What isn’t chrome is black on his big Harley-Davidson Road King. So are his Harley Davidson boots, leather jacket and helmet. Black, black and black. And his goatee. (Well, that’s black with gray now infiltrating.)
He cuts quite a figure atop his hog. But unless they happen to notice the “GONZ33” license tag, Braves fans cruising in a car the next lane over probably wouldn’t recognize him from any other 40-something blowing past on a Harley.
Fredi Gonzalez (right) rode with AJC writer David O’Brien to the North Georgia mountains a few days before leaving for spring training.

Fredi Gonzalez (right) rode with AJC writer David O’Brien to the North Georgia mountains a few days before leaving for spring training. (Photo by Sara Hanna/sarahanna.com)
Meet Fredi Gonzalez, the new manager of the Atlanta Braves.
After two decades with venerable Bobby Cox at the helm of the local nine, his protégé (and former third-base coach) has taken the torch from retired No. 6 and seems prepared to run with it. And to go for a few rumbling rides, when there’s time for Gonzalez and his motorcycling pal, first-base coach Terry Pendleton, to sneak away for a few hours.
Gonzalez, 47, went for a ride to the Georgia mountains on Super Bowl Sunday with David O’Brien, the Braves beat writer. Along the way, they stopped for coffee and a one-hour interview at a Starbucks in Canton, Ga.
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