If I'm gonna hang out here, there has to be a motorcycle thread. I thought I'd just make it a two-wheeler thread to include Steve's insane bicycle adventures. I figure, pedals or a V-twin, all two-wheeled vehicles are powered by the soul.
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I went in to buy a big touring bike, but a few test rides later and I was sold on this sporty blacked-out model. 2023 Harley-Davidson Low Rider S.
I'll be 58 in seven weeks. This is the first brand new vehicle I've ever bought.
Know what is a cool day? New Bike Day. One of the best days ever.
Anyone on here taken delivery of a new steed lately?
Are you OK Mr H?
Got hit by a car this morning. This is the fourth time in 30 years that a driver has crashed into me, proving I'm tougher than death.
What a shitty time for Black Sabbath Motorcycle Club.
Without braking the bylaws and revealing club business or politics, the MC is now divided and for all intents and purposes two separate clubs - both identifying as Black Sabbath and the new faction wearing a variation of our OG patch.
This is not good.
I haven't posted here for ages. Some pics for fun, just to balance out the non-motorised half of the two wheel thread.
My brother from another mother, Gregg, and I farting about on the trails. He is off to Ireland permanently soon. The emigration attrition rate here at the moment is unbelievable.
Rode an E-Bike for the first time this week. Gregg got this beautiful Cannondale Habit as a test loan unit. Up one of the longest, steepest hills in the prison, on a badly rutted trail I was a full minute faster than my personal best time in optimal conditions... And it barely felt like it.
Not right now, and I definitely don't have the hundred grand to afford one, but in the next 5 to 10 years I reckon this is definitely the way to go....
Winter starting to take hold of the veld. Soon all this will be various shades of brown.
"There ain't a lot that you can do in this town
You drive out to the lake and then you turn back around."
This is the best time of year for riding. The last precious month before the southern California becomes the devil's broiler. Days in the high 70s, evenings in the low 60s, overnight chill. I'll be on my bike even more than usual between now and mid-June. Did a little off-roading today. This big bitch doesn't like the dirt, but I had to visit my favorite little stream.
And, dammit, I bought a Coke Zero by mistake. That tastes like sweetened ass.
Today, my MC is having the first officer elections since I joined. When I patched in, I was appointed, not elected to the Secretary office. Let's see if I retain my post now that they have a choice.
Got my one-year patch.
After several weeks of unusual cold, Christmas day broke sunny and hot. Had a great ride through the country and mountains, singing Christmas songs into the wind.
Wrenching on them is sometimes as fun as riding them.
Some fucking days...
It's been a rough year for Black Sabbath Motorcycle Club. We lost an entire chapter in a head-on collision with a wrong-way drunk driver. A club founder passed away - leaving one living OG. Several patch holders were severely injured in accidents and another two died on the road. In my own chapter, we had to vote a longtime member out bad and another good brother left because of it. A few months ago at a big event, I saw something happen twenty feet from me that I'll never, ever get out of my mind and I can't do the one thing I know is right because...well, because that's not how things work on the MC set. I'm bound by a code of bylaws, for better or worse. I can't choose which rules to follow and which to disobey. Since then, I've questioned my patch a time or two, but it's still on my back.
Because it's been a good year, too. We on the west coast settled an internal beef with the broader BSMC nation that nearly had us at civil war. We've had eleven babies born to brothers and sisters. We gave winter coats to seventy five local kids in need and we are supporting our angel tree kids again this Christmas with toys and books. Our community Halloween party will offer a safe, spooky afternoon for needy families. We've had desert campouts, backyard barbecues, long rides and good times. We have been there for each other over and over - anytime a brother called.
So I remain, even when I'm conflicted.
As bad-ass as it gets in Marlborough, Wiltshire:
Not a role model for all, but an infamous legend in the biker world. For better or worse, the man was a true outlaw.