{"id":137,"date":"2011-05-15T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-15T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ratbikemilo.com\/site\/?page_id=137"},"modified":"2011-07-15T22:28:37","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T22:28:37","slug":"rat-bike-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ratbikemilo.com\/site\/rat-bike-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Rat bike history"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1975\u00a0my bid was accepted for\u00a0a very well worn and abused CHP 1970 Shovel head cop bike at one of their auctions. It went through a lot of transformations over the years. Chopper, ridged frame, a lot of the 70’s stuff. In ’79 I put everything in\u00a0a ’59 pan head swing arm frame. In 1980 my longest road trip, to date, was to NYC, Washington DC. and the deep South. That was 34 states in 5 weeks and 9,000 miles, with just me and\u00a0a gal on the back.\u00a0It was the real deal<\/strong> of a bike trip. No <\/strong>motels, tenting it all the way. No <\/strong>Restaurants either, a Sterno cooker and an\u00a0Igloo ice chest in the back pack, was what we did for all our meals.\u00a0When we got home to Roseburg Oregon, I took the bike to a car wash. After the bath it took 45 minutes to start. I said “That’s it, i ain’t gonna wash you ever again”<\/em>!<\/p>\n

Fast forward to 2011 and I have proof <\/strong>that she has yet to be washed! My Shovel head and I have\u00a0ridden (not trailered)<\/em> to 48 states and 5 Provinces of Canada, logging well over 615,000 miles to date. In 2008, while going to Milwaukee Wisconsin for Harley’s 105th birthday party, I felt compelled to show some of Harley’s Executive’s, who we were riding with,\u00a0what we could do. I passed the whole group at 109 mph while waving to them. No I don’t do that very often. But if ya want to ride with me, be prepared to do 80 to 85 on average.\u00a0I\u00a0like to challenge myself with\u00a0Iron Butt runs. Four of them\u00a0so far of over 1,000 miles in a day.<\/p>\n

The whole idea of riding a Rat Bike is to let people smile and enjoy my ever changing creation.\u00a0Most of the memorabilia on my bike was given to me\u00a0by people from almost every state , and Canada as well.\u00a0When people see me and the bike again, the challenge is on to see if they can find what they put on from a previous encounter, sometimes from years ago.<\/p>\n

Ever since I was an early teenager, I determined that my goal in life would be to see how many smiles I could put on peoples faces as I pass through this world. Did it work for you?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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