I guess it’s my turn to write a little about myself and how I got into the motorcycling world as well as Thunder Roads Magazine of Iowa.
seen my car, well at least the way it is going to look when it is done. Hopefully that will be sooner rather than later. I could ramble on forever about stuff like this.
I’ll start with some of my past. I guess you could say Harley-Davidson has been in my life as long a I can remember. My dad may not have had as o until I was 14, but that never stopped us from one stopping by Harley shops and checking stuff out. H always said that he never wanted to ride or buy He a anything for a motorcycle until he could afford a Harley-Davidson. Long story short, in June of 1999 he was finally available to purchase the 1999 N Nighttrain which I am proud to now call my own. A After that it was hard to separate him from the bike a we took numerous trips and a even hit up Sturgis a and c couple of times, which I w would like to hit again, b that would require but a occupation change. an A Anyway, getting back on t track…I started at Carroll Cycle Center in March of 2004. Having only been around bikes for 5 years, I went in thinking I knew a bit but found out quickly that I didn’t know squat. Thankfully I picked up a lot in a short amount of time thanks to all the other guys around the shop and a couple of great customers that were very patient with me. In the summer of that year my mom and I decided we wanted to get a bike also and went for a 2004 Nighttrain. After that season of riding I decided I wasn’t as into owning a bike as I thought and sold my half to her so that I could dump the money into my 4 wheeled love, my Camaro. Yes, I am sorry to say I am a cage lover. I’m probably one of very few people that have their car painted on their bike. If you’ve seen my bike then you’ve
I don’t remember exactly when Vernon and I first met. I know it was long before the magazine came about back when he was one of my regular pain-in-the-ass customers. LOL…just kidding Vernon. Anyway, when they started doing the mag I thought it was pretty cool and after one of my first Harley-Davidson dealer shows I gave them a bunch of info I had gotten from the dealer show so that he could write an article with it for the mag. From there it slowly progressed to me writing an article each month to inform everyone about the new, up and coming P&A and boom, here I am. However, it seems to get a little harder and harder each month to find that one thing that is going to catch your attention and would be useful to a majority of the readers/ riders out there. With all of the new tech and trinkets out there it’s hard to pick just one.
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As for what’s coming up in my life. I recently asked my girlfriend (July 2014 Cover Model) to be my wife while we were on vacation out in Las Vegas. After working on all the wedding stuff and planning back here I’m starting to wish we would have just done the deed out there lol. That however would have made for a couple of ‘not so happy’ mothers and I would rather go through this than that. Thanks to all of you that read my article each month and I hope that many of you find them useful. It’s always nice to hear people give compliments or come in not knowing me or that I wrote the article but start inquiring about some of the topics because they read about it in Thunder Roads Magazine of Iowa. Tony
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