Seeing green…

More good stuff, folks….our bikes are moving out sharply and we’ve brought another shipment of the Genuine scooters onto the showroom floor.

That pistachio green Buddy 125 is looking good…you gotta love that color.  Genuine calls this color sea foam green, but every time I look at that bike I feel like having a bowl of pistachio ice cream.

The weather is good out here in southern California.  It’s not too hot and not too cold.  That’s going to change in bit, especially when the time changes next month.   But right now it’s perfect riding weather, both for motorcycles and for bicycles.   I cranked out a quick 27 miles on my mid-1980s classic green Bianchi bicycle over the weekend, and I may do the same tomorrow afternoon.   Bianchi is the oldest bicycle company in the world, and as it turns out, for a while they were also making motorcycles.  I have a picture of one I saw in a museum a few years ago, and if I think of it, I’ll post it for you later.  It’s the same classy color as their Celeste green bicycles, and that color is pretty close to the Genuine pistachio green you see above.

I had my iPhone with me today when I stopped by the factory (I left my Nikon at home today), and I grabbed a couple of other fun shots…check out this one with a couple of our Military Series bikes, Steve’s personal P-51, and bunch of Genuine Buddies and Blurs in the background…

The guy across the way from us who rented the new hangar looks like he has an interesting business…he’s been having a bunch of wrecked airplanes coming in and today he took delivery on a wrecked helicopter…

There’s got to be a story behind each one of those wrecks; I’ll bet it would be interesting to hear each of them.

Speaking of wrecks, one of my Cal Poly students showed me his severely abraded riding jacket an hour or so ago…his Suzuki DR400 went into a severe tank slapper and down he went on the 91 Freeway in traffic.   He was tooling along about 75 miles per hour when it happened, and he walked away from it completely unhurt.  Lucky guy, but his gear played a major role.   There’s a message there, folks.   The acronym is ATGATT (all the gear, all the time).  It’s the only way I ride.

Here’s one more photo I grabbed with my iPhone last night.  I think this is a Chevy (if I’m wrong, let me know).   If I owned this truck I’d leave it just like it is.  It’s classy and cool.

I’m sure glad the election is almost here.  I am getting so tired of the political phone calls that interrupt our evenings.  I keep telling whoever calls me that I was going to vote for their guy, but with their annoying phone calls they made me change my mind and now I’m voting for the other guy.  It makes me feel good, but it hasn’t slowed down the phone calls at all.  I think the important thing this time (as is the case every time) is to vote.   If you don’t, it’s a vote for the other guy.

That’s all for now, folks.   Talk to you later.