[Ducati] Rejoined the list! (now, Old bikes)

[Veloce916 at aol.com]

At the risk of exposing myself as an even larger nutcase than you guys  
already know I am - I prefer the "relationship" of a kickstart bike. You can't  
just get on it and ride it. You have to pay attention and form a mutual respect  
sort of bond. Until it happens you want to kick the bike (not in a good way),  
after it happens, well, that's pretty special. Those of you who ride old 
bikes  know exactly what I mean. I'm off on the Motogiro in a few days and I can 
not  wait to get my hands on "Vicki 6" (whatever bike Mr. Caracchi has built 
for me,  I'll see it when I get there) because I know it's going to be such a 
perfect  machine (they ALWAYS are) that it will take about 5 minutes in the 
parking  lot looking it over and practicing kicking it to life and after that it's 
5 days  of the best bike bonding that could possible exist!
For me, life just doesn't get any better.
Vicki
 
 
In a message dated 5/3/2007 9:41:06 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
frugalyankee-cycles at yahoo.com writes:

Those  'old gals' are a great ride sometimes. Seeing an original Indian side 
shifter  coming down the country roads here after a long winter spewing enough 
oil  smoke to make you think its on fire will always get a big smile out of  
me.   Especially when you get on a 'modern' ride to appreciate how  refined 
they have become.  Too bad they're a real 'bear' to work on  without all the 
fancy tools.

Brad
CT.
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