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Add a windshield, saddlebags, maybe a luggage rack and go travel around the country. Before you bought your full dress continent cruncher, what did you travel on? I just got a feeling the "touring" crowd here didn't all start out on a full dress BMW, Electra Glide or a Goldwing Aspencade/Interstate/SEi/etc. Or Yamaha Venture Royale, (I almost forgot Yamaha's).
My first bike I traveled any real distance on was a 1982 Kawasaki CSR650. Just a standard, 4 cyclinder, air cooled, chain driven motorcycle. I found a fairing and windshield and somehow got it mounted, then a passenger backrest/luggage rack combination. It may have been one of the old J.C. Whitney "universal fit" items which means you make it fit. Or it might of come off someone else's wrecked bike. I've slept since then.
Anyhow, everything the wife and I needed, or thought we needed, was piled in to an old Navy sea bag and with a couple hundred bungee cords, it was stuck on the luggage rack. Our first long trip was from here in Northwest Arkansas to Warner Robbins Air Force Base in Georgia where my cousin was stationed at the time, and Six Flags over Georgia.
The factory seat wasn't the most comfortable, but the bike performed flawlessly. Our next bike was a Goldwing and we couldn't hardly wait to try it out, a 1982 GL1100 Goldwing Aspencade. The first of four. So what did you start with or was/is your favorite non-touring "touring" bike?
My first bike I traveled any real distance on was a 1982 Kawasaki CSR650. Just a standard, 4 cyclinder, air cooled, chain driven motorcycle. I found a fairing and windshield and somehow got it mounted, then a passenger backrest/luggage rack combination. It may have been one of the old J.C. Whitney "universal fit" items which means you make it fit. Or it might of come off someone else's wrecked bike. I've slept since then.
Anyhow, everything the wife and I needed, or thought we needed, was piled in to an old Navy sea bag and with a couple hundred bungee cords, it was stuck on the luggage rack. Our first long trip was from here in Northwest Arkansas to Warner Robbins Air Force Base in Georgia where my cousin was stationed at the time, and Six Flags over Georgia.
The factory seat wasn't the most comfortable, but the bike performed flawlessly. Our next bike was a Goldwing and we couldn't hardly wait to try it out, a 1982 GL1100 Goldwing Aspencade. The first of four. So what did you start with or was/is your favorite non-touring "touring" bike?