I’ve got to conserve my words about the motorcycle adventure weekend for the magazine story, but here are two images that speak, and a video that roars. The first photo shows your author. It is a self-portrait created to express the fact 39 I still have nagging fantasies—as silly today as they were at 15 when I was trying on Jim Morrison pants and the girl at the leather store was laughing at me—that someone, someday, might see me as cool. Second photo is of our trackside campsite, and my pal Tom Gillespie’s bikes, a ’65 and a 2006 Triumph.
And the movie—turn up your sound—is a Saturday morning in the pits.
David:
You look like the Hitler character in “Springtime for Hitler” play from “The Producers.” Very nice. You might want to try the leather pants again.
Steve C.
Bermanns and leather…they go together.
(They’re almost one and the same.)
David, the Scout alone makes you cool. The motorcycle is just frosting on the cake. The helmet, on the other hand, does bring Steve’s Hitler to mind. Maybe wrapping a white silk scarf around your neck would help you to pull it off. On the other hand, that might just be gay. You’ll have to decide.
Joan – while I applaud your creativity, I don’t think a scarf wrapped around the neck is a good idea when you are on a motorcycle. I would worry about it getting caught in something and the attendant risk to David’s neck.
David – I second Steve’s recommendation of re-considering the leather pants. Aside from being safer than wrapping something around your neck, they would also give us, your loyal fans, something to laugh at when you post the photos of yourself in them!