I read this BBS

I read this BBS, you guys really love the Valkyrie, guess I do too.

I read a post below by Winterhawk about the fate of the Valkyrie…

It's been a good bike and a good time, but like all things in life… things change, things end.

So love 'em while they last and while you got them

I just realized today this will most likely be the last motorcycle I ever own.

I've stopped reading the motorcycle magazines, when I do searches on the internet it's never about motorcycles.

Now when friends and acquaintances tell me their going to buy a Harley it's not like the old days when I could tell them there are better options, hell I don't know or care what the options are anymore.

And I see my children and their friend now in their 20’s and 30’s buying into the Harley Fashion Parade, all glassy eyed by the hype and marketing of corporate America and the media.

I have to smile, was a time I would show them something different, something, well special and unique. Something really worth getting a tattoo over, something that breathed fire and ran like a Bat out ‘o Hell.
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Some years ago I hit that point in a my life where I thought “oh hell better get out and do some riding cause at my age the riding option is quickly closing”.

So I was going to buy a Harley. With my age and income and memories about Harleys, I was in a place where I could afford one, and why not, all my buddies my age were going through the same mid-life crisis and buying up Harleys, they were the correct and fashionable motorcycle to own.

Back then I was on fire for motorcycles. In my youth I rode English bikes, and though not the most reliable of vehicles they handled so well.

So being so interested in motorcycles and after riding the Harley, which was like driving a dump truck after the English bikes I rode in my youth I did the research and found the Valkyrie.

One thing I didn't like about the English bikes was the drop off in performance when I put a passenger on. And I had gained a few pounds since my youth. I needed a bike that could support me and possibly a passenger, and it had to handle.

The Valkyrie was all that and a bag of chips!

I’ve made some incredible memories aboard my Valkyrie and some great friends through this club, friends I’ll have for life hopefully. But again, like the Valkyrie all good things must come to an end.

The Valkyrie is a hell of a machine, and they will be tooling around at least for another few years as will this club.

But with no new generations of Valkyries...then like before, Dragons will become more and more rare, and will fade from the consciousness of motorcyclist’s as they did in myth.

There will be a few old codgers who will tell stories, legends will evolve around their being, and their awesomeness, their ability to breathe fire and fly. In the wisps of smoke that is time the Valkyrie will be hard to make out, what they really were and at the time what they meant to their owners.

The Vincent Black Shadows, the Brough Superiors, the Velocettes, the Indians and the Nortons. They all take there place in history as will our Valkyries.

Dragons being mythical and magical creatures, well not everyone believes in them. Lord knows we tried to carry the word forward, to continue the magic to share the legend but things like corporations, business sense, profits, don’t lend themselves to magic so well.

We were the lucky few who flew with dragons, believed in Norse Angels, and know the magic of owning a true legend.

So this may be the last generation of dragons in our times, I have known those who have rode with dragons to whom it was more then a mere fad, the right label, the fashionable statement. They rode dragons because they are dragons, “Mythical Flying Beasts that Breathe Fire and Fly.

Here’s to the Valkyrie… at the least we were lucky enough to have found the most superior all around motorcycle of our time, maybe of our generation, and had the good sense to spend time exploring disappearing America upon Dragons.

And here is to Mini-Malls, Hybrid Vehicles and the growth of Track Homes.

To quote: “This country was built by individuals, coming together as a group, not a group who came together pretending to be individuals” by Black Echo.

One more quote: "Honda Valkyrie- the "Made-In-America" motorcycle that America wishes it could make." -By BradP