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| From Harley Davidson Grand Opening RGV Texas 2009-11-21 |
Ms Pat thought she might enjoy the fashion show and I wanted to see all the new 2010 Bikes on display, so we decided to ride the 10 miles and take in some of the festivities. There were quite a few people around and we got to meet the new owner and his son. Strangely enough, he comes from South Dakota. Having that in common, we had a nice enjoyable chat with him and even sat with him at the Fashion Show. He seems to be a nice fellow and not too far from my age...(an old guy!) Pat saw some real nice shirts, blouses and jackets that took her eye. The little kids dressed in Harley clothes were very cute. Course the young ladies weren't bad either...;-)
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure not looking for a new Harley. Our lovely Heritage Softail is mighty enjoyable and exactly the Bike I want. However, I still like to look at "whats new". After all, mine has nearly 8500 miles on it now. Pat and I have put nearly 1500 miles on it since Aug.....it's not even broken in yet.
After the Fashion show, there was a Police escorted ride to the other store in San Benito for the same Ceremony at that store. San Benito is about 40 miles East on Hwy 83. Since we were just there week before last, we decided we wouldn't make the ride. However, over 100 other bikes did.
If you click on the link below the picture above, it will take you to the Web Album of the pictures I took of the activities. You will note that in the picture of the Policeman that he is riding a Kawasaki. I had a long chat with him about that and he informed me that the City Fathers of McAllen bought 5 Kow's as a trial about a year ago. They were of course "Cheaper". They also have several Harleys.
The officer said that they have Harleys ordered to replace the Kow's, because the Kow's won't stand up like the Harleys do. He said it's mainly the clutches. They are hard on clutches because they do a lot of slow riding. The Harley clutches are well known for their durability. Nothing against Kawasaki's in any way shape or form. They are a great Bike. In fact, my son Pat is an avid Kow rider and he has been all through the formal Motorcycle mechanics training. He loves them! But he did tell me jokingly one time "Oh Dad, one day I'll own a Harley too,,,when I'm "OLD"!
After listening to the Bad "Los Lonely Boys" play for a while, we headed on home as we had to meet the DirecTV guy that was coming out to check the LNB on our 5 LNB "Slimline" HDTV dish. Something keeps cutting off our signal. After much investigating and testing, including moving my tripod about 5 ft and having a tree cut down, I found out that if I just tap on the LNB's, it comes right back on. So after we explained all of this to Marcos, the DirecTV guy, he did some testing and installed a new LNB yesterday about 2 pm. It worked all afternoon and up until 10pm last night fine. Maybe that was it. Hope so...those intermittent things are aggravating.
I had to have Satellite TV to watch Nebraska Football last nignt on ESPN. I enjoyed that...especially since they WON!!! Congratulations Cornhuskers and congratulations are also in order for the FSU Seminoles of Tallahassee. They won a CLOSE one. It wasn't on TV in this area, but I sure wish I had seen it.
It was a GREAT WEEK!!
Thanks for stopping by and thank you GOD for allowing us to have everything we have.
We are about to start a NEW project. So stay tuned......you'll hear all about it. Care to guess what it will be?
Mike
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3 comments:
Don't tell us you're going to build a pole barn in Retama Village!
Mike, you should be old enough to know that the first step in fixing something is to give it a good whack!
A Friday night Harley-Davidson dance? Now, that could have been a real interesting sight! Your new project? I'll have to think about that for a bit.
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