THE BIKER PARTY
On my way home from work, I stopped at the local Burger Barn and picked up a bag of sandwiches for supper. I'd owned my old 1950 Harley Hydra Glide a couple of years by then. Bought it and a nearly new black Mustang fastback in 1965. So I'm guessing this was 1967, making me 28.
1949 or 1950 was the first year for hydraulic forks and 1950 the last of the few with tank shift other than police trikes. That big chrome ball on the shiny shifter bracket on a coal black tank showed up and attracted many.
This was a 74 CI Panhead type engine. Bone stock black motorcycle, wide white wall tires, black leather bags with shiny metal buckles and leather tassels, plus a large blue tinted windshield.
Not cool by today's standards.
In cold weather I wore a full helmet with a blue bubble shield to protect my glasses and my eyes from watering. But when nice out we neither wore helmets.
I'd called Dollie from work so she knew I was bringing supper from the little town where I worked twelve miles away. A couple my age walked over to look at my old bike. They'd both gotten off late model Sportster's.
He looked like a wrestler, black leather sleeveless bike vest, arms like a weight lifter. Her, maybe six feet tall, slender, filling out her tight fittin jeans in the right places, blonde, pretty face, wearing a man's ribbed undershirt.
Back then I don't remember women's tank tops. A lot of gals went braless wearing those thin scooped neck men's undershirts. The ribbing was very narrow and seemed transparent between the ribs. Well tanned and braless, she almost appeared topless in the sun.