[lit-ideas] Re: … or let's talk about our vehicles …
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 07:16:12 EDT
but, but., but.......I saw this amazing gorgeous huge powerful FUN looking
vehicle in a parking lot recently. It was a MASSIVE motorcycle except that it
had three wheels -- 2 in back. It said, surrealistically, "tryke" on it
(which usually denotes a child's first tricycle. I THINK it said something
about
"wing". I approached it a saw that the speedometer went over 120 mph. It
had two seats and a compartment to hold stuff.
I WANT ONE.
I don't think you could tip over in it (which has always been my fear re.
motorcycles).
So. If I ever win that Lotto Ticket I'm buying a Lotus, a Hummer, and a
"Tryke".
Julie Krueger
powerful vehicles are so sexy
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5:57:19 A.M. Central
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On 22. Jul 2006, at 05:08, Robert Paul wrote:
> The highly sophisticated (German) sensor which allegedly measures the
> temperature outside our car hit 111F on one stretch of pavement when I
> was out and about this afternoon.
>
Is it just the sensor that is German (and highly sophisticated)? Are
you driving a Porsche? Mercedes? BMW? Or â?
One of my first postings (I see with astonishment that it was 14 July,
1998) to Lit-Idea's 'precursor' was made in response to a 'thread' with
the subject heading: Automobile Poetry. I 'countered' with Thomas
Gunn's 'On the Move' (what the heck - 'cut & paste' is handy, so I'll
reproduce the gist of that post in a postscript below).
I'm sorry to say that since then I have (regretfully, oh so
regretfully) sold my 1983 BMW R100CS (with ported and polished heads,
customized carbs and significantly improved suspension) to a friend.
(Said friend ensured me that it would remain in the family to be passed
on to his - then 3-year-old - son, and that I could ride it whenever I
wanted; he then turned around and sold it within a year. Last I heard
it was 'sitting in a warehouse somewhere in Hamburg'. Hamburg's harbour
is Europe's second-largest. I leave it 'as an exercise for the reader'
to determine what that means about warehouses in Hamburg, and former
friend is currently 'incommunicado':)
Times (and motorcycles) change (last evening in the twilight I
momentarily mistook a BMW K1200LT for a Goldwing!). It was parked
outside one of Kiel's more 'upscale' hotels, and I commented to my
partner about fantasies of touring in such a fashion, which
immediately led to reminiscences of our very different type of touring
(on a very different type of bike - the aforementioned beloved R100CS)
across (East-West) and up and down (North-South) comparatively large
parts (especially by European standards) of North America. In
particular a trip from Calgary to Arches National Park and back (via
Yellowstone, Flaming Gorge, Craters of the Moon, etc.; including a
midday crossing the plateau country between Moab and Springville [Utah]
when the air temperature was 40 degrees Celsius - 104 Fahrenheit - in
the [non-existent] shade) loomed large in the reminiscences. (I will
never forget the curious looks on the faces of the neighbouring
operators and occupants of recreation vehicles the size of not-so-small
homes at Craters of the Moon National Monument when we pulled up to our
campsite on the bike and unpacked tent, sleeping bags and
'self-inflatable' pads, change of clothing, food and cooking gear and
made ourselves very comfortable indeed before touring the geological
attractions.)
I remember little response from fellow motorcyclists (or motorcycle
aficionados - neither identical sets, nor is either necessarily a
subset of the other). List membership (to say nothing of the list
itself) has changed in the last 8 years (and 9 days) - perhaps some
would like to talk (favourably) about motorcycles and motorcycling now
â.
Cheers,
Chris Bruce
Kiel, Germany
P.S: The (gist of the) aforementioned posting:
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 09:31:57 +0200
Subject: Four wheels good, two wheels BETTER ... [was Automobile
Poetry]
I've read with great interest the various postings of poetry concerning
the [4-wheeled] automobile; as an avid motorcyclist I offer the
following:
On the Move -Thom Gunn
'Man, you gotta Go'
The blue jay scuffling in the the bushes follows
Some hidden purpose, and the gust of birds
That spurts across the field, the wheeling swallows,
Have nested in the trees and undergrowth.
Seeking their instinct, or their poise, or both,
One moves with an uncertain violence
Under the dust thrown by a baffled sense
Or the dull thunder of approximate words.
On motorcycles, up the rood, they come:
Small, black, as flies hanging in heat, the Boys,
Until the distance throws them forth, their hum
Bulges to thunder held by calf and thigh.
In goggles, donned impersonality,
In gleaming jackets trophied with the dust,
They strap in doubt - by hiding it, robust -
And almost hear meaning in their noise.
Exact conclusion of their hardiness
Has no shape yet, but from known whereabouts
They ride, direction where the tyres press.
They scare a flight of birds across the field:
Much that is natural, to the will must yield.
Men manufacture both machine and soul,
And use what they imperfectly control
To dare a future from the taken routes.
It is a part solution, after all.
One is not necessarily discord
On earth; or damned because, half animal,
One lacks direct instinct, because one wakes
Afloat on movement that divides and breaks.
One joins the movement in a valueless world,
Choosing it, till, both hurler and the hurled,
One moves as well, always toward, toward.
A minute holds them. who have come to go:
The self-defined, astride the created will
They burst away; the towns they travel through
Are home for neither bird nor holiness,
For birds and saints complete their purposes.
At worst, one is in motion; and at best,
Reaching no absolute, in which to rest,
One is always nearer by not keeping still.
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