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Well done on your successful rebuild and first ride.

Thank you, everyone!

It's funny, it's sort of anticlimactic, in a way. I started her engine, checked the shifting while she ran on the centerstand, and because she was okay, I rolled her outside, climbed aboard...and off we went. I had intended to ride around the block just once, and easily at that. It took me two corners for the feel of the bike to come back (distant memories!), and I decided half way around the block that I was going to go another circuit. I really didn't fathom then that gulf of time that had passed since I last rode her - when she broke down on the Long Island Expressway and I limped home on her - and parked her for what turned out to be thirty eight years. Had it really been that long? While I was riding along on her, reacquainting myself with her, listening to her familiar sounds, immediately at home with the way she felt, I wondered if that time had really gone by. Everything that had happened to me, my life, in those intervening years was almost insignificant. My old friend is back. She was an important part of my life, not just a motorcycle...she's my old friend, and we're catching up on all those years!

Congrats, you must be a very lucky women.

Riding your old friend in one of the world's most beautiful regions were the weather is always nice !

Jensen, I think I am! I now have to get started on getting her registered so I can spend time on her. I still need to finish up some details, and then - well, it's going to be fun!

Thank you!!

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Thank you, J Lee!