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Lets go


There just comes a point, in every ride… if you look for it.

It’s usually a song that you haven’t heard for a long time, where it all seems to hit home.   That Zen moment, where twisting the throttle and turning a bend combine with an effing great song.    Fuel for the fire.

I need to post more.    Lots has happened, and its all been good.   Very positive, and deliberate for the most part, life wise.    I haven’t even caught up on rides that have happened over the summer.    I will, I swear.

Just not tonight.

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The Beatles: Abbey Road – Then and Now

abbey Road BeatlesIt’s still my favorite Beatles album.   I gotta think that “something” is my favorite song of all songs.   The fab four had been to the top, and we’re starting to break up, but even with all the tension in the band they made some of the most beautiful songs ever.    John and Paul had carried the band for the early part of the decade, but George and even Ringo were starting to come through with their own styles as song writers themselves.

Yeah, what a great album.

Check this out.    If you’re a people watcher, this is kind of cool.   Its  the Abbey Road Live Web Cam, with audio and everything.     Right now, people are trying to re-create this iconic picture from 1969.    Some do it over and over.   Some don’t dare.   Some watch.

I’m easily amused.

 

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This is the day

I’m an 80’s kid.   I’ll admit it.   Born in the 60’s, but those formidable teenage years were in the 80’s.   For the most part, I had nothing but a whole lotta fun.

Moving again.   I got two more moving days:   this one, and the next one.    The next one, I’ll be able to get a loan after a few years of shit, bankruptcy and a few lessons.   Next year, me and the missus can get a loan and put down some roots.    I can’t lie,  that’ll be a great day.   We’re both a little older and a little wiser.

This is the day….

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Happy Independence day!

o-AMERICAN-FLAG-facebookIn 1776, a few guys with some great big balls sent a list of grievances to the king of England.   Knowing what it meant, they declared their independence.    That letter reached England, and the shit hit the fan.

Kudos to our founding fathers.   They fought for it, and ending up founding  a nation with some pretty cool governing principles.     It was an  experiment in government:  Something that hadn’t been done before, or since.

In my eyes, it was visionary.

Happy 4th of July to all you biker pricks out there 🙂

 

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Guy on a Buffalo

A guy on a buffalo bears no explanation.    It’s a guy, on a buffalo.    I gotta think, steering a buffalo might be a bitch.      The whole thing made me laugh.

Changed the back tire on the Road king.   It had run its course.

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wrenching on your own bike is a religious experience.     The MOCO wants $350 for a back tire replacement.    Hell, they want $500 to do a 10,000 mile oil change.    I’ve had enough kids out of some bike school who barely care wrench on my bike, and nobody cares more than I do.   Found a killer price from Rocky Mountain ATV, who happens to live a few miles south of me, so I got a new back tire for $125.

Tomorrow, we ride.

 

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