Motorcycles and Food

I saw this sweet bike on my way to lunch at Ipanema

where I had the smoked gouda sandwich and sweet potato fries, which was most excellent, but

what I really loved was this Vietnamese (I think) hot chili sauce, a bottle of which I now have at my house.

Cool Things I Saw Today

A deadly spider*.

A very rare Toyota FJ40 Land Cruiser**. I took a crappy picture, I know.

At first glance I thought this was a pile of scrap that a hobo had left behind until he could fetch his shopping cart, but then I realized, no, its a Puch Magnum***.

*not really, well, maybe if you are a fly.

**these things are rare. I've only seen a few live in person in my lifetime. Most are rusted out beyond belief. Those old Toyotas... One of my everlasting childhood memories is a guy we knew when I was around 7 or 8. He had one. It was wicked rusty (1982ish, the thing was only a few years old at that point) but it was cool. He had a beard and a cute wife. It may have been my first man crush. I think it was my first man crush. He had it all. Truck, beard, woman.

***Its a pile of scrap that some mechanically uninclined greeny hipster chained to a post until he can come back with his mom who has a car to pick it up because he fouled the spark plug and put it on craigslist.

Telling the Truth

I like how this guy started to use the well worn excuse "not enough time" in describing why he is selling an unfinished project, but then something clicked in his brain and he said to himself "aw screw it. I'll just tell the truth".

Here's the text of the craigslist ad, because you know how those will disappear eventually or suddenly:

1979 honda xl185s wont take much to get her going too many projects not enough time/wife not happy about more broken stuff at house

Some pretty cool crashes

If you ask me (I know, you didn't) I don't understand why they are crashing. It doesn't look like a very hard hill.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c_7fRq_19s



Also, how'd you like to be one of those guys who took some knobbies spinning at 100 mph straight to the kibbles and bits? Ouch.

Diamond in the Rough

My wife doesn't see the potential in this.

Embarrassing, Indeed

A guy on his brand new $18,000 Polaris Cruiser stalled it this morning attempting to pull into traffic. In my mind, there are only two reasons why you should ever stall your motorcycle. One, you crash. Actually, that's the only reason.

To add insult to his injury, the guy he was pulling out in front of was riding a Harley.