How often do you ride your duke, if at all.... Took the beasty out again early this evening and upon returning the following passed through the grey cells. how often do I take the duke out. Now that summer has ended and the better wether has departed, how often do you take your duke out, once or more a week, month or not at all now until next spring/summer. Personally I have allways been a great believer in using a bike as much as possible, except in snow/ice or really crappy wether. Just because it's a duke makes no real difference. If you've got a nice bike, why not ride it as much as possible. Live for today not sometime tommorow or next week, within reason that is. in the last few weeks I've been out on the 851 everyday (when I was not messing about with it)or early evenings for a good blast, and really enjoyed it. Something that I have'nt done for a long time, and it was well overdue. I have decided to get out on it as much as possible , and forget the milage/service cost etc, and if it gets dirty or wet etc thats life with a bike, it was made to ride and give pleasure to it's owner, not sit in the garage for weeks or months even doing zip. To hell with resale values and parts availabilty, just get on the bike a ride peeps. all you bods with 74x and 9xx bikes will not have to much problem with parts if the worst happened and something wore out etc. Parts for older dukes are harder, if not impossible to get, but that should'nt mean you can't use the bike as much as you like. Just my thoughts peeps. So what are your thoughts peeps, are you real all year round riders, or just fair wether occasional seasonal bodds. Have good night all. Robin |