Just way too cool. We won't ask you to divulge..... Much....... ;-)

Yes, more please! Lol

ouch. sizzle.stamp!

If you come near my iPhone I will have to hurt you.

I have driven that route many times with my vintage airstream. except I head up out of New mexico into Colorado and not straight through to OK.

I knew it! I knew it! Great song. Sweet video!
Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper...Classic! :)

favorite part of the movie Easy Rider was the song :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVmSDyBXR...

Easy rider... cruising..no windscreen, sunglasses, minimal helmet or none, enjoying the ride, wind and scenery! Now if your riding a crotch rocket, a full face helmet only seems appropriate. Likewise for dirt-bikes. My two cents for the debate...

good points. also, live in a second world country for awhile!
it does sound like I need to ground your iphone for a week :)
WWI story:
http://www.harleysons.de/worldwar.htm

Great story. Even down to the lack of a windscreen. I prefer the same. I never use a wind shield, and it has caused considerable debate.

Ditto, well said!

No, but it could have been and it would have still been good. I can see how sailing would create that feeling.

At the risk of over-simplifying, motorcycling certainly carries with it the image of rebellious romanticism. This common public perception, fanned for commercial value by many, did not predate motorcycling's artificial portrayal thru silly and violent 1950s-1960s Hollywood B-films. Previously, it was about inexpensive, fun, transportation. Many of us still see it that way.

But, fact is, there's an entire generational movement back to activities that touch the nerve of raw simplicity characterized by the pre-digital era. And, there is good cause for resistance to the over commercialization of technology - a common awareness of the very unhealthy anxiety levels we suffer in today's pressure cooker world, where disconnecting is practically impossible.

The motorcycle press is full of editorial opinion and articles about the joys and heartbreak of hands-on 'wrenching' required of classic bikes. It yields a deep personal involvement and satisfaction that simply can't be experienced with the artificiality of laptop, SW-dependent, service code diagnostic maintenance that modern machines require. And this, given that you can even afford the prerequisite technology entry fee into the ethereal world of closed system, oxygen-sensing, fuel-injected, ECM programmed, modern engine management.

The appeal to the world of the 'analog', completely rational or not, recognizes how, as a society, we've come to recognize our being overwhelmed by technology dependence, an addiction so debilitating that we are, for example, rendered catatonic when we discover we've left our iPhone in another room.

Whether it be motorcycling, rock climbing, bicycling, mountaineering, caving, hang gliding, running, whatever, get out there and do it - digital free! It will invigorate your soul and make you so much more productive and stress-free when you re-enter the fundamentally bizarre and alien infrastructure of the modern world.

I have lived a full life! Sometimes I think, I talk too much. I haven't even talked about my rock and roll life. I used to be a roadie. I have to protect the innocent and the not so innocent! But oh, the stories I could tell... :)

Hey OA! So you're really this secret bad a$$?! Fresh surprises daily! :-)

the hamburger was raw?! lol
seriously, that is how I have felt when sailing

I learned on a Yamaha 850 special. Haven't ridden since, though.. :-(

motorcycles cannot transport much, but they will be essential when the collapse comes-I see bikers and pilots as our minutemen :)

Yamaha fan I owned several Enduros then YZs. In 1980 I rode a 650 Yamaha twin from mid- Michigan to Las Vegas and back. The strip wasn't covered back then. Stayed at the Sands casino, saw Tony Bennet in the Copa room. No windscreen, bugs in my teeth, vibration that numbed my hands for hours, yeah great memories. After that I immediately graduated to a Honda 750 inline 4... much smoother. Always wanted a Harley but never got around to it. All good though! :-)

On that note, the best ride I have ever been on was a solitary one with my wife through pouring rain storms across Florida's Aligator Alley from Kissimmee to Key West. The Big Mac I had at a McDonald's about halfway between Key Largo and Key West after a ride across the 110 degree pavement was something I'll never forget. It was raw, primitive, and............as free as I've ever felt.

Somehow I thought you might have been a bike rider. : )

Karmann Ghia the coolest VW ever made. IMHO
I would have stopped too. I pull people out of the snow with my 4X4 almost every winter. I don't ask for a dime. You never know when you might be in the same predicament.

Yeah, the Las Vegas show has guys that do their thing, but not many people go.....including women. Bikers are a strange breed, they HATE rules, but they honor each other very respectfully. The wet t-shirt stuff and the girls in pasties are open forms of rebellion.

They are libertarians without knowing they are. I would love to see The United Nations trying to figure out how to herd those people into a social engineering plot hatched by acedimics. Not going to happen................ever.

great story, overman. there should have been more eye candy for the girls though :)

"suffocating dependence" well that onus lies with the individual-hardly technology's fault. for those customers that demand analog, I'm sure there is someone willing to fit the niche. I agree with you other points, though, selfish