Are you addicted to your motorcycle?.....Motorcycle Consumer News asked...

[Highbinder]

these 10 questions...if you answer  " yes" to 6 or more of these questions you are in need of a addiction program for recovery..

1. Do you lose time from work due to riding.

2. Is riding making your home life unhappy?

3. Is riding affecting your reputation?

4. Have you ever felt remorse after riding?

5. Do you crave a ride at a definite time daily?

6. Do you want a ride the next morning?

7. Do you ever ride alone?

8. Have you ever had a complete loss of memory as a result of riding?

9. Is riding jeopardizing your job or your business?

10. Have you ever been to a hospital or institution on account of riding?

[Oss]

I was only able to get to 3 before the urge to ride overcame me.

Off I go   

[Willow]

Answered no to 8 and 9.  We're a bit hazy on the answer to 5.

All of the rest were solid in the affirmative.

[Big IV]

1. Do you lose time from work due to riding? I left early this week so that I could take a longer way home and still get home at the same time. I do occasionally take a longer way to work and get there a tad bit later. I don't let it affect my paycheck.

2. Is riding making your home life unhappy? I wanted to ride. She didn't. So we didn't. Some days that goes over better with me than others.

3. Is riding affecting your reputation?  As what? When I worked in the High School I had the rep as the bad ass teacher that rode in the sleet and rain. Kids didn't get into fights around me because they thought I was tough and partially nuts. That probably helped my rep.

4. Have you ever felt remorse after riding? Sometimes I think I should have done the yard work or taken off the trash instead. Time management.

5. Do you crave a ride at a definite time daily? All day. All the time.

6. Do you want a ride the next morning? Yes.

7. Do you ever ride alone? Mostly just commuting. I try not to take to long of a trip by myself. Haven't since I got married. Only a few times have I taken off by myself for extended amounts of time, and never indefinately.

8. Have you ever had a complete loss of memory as a result of riding? No.

9. Is riding jeopardizing your job or your business? No.

10. Have you ever been to a hospital or institution on account of riding? No.  The wrecks I've had have left me feeling lucky, but I've never had medical attention. Had a case of sun burn once that could have used something stronger than the aloe that I was using.



Yup. That's what I thought. I'm addicted. And I'm okay with that. At the moment I'm keeping it under controll. Sure, some days I just sit on the couch staring out the window watching it rain and think, "man I'd like to go for a ride."

[junior]

Answered no to 8 and 9.  We're a bit hazy on the answer to 5.

All of the rest were solid in the affirmative.

 
 this is what i mean people there are more than one willow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! did they make the movie multipicity as a biography for willow?

[Black Pearl's Captain]

9 for 10. 

Raymond

[FryeVRCCDS0067]

8 out of 10. That's good, right?

[Highbinder]

These questions really don't address my relationship with my motorcycles...first off I ride 4 different Valks...

1. They are the only vehicles I ever owned that I find myself walking away from backwards.... 

2. I go out to the garage sometimes just to be around them, I call it puttering...

3. I don't talk to them or give them names but always refer to them as she or   
    her....
4. I use to buy and sell bikes for alittle extra income, but everytime I got a new bike to sell, I wanted to keep it and after I sold it I alway felt bad about it...and everyatime I see a bike I sold I always wish I had it back...its like they all had a soul of their own..

5.The night before a road trip, well I might as well have left that night because I get very little sleep and yet the next morning I'm fresh as a daisy..

6. Being long in the tooth slows a man down on his own two feet...but those bikes give me my youth back, with a flick of the wrist I'm as quick as a 20 year and just as daring..

7. Been pretty much a loner much of my life, never found many guys I'd trust to send for ammo in a gun fight so didn't have alot of faith in my fellow man...but I've met alot of folks motorcycling that have changed my way of thinking somewhat...so the bikes have kinda made me a social animal so to speak.

8. As far as a reputation goes mine was never good, not that I was a bad ass or anything I just was just too free and it scared alot of folks, the bikes made it worst.

9. I wake up in the morning thinking what can I do today that requires me to ride one of those bikes... 

10. Always remember "Even through you may look like a charactor, doesn't necessarily mean you have charactor"  That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[R J]

I'll go along with your thoughts Don......

Keep on a ridin........

[stormrider]

1) No, I work for myself. My motto; "A bad day riding is better than the best day of work"
2) She rides with me some which makes her happy.
3) Better
4) Yeah, didn't get in enough miles
5)All day, everyday
6) Why not
7) Often
Forget why I ended up at home
9) If I don't ride, why work?
10) Who hasn't?

Ride often, ride safe, ride like everone is trying to kill you.

[Whistler]

Answered no to 8 and 9.  We're a bit hazy on the answer to 5.

All of the rest were solid in the affirmative.

 
 this is what i mean people there are more than one willow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! did they make the movie multipicity as a biography for willow?

You didn't hear Junior they recently rebuilt Willow made him , bigger, stronger, faster, and wiser, Then they cloned him so there would be more help and wisdom passed on to us simplitons!! LOL!! I think SmokinJoe is currently working on a similar upgrade as well! JDW

[Popeye]

This just confirms something I have always known, I am addicted to riding.  Have been since I first threw my leg over a bike. That was over 40 years ago and I can't imagine not riding.


Popeye (6 of 10)

[F-106]

YES I AM. It is something I have done since highschool. My wife and I love to ride together and I enjoy having her with me when we get the time. I have had 14 hondas and this one is the best one. After I bought my valk i was starting to make a right instead of a left on my way to work . Found myself  more than once eating lunch in Carmel instead of going to work. I think the older I get the more i like riding. It gives me time to just get away from it all. I remember a good friend telling me " I can not for the life of me remember when you did not have a motorcycle"