Hi everyone! Old Blind Tom aka bjewell here.
Just got back from Sac Harley. Bunch of great bikes over there including an '02 Buell for $3200 I'm sorely tempted to buy. Rode over on the old FXST with the apes. In a black tee-shirt from Parco Harley-Davidson in Shibuya Tokyo, my beat-up novelty helmet, fingerless gloves, Red Wing engineer boots (original Made in USA version) and Ray Bans.
Saturday I'm going to ride out in the Sierra foothills on the Busa. With my full-face Arai, leather jacket and heavy gloves, and boots. Then I'll come home and play my Martin D-18A or my vintage Strat through the '64 Super Reverb. Tonight I'm gonna head over to The 5th String and play some Bluegrass. When I get home I'll finger pick some slide RobertJohnson tunes. See, I need a Kind Hearted Woman...
Boys, I'm fully featured. So naanner-naanner-naaaannner! -L-
And we could just as easily make that same video from the opposite direction. My buddy up the street Mark Brelsford (AMA Grand Champion two years running, and retired member of the Harley Wrecking Crew) and I meeting up with some preening little road monkeys in their Joe Rocket getups and their 600cc boy-wonder bikes.
"You guys are such old dorks with your V-Twin POS bikes!"
"You boys look like KY Jelly tubes in those droopy ass leathers."
"Harleys haven't changed in 100 years!"
"Your mother has a nice butt which is probably why your father Shawn married her." Etc, etc, etc, etc...
While Mark is running away from them on his bike -- a Suzuki V-Strom of all things -- I'll be kicking back with Brenda, the waitress at the Dead Fly Cafe thinking about maybe putting apes on the Busa and kicking out the front end a bit. Not really...
Ya'all have a good time now, ya hear?! -L-