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Fb1
| | Posted on Friday, January 13, 2017 - 04:47 pm: | 
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I never did hear the story about the boat though...
Alex (and all y'all), follow along, won't you? This is likely to be (if I can stay sober long enough to see it to completion) the biggest, most complicated segue of all segues here on BWB.
Before I go on: Thank you for your friendship all these years. I mean that sincerely.
Court, you, too.
And Ltbuell, you were always so good about interacting with my mom - Ma Bueller - when she was still with us on the forum; thank you for that. 
So, the boat?
That's Ma Bueller, circa 1940. (Geez, I hope I don't have to produce some sort of fact-checkable proof...) |
Court
| | Posted on Friday, January 13, 2017 - 04:58 pm: |
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>>> I hope I don't have to produce some sort of fact-checkable proof...
Don't feel bad . . . . I am sorting through 3,000 books . . cases of files and 2 truck loads of Buell-Crud that just arrived trying to PROVE I owned motorcycles . . . if I can't find it . . I have a lot of history to unwind. |
Court
| | Posted on Friday, January 13, 2017 - 05:06 pm: |
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Well . .here's one I owned. You learn something from every motorcycle. This one taught me not to get in arguments on the internet.
Of course . . . at that time there were only something like 63 "websites" on the WWW.
I wonder if I need to produce like title or registration? I never got one, at least a proper one, for the Buells that I got as "gifts". . . actually, I paid $1 |
Fb1
| | Posted on Friday, January 13, 2017 - 05:14 pm: |
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My mom's parents - my maternal grandparents, Wade and Lois LeRoy - were wonderful humans, salt of the earth, and...quite devoutly religious and strict. I cannot even begin to imagine what they thought of their only daughter parading around on her boyfriend's Harley dressed like this:
(^ Love the bald bias-ply truck tire!  )
The Knuck, the granddaddy of all modern Harleys, was introduced in '36, so her boyfriend's bike was just several years old, although IMO it looks like it's already been around the world a couple of times (and dig the straight exhaust; oh, I bet my grandparents loved that!):
(On a marginally-related note: I just ordered the very same hand-grips, in black, for my Heritage ((which, in most respects, looks nearly identical to my mom's boyfriend's EL, some 80 years later)); they'll be here late next week. I have, however, decided against running open exhaust for the time being...)
Ma B, you rock!  |
Fb1
| | Posted on Friday, January 13, 2017 - 05:16 pm: |
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Well . .here's one I owned.
Photoshopped!!
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Fb1
| | Posted on Friday, January 13, 2017 - 05:40 pm: |
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Ma Bueller was the best mom ever, and it would appear I inherited my riding jones from her...and her dad and her brothers, who ALL rode Harleys.
Here's what Ma B had to say about these pix, back when she was still posting on BWB:
quote:I find it hard to believe I was ever that young. I was 17 when that picture was taken, newly graduated from High School and enjoying my last summer of freedom before going into Nurse's training. I used to do hill climbing on that bike, sometimes up at Point Roberts. (look it up, it's an interesting part of the good ole USofA). I wasn't as good as the guys on the climbs though--my legs just aren't long enough! I think I still have a few bits of gravel embedded in one of my knees as a lasting memento.
When I was a teenager (way back in the last century!) we pretty much created our own entertainment--this was before TV, computers, smart phones etc--. I didn't have any sisters but I did have two brothers and their friends had bikes and of course, some of their friends were 'my friends'. That's where my love of motorcycles started, because of the guys!
I graduated from High School in a small town named Concrete, Washington. One of my boyfriends had a brand new 1942 Baby Blue Buick convertible and another bf had a Harley. Enter rivalry into the picture and the inevitable race happened! These were country roads folks and traffic was light. There's a section of road west of Concrete that has a several mile straight-a-way and we posted people at each end to stop what little traffic there was and the Buick and the Harley entered the race of the decade! I got to drive the Buick! I can still feel the adrenaline! The race ended a tie at 125+ mph! We had to back off because of curves and traffic.
Oh, yeah!  |
Fb1
| | Posted on Friday, January 13, 2017 - 06:38 pm: |
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Pictured below is my 1980 Yamaha XS-850, bought new at Bremerton (WA) Cycle in '80. BC was a multi-line dealership and carried Harleys. Me and two friends all decided, pretty much at the same time, that we wanted new bikes and went to BC as a group, reasoning we'd have some additional buying power going in as a collective.
I already knew what I wanted, and talked my friends into the same. I remember walking by the Harleys and looking at them with a degree of disgust; I knew what I thought I knew about them, and anyone with a hint of a discerning eye could look at them in person and tell they weren't much more than a glorified farm implement - damn, they were crude!
We bought three XS-850's that day, and I rode the snot out of mine. It was, truly, an awesome motorcycle and would fly like the wind; you'll never know what powering-up an inline triple is like until you do it with your own hand.
Ma B loved bikes (ya think?), and decided by and by that she needed to get back into the wind after a half-century or so hiatus (this was a tick before she decided she needed a private pilot's license, which she subsequently obtained). She sought my advice and ended up buying a new 650 Yamaha Maxim from Bremerton Cycle. We set her up with a Windjammer fairing (I had a Windjammer on my second scoot, way back in the '70's; I met Craig Vetter at an IMS many years ago - super guy!)
Me 'n mom rode out together from Washington on our motors, headed down the Washington, Oregon and California coasts. What a great adventure we had!
^ Overlooking Crater Lake, Oregon. |
Fb1
| | Posted on Friday, January 13, 2017 - 06:42 pm: |
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Sunrise at Crater Lake Lodge.
Anyone who knows me knows how I like to keep my motors...even when I'm camping. |
K12pilot
| | Posted on Friday, January 13, 2017 - 09:04 pm: |
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Ferris it's real cool to see those pictures of your mom. I think it is awesome.
I never knew Flash Gordon rode a white S2. I always remember him in a rocket ship.
Ya learn something everyday. Go figure. |
Court
| | Posted on Saturday, January 14, 2017 - 12:50 am: |
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Those are INCREDIBLE pics of Ma Bueller ! . . . .
I love these threads that serve to remind me why I am so damn glad I chose motorcycles as a hobby! |
Ltbuell
| | Posted on Saturday, January 14, 2017 - 12:55 pm: |
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...yeah,Fb1,Ma was way cool to talk to. Loved our conversations, as how i grew up....mostly spent many a summers with my one set of Grandparents at the cabins at Lake Tahoe,CA......man,best times of my life......learned so much from them and meeting many other adult friends and those fun and great chit chats......glad to have met here and those one on ones with her.LT |
Court
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2017 - 08:43 pm: |
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What was the name of the shop . . . I think in CT . . . . that does custom Buell CNC work ?
Anyone recall? |
S1owner
| | Posted on Friday, January 20, 2017 - 08:45 pm: |
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Mc worx? |
Johnod
| | Posted on Saturday, April 15, 2017 - 05:51 pm: |
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Great story, glad I found this thread. |
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