Up at 10, I don't like this trend of being a little later each day.
It's gloomy and grey out there but I guess not going to rain, just shadowless greyness.
This thing with the Dump getting his followers all excited, telling them that he was going to march with them to the Capitol and then of course getting into a limousine and going home to watch golf or something, is really familiar to me.
In the 80s there was something called the "Love Ride" which was mostly Harley riders but all were welcome. I'm not sure if it was the first one, or just the first one to get Jay Leno to (supposedly) ride in it, but I paid I dunno, $25 or $35 I forget, and thought it'd be really great to ride with Jay Leno who was really big in motorcycle circles at the time. I've even met him a couple of times; he's a nice guy.
So I go out on this thing on I forget which bike; it might have been my souped up Kawasaki GPz 550 or my Yamaha SRX-6. It might even still have been a big BMW I had; I was really into bikes at one time.
Well, there were riders lost and going off in different directions, somewhat convinced they were going the right route, and Harleys broken down by the side of the road everywhere. There was supposed to be a sort of party - again with Jay Leno - at the end. But I never found it and I suspect many didn't. It may have been a case of Jay just staying home to watch golf or something.
The whole thing felt like a scam and I already wasn't fond of Harley riders. Of course it's worse now, the Venn diagram of 'Rump supporters and Harley riders being a perfect circle. In fact motorcycling has become so "tribal" where you're a Harley rider or a sportbike rider or one of those guys with an enduro with those big aluminum bags on the side, or you ride BMWs etc. I've learned, these days, to not even mention that I've ever ridden a motorcycle around any motorcyclists I meet. But that's a rant for another day.
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