becoming visible after being a ghost for a while

howdy, introducing myself with a quote from my mother when i was about 5 years old "he's happy to go with anyone, anytime, anywhere", and 60 years or so later that's pretty much the scenario. i picked up a 2004 shadow aero last week and have been lurking here since then. i've put a couple hundred winter-type miles on it and looking at putting some gear on to make it more rideable. i ordered floorboards today to the tune of 300 bucks. i spent 10 years completely disabled and 5 years or so ago decided to try riding again to see if i could and would. i bought an hd 200 sym and soon found i was doing mountain passes and riding most days. i up-jetted to a kymco 250 grand vista and put 8,000 miles on it in a year or so and after a couple straight 300+ days decided that didn't get the job done without extreme discomfort so up-graded to a bv500 piaggio and 8,000 miles later upgraged to a bv350. you might ask why the scooters. that was cause i risked spasms trying to hike the leg over a motorcycle seat. recently i rode several low seat motorcycles and think i can do that leg swing if i don't have to swing over bags or packs. the shadow has a low seat height and is long enough that i can probably put bags on relatively far back and do ok. a friend had a windshield which i tried to put on it and found the fork clamps too small for the large covered forks on the aero. looking now to decide whether to get mounting hardware or go to a handlebar mount screen.

well, that should be enough for a first post but i'll be asking about windshield reccomendations and possibly bags.

my usual sign-off on other forums is
lotsa miles and smiles to ya

ken