Well, since we don't have a helmet law here...I'm not much help on that. I did buy a sleeve-type thing (at a HD dealer) to put my hair in to keep the tangles out. My hair is kinda layered or at least it's not all the same length. Since I have some shorter hairs up front, I usually put a barret to keep them from blowing around too much. Either way, my hair never usually looks as good as it did when I left the house! I agree with the bandana look...doesn't look great on me! Although, since I am so fair-skinned if we take a longer trip I will wear one and TONS of SPF 45!

I am quite honestly in a mood today! I, for some stupid reason, decided to weigh myself during my lunch break and I am up 5 pounds!! Normally, I weigh without clothes, but I didnt today and I have drank a huge glass of water and 2 cups of black coffee. I feel like I have been doing so good lately, but I am really upset with myself. Maybe I wasn't as good as I thought this weekend. Maybe I have to totally do away with a "free" day? My pants don't feel too tight, which is a good sign, but I keep battling this 5 pounds. I can lose but then regain so easily and then I get mad and eat what I what!! Not this time. I want it off so bad! Anyhow, sorry I just had to vent!

Andrea - Your venting to the right chick. Like I said I have gained 5 pounds since Christmas and it is making me pretty mad too. Just today I said "enuf screwing around." So I had LC for lunch...and watching everything that goes past these lips.
I can't eat like normal people, I gain really easily, it's not fair - it's just the way it is.
If you dont already do this, maybe on your free day you should limit it to one meal or something? Geez, I wish there were some magic trick I could tell you, but then I wouldn't have this extra 5 pounds either....lol Did you tell me your on WW?

HI ladies,

Have been lurking and wanted to say HI, I am a lover of motorcycles, don't have one but being from Hollister California am very used to them & love to look ( I would love to ride some day too) I go home to Hollister every year for the big 4th of July rally it is so great to see so many bikes in one spot, I would love to go to Sturgis one year. I love Harleys, Choppers & of course I love Indian cycles cause they are made in my home town!!!

Just thought I would say HI and I think this was a great idea for a forum, you gotta look good while biking...that is for sure, so what a goal to work towards.

Hi Theo'sgirl!! Welcome, we are so glad to see you here! It's always great to see that we have fellow motorcycle lovers. Now, Hollister would really be something to experience. You ladies that have gone to Laconia, Myrtle Beach, Hollister, and Sturgis are so LUCKY!!! I would imagine that living in California would definetly raise a persons body-awareness. I agree, though that my goal is to someday go to Sturgis, but not looking (and feeling) like this. But it's a great thing to work towards! What kind of bike would you like to own? Oh, and congrats on the weight loss!!!

Ok, Star-- I went off the deep end, again. I went home did my normal 25 min jog, 30 min walk and then weighed later in the evening without the clothes and an empty bladder...I was fine. Still 265, which isnt fine...but... glad that I kept the loss from last week off! Thank you so much for your support, you made me feel so much better. Congratulations for you to really watch yourself. We'll get there! I guess that it doesnt come off overnight and if it did...we'd regain it. We really need to think of some challenge to have. Any ideas?

What is the major thing that motivates you to keep going in the weight loss journey (good or bad motivator)? For me...I have my old "skinny" clothes that arent really all that skinny, but at 1 time those 14/16 pants were too loose. I think that seeing them, knowing I was there, and realizing I CAN be there again helps me. Plus, (my bad motivator) I want to look better than my Dh's ex-wife, but that's a whole other issue that I have to save for Dr. Phil (or maybe Jerry Springer!). Just kidding, it isnt that bad, just my dumb insecurities!

Anyway, I never answered the question about a dream bike. Honestly, a Rebel is not my dream bike I think that to dress her up a little I would like to add this kit I found on a Rebel website that has forks (I believe) that would kind make it look like a chopper. Plus, shine up the chrome a little, remove a dent, and get a paint job. Maybe purple with some ghost flames. Now my dream bike I thought was a Sporster (or $ no limit... an OCC bike or Indian), but now after hearing about and seeing Star's bike...it may be a Lowrider. Dh thinks someday a Heritage would be good for me, but they look super heavy and big. i dont know! LOL

Well, I am LONG winded today ladies... again, welcome Theo'sgirl

Rebel - You'd look awesome on a Heritage, several of my biker chick friends ride those. Trust me, it wouldn't be too big for you either, so DH is right.....darn.

What motivates me to keep losing (or trying) is becuz the more I lose the better I look and the better I look the better I feel. In my profile there is a picture of me, behind a huge strawberry margarita, people say I don't look 55 and I owe all that to exercise and thinking young......There are just too many benifits to losing weight and working out...I'm addicted.
Hugs.

Wow, great thread. I love motorcycles and have been riding for about 5 years. I am very short and love my little Italian bike. It is a 125cc 1967 Gillera and has about the shortest seat I have ever seen, and is so darn cute. I used to have a Kawazaki 400, but it was too tall for me, and I am more a tooling arround town rider than long distance so I did not really need the power. Right now my bike needs a ton of work, which I am dealing with slowly but surely. I have just replaced the tank with an earlier tank which is way cooler (and less rusty). It should be very hip/cafe looking when I am done. I just need to wait till the weather gets better so I can get out into the garage and replace the exhaust system (I already have it but the weather has been too cold to get out there) and clean out the carb.

Hi and welcome aboard SeeCat! I am going to have to search the net and see if I can see what your bike looks like. Since I am fairly new to all this I am just fascinated learning about all the different bikes out there. I think that some of the fun of owning is adding your own personal touches, working on it and spending time with your "baby." Even washing and cleaning can be so much more fun than with a car! I bet that tank looks really great, too. I had to get a new battery and change spark plugs on my bike, which I am a girlie girl and had no clue how to do. But hubby taught me and it was pretty fun to learn something new.

Star-- I am DEMANDING that you share your youthful secrets with us!! . What kind of creams or anti-wrinkle stuff do you use? Are there great aging genes in your family? You look totally gorgeous, you little hotty! ...I am so envious! People are right I would never guess that you were 55. You are right, a younger attitude does really work wonders. I am noticing that the closer to 30 I am getting the more I am worried about aging, although sometimes I act like a 15 yr old! I am really trying to do some anti-wrinke work, so that when I do get older it may not be so bad. Plus I need to quit 1 nasty little habit because I have heard that really wrinkles the skin. Also, I look older when I am heavier. Not all people do, but I really notice that for me.

So, maybe the dream bike might be a Heritage... for some reason I just really like Harley's, but I know that everyone has their own personal choices. Besides, it doesnt matter WHAT a person rides just as long as the ride (or enjoy motorcycles!!)

Andrea - you are too sweet! Thanks. I think I got some good genes from my mom, she is still beautiful at 83 (Swedish & German). But I think the big thing is having an open mind, thinking young, laughing alot and EXERCISE. I think I mentioned before, or in another thread, I have been exercising (fat or thin) since I was 21. I'm just addicted.
If your DH is willing to get you a Heritage I'd say let him.....lol My friends is pearl white and really sharp.
Welcome -SeeCat - Very impressed that you work on your own bike. Like Rebel I'm a girly-girl and leave the greasey stuff up to DH. However, in Motorcylce Safety Class they did teach us how to change spark plugs (which I forgot before I got home - remember I'm blonde and old...lol)

Hello ladies! Wow, Andrea, your thread has taken off!

We just got another 8" of snow...argh!! Last year in March, we had some early melting and I got one or two rides in, after my husband rode my bike up our ice and snow covered driveway, to the clearer highway...but that's not happening anytime soon, I see

I have a secret to share...I'm a little embarassed to reveal it on my major home thread, my sensible calorie-counting and exercise thread....my husband started the South Beach diet, and I am also. I am on my SIXTH day of absolutely NO sugar, NO flour, NO starches of any kind. I should be feeling great from the no sugar, but I'm struggling with woes at work and am not sleeping well at night (like 3 hours for 3 nights in a row) so maybe when work is better, I'll be feeling the good effects of the no sugar.

Back to bikes! I'm so unimaginative when it comes to dreaming of dream bikes. I love my Honda, so I am thinking I would love to trade up to a VTX 1300. I love ghost flames, tribal flames, skulls...and cupcakes Actually going to research how much a vanity plate for my bike would be - "Cupcake" is both my bike AND me.

Star, that pic of you with the giant strawberry margharita is awesome...as I said, you are a hotty!!!

and Star, brrrr, I can sympathize with getting cold to the bone...though I keep doing it Going to Myrtle Beach last year, we hit rain on the NY Thruway, and it was in the 40's. I had on my full Joe Rocket gear, the 4.0 Ballistic waterproof pants, jeans, thermals under; and two thermal shirts and the JR Ballistic 4.0 jacket with the liner; and snowmachines gloves. I was still freezing. Somehow rain got into my boots, and my feet were soaked...we stopped at one of those nice rest areas, and I stripped down and was drying and heating myself and my socks and boots under multiple hand blowers I slipped the socks over the tube-ends of the dryers, and they were puffed out like wind socks, and they didn't smell too good

but a really cool coincidence was that I met a lady who was trailering to Myrtle Beach!! she was SO impressed that I was riding, and guess where she was from...VERMONT! It's a small world! She was very concerned for me, riding in the rain and dark, and gave me her cell number in case I wanted to hook up with her once we got to S.C. Which I didn't have time to do, but I wrote her a thankyou note once I got back (her husband gave us his business card, with their cell number).

ok, will check back soon! think of riding days ahead!

Hey Cupcake - About the South beach Diet, I hear alot of people have had great success with it. We have to find what works for us, even in between legit plans. Right now I'm doing my own thing, after dieting for most of my life, I know what I can and can't eat........go figure. I mentioned before, gaining 5 pounds since Christmas, well I have lost 2 this week. I broke down and went to GNC and bought Total Lean Control, just to help curb my appitite. So far so good. My goal is only 150 and I'm about 165 right now...... Holly/Cupcake - I'm very jealous of your CW...You go girl!
About vanity plates, on my Blazer my plate is GOTRINA,my bike is just a state issued one. I also have a fun plate on my Blazer, have had it since before I got married two years ago, "Good Girls Go To Heaven, Bad Girls Go Everywhere" lol
It is such a small world! But aren't biker folks like the best? No matter where we go on our bikes, with a group or solo, other bikers are just like the nicest people ever. I don't know how we got such a bad rap from years past. Some non-bikers still see us as a bunch of "Hells Angels" or something, I love to change their minds. A guy that works with my DH belongs to a club called "Hells Our Home" - it's one of the darker groups, actually went to a Christmas party one year at their clubhouse. There were bras hanging from the ceiling, but that night everything was 'normal'.....lol And NO I did not leave my bra....lol
Later chicks....

me again

realized I skipped over the helmet hair question Yes, helmet laws in VT, and I have gone without in helmet-less states like NH and SC, but ya know...I just feel more comfortable with one on.

anyway, when myhair was longer (last year) I would ponytail it. But I have layers on top, and of course they get squashed down. At my summer/fall workplace, I'm VERY lucky I have my own bedroom so I brought things from home to help with that helmet hair; comb, brush, curling iron, hairspray. When I'm on the road, I would just try to fluff it out.

I haven't had the opportunity yet this year to see what my shorter 'do will be like , after being squashed. I've experiemented with bandannas, though, and would be okay with wearing one as a headband-type.

and edit to the dream bike - I sat on a Victory Vegas in Boston, at a bike show, and me likey

my laptop is making a funny noise so I'm gonna cut this short - later!

once more I see Star and I posted at the same time, hee hee

yes, I'm encouraged about the SB diet, I THINK I feel better without the refined sugar/starches but once I get more sleep from NOT worrying about work I'll feel even better.

you're right, bikers are the best!!

haha, bras from the ceiling - that reminds me of when DH and I rode to a rally two years ago, in southern NH. We were looking for a friend whom we met online, he told us to join them in their camp. We were slowly riding on this rutted dirt road on a field clustered with tents, bikes, support vehicles, looking for our friends turquoise Vulcan.

We spotted the bike, and slowed down...a guy sitting in a lawn chair in the same camp hollered out "You Joe and Holly from Vermont? come on in!" It wasn't our friend, but a friend of his. So we slowly pull up, and he gets up and greets us. Then he looks at me, and says, You know, all girls here have to get naked right away "

Well Cupcake - I guess between you and me, we have answered my question about how non-bikers have that 'wild' reputation of us bikers.......lol

yes, I guess so!

Funny, how above there was talk of Harley riders going from eating spot to eating spot - I thought that GoldWing riders were the ones with that reputation I must say that I firmly believe riding long distances DOES burn more calories, what with muscle control and increased attention to the road. So we all HAVE to refuel often but I guess we need to make good choices, an apple instead of a Twinkie

Speaking of refueling - and then getting rid of that fuel - do you ladies think that the vibrations of the bike make us (females) have to urinate more often?? I SWEAR I go right before we leave anywhere...yet always have to "go" by the next hours. and how many secret "by the side of the road" stops have you had to sneak in thank goodness it's so rural up here!