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Blogs > travlndog > the ice cream wagon

I want my bike back.  

travlndog 65M
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5/16/2008 7:44 pm
I want my bike back.

It has been almost 4 years since the husband of the woman who babysat our volunteered to work on my motorcycle. It was a generous gesture on his part and I expected and planned to pay him a reasonable fee for his service. He works as a mechanic in town and has worked on many motorcycles although mostly Harleys. Unfortunately, mine is a Honda CB650. I bought it in '79 after a breakup with a long time girlfriend. I rode it a lot the first couple of years and really loved the bike. After I graduated from college I moved to Wyoming from Iowa taking only what I could pack on the bike. That was the start of a great time of my life.
Unfortunately, along the way I got busy driving trucks and then got married and the bike was put into storage and time past. The bike moved with me when I did, always with the intent to get it going and start riding again. I started a family and things got even busier. Now it has been since 1984 since the bike was last licensed. I always yearn in the spring to go for a cruise, maybe even go for a long trip retracing the past a little.
My mechanic admits he worked on the bike for a while but something about the 4 carburaters frustrated him so he gave up and it is now buried deep in his garage. Last time I talked to him he was thinking he knew someone that could get it done for me. He was going to talk to the guy and then let me know. That was 4 months ago. It's about time to go down to the bar and find him and then make arraingements to pick the bike up and get it to a serious mechanic.

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