It's 3:19 a.m. and I'm up doing this webpage.
I don't know why. Today, I made my weekly trip to the local H-D
to look into ordering a solo saddle. I'm gonna get the Corbin Hollywood Solo Saddle ($179.00 --
good price, better than straight from Corbin over the internet), which is low-slung
and is supposed to accentuate the tank and lines of the frame.
Hope so.
When Ken, the parts guy, asked me why
I wanted a solo saddle, I said, "To stop all the questions." I've noticed bikers respond to questions with
answers like these, so I'm picking up on the form. Ken, like
a biker, waits for the follow-up/continuation response to "To stop all the questions" with no expression on his face, as if he already
knows what I'm about to say. So, I say, "Too many people ask me if my wife rides with
me, and too many ask if I can give them a ride. I figure a solo
seat will stop these types of questions."
Ken says, "That'll
work."
My favorite biker response to the statement,
"It's good weather
for riding," is: "And I got a full tank of
gas." Nothing more needs to be
said during this verbal encounter.
Some other questions I'm tired of hearing
too are, "Are
you gonna get the rocker covers chromed?"
and "Are you gonna
get the engine cases chromed?"
I haven't figured out how to make these questions go away yet.
I don't want to get these things chromed because I like the way
they look now. Maybe I'll act deaf next time.
Annoying questions always seem to come
from people who don't own or ride a bike. I hope I was never
that way.
May 14, 1999
I've had my Corbin Hollywood Solo for 3 days now. I like
it ... to me, it seems it sits an inch-and-a-half lower than
the stock seat. It's narrower ... so narrow that when the oil
tank gets hot, you feel it at a stop if your right leg rests
against it (but, normally at a stop, I rest on my left leg and
hold the rear brake on with my right foot). Having a leather
seating surface needs some attention -- saddle soap and some
leather cream to make it soft and supple. I've been rubbing the
cream into it four times today. I'm using stuff made by KIWI (Clicking the word "KIWI"
will take you to Kiwi's product site, where you will be able
to find products for not only your leather saddle, but your shoes
and camping gear too!) -- I figure they are all good, but KIWI
products can be found at any WALMART in the shoe department.
Oh ... OFF WITH THE PASSENGER FOOT PEGS
too -- don't need them anymore. The rear fender looks killer
now. I was looking for a chrome bolt of some kind to put where
the passenger pegs were so the hole would be covered, and during
the 1,000-mile checkup, the wrench found some round chrome allenhead
bolts to put in there for me.
People like the Hollywood Solo and in
three days, three people have asked to sit on it to check it
out. I wouldn't normally let anyone touch it (it's like a wife
... if you want to touch, get your own), but the seat is THAT
attractive, so I look at it this way -- they sit on my bike and
afterward I tell them, "You
owe me a sit-down on your bike."
Just joking, of course.
But, one FatBoy rider owes me a start
too, but I don't really wanna sit on a FatBoy and start it too
-- I might desire one.
--To buy Harley-Davidson
books, videos, games and calendars!
