{"id":766,"date":"2010-04-07T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=766"},"modified":"2010-04-07T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T08:00:00","slug":"women-bikers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=766","title":{"rendered":"Women Bikers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I enjoy riding my Harley, and I enjoy riding with other people. It is fun to share experiences and the open road with a group. I particularly enjoy riding with the group with which I ride now, which is composed of men and women who share the same goal: “ride and have fun.”<\/p>\n

There are a number of women bikers in this group. I see more and more women riders each year. I think that’s great! Certainly the “motor company” (Harley-Davidson) has observed that women riders are a large and growing market. They are much more attentive to the needs of women riders nowadays than years gone by where they pretty much made “one-size fits all men” motorcycles.<\/p>\n

I share the joy with my friend Sue who lives in Australia. She rode a motorcycle when she lived in the U.S., and when she moved back to her home country, she set a goal to get herself a Harley. She just bought herself a beauty — a 2010 Dyna Street Bob!<\/a> I envy her, in a way, being able to ride those lovely roadways Down Under. I shan’t forget my experience riding a (rented) Harley along The Great Ocean Road from Melbourne to Adelaide. Wow, that was an experience!<\/p>\n

I also share joy with a former next-door neighbor who knew me when I was born. She actually was my sister’s childhood best friend. As we’ve moved around, aged, and such, we sorta lost touch. But my sister found her on Facebook, and a couple years ago when my sister was visiting, the two of them (her old friend and my sister) came over to our house to transfer some old reel-to-reel tapes onto cassette so they could hear themselves as children. Their laughter filled our house, and my heart.<\/p>\n

My sister’s friend is a biker. Like my friend Sue, she had set her goal to get herself a Harley this year. She enjoyed riding her smaller, Japanese bike, but she wanted to move up to a Harley. She bought a 2008 Fat Boy, and took delivery last week. She has been riding and sharing her joy with me and others. I can’t wait to go riding with her as soon as my doc says that I can.<\/p>\n

The enthusiasm, the fun, the joy — all of it — is wonderful for me to observe, and to participate (when I can.)<\/p>\n

Now, we’ll have to work with those boot manufacturers to get my women biker friends some decent biker boots. But one step at a time: ride and have fun! Share your joy! Show your enthusiasm! You go, girls! Grrrrrrrrrr!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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