I still don’t have the answer, but the truth is that I’m thinking about it more than ever. Doing more than 20.000 k (12.500 miles) last year on my ‘97 FatBoy has been a mixture of pleasure and pain. Several break downs, a growing pain on my back, tons of mosquitoes and other flying objects on my face as well as countless hours of fun and joy on the road are driving my mind into paying growing attention to baggers. Lately I reckon that I tend to look with more loving eyes to Street Glides and Ultra Classics. Both have pros, both have cons. But my main barrier is that I don’t want to sell my present bike. I’d love to keep it, so as to further customize it without having to keep the long distance tours in mind. Taken that into account, an Ultra Classic seem to be the perfect fit. A bike where my girlfriend can travel in comfort, and with plenty of room for everything a woman seem to NEED to take with her even for the shortest ride. And that’s a lot of things. On the other side, the Street Glide look to me more like “my style”, but I feel is less adequate for duo riding, and I’d love to travel with my girlfriend more often.

Obviously, money is another barrier for making this come true. I just hope that lots of you come to Spain next year and do any of the tours I am preparing at Spain On Twins, so that, besides earning a little of the money I need for the buy, I also have the perfect excuse to tell my girlfriend when she discovers that I’ve signed yet another loan at the bank. “Honey, this is not for me. This is for us. This is for the business….”

While this moment comes, you can watch a nice commercial presentation of the 2010 models done by the MoCo. Nice new models. I’d probably buy them all if I could…

Ride Safe.

See you on the road !