Towing a bike

[racinchef]

Reminded me too of a story I've told here before, but at everyone's insistence will repeat. When I was a young boy my parents owned the apartment house we lived in. Upstairs from us was a young couple and the husband was a guy small in stature. Anyway, one day he gets a new HD Sportster that was a metallic pea-green. I think the year was 1967 or thereabouts. I can remember that he kept it chained by our back door in an open garage between our house and the barn. He would carefully turn the engine to the right spot with the kickstart lever and then he'd launch himself into air and come down on the kickstart with all he had. Over and over he'd repeat this procedure and I was fascinated watching him. Finally, in disgust, he'd roll it down the driveway and down the hill we lived on and pop the clutch and it would fire right up and he'd ride off. I think he must have felt it challenged his manhood that he couldn't get it started on his own because I don't think I ever saw him kick it over cold.