[TheForge] weather reports

[Ries Niemi]

As far as I am concerned, the weather was too damn good in the puget 
sound area on sunday.

Nine million dentists and lawyers on harleys were parading up and down 
in front of my house, and for some reason there is a direct 
relationship between how much you paid for your bike and how fast you 
go.
The hells angels, who steal their bikes,preferably from cops, go a 
hundred miles an hour. The guys who buy theirs new for 25grand, then 
buy the matching HD black leather jockey shorts, go about 35.

I have become spoiled, thinking of Chuckanut Drive (a 7 mile long 
glorious mini Big Sur, with mountains on one side and cliffs down to 
the pacific on the other) as my private racetrack. I have an old 300zx 
and I know every line thru every curve. So on a bright brisk sunny day 
like yesterday, when I come around a corner at 65 only to come up short 
behind an entire orthodontic convention of harleys going 20, looking 
like a shriners parade, I can only curse the nice weather.
They are so busy looking macho in their 1000 dollar matching leather 
outfits, they dont even notice me back there, swearing and making 
international distress signals with my hands.
I can always pass one lonely subaru wagon, but there just isnt room to 
pass 20 harleys.
So I, for one, will be happy when it starts raining again, and all 
those rich seattle tourists go home.

My two fair weather bumber stickers-
"if its tourist season, why cant I shoot one?"
and
"We love tourists around here- they taste just like chicken"

why is it the snotty kids on the riceburners actually ride them, but 
the true blue americans cant seem to get them out of second gear?

ries