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Top Ten Most Fun Things About Steve's Bike, In Descending Order:
1. Nimble turning at low speeds.
2. Filling 2.7 gallon tank with regular unleaded gasoline.
3. Second gear.
4. Driving in a straight line.
5. Shifting into neutral.
6. Wearing a scarf to counter-act the dimunitive (read: non-existant) windscreen.
7. Furiously calculating braking distance before intersection has yet been encountered.
8. Nagging feeling: if license plate is falling off, what about drive-train?
9. Strange, paranoid episodes of bike refusing to start.
10. Getting hit in the face by rocks.
A Knock-knock Joke About Motorcycles
A: Knock knock.
Q: Who's there?
A: The Hamburgler riding a Rebel.
Q: The Hamburgler riding a rebel who?
A: The Hamburgler riding a rebel rebel!
A: Knock knock.
Q: Who's there?
A: Ninja.
Q: Ninja who?
A: Ninja ninja!
Q: ...
A: Knock knock.
Q: Who is there.
A: Ninja Ninja.
Q: Ninja Ninja who?
A: Ninja you glad I didn't just say ninja thrice?
Comparison between a classic roller-skate, Steve's Rebel 250, and Conor's Ninja 250 in the form of an Omeganaut Destrocycle SkateRebelNinja Omeganaut Destrocycle DisplacementN/A234cc2x 14,000 horsepower Rolls Royce diesel hybrid jet turbines CoolingN/AAirActively cooled fin radiators transfer heat to diesel tanks Top Speed15mph75mphMach 4 ArmamentN/AN/AOmeganaut Destrocycle morphs into pulse rifle
They Were As Sparrows, Intoxicated By The Feeling Of Freedom
The oppressively hot summer nights found them sweating on the porch with damp bottles of beer, and in the rustling autumn they took rose colored wine in the garden under a bronzing walnut, and during the winter months they would laze next to the roaring fire drinking of their spirituous libations; but when the spring burst forth from the snowpack of winter there was nothing but the giddy intoxication of wrenching the throttle on and the lightheadedness of flying over the pavement...
Pictures Are Cool!
Left: A digital rebelRight: A Leica M7 rangefinder camera with aspherical Summilux-M 50/f1.4 lens