Motorcycle Movie Marathon
Man I’m going to be so sad when this nice weather ends. Of course it’s supposed to end right about the time the weekend gets here. For now I’ll enjoy every minute of it though. This morning the weather report said it’d be 79 today. It’s already 83 here at 2:22pm. I can’t wait to go riding this evening.
We were going to do a little riding yesterday, but the bike was only firing on 3 cylinders when Hubby cranked it up. Yep it’s the plugs, but we couldn’t get any on a Sunday. Our bike mechanic friend picked some up today to get us going again, so we spent yesterday having a bike movie marathon.
Hubby had never watched On Any Sunday, so I cued it up on Netflix along with Troy’s Story: Legend of Superbike Champion Troy Bayliss, On Any Sunday Revisited, and The Motorcycle Diaries. It was a nice way to waste a day, and if you’ve never seen On Any Sunday you seriously should. It is definitely the best motorcycle documentary out there, and it’s interesting to see how AMA ran in the 70s.
Our movies ended right about the time a few friends came over. I really wish we could have gone to The Gap this weekend because it turns out a ton of our friends went. These guys stopped by our house on the way back, and “E” was asking me to help him check out a few wireless security systems for his bike. They stopped for dinner on the way home, and when he walked out he found a teenage kid sitting on his bike. Now he wants to install an alarm system that will go off as soon as someone touches it, so I promised I’d checkout a few for him this week.
I don’t blame him one bit. One thing that really pisses me off is seeing someone who has no business touching it sitting on someone else’s bike. The kids around here like to try to hop on bikes and take pics while the owner isn’t around, and it’s happened to us before. We’ve seen quite a few bikes get knocked over because someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing tries to play on it while the owner isn’t around, so I’m all for alarm systems. If we weren’t totally rocking a rat bike now I’d probably consider one, and I just may after we’ve got the new paint job.

