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https://www.facebook.com/1691511874492457/posts/2895364970773802/ Mama and I went for a ride. Had lunch in Tombstone Arizona. Went to Bisbee and to the border town of Naco. Headed back via Sierra Vista. I forgot to get an insulin shot. Riding back on hwy 90 my blood sugar was high and so I had to stop to pee. A normal response to high glucose. I was fully intending to make it to the truck stop at I-10 and hwy 90, but something told me to stop at the Chevron station at 90 and 82. I slowed preparing to turn in. The light was green on north 90. A black car was flying on 82 west (100 mph +). He blew the red light and hit the silver car. If I would have continued straight in another 15 seconds it would have been us. When God tells you to stop and pee... stop and pee.

As we all know, this group of misfits has some amazing members and I need to take a few minutes to thank 2 of them. Big thanks to Videoarizona - David for paying it forward with a Utopia backrest. I installed it today and can't wait to go riding. I will be paying it forward in another thread with the backrest that I took off the bike. Big thanks to M61A1Mech - Steve for the rear light bar. I installed it today, and the quality of the work and all the plug and play connections made it simple enough that even an electrically challenged dummy like me installed it.....and it works! Thank you very much gentleman. Attached Sorry for the pics...they appeared the right way when I loaded them.

I know I'm late with this but attached is what I gleaned off the Utopia site. I also have one that I need to adjust reward as it is too close to my back and after a while creates a pressure point. Hope this helps others that might want to install this backrest, Mark

Keep the memories forever and let the bike go, that's what I would do. But, to be honest I'm not the most sentimental person when it comes to things & objects after watching one of my brothers lose everything in a home fire some years back. It was a custom built log home, that he spent 7 years building, a magnificent place, even featured in a log home magazine once. It was a complete and total loss, including everything inside, literally a pile of ash. Well, almost everything. It still gives me chills - one photo album survived, with photo's of the house being built. All of us pitched in during the construction years, but Dad spent a lot of time there. Seeing slightly charred photos of Dad helping place the last log was a real tear jerker for all of us, he had passed away almost exactly 1 year prior to the fire. If I recall correctly it was exactly 1 year + one week. Don't quite know what to make of those sorta occurrences in life, but to me the lesson was our things can be gone in an instant, but our memories of good times with the people in our lives are really our most valuable possessions. Put it on craigslist, tell your story and you will very likely find someone who's excited to get the bike, restore it and make their own memories with it. I'm willing to bet at the end of the day, you'll feel a great sense of happiness sending it off to its new home and new family.

I have all kinds of randomness with sentimental value taking up room it shouldn’t. If it’s gonna get a home and back on the road I’d send it on the journey. I’d have a hard time sending it to scrap though. Looks in fabulous shape from the picture.