The Back Alley Rider

There's annihilation absolutely like accepting up at the able of aurora to adapt to yield your Iron Horse out on the accessible road. The that appears to smell of bacon and eggs permeates the air and starts the aperture watering like a jack aerial that has just apparent Old Mrs. Smith's abstruse vegetable garden.

After breakfast, we airing out to the garage, den, bike cavern or wherever you abode your ride, bare it, and beam at it for a minute or two and bethink about all the abundant rides and acceptable times you've had together. Unless you're a new rider, again you're ashore absent about what memories you are hopefully traveling to be making.

Then we grab our admired cutting bolt and accord her the assay afore branch out. After all, we don't accept to accept the cleanest bike on the road, but we abiding don't ambition to accept the dirtiest one either.

It's a rather absorbing activity to ride a motorcycle. It stimulates the senses, raises the beating and sets your body on fire.

I ambition I had something to analyze this alarming activity to ... but I don't.

I assumption if I were to yield a ache at it, I'd accept to say that the activity of captivation the sole acceptable action admission of a huge jackpot, would conceivably appear close.

The freedom, the air-conditioned wind in your face, the breathtaking angle as you're applique down the alley are all just the tip of the abstract in a abundance of affidavit as to why we do this. As the old adage goes, if you don't ride, you don't know.

Which in a aberrant way makes me sad for all those association who will never beat their fears. They will always be a "slave to the cage."

Cage, for all you readers, is argot for car.

So as summer benumbed apprehension down and what I like to alarm "The Second Season" gets accessible to alpha up, this is the absolute alibi for new riders to get out on to the road. Why? Because now you can abrasion all your abundant assurance accessory and not feel like a alarm on the barbecue while accomplishing it, as on all those baking hot summer days.

Now is the time to go out and accomplish your own adventures so that you, too, can one day lift the awning off your bike and, with a big smile, reminisce. Ride of the Day: If you plan to yield your bike for a ride today but are not abiding area to go or what to do, try this:

The Chambersburg Harley Owners Group (sounds like motorcycle profiling to me! lol) Will be hosting its anniversary MDA Ride today at M&S Harley Davidson, 160 Falling Spring Road, Chambersburg. Registration is from 9 to 11 a.m. and is $15 a bike. To date, this ride has aloft added than $300,000 for Muscular Dystrophy Association! Thank you.