I accidentally ended up in the middle of a Harley Block party with my ST
So, this past weekend my wife and I decided to go to a new restaurant ... We jumped on the ST, and took a nice little ride over, and pulled up downtown. I've been to this city many times. It's a dinky town with a couple cute little restaurants.
Anyway, we parked downtown and where we parked there were a few people just starting setting up tables on the block in front of us. Literally we were the first spot next to the roped off area where 2 or 3 people meandering around and apparently setting up for an event. No biggie ... it was Friday night, and I thought maybe there was a Farmers Market the next day or something. There were a couple Harley's on the street, but no more than normal: There is a weekend bar 1/2 block away.
Fast Forward 2 hours: My wife and I walk out of the Restaurant to hear music BLARING ... Sure enough, since we had been in the restaurant, the block had been fully transformed into was a Harley Block Party complete with a couple hundred of Harley riders, wives, and girlfriends in the full leather getup, all drinking beer (which I never understood ... how do drinking and riding ever mix???), listening to music, tire-ticking, talking about chaps (that's what they do right?) ... the whole 9 yards.
Needless to say, we didn't exactly fit in. The good news was that we had to walk right through the middle of it to get to my bike, which was quite the attention grabber on it's own, considering that since we had got there, about 30 decked out, flame covered, high handlebar Harleys we're parked ALL around my ST.
Of course, since we had parked in the perfect spot, we were right next to the line of 100+ waiting to get in: There was absolutly now way to drive away unnoticed. All 100 gawked at us as we walked to the bike, put on our helmets (who wears those these days right?) ... started it up with it's "loud sexy low growl", and "roared" away. Lol.
Based on their stares, I am pretty sure they all clearly were loving the bike. If I had stuck around much longer I probably coulda sold it for 2x its value I'm just glad I didn't drop it or anything.
So, this past weekend my wife and I decided to go to a new restaurant ... We jumped on the ST, and took a nice little ride over, and pulled up downtown. I've been to this city many times. It's a dinky town with a couple cute little restaurants.
Anyway, we parked downtown and where we parked there were a few people just starting setting up tables on the block in front of us. Literally we were the first spot next to the roped off area where 2 or 3 people meandering around and apparently setting up for an event. No biggie ... it was Friday night, and I thought maybe there was a Farmers Market the next day or something. There were a couple Harley's on the street, but no more than normal: There is a weekend bar 1/2 block away.
Fast Forward 2 hours: My wife and I walk out of the Restaurant to hear music BLARING ... Sure enough, since we had been in the restaurant, the block had been fully transformed into was a Harley Block Party complete with a couple hundred of Harley riders, wives, and girlfriends in the full leather getup, all drinking beer (which I never understood ... how do drinking and riding ever mix???), listening to music, tire-ticking, talking about chaps (that's what they do right?) ... the whole 9 yards.
Needless to say, we didn't exactly fit in. The good news was that we had to walk right through the middle of it to get to my bike, which was quite the attention grabber on it's own, considering that since we had got there, about 30 decked out, flame covered, high handlebar Harleys we're parked ALL around my ST.
Of course, since we had parked in the perfect spot, we were right next to the line of 100+ waiting to get in: There was absolutly now way to drive away unnoticed. All 100 gawked at us as we walked to the bike, put on our helmets (who wears those these days right?) ... started it up with it's "loud sexy low growl", and "roared" away. Lol.
Based on their stares, I am pretty sure they all clearly were loving the bike. If I had stuck around much longer I probably coulda sold it for 2x its value I'm just glad I didn't drop it or anything.
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