in the mid 70's i got my first m/c endorsement in washington state. i moved to california in the mid 80's they just transfered endorsement. when i returned to washington several years ago they would not transfer it back. so after several years of riding with out i finally got around to taking the skills test. it was pretty funny,a bunch of inexperieced riders on big h.d's all of them failed one guy even lost control and hit another machine, they were all parked way to close to course. i parked much further away. little bitty scratch on a crash bar, you would have though the world was ending almost a fight. i just laffed inside. my turn up scored 100 no point deduction, the examiner proclaimed she had never giving a 100 before, same inside when they took picture. i pointed to all the dead bugs on the leathers and said this is how you tell a rider from a poser. poser aint got no bugs on his leathers. then i went out and did a 100 mile ride with my new endorsment, it was refeshing. darn i love my thumper.

SLUGGO


Feels good to be legal, doesn't it/


I grew up riding dirt bikes,and dual purpose, but we didn't bother with a licence. If the cops flashed the lights, we headed for the ditches.....LOL........unfortunatly, the city, and the savages are not that simple......

I purchased my bike in June......I could not get an appointment to write my licence for 2 weeks, so i rode anyway.

Evertime I saw a white car with a luggage rack on top......a sun roof, etc, I was ready to bail....lol.........looked like a cop car coming........life is ohhhhhh sooooo much better legal!!...

cheers.......michael

Oh you guys are hitting close to home.  I've always had dirt bikes and ran (successfully) from the flashing lights as well, but the Savage just does not seem like it would take too many ditches.  I have to go get legal like you guys.

Right now when I see a cop car -- oooooh -- butt draws up so tight you could turn the bike over and I'd still have a grasp on the seat.

Thanks for the encouragement.

i must be a socio-path.  
i never encountered the sphinctor tightning thing when i saw a cop. just lucky i never got pulled over.

sluggo wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:10:


Thanks for the laugh about the HDs at the test.  I was in Daytona for Biketoberfest (without my bike) and saw lots of HD riders who could barely control their bikes (feet barely touching the ground!!).

Congrats on the "M" endorsement!  Feels great, doesn't it?

Agree on alot of the new HD riders, met a gal with a 2000 Sportster, she put 3000 miles on it and was selling after buying nearly every bad and doodad you could put on one...

Showed her my 77 Sportster XLCH-1000... she asked "how do you start it?"

Guess she'd never seen a kickstart.

Too many people wanting a status ride, Harley's the one make everyone's heard of.

Yep, HD is producing something like 400,000 bikes this next year. That's alot of riders spending alot of cash

Savage_Greg wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:10:


Yea but from what I've seen of Harleys a lower seat height doesn't necessarily translate into lower standover height because of their width.