Usually a big deal anyway, right? We wait (sometimes even longer than normal because Punxsutawney Phil loves snow) for that first nice day where the sun isn't setting by 5:00 p.m., for the chance to wash the bike, to crank it up and hold our breaths until that familiar sound begins because you used a battery tender all winter like everyone says to damn it! 
I've waited for over a year for today's ride. It was my first trip out where I didn't feel so empty and sad knowing my Dad isn't around to start the riding season too. He loved the warm days like today, though he would have wondered all day of it's going to rain due to the cloud cover. I always told him those are my favorite days to ride - overcast so you're not baking on the Busa like a hotdog over a campfire stuck on a skewer, not fighting the sun's glare and hoping cagers aren't either...only had one WTH moment with a "soccer mom" type. No sweetie, you can't multitask and operate that SUV-the-size-of-a-department-store without drifting in to our lane...
So many other bikers out today too...wave, wave, wave, crap! I just waved to a scooter! I admit it, I own it, little 50cc scoot on the shoulder
It was just so nice to be riding, I couldn't help myself, and I am pretty sure said scooter did not reciprocate 
It was a great day to get out on two, and even though it would have been so much better with Dad there, it was a relief that I finally got in my Busa, over a year and a half after losing him, and I actually enjoyed myself. My Busa is now 11, and it rides and feels like it did when I just bought it...my smile is just as big and I wouldn't trade those feelings for anything right now. It felt so great to feel that way again...it's been too long.
Caesar and Violet are tucked away for a bit longer...rain tomorrow, possible snow Tuesday. Can someone please shoot that stupid ground hog now?
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I've waited for over a year for today's ride. It was my first trip out where I didn't feel so empty and sad knowing my Dad isn't around to start the riding season too. He loved the warm days like today, though he would have wondered all day of it's going to rain due to the cloud cover. I always told him those are my favorite days to ride - overcast so you're not baking on the Busa like a hotdog over a campfire stuck on a skewer, not fighting the sun's glare and hoping cagers aren't either...only had one WTH moment with a "soccer mom" type. No sweetie, you can't multitask and operate that SUV-the-size-of-a-department-store without drifting in to our lane...
So many other bikers out today too...wave, wave, wave, crap! I just waved to a scooter! I admit it, I own it, little 50cc scoot on the shoulder
It was just so nice to be riding, I couldn't help myself, and I am pretty sure said scooter did not reciprocate It was a great day to get out on two, and even though it would have been so much better with Dad there, it was a relief that I finally got in my Busa, over a year and a half after losing him, and I actually enjoyed myself. My Busa is now 11, and it rides and feels like it did when I just bought it...my smile is just as big and I wouldn't trade those feelings for anything right now. It felt so great to feel that way again...it's been too long.
Caesar and Violet are tucked away for a bit longer...rain tomorrow, possible snow Tuesday. Can someone please shoot that stupid ground hog now?
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I'm jealous....at least 4 weeks before I can....damn surgery 
