Toys & Hobbies

My current ride. 2001 Harley-Davidson Road King Classic (FLHRCI)

These pictures take the day before I picked it up at C&A Harley. Note the blue whitewalls

Unlike the Wide Glide below, this bike is rock stock for now. Will add a few goodies, but with my current emphasis on long-distance riding, comfort and easy maintainability are much more important than chrome. It does have its fair share of chrome anyway, of course.

Guess who got the first motorcycle delivered at the new C&A Harley-Davidson store?

This is the bike I took on the 2001 Sturgis Tour. It ran like a dream.

I rode it again on a 28-day, 8,000 mile cross country ride in 2007. Here's the story....

1999 Harley-Davidson Dyna Wide Glide (FXDWG)

Pretty much as I bought it. Oodles of chrome stuff. Very loud pipes. This bike took me on many a HOG ride, including the 2,000 mile run to Milwaukee and back in 2000.

Major accessories I added:

	Mustang saddle
	LeatherLyke saddlebags
	Screaming Eagle pipes
	Windscreen

The purple bear in the windshield was a gift for the Toys for Tots Ride

My riding buddies at Motorsports HOG. Check out our web site!

The gang from CompuServe Network Services ... I mean Worldcom Advanced Networks... I mean UUNET ... I mean MCI Worldcom ... I mean Worldcom... I mean MCI ... I mean Verizon...

1984 Porsche 911 Carerra We owned it for just one summer. Real nice car.

1972 Harley-Davidson Sportster XLCH. Extensively modified by Barry Akers (owner prior to me).

Owned from 1977-1979 (became downpayment on first house)

1975 Corvette. Owned 1975-1977 (traded for Sportster and TL's tuition money)

L48, Silver leather, A/C, PW. While I have fond memories of this car, in truth it was a pig for a Corvette. It was the first year for catalytic converters and detuned engines. It seemed fast enough, but was nothing compared to the Corvettes of the earlier 70s.

First motorcycle: a 1971 Honda CB350 which I bought new at the Honda dealer in Elkins. It was about $700 as I recall. I paid for it by selling Worldbook Encyclopedias and from my Navy pay. I sold it to a new friend who I worked with, Terry Graves, in 1973 so Terry (Lambert) and I would have a car. Twenty-eight years later, Terry Graves is still a good friend, and was one of the guys who was on our 2001 motorcycle odyssey.