I'm not in Daytona...damnit

One friend left for Daytona Bike Week Wednesday, hauing his V-Strom out on a trailer. Another left Friday astride an '07 Super Glide that he purchased in December and modified by adapting an FXRT fairing along with other changes. He's a machinist who can work miracles with metal. He also adapted the old RT front fender to work with the FXD.

He reports that the bike rode like a dream on the first leg of the trip down. The fairing provided good protection from the colder weather in Virginia and North Carolina and he arrived for the night in South Carolina with no fatique.

The Harley, he says, "is a keeper." Quite an endorsement from someone who had rode mostly British and European metrics for most of his life.

I'm envious of my two friends because I'm still stuck in the frozen tundra of Southwestern Virginia, unable to get my '09 Super Glide out of the garage and down a steep, 450-foot-long driveway that remains under 18 inches of packed snow and ice.

I had hoped to go to Daytona but the storm of the century ended that hope and I'm hoping it will be clear enough by March to get out and put some milds on the Glide.