Two unrelated topics (for price of one). As I was waiting at a light during my usual PO/Grocery Store detour ride to cross a major highway I happened to pull up beside a geezer riding a huge, obviously limited edition motorbike in pale blue and white. We talked a bit and he said his bike was a Victory with 1,700 cc and 110 lbft of torque. I was riding the Ram which is close if not identical in color. 175 lb and manymanymany ftlb of torque, not to mention huge cc's of quirkiness.
What struck me was his initial, and obvious, unease as I pulled up along side and scanned his rig -- g'damn hippy cyclist anarchist nihilist democrat subversive! But he warmed as I shouted out questions. And it is very strange and even amusing, since motorbikes used to have an *allure* of lawlessness and devil-may-care, while I am a church-going traditionalist of the very worst sort. And I hate Hillary Clinton and her husband before her. (Well, GWB too, and BO, and all of them for that matter.) Very odd indeed. To make up for the pointlessness of all of that: nice series of old Tour photos from the (excessively liberal) NYT: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/sports/replay.html?src=me&_r=0&slide=TOURreplay_show-slide-KIS0&name=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fslideshow%2F2014%2F07%2F27%2Fsports%2Fcycling%2FTOURreplay_show.slideshow.jsonp (Don't tell *me* that you are not interested in old B&W Tour photos; Rivendell-ish if not Rivendellian. Heart of wool are our riders, etc etc etc.) Patrick "we young late-50-somethings" Moore having anarchistic fun on the loaded Ram in ABQ, NM. -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ Patrick Moore Albuquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Etats Unis ************************************* * "Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place.* * "Nothing outside you can give you any place," he said. "You needn't to look at the sky because it's not going to open up and show no place behind it. You needn't to search for any hole in the ground to look through into somewhere else. You can't go neither forwards nor backwards into your daddy's time nor your children's if you have them. In yourself right now is all the place you've got. If there was any Fall, look there, if there was any Redemption, look there, and if you expect any Judgment, look there, because they all three will have to be in your time and your body and where in your time and your body can they be?* * "Where in your time and your body has Jesus redeemed you?" he cried. "Show me where because I don't see the place. If there was a place where Jesus had redeemed you that would be the place for you to be, but which of you can find it?” -- *Flannery O'Connor,* Wise Blood * -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
