worntorn
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My daughter called yesterday and asked if I could meet her at a car dealership to have a look at a diesel truck she and her husband are interested in. Weather was fine so I decided to ride the Glenli. I had a couple of slow stops to make on the way and got there a bit late, but was feeling positively zingy riding it into the car lot, it is a fun bike.There was the usual collection of young cleancut car salesmen gathered around outside, all having a good gawk as I rode in with lots of noise and gratutitous RPM.
One spikey haired fellow in his mid twenties came over as I was parking and getting the riding gear off."What kind of bike is that?" Explaining a standard Vincent to a twenty year old can be a bit laborious, but quickly explaining the Glenli to a twenty year old is nearly impossible. I gave some sort of abbreviated run down, but I could see none of it went in, he had decided it was a Harley of some type was still trying to figure out what model it was. Now I know how Phillip Conrad Vincent felt after his visit to the US in 1949 prior to him dropping HRD from the name. To his horror he learned that many people in the US thought The Vincent HRD was some sort of Harley offshoot, they had no knowledge of the HRD connection and historical significance.
"We do get some uhhhh Older Gentlemen in here on the other Harleys, the big cruiser ones, but we ahhh, don't usually see uhhhh , uhhh an Older Gentleman on uhhhh , uhhhh, a nice looking bike! "
Glen
One spikey haired fellow in his mid twenties came over as I was parking and getting the riding gear off."What kind of bike is that?" Explaining a standard Vincent to a twenty year old can be a bit laborious, but quickly explaining the Glenli to a twenty year old is nearly impossible. I gave some sort of abbreviated run down, but I could see none of it went in, he had decided it was a Harley of some type was still trying to figure out what model it was. Now I know how Phillip Conrad Vincent felt after his visit to the US in 1949 prior to him dropping HRD from the name. To his horror he learned that many people in the US thought The Vincent HRD was some sort of Harley offshoot, they had no knowledge of the HRD connection and historical significance.
"We do get some uhhhh Older Gentlemen in here on the other Harleys, the big cruiser ones, but we ahhh, don't usually see uhhhh , uhhh an Older Gentleman on uhhhh , uhhhh, a nice looking bike! "
Glen
Hell I'm 50 next month and can't believe it, I like to think I'm barely half way there but you never know. My Pops beat renal cancer and is 84 now and my older brother (54) seems to have beat prostate cancer. They thought I had basal cell skin cancer on my arm and asked me if I wanted them to cut it off...I think I said something along the lines of you're damn right I want you to cut it off. ( biopsy showed it wasn't cancer...it sure was ugly though). When you here the big "C" and your name in the same sentence it really gets your attention.
