I'm going to bend the rules a little today, maybe even rattle a few chains. When i joined this group, I asked Richard what it is we were doing on this page. His answer, "What do you want to do?"

In the 70's, while in college in fridgid Michigan, I rode a Yamaha XS650. It was the most entertaining ride that I ever saddled up. Lightweight, quick and a dream to handle.

I returned home to Detroit one weekend to find my eldest brother visiting my folks. He rode cross country from Oklahoma on his Harley Davidson Electra Glide complete with running boards and a seat that looked like it had been borrowed from a Ford 9N. That seat was big enough for Mama Cass' ass (OK editors, did I get that one right?)

"What are you doing riding that rice burner. That little POS will disintegrate right out from under you. Better have someone follow you to pick up the pieces. You need to ride a man's bike. Here, take my Harley for a spin. The sound alone will give you a hardon."

It rode like a cement mixer, weighed 3 times more than my XS and responded like a petulant child.

So, call it a challenge or just idle pub table banter, but here goes bikers, former bikers and biker wannabees.

What was your most entertaining ride and why? This is my post so I'm going to throw in a few rules.

1. No bikes that are too exclusive to be available to John Q. No Brough Superiors, no Vincent Black Shadows. Just Japanese, British, Italian, German, American or French two wheelers that would be reasonably owned by a working class/ middle class 20 something. (Got a Slavic bike? Russian? - throw it out here.)
2. Only affordable rides

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