Hay Bruce if you wont to add pic go for it I will not stop you and for the record my bike did not let me down i wrecked it 2 days befor that and yes i did have fun ridding that my hole point no matter what you ride its all good just better on good iron is all    To some I think about bikes to much other I dont know beans about them I do think of how and what i can do to them at least 1 or 2 times a day I wish i could do some thing like that on my winter layoffs and i haven found a bike that i did like yet no matter what it is but to tell you the rally is a place to day dream about them no  Iam lissening to the sounds thay make and how it rolles is the person conffy on it or is he or she a bit scared of it the rally is to over wellming for my mind at times its not like it was in time past when  you did what you could with what you had and thats what made the bike you where part of it  and it you you could feel things go wrong with it befor thay realy did now days tomany guys buy them amd wont even change thair own oil on them never do you see them trear it down and work on it in camp like you use to it gos to the shop so some other guy is more intement with it than you are thats not ridding thats being ridden give me old schooled bikes any day thats where it started and it will end the same way YOU seen my Harley  not bad for a 30 pluse year old bike and the Norton i sold to Steve all old shcool you can't bet some thing like that that bike was 40 years old but to its not all about the bike thair  look at just the new friends i have got out of it and thay think of me in a lot of difernt ways the cooking i do is for the fun and bringing us all to gether like when your home and the dinning room is where we all gather to eat and tolk about things and the  sitting around having a few drinks after words yes it is a big famley thing we all have fun and  go do see things and come back and shar them with others every incounter is a learnning time for me I cant speeck for others and for you that know me thats the way Iam in life its not good but it ant bad and no iam not afread to go anywhere thair and no one makes me nervice if i show my true coloers than i hope you do to but I can say with out a dout that all that have got in on with us have had fun and its my thing to have and try to get to know you so yes it is inportant that we hang out and have fun after and its not just becoues of me its all of us i play only a small part in that way sonny does his to and each and every one work it  thair way all should leave with good thouts and if you had troubls thair but still had fun than it was the way it should be i got a free tatoo thair about 10 years back becoues my luck was the worest of any ones thair but it is still one of my all time greats joys to go you have to say to your self when you leave to go that no matter what happens thair it will still be fun and you learned some thing great and you can find any thing thair your heart would like to do or see you just have to look and ask from 83 untell now i have only missed 7years of the rallys and it bugs me that i did but i lived and now i am going again untell i cant any more as a kid growwing up i heard about it and allways wonted to go  when i was old enough to drive i would go and sit by the interstate and help out bikers that would breack down or need help that was as fun and as cloese as i was aloud  untell i got out of the navy than thats all i could think of to do i quit many of good jobs becoues thay said i couldnt go and only my dad was aloude to tell me that so i would go and when i come home look for a new job so i could save money to go again the next year my first wife was pissed becoues that was like our honeymoon for us every year to go and she liked it but allways wonted to go some other place and i for some reson would have to stop thair for at least 2 days first  but for now or untell asked most is all great times had thair like when I had my 1945 flathead Harley the bike that truly changed my life  I had this bike for 5 years I got it as a basket case and it was it come home with me that summer in the trunk of my than 69 chevy impala found it whan a friend and me was junking cars that summer along with a 74 Norton I got all messed up on speed for a week and with out a book on the bike put it together and a nother friend did the motoer for me day and noght i worked on it so i could ride it in a pirade that summer and i did get it done in time had a lot a problems with it on the ride allready had the 64 Norton but i needed the Harley and it was my life for the next 5 years untell i had to sell it but she made it th bike week 3 times as did i but only once did we make it to gether at the same time the last year just befor i sold her but one she made it some friend had haled her thair befor i come up and we camped in the same camp grounds but thay thout thay would ride it and i could never find them and i heard her she wonted me so bad becoues thay where being mean to her but i couldent catch them to retreve her needles to say thay no longer are my friends now becoues of it  and one she was thair and on her way home when i was going  so we had a lot of history  together i still miss that bike the most the 64  Norton was my other baby but she whent to a good home t2 years ago and i got to see her again last year thair and it was great to see and here her again sounding proud to be alive again the 74  got me into a lot of shit  but 64 was like my angale it got me home when i should never been on a bike and would run when nothing eales would  the 45 like colder weather and i road her the first year all year long i even got pics of me on her with snow on the ground and iam on interstate in coveralls on it was 32 out that day no wind but it was cold ridding she was going good when some thing in the tranny whent out locked up the rear end  40 miles from no where Dam that was a fun ride she would allmost allways breack down on me  but i could get her running again all i needed was some wire a trackter or a chevy and i could make her go again with some time the guys i ran with allway thout that was funny how i could do that i was the but of a lot of jokes with them for it she would loes a part and i would have to fix it no one would ride behind me becoues of it i could take her apart and put her back togaether in 2 to 3 houres my oldest gile Brandi could as well she love helpping me work on it and was in the shed with me all the time when i was she would not go to sleep at night if i was out thair  so i would let her come out and i had chaires and carpet in the shed she would roll up into a littel ball and fall a sleep and about 11 or so when i would realies she was a sleep would than stop the dog and the cat had to be out thair to and friends allways stoped by  i would than call the critters to come in the house tune off all the lights grab her and carry her in and up to her bed lay her down just to get this cute littel voice say are we done for tonight daddy than an i love with a sweet kiss from her  THANK YOU GOD for them great times  untell later  hope you all have thies great times to shar