Johnwesley
Well-Known Member
Been hanging out here a little bit but decided this is a place I really enjoy. Even opposing views are met pretty good. Glad I joined up here.
a little about me, I’m 46 with two teenagers and been riding motorcycles all my life. When me and my brother were small Mom and Dad would haul us all over the USA on the back of motorcycles. Dad always had touring bikes and mom normally have a matching style bike. Back then trailers were popular and Dad had a time-out camper and Mom pulled a cargo trailer. We camped our way across the USA visiting both coasts and both borders. Once I got into my 20s I switched over to super bikes. Holly, my wife, and I toured on them and took a few sport bike schools. I was on a 9r and she was on a 6r. As the years rolled on I picked up dual sports and start riding a 89 klr. I took a few adv schools and eventual was trained as an instructor and put on classes for a few years. Holly ended up with a dr650 all decked out in pink and black and did some light off pavement riding but never got into it. I put 100,000 miles on two different klrs, riding cross country attending events and doing about 50/50 riding. I ended up building a dual sport sportster and taking it up to Inuvik and deadhors, run a few events on it and enter the Big Dog ride a few years on it. The bike ended up being totaled. Holly wanted a better bike to ride two up on and we got into cruiser, well now I guess they call them baggers. That rocked along for 8 years when Holly decided she did ride enough to keep a bike and I sold her Chieftain. This takes us two and event I put on in NM in July. A friend trailered his gold wing up and brought his tenere as well. I really wanted Holly to try it and she was just going to appease me so I would shut up. Long story short she loved it and bought that bike in NM. Its her favorite bike to date. This bring us up to Sturgis where I test road on T7 on pavement and dirt, thought it was a great bike and just had to have one. Holly finally convinced me I needed the S10 and then I could sell a few bikes and get a T7. So I picked up a 2019 model new left over for a great price. Which is why I started looking around here.
So that’s my intro. Glad I found this community.
a little about me, I’m 46 with two teenagers and been riding motorcycles all my life. When me and my brother were small Mom and Dad would haul us all over the USA on the back of motorcycles. Dad always had touring bikes and mom normally have a matching style bike. Back then trailers were popular and Dad had a time-out camper and Mom pulled a cargo trailer. We camped our way across the USA visiting both coasts and both borders. Once I got into my 20s I switched over to super bikes. Holly, my wife, and I toured on them and took a few sport bike schools. I was on a 9r and she was on a 6r. As the years rolled on I picked up dual sports and start riding a 89 klr. I took a few adv schools and eventual was trained as an instructor and put on classes for a few years. Holly ended up with a dr650 all decked out in pink and black and did some light off pavement riding but never got into it. I put 100,000 miles on two different klrs, riding cross country attending events and doing about 50/50 riding. I ended up building a dual sport sportster and taking it up to Inuvik and deadhors, run a few events on it and enter the Big Dog ride a few years on it. The bike ended up being totaled. Holly wanted a better bike to ride two up on and we got into cruiser, well now I guess they call them baggers. That rocked along for 8 years when Holly decided she did ride enough to keep a bike and I sold her Chieftain. This takes us two and event I put on in NM in July. A friend trailered his gold wing up and brought his tenere as well. I really wanted Holly to try it and she was just going to appease me so I would shut up. Long story short she loved it and bought that bike in NM. Its her favorite bike to date. This bring us up to Sturgis where I test road on T7 on pavement and dirt, thought it was a great bike and just had to have one. Holly finally convinced me I needed the S10 and then I could sell a few bikes and get a T7. So I picked up a 2019 model new left over for a great price. Which is why I started looking around here.
So that’s my intro. Glad I found this community.
