Moto Loco Pat goes to Iraq and leaves officially crazy

[dbran1949]

Looks like I won't be joining the MoCo ranks just yet. The V-rod Muscle was plenty poweerful but rode/turned like a truck! Low speed is ridiculous. The brakes were good but "heavy". Shifting/clutch was beyond notchy & heavy. blah blah blah. Oh well, didn't really feel like spending 20k anyway...

I rented one last year at a local Harley rental place ( a buddy was in town and Rent-a-Ducati wasn't up yet). Since my name was on the agreement I rode the V-Rod and he rode my S4RS.  I had the same experience, plus I can not get used to riding with my feet out in front

[GLantern]

Congrats and welcome back!  I can't hate for you buying a harley secretly i want the Night Rod VRSC in all black!  Enjoy it!

[greenohawk69]

Welcome back and congrats on the Harley.  Riding a '97 Dyna Wide Glide myself...waiting for my rear Ohlins shocks to come. 

[zenjim]

Well I just finished a project over in Iraq getting the last Power Plant started up that was part of the great "Reconstruction Effort".
What a depressing joke that was but that's another story....

And this is the place to tell it.
Congrats on finishing up and getting back in one piece.
I was worried you were going to say something about doing a four corners ride on the HD through Iraq. My buddy who was deployed over there told some funny stories about goats and land mines...