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I suppose that's true at a lot of places (Wal-Mart more readily springs to mind), but I have a friend near Kingston who supplements his pension with a part time gig at the local Home Despot. He loves it, but home renos and woodworking were always his cherished hobbies - he achieved nirvana by...

My fave Wife At A Winery story: Several years ago, we stopped in at the Reif Estate winery on our motorcycle tour of Niagara-On-The-lake region. We selected a couple bottles and headed for the cashier, where the snobby owner happened to be working the till that day. He, seeing our leathers and...

FINE, Mr Fun Killer. :rolleyes: If it helps any, I just walked away from my trucking career on Monday and will be starting my new job in motorcycle sales and service tomorrow, which has long been a dream of mine. Perhaps there is a similar passion in your life that you could turn into an...

Ok, here's what we can do... meet me at one of the Niagara region wineries, your choice. Sidle up to the tasting table, make a big show out of selecting a glass after reading the bottle label first - with your eyeglasses on and lips moving as you read - then take a big, lung filling sniff of it...

Reminds me of a friend's car back in the mid-90's when I was in CFB Borden. Can't remember the exact model, but it was a two door Nissan that, when pushed hard in the corners, actually swiveled its butt out a full 2" in the direction of centrifugal force. This was apparently engineered into the...

+1. Not that I've been employed as a wine taster, but I've been to many a winery in my time and they are places I could never see myself working at. For one, you meet an awful lot of pretentious little yuppie pricks who think they know everything about wine but really don't have a clue - they're...

As the former owner of a '71 BSA A65T, '73 Triumph Tiger, '95 Triumph Thunderbird, '01 Triumph Tiger and a '64 Vauxhall Envoy, as well as spending countless hours of my youth helping my Dad synch the carbs on his '69 Rover 2000TC... I feel your pain.

Welcome to the GTAM Jungle. We don't get many southerners up here, how did you come across this site? You're blessed with some nice riding roads down your way; I've been to NC more than a few times, but that was in my big jeezus truck. Some day 'd like to get down there on the bikes with the wife.

Maybe they were looking for people with experience on what NOT to do when riding a motorcycle...?

Don't worry, there'll be all kinds of youngun's falling all over themselves vying for your attention should you ever announce that you're back in the dating game.

You're not serious.... are you? :confused:

Had a very similar exchange years ago when riding my '95 Triumph Thunderbird. Almost had to mash the guy's face into the radiator before he finally realised that it wasn't the same machine he'd ridden down to Woodstock with his hippie girlfriend so many, many years ago.

So why do you stick around then? Need help packing? I'll even drive you to the airport if you want.

You've obviously forgotten that Kawasaki started their foray into the motorcycle market by copying Brit bikes of the era...

Zigactly. WTF is this all about? Who runs a bike like this, anyway? My best guess is aging hardcore club members who want to keep the wind off their chest, like an "I'm still a badass, but my back hurts" kinda thing.

Which is entirely the point that Triumph was hoping to make, really.

A Road King with apes I can tolerate, but a Road Glide with them just looks stupid. I see a lot of those down in the southern USA.

Yeah, and why is it those cars come with big V-8 engines? They're never using more than two cylinders most of the time anyway.

Yes we do. We just don't wave to you.