The Sound of The City was KSFO radio, San Francisco's. signature song heard late at night for many years back in the 60s - orgionally written and recorded by the Johnny Mann Singers - this is a 2009 recording using the same arrangement, by the Covenant Four Quartet - www.covenant4.com
I love my Gadgets!
1. Cardo bluetooth helmet headsets x 2
2. Nokia 6110 Navigator mobile phone
3. Heavily panelbeaten (to suit the bend in the bars) Kurykayn phone & mobile phone holder
4. Marine grade cigarette lighter socket and phone charger
RESULT!! = I can talk to my pillion wife, take phone calls, listen to the radio and listen to GPS instructions while riding 110kph down the M4 motorway....legally...with 2 hands on the controls...Sweeeeet....
I love my Gadgets!
1. Cardo bluetooth helmet headsets x 2
2. Nokia 6110 Navigator mobile phone
3. Heavily panelbeaten (to suit the bend in the bars) Kurykayn phone & mobile phone holder
4. Marine grade cigarette lighter socket and phone charger
RESULT!! = I can talk to my pillion wife, take phone calls, listen to the radio and listen to GPS instructions while riding 110kph down the M4 motorway....legally...with 2 hands on the controls...Sweeeeet....
I love my Gadgets!
1. Cardo bluetooth helmet headsets x 2
2. Nokia 6110 Navigator mobile phone
3. Heavily panelbeaten (to suit the bend in the bars) Kurykayn phone & mobile phone holder
4. Marine grade cigarette lighter socket and phone charger
RESULT!! = I can talk to my pillion wife, take phone calls, listen to the radio and listen to GPS instructions while riding 110kph down the M4 motorway....legally...with 2 hands on the controls...Sweeeeet....
I love my Gadgets!
1. Cardo bluetooth helmet headsets x 2
2. Nokia 6110 Navigator mobile phone
3. Heavily panelbeaten (to suit the bend in the bars) Kurykayn phone & mobile phone holder
4. Marine grade cigarette lighter socket and phone charger
RESULT!! = I can talk to my pillion wife, take phone calls, listen to the radio and listen to GPS instructions while riding 110kph down the M4 motorway....legally...with 2 hands on the controls...Sweeeeet....
I love my Gadgets!
1. Cardo bluetooth helmet headsets x 2
2. Nokia 6110 Navigator mobile phone
3. Heavily panelbeaten (to suit the bend in the bars) Kurykayn phone & mobile phone holder
4. Marine grade cigarette lighter socket and phone charger
RESULT!! = I can talk to my pillion wife, take phone calls, listen to the radio and listen to GPS instructions while riding 110kph down the M4 motorway....legally...with 2 hands on the controls...Sweeeeet....
A 60Km Ride today organised by local Radio Station to raise Money for Kids Cancer over 400 Bikes and over 700 Trucks in the Convoy last year they had 300 bikes and 350 trucks they made over $267,000.00 so i estermate they will make well over $300,000.00 this year the first lead truck company donated $70,000 to be the first truck bike riders paid $25.00 to enter and received a PINK Shirt. Every year they change the colour of the shirt last year it was green the year before it was BLUE when we get to the desternation they have stalles selling Food Drinks and Memrobilla of the day as well as a Concert all procedes go to kids Cancer and the Childrens Hospital.
This is one of my earliest bikes, a GS850 Suzuki, four cylinder "dressed out" touring bike. For some reason, even though this was extremely similar to the Honda Gold Wing at the time, it was never a really popular bike in the biker's community. I owned this wonderful bike for about three years and sold it to what was then my best friend. He promptly laid the bike down in the middle of an intersection, and eventually blew the engine. The last I heard, he had it torn out as a basket case in his little work shop to "repair it". You know how that goes! Since this was my only transportation at all during that time ... and I was going through a divorce and really couldn't afford another mode of transportation ... I was running up between 12 to 15 THOUSAND miles on her every year! She had an AM/FM Stereo radio with a, (ready for it?), 8 TRACK PLAYER built in! LOL! Gawd I loved that machine ... and I would eat poo-poo to have the opportunity to get an exact duplicate today! The bike was so easy to work on ... and so SO dependable! One of the best bikes I ever owned up to that time!

Farther On
Today was a strange day. The morning was filled with those activities that bring our mortality into focus; blood tests and ultrasounds. It was sunny and clear but with a hint of winter in the air. In fact the clouds towards Buffalo looked full of snow. The radio reported whiteouts and chain reaction accidents 100 miles north of us yesterday. As we ate lunch in town, clouds moved in and the sun faded away like the hot summer.
When we got home the roads were still dry and the mercury was about 41 (5 for the metric types). Hmmm,,, maybe a short run to nowhere specific. We live very close to Niagara Falls. “Honey I’m going to pick up a loaf of bread” close. Maybe a run there to catch the last of the autumn leaves and the fall’s spray plume in the cold air,,,
We headed into Niagara-on-the-Lake to pick up the Niagara Parkway to follow the river. Niagara is an off season ghost town during the week. No crowds to push through today. The river road was gorgeous, the leaves down or in the last stages of colour against the grey low ceilinged sky. Running up the hill of the Niagara Escarpment, the drizzle started. Jackson Browne on the CD is singing Running on Empty and David Lindley’s red hot Rickenbacker BR-6 lap steel is wailing as I reflect on the season that is coming to an end.
The Native Peoples associate the seasons to the points of the compass. Cruising bikers have a similar cycle I mused. Soon the Road Glide will be in my garage with the Battery Tender on and the fuel stabilized while I play with chrome doo dads and must haves for next season. I will be poring over maps and tour guides plotting out the runs for next summer and making lists of places to shoot on camera. Winter will be a time for reflection. This fall season is the time for feeling gratitude for the bounty of the harvest, the good friends I met on the road this year and for my health that will sustain me through next season’s rides.
Hello from France.
Its funny but when the heads of state get together they sometimes dont agree, and you think what a ********* that guy is, I have been into radio since the 60's and was a SWL, CB'er and then Pam and I passed our Ham Licence, she went through first time and I had to resit.
Well on the radio everybody is a sound coming out of a speaker and at first its a new contact ( great ), after chatting to him or her you find out about who where and when, its amazing you dont know more than you are told and you accept that and you are happy. I have made contacts with some really special people but not knowing at the time and with bikers two wheels and a leather jacket over a cup of coffee and we are happy, not knowing what he or she does in the run of the mill way of life,no doubt some of you have met people and never dreamed that you would sit down a crack open a beer with them.
Well my latest contact which is great is that I have had a mail from KING of AMERICA, I have had contacts all over but never from him.
You dont know who you are joking with some of the time
.HAVE A NICE DAY
Englissh aka Tony
Keep the Grey Coming Long and Slow
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today i got the phone call i never wanted to get, my daughter called to say she had been hit while riding her motorcycle. thank god she was only bruised up and skinned up, she was wearing helmet and riding jacket and chaps and boots. her bike faired pretty good too but still is gonna be down for a few weeks while the parts come in to fix it. she had a person turn left in front of her, he never turned his signal on and witnesses said he accelerated as he came to the intersection, like he was trying to beat her. she skidded and ended up laying it down and her front tire hit the rear of his car, and he just kepted driving, never slowed down. right now im mad as hell and frustrated!!! why dont these car drivers see us on bikes??? i mean my daughter has a pink full face helmet with a pink mohawk on it and her riding jacket is bright pink, how in the world does somebody not see that??? i still cant understand that, i mean i was hit back in july by a fella turning left in front of me too and i wondered how he could miss seeing someone who is 275 pounds on a big motorcycle, hell im bigger than some cars lol. are car drivers just that stupid??? i am really starting to wonder. how do we get the message across to those idiots that they better start paying more attention to driving than talking on their cell phones or changing the radio station??? well i guess my ranting is over, and if your reading this i'll let ya get on with your day and i will say another thank you to the fella upstairs that it wasn't worse . keep the shiny side up and the rubber side down and watch out for them stupid idiots that dont see us.
THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears
with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking Twenty-five miles to school every morning
Uphill... barefoot...
BOTH ways
Yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay
a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it!
But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of
thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today.
You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my
childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!
And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, We had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalogue!!
There was no email!! We had to actually write
somebody a letter, with a pen!
Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!
Child Protective Services didn't care if our parents beat us. As a matter of fact, the parents of all my friends also had permission to kick our ass! No where was safe!
There were no MP3' s or Napsters! You wanted to
steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself!
Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
There were no CD players! We had tape decks in our car. We'd play our favorite tape and "eject" it when finished and the tape would come undone. cause that's how we rolled dig?
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you
were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it!
And we didn't have fancy Caller ID either!
When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your Bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you
just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video
games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever!
And you could never win. The game just kept getting
harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel!
There was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove ... Imagine that!
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids
today have got it too easy.
You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted
five minutes back in 1980 or before!
and just for Phil,
we had NO FM or Digital Radio only AM radio. No Digital TV, NO Plasma TV, NO 60" Wide Screen TV's and NO 5:1 Surround Sound Entertainment Systems either only Stereos lol
Regards,
The over 30 Crowd
Hey All, Sorry so long, since i got back from the trip been crazy busy at work.. Man what a sweet ride this summer, except for a couple of heavy rains it was awesome.. The ride up thru Ga was hot but the Sirus radio i put on helped pass the time nicely. The ride up thru TN and KY mountains was amazing, but the best part was coming back down and running thru the Smoky Mountain National Forest, that was a total RUSH!! If anybody has ever ridin it they will totally agree with me, and for those of you that havent..you have to..it was Awesome!! One thing i found out tho, i only had my leather jacket with me, and going thru those passes in the mountain got cool but i need to find something lighter as that was too heavy.
Wish i had some pics to post, but i was so busy enjoying the ride i forgot to stop and take some photos, (duh) but plan on doing that run again hopefully in the spring and will take some then.
All the additions i made to the bike really made the trip more comfortable. I had my pack that was big enuf to use as a backrest, along with the risers i put on, put me about 2 in back so i could kick back against my bag and roll..wish i had put on the highway bars tho. The airhorn i put on came in hand a couple of time with nitwits not paying attn that i was there and tried to share the same lane i was in..LOL. The Airhawk i put on was nice, but i think i will prob change to a mustang seat before the next long ride. I think i am going to take her and head down to the keys sometime this month for a weekend, i think that nice long ride over the bridge will be cool. Anybody interested in a ride from tampa down to the keys? Give me a shout if you are, would be glad to have the company.
Well I think i am going to hit the sack, everybody have a great weekend and keep it safe!!