What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

[oneterrifichog]

Nice trike. How do you like the trike ride and drivability..??

I like it a lot, it does take a little getting use to but after about a 1,000 miles I have to say it is a lot of fun. I thoroughly enjoyed riding motorcycles but my wife really didn't like the Heritage and frankly I rather ride with her than without her. Bear in mind I say this with a lot of long distance solo riding over the last few years. Going across country without someone else to witness what you see and experience can get take a lot out of the ride. We got to thinking that now was the right time to go ahead and make the adjustment to a trike. I will be 70 in December and we still want to ride well into the next decade so we went for it.

The twist and turns all over Tennessee really makes for a different experience than on 2 wheels in that there is no leaning but now that they make these at the York, PA Factory all the Harley Davidson technical engineering comes through. Hey you are steering and it does not have power steering! You learn real quickly that braking is different on a trike as well as the dynamics of a turn. On a bike one's body is pushed down in the lean but on a trike you are pulled out on a turn so the feeling is different. It isn't bad just different. It goes without saying that with 2 wheels in the rear you have to be cognizant of where you are in the lane but again one gets use to it really fast. I like it!

 

[ton312]

I like it a lot, it does take a little getting use to but after about a 1,000 miles I have to say it is a lot of fun. I thoroughly enjoyed riding motorcycles but my wife really didn't like the Heritage and frankly I rather ride with her than without her. Bear in mind I say this with a lot of long distance solo riding over the last few years. Going across country without someone else to witness what you see and experience can get take a lot out of the ride. We got to thinking that now was the right time to go ahead and make the adjustment to a trike. I will be 70 in December and we still want to ride well into the next decade so we went for it.

The twist and turns all over Tennessee really makes for a different experience than on 2 wheels in that there is no leaning but now that they make these at the York, PA Factory all the Harley Davidson technical engineering comes through. Hey you are steering and it does not have power steering! You learn real quickly that braking is different on a trike as well as the dynamics of a turn. On a bike one's body is pushed down in the lean but on a trike you are pulled out on a turn so the feeling is different. It isn't bad just different. It goes without saying that with 2 wheels in the rear you have to be cognizant of where you are in the lane but again one gets use to it really fast. I like it!

Excellent post! I always s have wondered about cornering on a trike. And I've always hated cornering with a passenger. Unless they are seasoned they always tend to fight the lean. What I really want to know is how those trikes with two up front and one in back handle...seems like a nightmare.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

I have been considering a trike. A friend test drove one and was not comfortable in the turns. However, a ten minute test drive doesn't really tell the story at all.
I've also been interested in the trike conversions.

 

[ton312]

I have been considering a trike. A friend test drove one and was not comfortable in the turns. However, a ten minute test drive doesn't really tell the story at all.
I've also been interested in the trike conversions.

I see guys all over the city blasting around in these. The design seems intuitively off. I'd love to ride one.

 

[oneterrifichog]

Excellent post! I always s have wondered about cornering on a trike. And I've always hated cornering with a passenger. Unless they are seasoned they always tend to fight the lean. What I really want to know is how those trikes with two up front and one in back handle...seems like a nightmare.

Two up is better than one up on a trike. That's part of the reason we went with it. Joselyn is a lot more comfortable on it and I found that the extra weight on the back actually smooths out the turns nicely. Just like on the Ultra and other touring HD's one can adjust the shocks as well for either two up or one up.

 

[oneterrifichog]

I have been considering a trike. A friend test drove one and was not comfortable in the turns. However, a ten minute test drive doesn't really tell the story at all.
I've also been interested in the trike conversions.

Read up on them and check the HD dealer near you to test drive one. There are some pretty decent You Tube explanations of the Tri-Glide.

I was definitely not interested in a conversion. When Harley first started with trikes in the early 2000's they used Lehman as their converter but stated building their own after the owner at Lehman's passed away. They have been making them from the bottom up at York for several years now which I think is a positive. Bear in mind they used to make the Servi Car but those were really not built for speed at all.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Ton..I rode a neighbors new bike with one wheel in the back and two in the front a few years ago ( can't remember the brand ). I didn't care for the seating position or straight up and down foot pegs. Owner said ( at that time ) no 'more forward' peg options were available. It was just to uncomfortable me to ride ( I am tall and long legged.

 

[oneterrifichog]

I see guys all over the city blasting around in these. The design seems intuitively off. I'd love to ride one.
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I see those more as a sports car than a bike but they are cool. Their version is design from the bottom up and pretty cool too. A friend of mine owned one and he could really make that puppy sing on the Cherohala Skyway and the Dragon.

I'm partial to HD but anything that's fun on the twisties is worth taking a crack at.

 

[ton312]

Ton..I rode a neighbors new bike with one wheel in the back and two in the front a few years ago ( can't remember the brand ). I didn't care for the seating position or straight up and down foot pegs. Owner said ( at that time ) no 'more forward' peg options were available. It was just to uncomfortable me to ride ( I am tall and long legged.

Yep. Noticed that too. More a crotch rocket stance than a cruiser or even a sport bike. They do look and sound cool tho. Agree w/ @oneterrifichog more along th lines of sports car than a bike. They remind me of something that would shoot out the front of the bat mobile in case of necessity.

 

[nick123]

My grandfather was a carpenter at John Brown's Shipyard in Clydebank (Glasgow) and the Queen Mary was the last ship he worked on before being laid off (made redundant). That was when he decided to come to the U.S. He was very proud of the work he'd done on that one, and I heard a great deal about it when I was a kid. I couldn't hep wondering if that rail behind you was his. Maybe not, though, as the ship was refitted as a troop ship during the war. Still, it's cool to see it.

That's a great story. The interior woodwork and art-deco design is my favorite part of the ship. Some of it was/is being renovated so it's hard to know exactly what you're looking at. But your grandfather did very well. I'm sure some of him is in there.

 

[casechopper]

Lost Worlds National Racer Jacket

 

[nick123]

Lost Worlds National Racer Jacket

That's my favorite one on you Case.

 

[Benzadmiral]

Cool this am, but will probably be a little warm for this in the afternoon. Wested Indy goatskin:



And an equally poor pic of me wearing it (though I'm not sporting this hat today):

 

[jonesy86]

Cool this am, but will probably be a little warm for this in the afternoon. Wested Indy goatskin:

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And a remarkably poor pic of me wearing it (though I'm not sporting this hat today):

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I like goatskin! Greatleat her jacket and I like it with the fedora. Light, strong as nails, but I guess doesn't show much patina.
I went to dinner with my daughter and her boyfriend over the holidays wearing my Himel Heron. They commented on how much they liked the jacket so i described my latest obsession. When I mentioned Fedora Lounge, both she and her boyfriend let out loud gasps of horror, and asked me "you aren't going to wear a fedora are you?" Seems it is a fashion faux pas with the millennials.

 

[Monitor]

Lost Worlds National Racer Jacket

This one and the cross zip. That's all you need.

 

[A-1]

This one and the cross zip. That's all you need.

The DD, right?
If yes, then yes, I agree.

 

[handymike]

Ahem....both of the DDs (the d-pocket cafe racer too).

 

[casechopper]

My main keepers are this one, the cross zip DD, the Vanson T3 and my Grizzly. There are others that I probably won't sell but those 4 are the one's that I like the best.

 

[jonesy86]

My main keepers are this one, the cross zip DD, the Vanson T3 and my Grizzly. There are others that I probably won't sell but those 4 are the one's that I like the best.

Nice cross section of makers and models. I'm going to trim mine down to 4 or so, once i get the right mix and fit. I swear.

 

[casechopper]

Nice cross section of makers and models. I'm going to trim mine down to 4 or so, once i get the right mix and fit. I swear.

I've said similar things before. I even began with the idea of only having 1 jacket. I'm at the point now where I'm trying to keep my jacket collection at a size where it fits in one Ikea wardrobe. I need to sell off at least 5-6 jackets to make that reality though.