Easy Rider and Chopperguy

Someone left a comment on my Chopper Basics video that called my bike a nice bar hopper. So I replied

Bar hopper? This is my daily rider and I've been known to go a few hundred on the weekends.

I meant this as a good spirited if somewhat knee jerk reaction. Those who know me would recognize this. But most of my readers and viewers don't know me. Still, I'm leaving the reply up. It's true. Why not?

But the original poster of the comment was right in calling the chop a bar hopper. Its stylings are quintessential bar hopper. It's just that me, crazy fool that I am, don't ride her that way. Even today with the thunderstorm I was riding her into work because that's what I do. There are all these folks with shirts bearing the slogans 'Choppers for Life' and then there are those whose actions require no shirt professing that sentiment.

The very first day the chopper was road worthy it started to rain. I had already been riding for a couple of hours and as the rain came down and drenched me, I rode a couple more. Getting wet is just part of the lifestyle.

The lifestyle is not for everyone. Quite often I question my sanity in these matters. Fingers numb, back aching, drenched to the bone, and still I ride. While I'm not so devoted to riding that I'll brave the ice and snow, there is little else to stop me.

And I have taken her bar hopping.