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Originally Posted by varmint
monsters are kind of common. every wanker wannabe actor north of franklin has one.
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I haven't really noticed this, guess I'm just not paying attention. Or maybe I'm too far south of Franklin to see this. (In Koreatown). Not doubting you for a minute, but plenty of douches drive Porsches/Ferraris/BMWs/etc., most anything cool. Ducatis have a lot of style along with their performance, so they definitely attract aesthetes of many stripes including a lot of posers. I can live with it because I know who I am and have nothing to prove and no one to please other than myself.
FWIW, I also know some actors that are definitely not wannabes who ride Ducs. But that's another story. I agree wholeheartedly w/ the rest of your post, riding a good bike is sheer bliss. I've rode for ~35 years w/ some long breaks, last summer in the midwest I rediscovered the joy of riding instead of driving and am hooked worse than ever. I'll be 49 in '08 and I am getting more pleasure out of the good, simple things in life than ever before. Things like motorcycles, a good steak, a little vitamin P, you get my drift. Thank God some things never go out of style.
PS: $40 @ week on gas? You must ride a lot of miles. That would be close to 900 miles a week on my last bike.