Easy Rider and Chopperguy

Wednesday I went down to the garage with the idea of riding her to work. The rear had gone completely flat. Once again I loaded her onto the truck and hauled her down to Easyriders of Minneapolis. While hanging out in the shop a man came by and started staring at my bike. So I did what I always do, and started telling him about it. He mentions that the bike looks familiar to him, that he thinks he has seen it on a website before. I tell him that I run easyridermovie.com and find out that he had sent me an e-mail a couple weeks previous. He had come by the shop to pick up his Captain America replica. So we talked about choppers, the joys of riding a rigid, and possibly getting together some time to go for a ride. So sometime in the future you should see some shots on this site of a Captain America replica in action.

The next day I cruised down the road thinking, "Wow. I have had great luck this year, never once getting caught in a heavy rain." After work I went to start the bike and noticed the big, dark rain clouds moving in. One of my co-workers joked, "I hope you have rain gear."

"Rain gear? I don't even have a fender!"

On the third kick, I felt a few drops. On the sixth and final kick, the drops had started coming with some regularity. Before I had made it through the first intersection it had started raining. Within five minutes a torrential downpour had soaked me. I had purchased a set of goggles this year. I had found them invaluable for keeping the crap on the road out of my eyes. I found out that in the rain, these things fog up really quickly. I switched to my sunglasses. One of the nice things about going for a ride in the rain; you get soaked in no time and once you get completely soaked, it doesn't matter anymore. I still prefer riding on a sunny day.