seat to a DP ride down south at Big Bend or maybe Hill Country.
I confess that I’ve spent the last few years (read that as almost 30 of them), raising my boys and being responsible. Now, I’m finding out that I’m not alone. There is actually a movement of sorts going on here. I am discovering that there are guys and . . . “Did you see that?” . . . gals too! who are getting out on some of these better than ever Dual Sport and very off-road-worthy bikes, to ride when and where they can.
It’s a happy day for me and I’d bet that I’m not alone when I say that I feel lucky to have found a forum, right here in Oklahoma, for mingling with kindred spirits.
Here’s to reading, riding and a twist of the wrist!
My wife and best ever friend, Susan, tells me that my search for compadres is a lot like a Dual Sport ride. “When you start out, you never really know where you’ll end up.” Notwithstanding you techno-geeks with the GPS, of course. Luckily, there are a few fellow crazies out there who are still willing to embrace adversity a long way from home.
As we move on into the fall and winter seasons, a time when I’ve historically shelved my bike and any ideas of riding it, I find myself looking forward to getting on the trail again. If my memory serves me at all, there are several benefits to getting out during months beginning with letters like N, D, J, F and M. Not the least of those benefits is a glaring lack of heat! Also, there’s no poison ivy. I can see my fellow wintertime wanderers through the woods, where dense vegetation would only serve to help with the occasional game of hide-and-go-home-alone during greener months. My gas doesn’t get stale, and those deep engine mods I’ve been itching to do over the winter take a back seat to a DP ride down south at Big Bend or maybe Hill Country.
I confess that I’ve spent the last few years (read that as almost 30 of them), raising my boys and being responsible. Now, I’m finding out that I’m not alone. There is actually a movement of sorts going on here. I am discovering that there are guys and . . . “Did you see that?” . . . gals too! who are getting out on some of these better than ever Dual Sport and very off-road-worthy bikes, to ride when and where they can.It’s a happy day for me and I’d bet that I’m not alone when I say that I feel lucky to have found a forum, right here in Oklahoma, for mingling with kindred spirits.
Here’s to reading, riding and a twist of the wrist!
2 Comments:
Awesome article, Bill! Here's to staying young and having fun!!
Sorry man but those stories are kinda week..... I mean you sound over dramatic about the police incidents... Im 20yo I have ran from the cops for somthing I did do wrong nothing like cuttin through a arryo(ditch) all the way to the other side of the city. Over all its a good article I Enjoyed readyin it but dont be so dramatic about the police. I enjoy explorein places like that too but all my buddies drive crotch rockets and cant go. But hey its what ever floats your boat.... I am a true rebel.
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