Rider Magazine, October 2018
Rider Magazine cover, October 2018.
Seems that Clem Salvadori?s columns are always so timely that his current subject matches what?s going on in my motorcycle life at the time. I always want to respond but never have until now. The day of my return from Bigfork, Montana, to Monterey, California, Rider was in my mailbox and I immediately read ?How Many Motorcycles are Too Many"?. I had just arrived on my newly purchased 2012 Harley?the same modeI as my 2010 and 2013. Now I have three of the same but different color combinations. The Motor Company made these excellent Ultra Limiteds from 2010 through 2013 with the 103 ci motor, so I just had to have one more! I?m a long-distance solo rider and these models serve me well. I guess I?m a nut of a different sort. If I?m lucky enough I?ll also find a 2011 of the same model, different color?then I?ll have one of each year. Total bikes in my garage now: five. Thanks for sharing, Clem! Bob Lawson, Monterey, California
Some years ago, I parked my bike on its center stand, parallel to traffic, on a highly crowned road. Later, when I wanted to leave, I rolled the bike off the center stand, but since it was already ?slanted? when the wheels touched down, it kept going down on the low side. The bike wound up landing on my foot, breaking four bones. I have never fully recovered. The lesson is to never park on the center stand parallel to traffic on a crowned road.
I call this my crowning deficiency.
Randy, via email
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