I'm hoping to have mine next weekend. My fingers are crossed HUGE!
I think we should organize a "Check Em Out" day or night or something. I'd like to find as many Italian bikes as possible and have a Italian Bike night or somehting at some coffee shop in Chicago. I used to live in Minneapolis and they have the best coffee shop on earth. It's called Bob's Java Hut. It's on Lyndale.
Every night of the week there are about 50 bikes lined up outside. No Harleys, just vintage bikes and tons of Ducatis, BMWs, Aprilias, Augusta's, etc. It's amazing. On the weekend it is unf********king beliveable to see how many cool bikes are there. People hang out for hours drinking coffee, juice, chatting, and going for rides. It rocks!
Minneapolis is the best bike town I've ever lived in or visited. And I've been to many. There is also a Pizza night where every person you can possible think of shows up, with their bike, once a month to a local pizza shack in the city. Everyone comes and eats pizza, has a beer and checks out all the bikes for a few hours. There are literally hundreds of bikes and people. It was on a Thursday. If I can remember it was called Delano's Pizza. Not positive but I think that's what it was called. It's been a few years since I lived there.
We need something like that here. There are a lot of cool bikes here but this city is so damned scattered with bikes it's
ridiculous. It irritates me. We should all be hanging and riding and talkin' bikes at least once a week. We're just another club (albeit a great one) who is interested in not only riding amongst other Monster owners but checking out all the other cool bikes in town.
Maybe we could take out an add in the reader. "Looking for Italian bike owners to have a pizza and beer night with." Or perhaps we could entice a cool pizza, or coffee shop and start a weekly hangout. ****, if I had the dough, I'd open a coffee shop that catered to bikes. Cool Duc memorabilia, track pictures, vintage coffee bar, jukebox, hot waitresses, old school sodi pop, you get my meanin'. Every cool bike in town would show and not just Ducs. We'd be an all inclusive shop. Even Buells could hang.
Anyway, just my "long" two-cents.
Later.
Shyrlden
