July 30, 2019 • 14 mins
Who loves the sound of a Harley? And what does Sam not understand about bikers? 🤔
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the Murphy Sam of Jody after the Show podcast,
And I'm going to give you one chance, and one
chance only, Jody, to guess this sound. Name this sound,
one chance only?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Are we divorced? It's a Harley is.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Tell her what she's won, Harley.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I wasn't brought up around motorcycles. Really sad to say, but.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Your dad seems like he would have been a motorcycle
kind of.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
A truck man.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah. See, I've been around my entire life because my
dad bought his first one when he was seventeen.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Right, didn't you take it one afternoon when you weren't
supposed to? You dropped it on the highway?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Well that was the Harley. Yeah yeah, I mean but
you see what's really funny about this is he doesn't
know that story. And no, I'm just kidding. It was
years before I told him about me, you know, dropping that,
But that was just it pained me to tell him
that way.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
He didn't notice, like a dang in it or something.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Well, no, I mean it was it was because it
fell on Murphy. Yeah right, I think it hurt me
worse than it hurt the bike. Good, And it wasn't
just pride man. Picking up that seven hundred pound thing
was not easy, and all the traffic in front of me.
I was on a two way street. Everybody was in
a complete haul and I was sitting there trying to
figure out, Okay, how do I pick up my dad's bike?
(01:14):
And the reason I dropped it was because I didn't
downshift all the way, Just so that you know if
you try to, you know, if you've ridden it before,
if you rid in teen speed, you have to straw
off and low gear. You know, she paddle fast. Same
thing with a car. Well okay, well then, but on
a motorcycle, if you don't start off in first gear
and second gear, the Harley's powerful enough, it's going to
take off. And it threw me off.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That's I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
It kind of bucked like a bull.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
And you know, you know that we're going to stick
with the motorcycle talk here, but at some point in
your future we need to go over why you can't
take a ten.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I heard it come out of my mouth, and I
know you're not gonna.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Let it down on the table.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
That one. I can't I didn't even catch that you
can't ride another day? Is that why I had to
get rid of all of our other really well, I
was wondering why you wouldn't get on.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
That bike anyway back to Harley's.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
It was kind of I don't want to know. Well,
what was funny about that is she never could keep
up with me because she was always in first gear.
She's pedaling really fast but not getting very far off,
you know. But I never knew that that was a problem.
And I remember I thought the I thought the gear
was rusty because I kept hearing the that was you
(02:25):
with the gears?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Just so unclear on the visual here, it's ten speeds.
Are the ones that have like three subdivisions of gears
on the left and then additional subdivisions of gears on
the right.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yes, exactly one. I think that's two five, okay, right,
that's what I would make.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I made the quick math three three and three makes nine.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Look, I had one mountain bike. I guess it was
twelve maybe wow, okay or something like that.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
It had two shifters.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, do you want to know or do you want
to go back to Harley's.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I love the Harley thing. I had a point, but
that's fine.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Whatever you went back to.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
It's a podcast. Go for it.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Okay. When I was a little girl, I knew it
was going to start there. Everything starts there for people.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Sounds like you should be laying down on a couch
with a psych But no, I.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Said, I don't feel bad about this. I mean it's embarrassing.
It's embarrassing. If I needed to get away from like
a criminal or something and there was a ten speed there,
I'm gone. I mean, in other words, he got me
because I could. I can't do that. I can't deal
with the gears. I don't know how to work them.
When I was little, the only the first bike I
had was just a regular bike, pedal and you go.
(03:35):
If you stop, you stop. And then my thirteenth birthday
came around, and I thought, because everybody else in the neighborhood,
in the country was getting you know, ten speeds and
it was the big fancy thing. And I came home
from my grandma's you know, my birthday is always in
the summer. I was at her house for a week
with vacation Bible school, and I came home to this
new bike sitting in my room and it was like
(03:57):
and it was so cute the way my parents surprised
me that, but it was a ten speed and no
one ever taught me how to ride it. So there's
a lot of no one ever taught me how to
ride it, probably a couple of mentions of yeah, you're
down shifting gears and buy see you and I didn't
get it, and so I just wore the thing out.
(04:18):
I probably messed up gears. I didn't know get It's
just you have to know when to do stuff right.
There is something to get.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
You can do it whenever you want to do it.
You can shift whenever you want.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
It's not something I understood how to do. And I
just like you said when we used to ride bikes together, Murphy,
I couldn't ever do anything right with it.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Well, I mean you know I didn't say that. I
just said you had challenges. Yeah, I mean, look, I was.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
A politically correct way of saying I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I was the one that was all proud of, you know.
I'd oiled mine up and started to do a circle
in the driveway and then the tire exploded, birds flew. So, yeah,
but I don't know how to work it. But your
dad was very much involved in your life, so I'm
surprised he didn't stop to teach you.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
That I don't know what was going on.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Then my dad, would you know the whole down shifting
thing and the you know, I guess it took a
little practice. I did finally get it. But when I
first met you, you were driving a stick shift car
and that down you did have that down man.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
You know what, it's probably just as much operator error.
It's probably one of you guys knowing me how impatient
I am. If I didn't feel like learning it, I
just rode the bike like it was a regular bike.
You know me. If I'm not interested in learning something.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Tough, it's the noise.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Is Murphy heard something not funny? Is that I can't
work at ten speech?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
It was either that, well, she said, that is why
I permanently put it in the lower gear for you,
because it was in the higher gear and you can't
take off that way. So there was a lot of grunting,
and it's like this bike won't move. It's because it
was in the higher gear, not the lower.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
If you want to get bikes again like that and
you want to teach me, fine, but please be I
don't want it to be one of those things where
you're not listening. Your husband and wife trying to teach
each other something. It's kind of like, now got me
boundariesy with each other, so you're you're extra rough. I
don't want that.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I'm not going.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I want to be happy to.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Do a ten speed if you asked me to, I
sure would, but you know, if it's not something you're
interested in.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Another regular bike, Yes, problem with having just a bike
without all the gear by irregular bikes.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
They make these things called fixies. It's just one speed bike.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
It's called a fixie. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Fixy is like I think it's a brand, but that's
kind of like a colloquial.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Fixed in the one speed.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah. Well, it's funny, Bailey, because I think all of
the bikes that I had as a kid until I
got my first tin speed were fixies, and they really
were just you know, one speed.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Mine were swins.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, coll Anyway, that's the story.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
So back to motorcycles.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah, I was not raised around them.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, well, I mean, and I was. My dad had
a Triumph which I never got to. I rode on
the back with him, but that bike's never been crank
since I've been able to actually control on myself.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
So I've never taken this gorgeous that bike sitting in
the house.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
So that bike was still running back then, my dad
bought us Harley in nineteen seventy eight something like that,
I think seventy nine, maybe eighty. But and then my
mom bought a bike shortly after. Oh really, yeah, it
was a Honda. They call it a Honda Maatic. It
was the automatic of you know, it was two gears
and you didn't have a clutch, so it was you know,
it was fairly easy to cool. Yeah, and then his
(07:25):
friend at works sold him a little bit of Honda
and he bought that one. And I always thought that
my dad would be more of a Harley collector because
he really was into his, you know, bikes. And so
time's gone on now that those Hondas are gone, and
he still has his Harley. He's seventy six years old.
He still takes it out every week and because he
loves to ride. And my sister's a little bit concerned
about that, because you know, she's it's not that he's
(07:47):
too old to ride a motorcycle, but he is seventy
six and he just she wants to know where he is,
and so he lets you know, look, I'm going to
going for.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
A ride life for sixty truth they're on it.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
But I mean so to me, every thing about a Harley,
I love the sound of it. I love the right
I mean, it is a it is heavy, it is
that particular bike is jittery, but it's you know, the
newer ones are probably smoother, I guess, but they still
have that classic Harley Davidson sound.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Ok. When we speaking of the Harley Davidson sound. When
we visited with John from Australia, who we we had
dinner with last.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Week, he's he visited us.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Really, I'm sorry, yes, but he came. He was doing
his bucket list trip of America and we had dinner
with him and we were all oohing and eyeing over
his bike. We posted that picture yesterday. We were just
standing out there. His bike is gorgeous and it's He
was like something about I think you told me, Murphy,
you're gonna hear it when we when he leaves and
I was in my car cranking it up. We had
(08:42):
all met there, we were all in separate cars, and
sure enough it was loud. I felt it when he
left it was such a cool sound. And by the way,
he wasn't slow out of that parking lot.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Sure, Oh, I know, it's really fun. I waste time.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, I got a lot of America to see.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
What amazes me is he's got multiple Harley's there, and
they're not These are not cheap bikes. But I guess
it's like anything else, when you have your thing and
you're an enthusiast, you know, you can't settle on just one.
I guess I get that.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
And he was saying that one of them is his
city bike for in Sydney, yes, and the other was
for in the outback.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah. Well, I mean one is probably more capable and
more nimble than the other. Maybe, I don't know, you know,
I mean a touring bike typically is not that I
I am not a motorcycle officionado. You're a you know,
I mean, I love them, but you know, no, a
touring bike is meant more for comfort, you know, because
think about it, You're going to be sitting there in
that position for a very long time, and and then
(09:40):
and then the you know, maybe his city bike is
a little bit more easily maneuvered. It could be smaller,
you know, it's just not meant for long runs.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Yeah, I I was pretty sure that didn't he get
that when he came here, because he can't just bring
the bike over, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
No, he like he.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Bought it the world's longest ferry ride.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Well, he is going to bring it back to Australia
when he's done, isn't he.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah, but it probably has to be shipping.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
It with a friend. I think he's leaving it here
in America with.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
A front o. You said, that is totally He's got
transportation whenever he comes.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
He seemed comfortable to.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Speaking of the comfort you're talking about there, Murphy. My
question about bikes, and I don't know how to ride
a motorcycle, I'll tell you right now, is when you
see those guys with the handlebars that like go way
over their head.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah chopper, Oh well, they don't have to be choppers
to be the no's chopper handlebars, right.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
But not you know, the long snout.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Chopper that for a long time.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
But I don't know how they can do that because
it always looks like they're leaning forward and up and
I cannot imagine riding too many miles that way without
back problems.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Well maybe it's a stretch. Maybe it works good. Maybe
it's like, yeah, that feels good.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Well, no, you need to try it one of these days.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
The reason for me I would have trouble with that
is I feel like I couldn't control the bike that
well over my head like that if you did that
back and forth aca I mean to me, the whole
center of gravity thing. I feel more in control. Yeah,
but maybe it's just you know again, maybe that's meant
for that's a touring bike. Maybe I don't know. See
somebody's gonna need to let us know this one way
on a Facebook message or something, because I honestly don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I happen to think that bikes, the love of bikes
and the love of riding is something that you don't
plan on it, or maybe you have an interest when
you're younger, or you're introduced to it and it just
gets into your system. You know, it's one of those
things that you love it and you always will. My
uncle Terry loved it when he was young, and then
he became a police officer, and he was a police
(11:35):
officer on a bike for a long time, and then
after that he always had bikes.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Look bike bikers are some of my favorite people to
hang out with. And I don't mean like you know,
you die bar. What I mean is I guys every
single you know, any motorcycle convention and we've you can talk,
and we've traveled. Yeah. I mean, they're just you know,
they're great people because they're travelers. And I guess I
kind of live vicariously through them because they've got what
they need on that one bike and they're off to
(12:02):
the next destination.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I was completely fascinated with John and his bike and
those yeah saddle bags that he had on his bike.
It's like, what's in there?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I remember John said he came to America with three
T shirts. That's all he had. Well, he started to
buy something along the way, but he came with three T.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Shirts twelve though. It's what he said. By the way,
he messaged me yesterday morning and it said that he
was doing Route sixty six on his bike, and then
he said he really liked it because I love the
limits over here seventy five and eighty love it meaning
(12:38):
the speed limits. I guess the speed limit is higher
here for him to get speed.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Limits eighty on ROD sixty six. That doesn't I don't
know it sounds safe.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Does it might mean on the highways, you.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Know, yeah, not in the antique districts.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Right, So I'm trying to find some answers on these
really high handle books. Okay, yeah, I would like to
hear from one of our listeners. But this this says
they're called ape hangers, and they're apparently just a fashion thing.
It's like a rebellious political kind of thing. But what
(13:13):
what this person is saying is, yes, they are uncomfortable.
They do nothing for handling, and in fact can adversely
affect handling. And most people who have tried them on
their first trip of any link say that their arms hurt,
their hands were getting numb, and you're you're basically just natural.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
It's unnatural.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Well, the guys I've ever seen that have those are
always the you know, the rough looking Yeah, and I
always equated that in my head. I equated that was, oh.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, there's a bad guy.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
He's riding with his handle's.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Don't mess with him.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Okay, that's interesting to know. That is interesting, kind of
like high heels for women. We just like the way
they look. They're they're not comfortable.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
It's not comfortable, but you got to do it.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I'll take the regular hand, your ball handle ours. You
know all right, it's time to right in the sunset.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I's blow this popsicle stand.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Get on my ten speed.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
We're going nowhere.
It's the Murphy Sam of Jody after the Show podcast,
And I'm going to give you one chance, and one
chance only, Jody, to guess this sound. Name this sound,
one chance only?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Are we divorced? It's a Harley is.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Tell her what she's won, Harley.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
I wasn't brought up around motorcycles. Really sad to say, but.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Your dad seems like he would have been a motorcycle
kind of.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
A truck man.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Yeah. See, I've been around my entire life because my
dad bought his first one when he was seventeen.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Right, didn't you take it one afternoon when you weren't
supposed to? You dropped it on the highway?
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Well that was the Harley. Yeah yeah, I mean but
you see what's really funny about this is he doesn't
know that story. And no, I'm just kidding. It was
years before I told him about me, you know, dropping that,
But that was just it pained me to tell him
that way.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
He didn't notice, like a dang in it or something.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Well, no, I mean it was it was because it
fell on Murphy. Yeah right, I think it hurt me
worse than it hurt the bike. Good, And it wasn't
just pride man. Picking up that seven hundred pound thing
was not easy, and all the traffic in front of me.
I was on a two way street. Everybody was in
a complete haul and I was sitting there trying to
figure out, Okay, how do I pick up my dad's bike?
(01:14):
And the reason I dropped it was because I didn't
downshift all the way, Just so that you know if
you try to, you know, if you've ridden it before,
if you rid in teen speed, you have to straw
off and low gear. You know, she paddle fast. Same
thing with a car. Well okay, well then, but on
a motorcycle, if you don't start off in first gear
and second gear, the Harley's powerful enough, it's going to
take off. And it threw me off.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That's I'm so sorry.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
It kind of bucked like a bull.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
And you know, you know that we're going to stick
with the motorcycle talk here, but at some point in
your future we need to go over why you can't
take a ten.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
I heard it come out of my mouth, and I
know you're not gonna.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Let it down on the table.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
That one. I can't I didn't even catch that you
can't ride another day? Is that why I had to
get rid of all of our other really well, I
was wondering why you wouldn't get on.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
That bike anyway back to Harley's.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
It was kind of I don't want to know. Well,
what was funny about that is she never could keep
up with me because she was always in first gear.
She's pedaling really fast but not getting very far off,
you know. But I never knew that that was a problem.
And I remember I thought the I thought the gear
was rusty because I kept hearing the that was you
(02:25):
with the gears?
Speaker 4 (02:26):
Just so unclear on the visual here, it's ten speeds.
Are the ones that have like three subdivisions of gears
on the left and then additional subdivisions of gears on
the right.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Yes, exactly one. I think that's two five, okay, right,
that's what I would make.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
I made the quick math three three and three makes nine.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
Look, I had one mountain bike. I guess it was
twelve maybe wow, okay or something like that.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
It had two shifters.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, do you want to know or do you want
to go back to Harley's.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
I love the Harley thing. I had a point, but
that's fine.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Whatever you went back to.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
It's a podcast. Go for it.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Okay. When I was a little girl, I knew it
was going to start there. Everything starts there for people.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Sounds like you should be laying down on a couch
with a psych But no, I.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Said, I don't feel bad about this. I mean it's embarrassing.
It's embarrassing. If I needed to get away from like
a criminal or something and there was a ten speed there,
I'm gone. I mean, in other words, he got me
because I could. I can't do that. I can't deal
with the gears. I don't know how to work them.
When I was little, the only the first bike I
had was just a regular bike, pedal and you go.
(03:35):
If you stop, you stop. And then my thirteenth birthday
came around, and I thought, because everybody else in the neighborhood,
in the country was getting you know, ten speeds and
it was the big fancy thing. And I came home
from my grandma's you know, my birthday is always in
the summer. I was at her house for a week
with vacation Bible school, and I came home to this
new bike sitting in my room and it was like
(03:57):
and it was so cute the way my parents surprised
me that, but it was a ten speed and no
one ever taught me how to ride it. So there's
a lot of no one ever taught me how to
ride it, probably a couple of mentions of yeah, you're
down shifting gears and buy see you and I didn't
get it, and so I just wore the thing out.
(04:18):
I probably messed up gears. I didn't know get It's
just you have to know when to do stuff right.
There is something to get.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
You can do it whenever you want to do it.
You can shift whenever you want.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
It's not something I understood how to do. And I
just like you said when we used to ride bikes together, Murphy,
I couldn't ever do anything right with it.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Well, I mean you know I didn't say that. I
just said you had challenges. Yeah, I mean, look, I was.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
A politically correct way of saying I can't do it.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I was the one that was all proud of, you know.
I'd oiled mine up and started to do a circle
in the driveway and then the tire exploded, birds flew. So, yeah,
but I don't know how to work it. But your
dad was very much involved in your life, so I'm
surprised he didn't stop to teach you.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
That I don't know what was going on.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Then my dad, would you know the whole down shifting
thing and the you know, I guess it took a
little practice. I did finally get it. But when I
first met you, you were driving a stick shift car
and that down you did have that down man.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
You know what, it's probably just as much operator error.
It's probably one of you guys knowing me how impatient
I am. If I didn't feel like learning it, I
just rode the bike like it was a regular bike.
You know me. If I'm not interested in learning something.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Tough, it's the noise.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Is Murphy heard something not funny? Is that I can't
work at ten speech?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
It was either that, well, she said, that is why
I permanently put it in the lower gear for you,
because it was in the higher gear and you can't
take off that way. So there was a lot of grunting,
and it's like this bike won't move. It's because it
was in the higher gear, not the lower.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
If you want to get bikes again like that and
you want to teach me, fine, but please be I
don't want it to be one of those things where
you're not listening. Your husband and wife trying to teach
each other something. It's kind of like, now got me
boundariesy with each other, so you're you're extra rough. I
don't want that.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I'm not going.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
I want to be happy to.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Do a ten speed if you asked me to, I
sure would, but you know, if it's not something you're
interested in.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Another regular bike, Yes, problem with having just a bike
without all the gear by irregular bikes.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
They make these things called fixies. It's just one speed bike.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
It's called a fixie. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Fixy is like I think it's a brand, but that's
kind of like a colloquial.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Fixed in the one speed.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Yeah. Well, it's funny, Bailey, because I think all of
the bikes that I had as a kid until I
got my first tin speed were fixies, and they really
were just you know, one speed.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Mine were swins.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, coll Anyway, that's the story.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
So back to motorcycles.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah, I was not raised around them.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Yeah, well, I mean, and I was. My dad had
a Triumph which I never got to. I rode on
the back with him, but that bike's never been crank
since I've been able to actually control on myself.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
So I've never taken this gorgeous that bike sitting in
the house.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
So that bike was still running back then, my dad
bought us Harley in nineteen seventy eight something like that,
I think seventy nine, maybe eighty. But and then my
mom bought a bike shortly after. Oh really, yeah, it
was a Honda. They call it a Honda Maatic. It
was the automatic of you know, it was two gears
and you didn't have a clutch, so it was you know,
it was fairly easy to cool. Yeah, and then his
(07:25):
friend at works sold him a little bit of Honda
and he bought that one. And I always thought that
my dad would be more of a Harley collector because
he really was into his, you know, bikes. And so
time's gone on now that those Hondas are gone, and
he still has his Harley. He's seventy six years old.
He still takes it out every week and because he
loves to ride. And my sister's a little bit concerned
about that, because you know, she's it's not that he's
(07:47):
too old to ride a motorcycle, but he is seventy
six and he just she wants to know where he is,
and so he lets you know, look, I'm going to
going for.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
A ride life for sixty truth they're on it.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
But I mean so to me, every thing about a Harley,
I love the sound of it. I love the right
I mean, it is a it is heavy, it is
that particular bike is jittery, but it's you know, the
newer ones are probably smoother, I guess, but they still
have that classic Harley Davidson sound.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Ok. When we speaking of the Harley Davidson sound. When
we visited with John from Australia, who we we had
dinner with last.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Week, he's he visited us.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Really, I'm sorry, yes, but he came. He was doing
his bucket list trip of America and we had dinner
with him and we were all oohing and eyeing over
his bike. We posted that picture yesterday. We were just
standing out there. His bike is gorgeous and it's He
was like something about I think you told me, Murphy,
you're gonna hear it when we when he leaves and
I was in my car cranking it up. We had
(08:42):
all met there, we were all in separate cars, and
sure enough it was loud. I felt it when he
left it was such a cool sound. And by the way,
he wasn't slow out of that parking lot.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Sure, Oh, I know, it's really fun. I waste time.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, I got a lot of America to see.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
What amazes me is he's got multiple Harley's there, and
they're not These are not cheap bikes. But I guess
it's like anything else, when you have your thing and
you're an enthusiast, you know, you can't settle on just one.
I guess I get that.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
And he was saying that one of them is his
city bike for in Sydney, yes, and the other was
for in the outback.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah. Well, I mean one is probably more capable and
more nimble than the other. Maybe, I don't know, you know,
I mean a touring bike typically is not that I
I am not a motorcycle officionado. You're a you know,
I mean, I love them, but you know, no, a
touring bike is meant more for comfort, you know, because
think about it, You're going to be sitting there in
that position for a very long time, and and then
(09:40):
and then the you know, maybe his city bike is
a little bit more easily maneuvered. It could be smaller,
you know, it's just not meant for long runs.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
Yeah, I I was pretty sure that didn't he get
that when he came here, because he can't just bring
the bike over, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
No, he like he.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Bought it the world's longest ferry ride.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Well, he is going to bring it back to Australia
when he's done, isn't he.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah, but it probably has to be shipping.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
It with a friend. I think he's leaving it here
in America with.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
A front o. You said, that is totally He's got
transportation whenever he comes.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
He seemed comfortable to.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Speaking of the comfort you're talking about there, Murphy. My
question about bikes, and I don't know how to ride
a motorcycle, I'll tell you right now, is when you
see those guys with the handlebars that like go way
over their head.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah chopper, Oh well, they don't have to be choppers
to be the no's chopper handlebars, right.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
But not you know, the long snout.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Chopper that for a long time.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
But I don't know how they can do that because
it always looks like they're leaning forward and up and
I cannot imagine riding too many miles that way without
back problems.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Well maybe it's a stretch. Maybe it works good. Maybe
it's like, yeah, that feels good.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Well, no, you need to try it one of these days.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
The reason for me I would have trouble with that
is I feel like I couldn't control the bike that
well over my head like that if you did that
back and forth aca I mean to me, the whole
center of gravity thing. I feel more in control. Yeah,
but maybe it's just you know again, maybe that's meant
for that's a touring bike. Maybe I don't know. See
somebody's gonna need to let us know this one way
on a Facebook message or something, because I honestly don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I happen to think that bikes, the love of bikes
and the love of riding is something that you don't
plan on it, or maybe you have an interest when
you're younger, or you're introduced to it and it just
gets into your system. You know, it's one of those
things that you love it and you always will. My
uncle Terry loved it when he was young, and then
he became a police officer, and he was a police
(11:35):
officer on a bike for a long time, and then
after that he always had bikes.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Look bike bikers are some of my favorite people to
hang out with. And I don't mean like you know,
you die bar. What I mean is I guys every
single you know, any motorcycle convention and we've you can talk,
and we've traveled. Yeah. I mean, they're just you know,
they're great people because they're travelers. And I guess I
kind of live vicariously through them because they've got what
they need on that one bike and they're off to
(12:02):
the next destination.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
I was completely fascinated with John and his bike and
those yeah saddle bags that he had on his bike.
It's like, what's in there?
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I remember John said he came to America with three
T shirts. That's all he had. Well, he started to
buy something along the way, but he came with three T.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Shirts twelve though. It's what he said. By the way,
he messaged me yesterday morning and it said that he
was doing Route sixty six on his bike, and then
he said he really liked it because I love the
limits over here seventy five and eighty love it meaning
(12:38):
the speed limits. I guess the speed limit is higher
here for him to get speed.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Limits eighty on ROD sixty six. That doesn't I don't
know it sounds safe.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Does it might mean on the highways, you.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Know, yeah, not in the antique districts.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Right, So I'm trying to find some answers on these
really high handle books. Okay, yeah, I would like to
hear from one of our listeners. But this this says
they're called ape hangers, and they're apparently just a fashion thing.
It's like a rebellious political kind of thing. But what
(13:13):
what this person is saying is, yes, they are uncomfortable.
They do nothing for handling, and in fact can adversely
affect handling. And most people who have tried them on
their first trip of any link say that their arms hurt,
their hands were getting numb, and you're you're basically just natural.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
It's unnatural.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Well, the guys I've ever seen that have those are
always the you know, the rough looking Yeah, and I
always equated that in my head. I equated that was, oh.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Yeah, there's a bad guy.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
He's riding with his handle's.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Don't mess with him.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Okay, that's interesting to know. That is interesting, kind of
like high heels for women. We just like the way
they look. They're they're not comfortable.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
It's not comfortable, but you got to do it.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I'll take the regular hand, your ball handle ours. You
know all right, it's time to right in the sunset.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I's blow this popsicle stand.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Get on my ten speed.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
We're going nowhere.
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