Saturday, June 20, 2015

News Flash !

Motor Cycle gains a Wheel !!







Does this make my butt look big?


Its a long story which started last fall when I bought and began to ride a Can Am front tricycle down in Arizona....  And then riding with the Goldwing Road Riders Association, where a lot of the members all have trikes...  And one thing leads to another..

Anyway, this is a Motor Trike conversion made in Troup, Texas...  I had it installed at Horizion Trike in Clarksville, Arkansas...     They are a major dealer, and did the install in about a day and a half....

Of course there was a weeks lead time as they are a car auto body place too and they had to paint the fiberglass body ahead of time...

We left on Tuesday with the Jeep and motorcycle trailer with the Goldwing inside...   But the trailer was too narrow for the big back end of the new bike...  My friend Al went along and drove the Jeep and trailer back home for me while I rode the Motorcycle...   We stayed two nights, and did some tourist stuff while they worked on the bike.....  It was all I could do to stay away from the shop and mother hen over them while they worked...

But we didn't come back until it was almost done, and by Thursday evening it was a done deal..  We rode it around at 5 PM and found it to be sound...  But it was also starting to rain as the outer bands of Tropical Depression Bill were enveloping Arkansas..

By morning, it was green and yellow on the weather map all around us and for many miles back up towards Kansas City....  Al was quite content to drive the Jeep.....!  So I dressed in a rain suit and hit the wet interstate...  By supper time, we were back here in Overland Park...  Once we were out of the worst of the rain, Al took over riding the bike and allowed me some rest and dry out time in the Jeep..

That was short lived, as the rain bands swarmed over the Kansas City area that night and we were drenched here too....  By then the bike was in the garage and we were back driving the Jeep...

I've been to a function with it today, Saturday, but most folks there didn't remember what I was riding last year, so it didn't stand out to them... But next week will be all the guys that I normally ride with... And I will take a lot of razzing for adding the "Grandpa Kit" to an otherwise nice motorcycle....

One fellow "Doug" who rides a Harley, asked me why I would ruin my bike that way.....  He thinks I am nuts...  But hey so many things to experience and so little time to get it done in!

Retired Rod

Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Victorian home

We have gone on several motorcycle rides in the last couple of weeks, but they were just riding to distant towns and eating lunch...

But a week ago Saturday we went to Cameron, Missouri again with a different club.  We ate in the same place, but I had a lunch instead of a breakfast...  But after the meal we went to a Victorian home there in town that was built in 1896...  The owner is Dixie, who owns a Dairy there in town, and she invited us in for stories and desert...   She told the stories and made the desert cake as well...

As an octogenarian, her stories we from times long ago... As she told tales of building the house and living there as a little girl...  Her father and mother bought the property sometime in the 20s...



The two Red Hot Cakes were waiting on the table for us.

Some of the men ended up sitting in the far sitting room...

She referred to her kitchen as modern....  And yes it had an electric stove and refrigerator.

Note the old wooden door Ice Box in the other corner...



We spent about an hour in her home and had pieces of the cake and a fruit punch with coconut extract in it...  And then we went outside, where Dixie climbed onto one of the motorcycle trikes...  And got her first official motorcycle ride...  It was a hoot...!  Of course they didn't go to far away and went really slow...

From there they went on to the Dairy where they gave out samples of ice cream and the like....  I was late and had to depart before that happened....  Still a fun day and something most people will never do....

Retired Rod