It rained on Saturday so we were unable to ride the bike and we felt sorry for all the bikers traveling in the rain, but they at least had two nice days for York bike week and bike night in downtown York. Although we had fun riding in the parade I prefer standing on the side watching and looking at all the different bikes as they pass by.

The little kids are spoiled by the Easter bunny and the clowns in our other parades because they toss them candy and some of them made me feel bad because they were holding their hands out begging for candy and I honestly hadn’t even thought to get any. Below are a few more photos I managed to get before the camera went totally bonkers.
Unique Trike

Parade Bikes Moving Out From Fairgrounds

York’s Finest Keeping Everything Under Control

Scary Looking People Watching

Historical Central Market/ Parade Route

White Rose Party Corner

No one knows yet if this is our last York Bike night in downtown York where they block off the roads so the motorcycle parade starting from the York fairgrounds to downtown can run without interference. People line the streets to watch the parade. We usually like to go downtown and watch the parade and then walk around and check out the vendors and listen to the bands, but this year we decided to ride in the parade. They started lining up around 5 and it was very well planned out so it went off without a hitch at 6:00 last night. I just noticed the time is off on my camera.

I tried to take some pictures, but my camera was acting up.  I bet there were at least 2,000 bikes and it seemed like a lot more than 2 years ago. We missed it last year because we were in Kentucky. I think everyone is afraid that this is the last one since Harley may be moving their plant and they are the big draw and sponsor for this event. People come from all over the country to have fun, socialize, take demo rides and ride in the parade, it’s a big event for York and pulls in a lot of revenue, if Harley moves their plant then York will be hurting. I’ll post more tomorrow.

We rode to Chambersburg Saturday to the M&S Harley Davidson for the bike and Corvette show. They had live music and food vendors and this is usually what we do on weekends. There’s usually always something going on some place around us and it’s just what we do. I took a few photos because I like to put them in an album. I added just a few of the bikes that were entered in the show below, all money raised goes for a good cause. Bill was drooling over the older Corvettes.

This post is an answer for Patsy who is also having a problem mounting their passenger armrests on their Harley trike her comment was “Hi I just noticed that you were having problems putting arm rests on your trike. We too are in the same boat. We have a Harley Trike and need to get our arm rests on our bike. Could your friend Bill tell us how he did make them work?” As you can see from the photo below Bill did figure out a way to attach my passenger armrests.

The 2nd photo  Bill removed the seat so I could take a picture of the steel bar which he got at Lowe’s. It’s the one that is unpainted and it’s a 12 inch long 1-1/2 inch by 1/4 piece of stock steel. He had to drill 4 holes. From each end they were 1-1/2 and 2-1/2 on center and they were 1/4 inch holes, he had to use the spacers and it’s connected where the tour pack should have been, but he had to move the tour pack back.

It should have been a piece of cake to mount them, but there was no room to attach them to the tour pack where they would normally have gone. If it had been a regular bike there would have been no problem what so ever. I’m really glad he figured out how to make them work because I really love them and I was afraid he’d have to send them back. I hope the information helps and if you have any more questions Patsy please don’t hesitate to ask.

I am updating to add that we lowered the air pressure in the back tires to 25 they had them at 40 and we have one of those small somewhat expensive pumps we got at our Harley shop for our shocks Bill pumped them up to 35 since we are 2 up and it really feels different when you go over bumps it seems to flow easier and not hit so hard. Those are things that you can play with and adjust till you find what feels best for you and everyone has a different opinion.

I’m certainly happy with the trike and feel so much safer in traffic around all those drivers that besides finding me invisible that don’t seem to see motorcycles either this thing at least stands out to them. We don’t have reverse on ours and so far we’ve never needed it, it rolls so easy, but we always try to take care where we park and we like the special places they let us park at the motorcycle events, we’re getting spoiled. Have a great weekend.