Gunner,
Having read what you posted, I got to say good for you getting out of
that trap. Seen some friends go too far down that one way road. It
seems alot of those folks really miss the point about what riding is
all about, they want to claim freedom when all they are is a walking
billboard. Most of them are a bad as some of the fundamentalist x-ians
in their turn their nose up in the air attitude towards someone who
rides something other than a hawg.
I think it will be real funny if Cali. gets rid of the helmet law and
all those people who bought their 25K + cookie cutter choppers and $700
leather jackets from the harley clothing store at the mall... you know
the corporate laywer types who have been keeping this fad going.. who
else can afford it? Has to sell them because their wife won't let them
ride without a helmet and the image they want to project will no longer
include a helmet...lol

yep, good to hear you got out, we send a lot of HD machined parts to
the local prision to be polished, cheap source of labor... those guys
live for polishing those parts.. becuase it's the closest they get to
being "In The Wind" for the next 10 to 20.