| Author | Message | ||
     Iamike |
Nice story http://www.theboot.com/2010/03/05/jewel-blog-4/?ic id=main|htmlws-main-n|dl2|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.t heboot.com%2F2010%2F03%2F05%2Fjewel-blog-4%2F | ||
| Metalrabbit |
"Happiness" is subject to Change Without Notice with most of that gender. | ||
| Oddball |
Instead, we are going motorcycle riding. Yup. We each took some classes, and got BMW adventure bikes. Now I'm the last person who thought I'd like to ride a motorcycle. Since I was 18-years-old, I have driven and flown around the world nonstop and the last thing I thought I'd ever want to do with my time off was travel more - but I was wrong. Being on my bike, I have reconnected with my original joy for traveling because it's not for a job. It has brought back the innocence of discovery, which is a precious gift! We had already heard BMWs were well-made bikes, but didn't know much about adventure biking. The more we heard about it, the more we knew it was for us. When we discovered we could have a bike that would perform well, be reliable and safe, and allow us to indulge our love for taking off on long road trips comfortably (cruisers are uncomfortable for long trips) while still allowing us to turn down a dirt road when we ran across one (the bikes have versatile tires, allowing you to go off-road like a dirt bike), well, we were sold! Adventure biking is like being on a horse, except you see a lot more country, a lot faster. But you still get to experience nature and the country you're riding through – all the smells and sensations of camping, riding horses and hiking, all rolled into two wheels! The reason I find riding my bike so relaxing is because I can't think of anything except riding. It's like an active form of meditation. Your mind has to focus on the tasks at hand and so all your other worries and cares just fall away. When I drive a car, I am able to let my mind wander to worry about work, or even to write a song. But on my bike, safety is first, and it forces me to focus and live in the present, and so the scenery and the day and the air and curve in front of me fill all my senses – it's great. She dissed cruisers and yet HD/Vanity Fair used them posing with an HD. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Ewan & Charlie again?  | ||
| Cityxslicker |
it aint 'fun or real' until some damn celebrity decides its their next big fad/addiction. but kudos to them for doing it without the press crew that Charlie and Ewin had. | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Slicker, have you read the book of Long Way Round? it's not a bad read. I've got nothing against Ewan & Charlie, they're both dyed in the wool bikers & I think they did a fine job of making Joe Public more aware of motorcycles. What gets on my wick is all the other wannabe's doing it because it's the fashionable thing to be doing. I can't help but be afeared that someday one of these eejits is going to get themselves killed, or set fire to a national park or something, & the subsequent blaze of publicity will screw it all up for everybody else. Whether or not the bint in question & her chap are in that category I have no way of knowing. | ||
| Iamike |
Yeah, Ewan & Charlie had support. But we wouldn't have really cool videos to watch if they didn't. I'll take the videos. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
Wheres the Korean kid with the Ruckus?... that takes some ballz  | ||
| Svh |
+1 Slicker! Need to go get updated on his progress.... | ||
| Aeholton |
but kudos to them for doing it without the press crew that Charlie and Ewin had. Maybe so, but they still took on a huge adventure that I could only dream about. Glad they had the camera guy and support crew with them. Because of them, I had several hours of enjoyment out of it. |
