win a 1997 Harley Davidson Heritage SoftTail Classic today!

i dont need a harley: already have mine (still thinking about the busa!). if you need one, buy a raffle ticket for a GREAT cause: dc central kitchen, and you could win one at rustico's octoberfest celebration today @ 12-6.

screamin' eagle heavy breather

a couple of weeks ago old glory installed a few add ons, including a screamin eagle heavy breather in black...i wanted chrome. they fixed it, no problem. love it!

bike week is over

made it home safely from bike week...fairly uneventful, but saw lots and lots of bikes and a few friends. good times! the ride home was stop and go, but i was able to check out my new shit (a little) on the beltway. old glory installed reinhart tailpipes and the screamin' eagle stage one upgrade.

old glory

in preparation for ocean city bike week, dropped the bike off at old glory harley davidson for a check up and louder pipes:

it's ready already!

harley-davidson motorcycles moving pennsylvania factory

i just read on allaboutbikes.com that harley-davidson has narrowed their choice of plant locations to replace the york, pennsylvania facility to two mid-western cities. h-d claims the 230-acre facility is outdated and the workers "inflexible" (read: union). pennsylvania stands to loose 5,000 direct jobs and countless related indirect jobs: wow, like we need to add more unemployed people to the already swollen roll? but harley sales are down 30% and last quarter's profits were down 91%, so something has to be done by management...and i think the strike in 2007 really soured them on their york workforce. despite efforts from pennsylvania governor rendell and a "save our plant ride and rally" earlier this month,
harley is outta there!
sure will miss my annual trek to york's factory open house! sad.

harley street glide flhx isnt loud enough

i need a few additions to my new bike...it is not loud enough! looking at these screamin' eagle touring mufflers.

they are street legal.

white dogs love harleys!

apparently white dogs prefer harleys! i came across this video of some old biker riding his white dog on his harley's gas tank. here is another white dog riding in the sidecar...and there's more!

rolling thunder 2009-ride of the patriots

here is a great video posted by sterlingevo of his ride during rolling thunder this past sunday.

rolling thunder xxii!

participate in honoring our serviceman by attending the rolling thunder events sunday, may 24th, 2009. meet at the hyatt regency crystal city parking lot @ 6:45am, departure time is 7:00am to the pentagon parking lot. rolling thunder xxii departure to washington, dc @ noon. rolling thunder speakers program begins at approximately 1:30pm at the reflect pool across from the lincoln memorial.

new harley

my 1999 road king made some weird noises this morning so i bought a new bike! this ones a harley...next week: the hayabusa!

R.I.P. myrtle beach bike week

i have been coming to myrtle for bike week so many years now, i really didnt pay attention to the media. in preparation for the trip a few weeks ago i started this blog and started hearing about the anti-biker attitude currently in place in myrtle beach. well...i am here, but not too many others are: about 20% of last year's crowd showed up and only 30% of the hotels are filled. no one enters the city of myrtle beach because of the drag pipe/helmet law combo. wtf? hmmm...interesting strategy, myrtle beach, in this economy: closing the door on 300,000 paying customers! whatever...we are still having fun, just elsewhere.

headed south

we are outta here! we will be riding in the sun- with helmets and without drag pipes-by noon today: righteous!

myrtle beach bike week or bust!

looking forward to seeing old friends and taking long rides in myrtle this year: we leave tomorrow! we are planning a ride down to charleston and savannah one day, but where else are we going? the myrtle beach flea market at the state park has 350 vendors in air-conditioned space and is open 9-6 daily. (great if it is stormy or super hot). friday the 15th at 1:00 there is the iraqi freedom charity ride beginning at the red barn tavern. friday or saturday we may ride north to new bern, north carolina where the carolina harley-davidson dealers association has relocated their spring rally from myrtle beach due to all the controversy. new bern is about 30 miles from myrtle. maybe we will cruise through the croatan national forest on the way back to our motel.

inclement weather

as thunderstorms bear down on the mid-atlantic with some of us under tornado watches all night, i am reminded how volatile the weather in may is: not a year at myrtle beach has passed without inclement weather of some type! so, i ordered a new rainsuit. i also got the radar in motion app for my iphone.

road king

picked up the road king from the shop this morning: now i am ready to head to myrtle! the bike needed it's annual maintenance after sitting all winter, but the mechanic checking it found the bolt connecting my semi-recently added handlebars had been wrenched down so hard it had cracked them in two! he couldnt believe they hadn't split apart mid-ride! he replaced them, but im not sure i like these new ones!