Is a very clean Harley.?ÿ
but Look at the license plate. It is handicapped. This raises all kinds of questions in my mind. Do they actually have a special parking spaces for handicap guys on Harley??s? It doesn??t really hurt me if it means they park in handicap spaces for Cars. But it has ape hanger handlebars.?ÿ
I don??t know. But it was very clean.?ÿ
Maybe it was the wheelchair icon that got my attention. That??s got to be it.
Possibly missing part of one or both legs.
Legally blind..............................NAH
This thread is rather insensitive. The owner of the bike may be a veteran with a prosthetic appendage. Or lots of other things. It's not too hard to imagine a person who has difficulty walking but could manage the bike.?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿ
@mark-mayer well said, Mark. ?ÿI know that I was (and still am at times) particularly judgy when I would see, for example, a young and by all appearances healthy man say riding an electric scooter. ?ÿUntil, my body forced me to be that man last January. ?ÿThat was a humiliating and humbling experience. ?ÿMy pride was adjusted a couple notches. ?ÿIt needed that adjustment.
edit ~ my issue is ??foot drop?. ?ÿI also used to be (and probably still am at times) annoyed by people shuffling their feet. ?ÿI would think (or mumble/grumble) why don??t they just pick up their feet? ?ÿI have since learned that is easier said than done for some folks.
Mercy & Grace.
One of my staff had a heart transplant 5 years ago at the age of 48. He has a handicap placard, but rarely uses it. The point is, to look at him one would never know he is on his second heart and has to take a lot of medications. Our DMV doesn't issue handicap plates willy nilly. The mirror hanging placards get abused all the time by healthy family members, etc, but those plates are legitimately for the owner of that Harley.?ÿ
Many years ago (30 or so) I appointed myself the handicap parking spot watchdog after dating someone with a wheelchair bound son. Most people just told me to "Eff off, A-hole", but others would occasionally move the vehicle. That ended one night when I was exiting a very busy restaurant with a full parking lot and cars spilling onto the streets. A T-top trans am came whipping into the lot and right into a handicap stall in front. The young people inside were laughing. An attractive young lady (maybe 20) was driving. I walked up and said "You do realize this is a handicap parking spot, don't you?" She smiled as she reached around to get her crutches, then stepped out to reveal that she had one leg. As she stood on her crutches, she said "Yes, I do sir, and I really appreciate you watching out for us because we need these spots."?ÿ
That was the humbling end of my crusade.
Had a friend (R.I.P.) who was a double amputee at the hips.?ÿ He was quite the mechanic and built a BMW Sidecar motorcycle with hand controls and a flat platform racing style sidecar to carry his wheelchair.?ÿ I got to be the test pilot to help sort out the systems.?ÿ Once it was perfected it was a pretty damn cool machine,?ÿ
The fellow who works on my four-wheeler has a handicap tag on everything he owns that requires a tag, including more than one motorcycle.?ÿ Way back when he was in high school, he was shot accidentally in his own bedroom by a buddy looking at a black powder pistol.?ÿ He has a wheel chair but normally gets around with two crutches.?ÿ His legs don't work but that doesn't slow him down much.?ÿ He drives anywhere he wants to go, whether by car, pickup, tractor, skid steer, motorcycle, three-wheeled motorcycle or any kind of ATV.?ÿ He works on small engines and related modes of transportation plus raises cattle on his half section of land.
No, I get that. See it quite few times where someone driving a f-250 - f-350, with a pretty impressive lift, pulls into one of those spaces with the blue thing on the mirror.?ÿ You can't know what ailment they have but, i'm in pretty fair shape, and even i'd have a time climbing in and out of some of those rigs.?ÿ Those Harleys have got to be heavy to right if you dump one.
I have had bad back issues since I first blew my lower back out in my early 30's.?ÿ Bone spurrs and arthritis started compressing nerves making it difficult for me to walk more than 100' without having to sit down but I still rode my Harley Heritage Softail for 17 years until my lumbar spine told me to stop.?ÿ I loved that bike and it broke my heart to sell it.
I have a handicapped plaque to hand in my Dodge Ram that sits fairly hig off the ground but rarely use handicapped parking spots.?ÿ Ihave learned to adapt by having my groceries delivered to the house and going to stores where allot of walking is not needed.
Don't let the license plate fool you, you can modify a bike in many ways to make it useable with physical disabilities. In my case, it was a custome made seat with special padding and added lumbar support that made it possible to keep riding for as longas I did.
