Questions

[Vrod.Vixen]

When did everyone start riding?

How did it come about?

What was your first bike?

[LIQUID METAL]

I've been in love with motorcycles eversince my father took me out to buy my first bike. I was 16 years old and the bike was a Yamaha 250 enduro. I didn't even know how to ride a bike, but dad was a type of a person with an attitude as "do as you must". So good ol dad took me to pick up the bike and pretty much left me there to just get on and ride. Let's put it this way, it took me more than an hour to go 10 miles; laid the bike down twice, and found out that I can actually do wheelies!

Fast forward to now, after several street bikes and a Fat Boy, I'm finally saddling the bike that I feel it's a direct extension of me. Whenever I straddle Liquid Metal, I can almost feel as if I've become as one with her. She cradles me tight within her without prejudice and often I can almost hear her whisper "Ride me hard! I'll take you there with sheer power and exhileration!" It's as if I'd get lost in time while I stradle Liquid Metal. Man and machine intertwined with complete prowess at a flick of my wrist.

The bare feel of wind meets face is an experience that is indescribable! I've skydive, flown a plane and jumped off of a 75 foot cliff with a giant rubber band locked to my ankles, but nothing, nothing comes close to the natural high and complete freedom as riding my Harley VROD (Liquidmetal). If man could fly, then this is it!

[Vrod.Vixen]

I started riding just a few years ago.

First I met a Harley rider....told him I would ride with him when he bought me a suit of armor!

I met him on Match.com. Turned out we had been within a mile of each other for years.

When he was transfered I decided I needed to move too. A job came up at the local Harley Dealership and I knew it was mine.

While I got hooked on riding with him, I hadn't thought of having my own bike. But, after hearing so many customers ask me "What do you ride?", I decided it was time. I took the MSF class and bought my first bike. That little cutie was a Buell Blast!

A year later, I saw a bike online and told our Sales Manager jokingly that THAT was my new bike. He said.." I think we have one in the warehouse."! Sure enough, after some looking, I saw her up on top of the stack of bikes, covered in plastic. Her previous owner bought her thinking he wanted to be a Harley rider and sold her back to the dealership 2 yrs later with 1200 miles on.

I didn't think I could really afford her right then, but I kept going to the warehouse to look. A month or so later, my boyfriend called me over to the Sales Mgr's desk and said "he didn't have a ring right then, but would a Vrod be good enough??"

Way better than a ring!

It's still a little nerve wracking sometimes, but I do love her.

Last year I figured out if I can pull a wasp out of my shirt at 60 I must be doing ok!

[robby]

i started in the desserts of california moto cross in the 70's then moved to NC and got a dirt bike and have always had 2 wheels of some sort. now i crew chief a pro gas bike and i have a pilot for my V-ROD i will ride til i die probably

[Streetrod Chet]

1979, age 10 1st bike was a Honda XR80, my ride to the school bus every day, 9 miles each way. In the mountains of
Mendocino county ;) me and my brother would hide our bikes in the woods and catch the bus for a 17 mile ride to town.

[Keri]

I was intoduced to riding through my now hubby. We met 6 years ago and he had a HD softail Deuce. We rode everywhere on that thing. I, being "one of the guys" said to him someday I am gonna ride my own. Well he found me a 1978 yamaha xs 400 that he taught me on. It took about a week for me to get the hang of everything and now he can't stop me! We then got me a 78 sportster that I rode for a year them traded her in for a 2004 Low Rider, after seeing that everyone else around me had bigger bikes I traded that one in for a Road King Custom. I loved the bike but found I had trouble with my right hand turns and it's top heaviness. So them my hubby decided he was getting a V-rod and I decided to do the same and I tell you I will never look back! The V - Rod is absolutely perfect!! I haven't gone for my license yet but I have been riding for 4 years now............... This spring I am going to go get it LOL. Procrastination......... Oh yeah I get get lectured all the time for "speeding" Come on?? It's hard not to on this bike!!!!