Why motorcycles and why small displacement motorcycles? I guess we first have to remember our first experience on a motorcycle and for you personally, where it all started. For just about everybody that starts riding young, or even gets started when they're older, it's usually a small bike.
They're light, they're nimble, they're not loud or frightening, they're calm and almost reassuring! They remind us of our childhood, of the mini bikes we've built or have ridden, powered by lawn mower engines, or of the mopeds and scooters we bought at yard sales or military surplus or off some old man and from our friends. Things we resurrected out of old barns and garages, that beyond all hope, we got running and enjoyed... to those of us that get it, it just seems like proof we existed at all!
A bike is freedom, it's the open road, it's the wind in your hair, across your face and it's the purest form of travel, unobstructed by glass or a steel roof overhead... it's just you, your bike and the world whizzing by! The road is never more pure, then when you experience it on a motorcycle.
That's why I chose the small displacement bikes. I want people to knock the cobwebs off their old Cushman's, rev up the Yamahas, tune up their old Lambrettas and Vespas, get the Cubs and the Trails ready, throw some new rubber on the Honda MB5's, rebuild the engine on your Mustang or throw in a more modern power plant, fire up the Benlys and the Dreams, dust off the Doodle Bugs, break out the street legal mini bikes and your cool custom lawn mower power plants, overhaul the Simplex or your new scooter or new bike or just take your hodgepodge of old parts and run what you brung!
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Let's take a long road trip together, where we'll start out as new friends and by the end, be old friends! We'll make lifelong connections, form cool alliances, eat together, drink together, laugh together, maybe cry together, share stories together and we'll definitely ride together!
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But the bikes got bigger and louder and faster and heavier and the roads and the speeds, got bigger and faster and longer and scarier! So I really wanted to slow it all down, turn back the clock, take a road trip, across the Great South, in the 40s or 50s! Not on some big, heavy, obnoxious loud Harley or some 1500 lb Goldwing, with giant saddlebags or a 200 horsepower crotch rocket... no, we're slowing it down and we're taking it easy and it's all about the journey!
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Don't get left behind, join the Glades run and add some adventure to your life, on a bike!