Sunday, June 1, 2014

Met up with Carey in Groton

Cruised to Mystic, parked on the side of Main street...

Carey is one funny Bastard, we met a woman from Texas on a BMW cruiser, She opened the trunk to show us her colors, "Sisters United". We joked around for a couple minutes and she disappeared inside. At this point we noticed two helmets....Sisters United?   It turned out to be her and her husbands helmets...Som much for dreams...

A short time later, as we were talking and not paying much attention, an SUV backed into the spot next to us, Out stepped a really attractive woman wearing a tight fitting dress, She said' "You see that, I backed in and didn't even hit your bikes". At this point she noticed that what she had done was sidewalled her rear tire on the curb. "You could have told me I was going to hit the curb", she said. Carey replied, "We weren't watching". As she walked by in that tight butt hugging dress and proceeded to enter a store, Carey followed it up with, "I watching now!!!"

After a couple minutes, of talking with a guy who was left standing on the sidewalk for "We'll only be a couple minutes" as his wife and daughter entered one of the tourist stores. A window opened in the restaurant store front, a woman stuck her head out and said, "That's a really pretty motorcycle, what kind is it?" Seeing as there was my Dyna, a BMW Tourer, and Carey's Kawasaki, Carey asked "Which one?" She said the green one, pointing at Carey's. With an astonished look on his face he loudly answered, "It's RUST".

I walked across the street to check out the Surplus store, they had an Israeli and Russian Gas masks. the most expensive being only $40.00 I came real close to buying one. I figured it would look good riding along wearing a gas mask. In my youth, when I had a chopper with an extended springer I had a MK VII gas mask, It had two pods on it. Wearing that with a flat black helmet and a pair of aviator goggles over the face piece to add effect, I used to get some really strange responses for people around me. But with these models there is one large cannister in the front and it sticks out a bit. While it may actually have looked cool wearing it on a bike, All I could picture was turning my head sideways without a windshield and changing lanes as the wind caught it.

On the way to the diner I stopped to have Jenny washed by a local group raising money, Stonington Crew,Youth Rowing, or something like that. As we pulled in all the kids let out a cheer, As I pulled up and parked they all flocked around her. When it came time to actually wash it...They had no idea what to do with it. They patted the soap filled sponge here and there as if over touching the bike might damage something. They were so afraid of it that they didn't even rinse it off with a hose. One kid, with a sponge would fill the sponge with clean water then squeeze the water out of the sponge to rinse the bike. I tried to tell them that Motorcycle ride in the rain, getting it wet is ok, but fear prevailed. I pulled out having felt pretty good about the donation, but with a bike a little wetter but not much cleaner than when it arrived.


 How lightly can you touch a fender?

 Gas tank has soap on it.

 Look...they are almost touching the rear footboard




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