A few weeks ago, we sold the trusted Honda Shadow VLX that we’d been riding for the last six years (by we, I refer to my dad, my sister, and I). This is the same bike that I had taken down to Urbana with me during the final year of college, and by the time we sold it, it had over 16,000 miles on it. Needless to say, we had many great memories together.

Ever since we sold the bike, we’ve been looking at a replacement. At first, we were leaning towards a Harley, but after test driving one, it just didn’t seem like a good fit. So after a lot of looking around, we ended up looking at Hondas again since they are so reliable and we had great experiences with our old one. Last weekend, we found a great bike and ended up buying it on the spot!

Here are a few pictures:

The bike had a lot of custom work done to it which includes Cobra exhaust pipes, chrome engine guard, chrome radiator plate with a flaming skull, skull rearview mirrors, skull footpegs, skull grips. As you can tell, theres a lot of the biker “skull” rebel attitude on this bike. We’ve kept most of it, just put the stock rearview mirrors back on because the custom ones were too small to see traffic behind.

So far, I’ve put just under 100 miles on it, but looking forward to more!

More photos here:
Flickr Motorcycle Set