More motor biking

[Morrison10]

After we retired had more time for riding, and my husbands retirement present was a brand new bike! A Honda 750 VFR Anniversary model. We rode all over Uk, northern France, southern Spain. We belonged to local Honda Owners Club, and had weekends away. This photo is taken in Grasmere, leaving for which we knew would be wet ride home. Happy Days.

[Greenthorn]

F r e e d o m!What an exciting chapter in your lives! Revvin' it up!

[Morrison10 in reply to Greenthorn]

Yes do have feeling of freedom, can go further than in car, overtaking easier. Have you ridden bike? never too late to learn, I was late 60s,

[Greenthorn in reply to Morrison10]

I'm a right scared-cat with anything to do with motors. Eyesight and hearing also deficient. I have only travelled pillion two or three times in my life and always hated cornering, refusing to lean over as far as the driver. But there was one Irish guy that I trusted and he was aware of my anxieties.In my twenties, I was on the back of a Vespa scooter (days of the Mods) in the New Forest when the driver failed to negotiate a corner at speed. He told me "Hold on, we're coming off". We whizzed through some trees off the road and ended up in a ditch with the. moped straddled accross the ditch. My brother, travelling behind me on a motorbike, couldn't see us once he turned that corner. He came back to investigate and could hear me laughing, and still lying in the ditch! Some kind of miracle! Just light cuts and bruises.

[Morrison10 in reply to Greenthorn]

Wow that’s quite an experience, glad you survived, and was able to laugh. Ive been lucky, all the times I rode pillion at age 19, and upwards until 81 never had accident, nor when riding my own moped or 125 Yamaha for going mainly to hospitals. Caused amusement when saw consultants wearing leathers! Im deaf in one ear, result of experimental op inserting modified grommet when I was 60, became blocked within hours, but had to wait 7 months for it to be removed, by which time the nerve was dead. Only thing Consultant said was that knew not to do it on children. My eyes are good.

[winnabago]

It looks like the two, of you had a great time.