We poke fun at "Bikers" and "Squids"  - and often overlook the real "motorcyclist......the fellow who could care less about what you think about his machine.

My wife and I were coming back from a weeks vacation in Hocking Hills State Park in southern Ohio, and we stopped at a rest area on the Appalachian Highway....Route 32.

I saw this fellow riding a small motorcycle packed with gear and teased him about trying to disprove the belief that a touring bike needs to be 1,000 cc and weigh 700 pounds.  He said he had already proven that to be wrong....as he had just been in New Mexico a few days earlier.  He has been on the road since April 25th when he left Michigan.

The bike is a 1982 Suzuki GS450L that he bought recently with 7,000 miles on it, and he paid $350 for it.  The bike now has 23,000 trouble free miles on it, and he gets around 60 mpg.  He said he cruises at 65mph or below.

So......there are thousands of very affordable motorcycles out there just waiting to be ridden!  All you have to do is find one, buy it, and go riding!

I don't really Know what a
Kudo is, but I hear they are good, so, I'm gonna give him five buckets full of them.

Awesome, just awesome.  Thanks for sharing that story.

And it looks like a comfy ride...  

For me the coolest biker I've ever met is the little old lady in my county who daily rides her Honda Rebel. This is a person in her 70s. One day sitting at the stop light talking she said she bought her bike new (don't know the year but clearly an older model) and she'll keep riding it until either she or the bike can't ride anymore.
If I wasn't already spoken for I'd try to marry that little old lady. She's my hero.

My S-40 with the Kawasaki 25 tooth pulley does a nice job of running down the road at 70 / 75 mph.   The gas millage is only about 50 mpg at that speed , but if I slow down just 5 mph the mpg starts going up .

Last year our CMA chapter was working a National sanctioned AHRMA dirt bike race (hundreds of participants) and of all those old guy riders was a dude who was 99 years old.  He did all his heats and was in the final as well.  He was quite the inspiration.  The punishment his body took would have laid me low.

Absolutely true In my early 20's maybe 21 or 22 I wanted to go to California and back from Minnesota. I used the only bike I had which was a little ninja 250. It was an amazing little machine that enjoyed the ride as much as I did. If there is a will there is a way.