[TheForge] weather reports

[Ralph]

At 10:49 AM 2/23/04 -0800, you wrote:
>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.


Sounds like you have issues with bike riders..... I ride a Harley.
Perhaps the group was just enjoying the view that you have been blazing by. 
It might be new to them and as such they might actually want to see it.

>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?

Maybe because the squids are stupid and most die off before 30? and the Hog 
rides live to see 100?
But I ride my bike. Occasionally I even get to drag the pegs....

Ralph (who is about to go riding now.)


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Persistence is necessary for Excellence. And Persistence is a Decision."