I’ve had a profile on recon.com since 2005, mostly to protect the use of my screen name, Booted Harleydude.

I never used it to find other men or arrange hook-ups or dates. I had been happily married (or partnered) since 1993 and always remained monogamous.

Other than preserving my screen name, I do not really know why I kept my profile on recon.com.

After receiving another delinquency notice for not logging on for months, I visited the site to check in on June 10, 2026.

I was appalled at the redesign. It is absolutely awful. It is not intuitive and what’s worse for me, is that when I logged on, it demanded to know my location so it could match me with other men.

No! I don’t want that.

Without much regret, I will delete my profile in about a month so the few friends I have connected with there may see my notice that I intend to drop off Recon and find me another way (I prefer old-fashioned email since I don’t text).

Why do kids these days have to do such intense redesigns? What wasn’t broken didn’t need fixing.

Old senior leathermen have little patience for that crap. Plus, I live in Canada about a half-year, so I have a different life now. Time to move on from my past.