Maine Rebel

[99ww]

Hi from Maine! I've come from the Rebel 250 site. Bought my 2004 Rebel in April and took the MSF course the following week. I don't have much road time because it's rained here for the past 2 months with very few sunny days. Hopefully, that is changing! I love my Rebel and get out on it every chance I can. I'm a late bloomer... early 50's but I figure it's never too late! I ride with my husband who has a Kawasaki Vulcan 1500. I loved riding with him as a passenger and decided one day that I wanted to ride my own bike! Went looking and the Rebel was the only bike I could sit on and reach the ground and feel safe standing the bike up! It's the perfect bike for me. I want to ride to work, which is 18 miles one way. I work for a personal injury law firm so of course all the attorneys think I'm nuts... but what do they know :roll:
I like this forum a lot and hope to learn a lot more about the Rebel and riding in general.
Wanda

[GearJammer]

Welcome aboard, Wanda :wink:

Congrats on your new Rebel! It's GREAT to see more & more lady riders on the road. Enjoy!

[imarebelrider]

I'm a late bloomer...

better late then never! i'm a late bloomer too . . i'll be 40 this year and my Rebel is my first bike . . my entire family thinks i'm nuts!! and i wouldnt have it any other way! i'm having a blast with my Rebel!

[GearJammer]

deanna wrote: "my entire family thinks i'm nuts!!"........hehehe....Over the years, I've become absolutely convinced that all of us bikers/riders are a bit nutz.....who else would get on 2 wheels, many of us without helmets & ride the dogsnot out of a sickle amongst a sea of yahoo cagers ?

"Have they all gone mmmmaaadddddd" ? :shock: ....hehehe.....

[imarebelrider]

deanna wrote: "my entire family thinks i'm nuts!!"........hehehe....Over the years, I've become absolutely convinced that all of us bikers/riders are a bit nutz.....who else would get on 2 wheels, many of us without helmets & ride the dogsnot out of a sickle amongst a sea of yahoo cagers ?

"Have they all gone mmmmaaadddddd" ? :shock: ....hehehe.....

hehe, but my family thinking that i'm nuts goes waaaaayyyy back before i got my bike . . was raised in a quiet church goin' family . . . no rock-n-roll, no skirts above the knee, no nothing! . . till i came along . . . was a rebel way back when (staying out too late, dating all the wrong boys) . . . so it was only fitting that my first bike would be a Rebel!

i've been giving my family plenty of reason to think i'm crazy all thru my life . . i decided long ago to not go thru life the easy way . . .but i REALLY gave them a reason when at 36 i started getting tattooed . . .( i'm on my third large piece and they still dont get it ;) ) . . . then i decided to start riding . . .yeah, that pretty much just sealed thier opinion that i've lost my mind! . . ah hell, let them think it! i think they're jealous cause i'm having more fun than all of them!!! ;)

[99ww]

"Always been a Rebel" is my sig but also the story of my life! My family KNOWS I'm crazy but every one of em thinks it's great that I "finally" got a bike and wonder "why it took so long"! I've always done things a little bit different from other folks (the hard way) and if I wrote a book about my life, they'd try to put it in the fiction section :wink:

I wasn't surprised that the attorneys I work for are so anti-motorcycle. Not one of them knew about armored jackets and all the safety gear available now.... shameful... So I've been educating them :twisted: My co-workers and friends were not shocked when I told them I'd bought a Rebel and every one of them thought that the name of the bike was "a perfect match" for my personality!!

[GearJammer]

Deanna & Wanda........After reading your posts, it's obvious that you both grew up "normally"......at least by biker standards, LMAO!

At the very least, you've had FUN & that's where it's at! :wink:

[cTc]

At the very least, you've had FUN & that's where it's at! :wink:

And what better way to have fun than with a rebel :idea:

[imarebelrider]

At the very least, you've had FUN & that's where it's at! :wink:

And what better way to have fun than with a rebel :idea:

and the bike is pretty fun too!! :lol:


(oh wait, you probably meant the bike, didnt you? ;) )

:wink:

[cTc]

:lol: touche :lol: