Longhaulpaul's Chasing the Cure

Chosen

The few, the proud, the put away wet.

No, I did not get to pick the chosen 100 motorcycles for my World Record attempt, I didn’t even ask for certain styles or brands. I feared the worst, pink scooters and Ural’s with sidecars, but thank God that did not materialize.  I didn’t even get the usual salesman pitch about features and benefits. I wasn’t showed where the controls were, or even where the foot pegs were situated.   In fact, no one ever asked to see my motorcycle learners permit. I just hopped from one bike to the next, hoping I would find the foot pegs by the end of the street! Really slow turn of the throttle as I eased out the clutch, and off I went! (Times 100!)

The best I got was,

“Hey, Paul, you’re gonna love this one, it’s got like 170 horsepower at the rear wheel.”

The truth in fact, is I was allowed to ride 100 different bikes, with a combined value of about a million dollars, in the dark, and in the rain. Somewhere in New Hampshire tonight there is probably an insurance agent grinding away a few molars. Thankfully, we had no close calls or scratched paint jobs!

I did indeed set a new world record and raised $4000 for the MS Society by riding 1000 miles in under 24 hours on  100 different motorcycles, and  you can see each and every one of the bikes below!