Train guys are motorcycle guys too!

We also have some scoot's on our layouts as well!    These were cake decorations.  Russ

This is my Harley I custom built  and it is for sale eh

The shop has been relocated a few blocks north and they are currently negotiating with the city for additional land created when the expressway went though and turned the side street into a dead end.

Pete

Jeff,

Ingenious layout design. I too am a motorcycle guy but I prefer Hondas. 2005 Honda Sabre.

I want one of these...... 

I own two Harley's now  (9 different ones over my lifetime) and am a Motorcycle Safety instructor. So yes train guys like motorcycles

I rode my HD Dyna up to Owosso for the train festival sunday. 

Clem k

in my childhood (these aren't my pictures, but what I owned):

'68 Honda 350 Scrambler

 '71 BSA Firebird Scrambler

'73 Triumph Bonneville 750

I gave up real bikes when I got married, in order to talk my wife into quitting smoking.  She insisted I give up something "bad for me," too.  It was worth it, but . . . 

Anyway, I love 'em, but this is the best I can do now.

Sweet bikes Marker! If I had known I would have told you about the NY Norton rally at Samson State Park this last weekend. There were a few Triumphs running around.

Pete

I would have liked that.

My '71 Honda CB450.  My grandfather bought it new and he gave it to me two years ago - has a little over 35,000 miles on the clock. Been trying to get the dual carbs set up right and some cleaning and restoring small pieces.   

I was sales manager of a BSA dealership in 1971 when BSA and Triumph changed to the new frame with the oil in the frame instead of a separate oil tank.

 

Funny.  First, the old saying about English bikes, "If she doesn't leak, she's out of oil."

That said, the BSA ran well, but it was always in the shop.  The dealer let me trade it in on the Triumph and gave me such a great deal, I wasn't out anything so to speak.  When I started the trade it was to go on a trip.  They didn't have any Triumph's in the shop and were waiting for a shipment.  I told them I would take whatever came in first, a Trident or the Bonneville.  Obviously, the Bonneville came it first and I went on trip.  I never had a problem with the Triumph.  It was a great bike.

I tooled around the Rutgers U campus on a Honda 750 many moons ago ... no street bike since.

This little 4-stroke still carries my fat butt over the old coal mining lands in Pennsylvania.

The bike below .... my son built up from part of a Sportster frame and engine .... homemade fuel tank, etc. Lord knows I would rather he have a factory bike with proper suspension, turn signals, etc

I had a Yamaha 80 back in college and used to wake up at 0740hrs, brush my teeth while relieving myself, and could be at school seated for an 8:00 class.

Fast forward to 2004 whn I moved up to these mountaisns. Met several fellas my age who encouraged me to get a bike because "This is the best place in the whole country to ride". 

I took a two weekend class and bought a helmet. Received my 'M' endorsement too. Then I read an article in a Biker magazine that asserted- "The highest percentage of riding fatalities is with men age 55 and over who return to riding after  a very long layoff."

It caused me to pause and think. In my mind I can ride. But I was over 60 then and my reflexes aren't what they were when I was 20. If I had gotten hurt back then I would have been dead in the water and lost my business.

Then I realized that the view here is UP. As much as I wanted a bike to more fully experience the beauty of the unlimited vistas up here I settled on a convertible - a 99 BMW 328ic with a 5 speed manual. Hadn't had a stick since college, What a great car...

I don't have a bike anymore, but this is my second Harley. Now I just have one on my layout.

BMW R1100GS.   June 1999.  Almost there.

Vermont to Fairbanks Alaska via Ontario, Alberta, and Yukon.  Return via California, New Mexico, and Louisiana. Circumperambulation of the continent,  17,000 miles in 7 weeks.

Of course there are a few motorcycles on the layout too, but they are comparatively dull.

Rode motocross as a hobby prior to getting back into trains. Chose the trains as a safer way to spend my free time after having 3 kids.

Do miss my YZ400

Ironically, the trains have cost me far more than the bike

 1970 CB-750

I've had a lot of motorcycles over the years, everything from a Bridgestone 88 (remember those?) up to a 1500 Vulcan.  My current ride is a 696 Ducati:

Over 300K miles on various BMWs

I had only one BMW that I put almost 100K on, a '78 R100RS in motorsport colors that I put 93K miles on. Then the spring of '86 BMW came out with Black (original #086 black) K100RS and my dealer got two of them. So I traded my '78 and my wife's '83 R100RS in on them. We went to the "Dark Side" riding the various water cooled inline 4's for about 19 years and then the transverse 4's, the K1200Ses from '05 until present. We rode this style from coast to coast and most of Canada. Then in '08 my wife also bought an R1200GS and I got the one in the picture in 2012 and we rode them from IL to Oregon last summer. Still like the S, but I have to say I sure can carry "stuff" on the GS. When I told a friend up north I got the R12GS he replied "welcome back".

The other English saying was "Gentlemen don't motor about after dark." I believe Lucas said that...

my new Duck monster 696.....bike # 5.......joe   Yonkers N.Y.