Category Archives: Wheels

30-WERB

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Energetic

Photo by M.Thomson

Had a great test ride today. Harley-Davidson LiveWire has a very strong, broad powerband and handles quite well as a quiet (and sweet smelling) street bike.

Expected sunny weather but instead got drenched by a cloudburst when approaching the foothills around the valley, so I stuck with the streets around town and put off riding the winding back roads. Still, lots of fun.

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Interested in the drive to electrify California? With focus on electric motorcycles? LiveWire is #1 in the lineup of futuristic transportation vehicles.

Just think of the many issues needing resolution before the year 2034, including fortifying the energy grid and making electric recharging more convenient.

It’s an exciting challenge.

28-OFON

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Horsepower

thanks M

Rejoice in the blessings of nature, including electricity.l

Today I would have been riding this LiveWire electric motorcycle (100 hp) if it hadn’t been raining cats & dogs. Rescheduled for Tuesday. (That’s my 35 hp KLR650 in the background.)

25-SANJ

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Collision

Shaken, but not Stirred

After he got up I asked how he was feeling. “Terrible,” he said, “hurt my wrist.” Then he ran up to the car which had pulled aside a few feet ahead on Curtner.

I was ambivalent about getting more involved because, although the driver was at fault, it was the bicyclist who ran into the car.

05-THMP

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Rolling

Bay Area Big Thumpers Dual-Sport Group

Saturday Morning Santa Cruz

Made it there just in time to see everyone take off without me.

P.S. It’s a good thing I didn’t go. While riding along the dirt backroads, ignoring signs, the group had an irate landowner pull a gun on them – a situation that tied up the excursion for hours and got the police involved.

24-Nuts

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Seasonal

September Paw Paw, the largest edible fruit indigenous to the United States.
… and Bolts

Spend some time in your mind. Sit down, close eyes, palms upward on knees. What an empty cavern! Fill it with the realization that without your mind, you would be just another sack. Then think of something else.

2 + 2 = 5 always gets me

19-Hill

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Revelation

I glanced round the bus.

Though the windows were closed, and soon muffed, the bus was full of light. It was cruel light.

I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but of impossibilities, some gaunt, some bloated, some glaring with idiotic ferocity, some drowned beyond recovery in dreams; but all, in one way or another, distorted and faded.

One had a feeling that they might fall to pieces at any moment if the light grew much stronger. Then-there was a mirror on the end wall of the bus – I caught sight of my own.

And still the light grew.

The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis