Picture: A Handsome Pair of Royal Enfields
Today was a unique riding experience for me. I hauled the REB (Royal Enfield Bullet) to Sterling in Northern Virginia to meet up with Mike, another REB rider. Mike and I got acquainted through Yahoo’s royalenfield group. After unloading and admiring each other’s bikes for a bit we rode to a nearby pizza place and had a slice of great Italian pizza and even visited with the owner.
This is the first time I have ridden with another REB and it was neat to hear all that dual thumping and valve clacking going on. Our ride to historic Leesburg consisted of everything from empty residential streets to six lane, traffic clogged highways, to two lanes and gravel. It was on one of the two lanes that a couple of State Police were checking driver’s license. I wondered if they thought I had ridden from Kansas
We took a break in an Irish style pub in the old downtown area of Leesburg then backtracked to Mike’s neighborhood Safeway for well deserved six pack of Guinness. Loaded up (not with Guinness) now and only two and a half hours of traffic hell to get back to Harrisonburg.
Although I have ridden in some traffic before today’s ride was an urban adventure that I will not soon forget. A good motorcycle day.
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