Wednesday, March 11, 2009

My friend Bil is making motor bikes



That's lovely C.J. his partner, they are good people, I been friends with them a long time.
They live in a motor home that gets hassled a lot by home owners. I used to be amazed when they would get woken by cops and asked to leave when I'm in my house bike, off the street not 5' away and I'm left alone.
It was like I am invisible if I'm off the street and have no complaints from anyone.
So we go way back and I like them a lot I just don't like motor bicycles at all.
I detest them and think that's an abomination of a great idea.
But I must admit they are sweet looking and it's a great way to make some dough.
It's all a petrol nightmare actually...with the money from selling bikes, they are able to feed themselves and keep enough gas in the motor home to keep moving it during the twice a day police visits.
Last year they couldn't keep up and had to move away from town to work all winter in a canning factory.
Bil makes a good bike mechanic, he fixes my bikes and other equipment.
He orders the bikes from Hawaii and the motors from the Midwest.
Bil sells them for around 4 or 5 hundie, you can see them parked around SE Portland.
The man knows I have a strong disdain for all gas motors...he also knows I own a 750cc motorcycle.
He asked about it and I told him that my bike never moves and doesn't have any gas in it.
It bugs me when people suggest I put a motor on my tall bike, it happens every time some one likes the bike but can't relate to car free life.
To some folks everything has to have a motor, to me that's an outdated culture.
"When ya gonna let me put a motor on that thing?"
"Um never."
"Why, what would happen if your bike had a motor?"
"Well, for starters, I would be really loud, super stinky, I would have to feed it fuel that comes from the devil...plus everywhere around Portland I go people would be wanting to throw rocks at me."
"Anything else?"
"Yeah look at my body...right now I can kick a hole in the skin of a steel mailbox if I wanted to, I doubt I would be this fit if I was motoring around all the time."
See? I talk like that and end up looking like an A-hole...sorry y'all i know your just trying to relate.
Tell me if you are interested in one, I'll hook you up with Bil...just don't drive it around me or I'll throw rocks at you.

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