Miscellaneous thoughts:
- welcome aboard, 90dog: you'll find that most members will still be happy to communicate with you, in spite of your youthful age and lack of experience (kindly smile)
- I've got a 1969 Kawasaki 500, owned since new, but not driven for decades - currently in a shop where the owner is older than the bike and drag-raced them, getting the engine torn down and interior seals replaced so it'll hopefully start. If I was wealthy, I'd have a Norton Commando from that era as well.
- Fran and I drove our Healey out to Ghost Reservoir (west of Calgary) today and ended up being shown a late 60's Norton Atlas that was beautiful. A bike that the current owner had coveted since his youth, and had found a chap who understood them in the village of Bragg Creek (also west of us) who had rebuilt it.
- got tangled up in traffic on the way home and realized that there was a late 80s Mercedes-Benz 560 SL behind us - pulled onto the shoulder as we waited for traffic lights to change, and had a nice chat. Of course, his car was 'only' about 35 years old, so he was lucky we even deigned to acknowledge him...
There are a lot of stories in the world around us, of cars and humans and truly important things, but there's also the joy of bumping into a late 60s Norton Atlas and talking about Manx's and Tritons etc. Life is about communicating and sharing that joy. Past my bed-time, and enough philosophizing and digressing. Doug