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LDRider
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- If you change tires several times a year
- If you have an auxiliary tank strapped onto your motorcycle
- If you spent more on your motorcycle's seat than on living room furniture
- If Rand McNally knows where YOU live
- If your idea of the ideal boyfriend or girlfriend is one who lives 1000 miles away
- If your home is a bonus location on the Iron Butt Rally
- If you think changing your underwear is an expense of time you can ill afford
- If you gave up on deodorant because it doesn't help after six days without showering
- If your head is shaved for cooling under a helmet, to save time washing your hair, or because you came in third in a rally
- If there are photographs of you in every cheap motel across the country
- If there are photographs of you at every highway rest stop picnic table across the country
- If Helge Pedersen wants to ride with you
- If your spouse decides to take a vacation every time you say "Honey, I'm going for a short ride"
- If the nearest restaurant you can think of is in a state that is not adjacent to the one you live in
- If you know not to ride with Art Holland
- If you and your spouse were married by Rev. Wolkoff or Rev. Tollett
- If you think a good way to spend a week is to visit 98% of the states in the union
- If people show up at gas stations to bring you bananas
- If the decision of which motorcycle to buy was based on fuel, storage, and electrical capacity
- If your shop telLS you that your bike is the highest mileage Savage they've ever serviced
...and your bike is only one year old
- If you ride from work in one suburb of Chicago to home in another suburb of Chicago
...via Iowa
- If you think a temperature range of 10 to 100 degrees Fahrenheitis motorcycling weather
- If you are trying to figure out how to carry spare tires on a motorcycle
...NOT in case of a puncture, butt for when they wear out
- If you crash an expensive high performance motorcycle on the last leg of a rally
...and finish second anyway
- If you crash a touring motorcycle and continue on for thousands of miles on a Honda Shadow
- If you take a motor scooter or ancient two stroke East German motorcycle for a spin around the entire United States
- If you've considered mounting handlebars on your bed
...because it's more comfortable to sleep while leaning on them
- If you've ever woken up in bed in the middle of the night feeling like you were falling
...off your motorcycle
- If you're willing to invest a huge amount of money and time into a contest for which the reward is a plaque, hat, or mangy looking armadillo
- If you have your valuable Harley Davidson motorcycle stolen
...and replace it the same day with a BMW and ride anyway
- If you've given serious thought to schemes for avoiding rest room stops
- If you know the real names of Biff, Mortimor, Warchild, Roadrash, and SuzyQ
- If you convince your ex-spouse that a good parent-child day is to take said child on a one thousand mile trip in the cold and rain
- If you put together a bike out of a mess of parts from someone's garage floor, ride for 11 days, and come in third in a rally
- If you collect National Park stamps
- If you measure distance in tanks of fuel
- If you bought a Concours and still felt the need to increase the fuel capacity
- If you've ever gone target shooting
...at a Barbie Doll
......from a motorcycle
- If you're a man
...and you've worn women's underwear
......on your head
.........while smoking a cigar
............in the middle of nowhere Nevada
- If every time you buy gasoline, you instinctively get a receipt
- If you ride a state of the art fuel injected motorcycle with electronic ignition, computer adjusted suspension, ABS, GPS, Radar Detector, Fuel plus, Radio Shack Timer, digital volt meter, CB radio, weather radio, cellular phone
- If you ride an antique carbureted motorcycle with points & condensor ignition, kick start, bone rattling suspension, drum brakes, and a compass
- If you read this whole list
...you might be an LDReader