02-25-2018, 04:44 AM
(02-25-2018, 04:23 AM)rotor_imp Wrote:(02-25-2018, 03:10 AM)VLJ_imp Wrote: I completely agree.Hobart, Tasmania. The City by the Bay, except down under. It did appear to me to have a whole lot in common with San Francisco. Love them both!
However...
...this picture could easily have been taken in San Francisco. That's the one city in America I've seen in which such scenes are a daily reality. Go anywhere in The City, and you will see scores of motorcycles parked together; all makes and models, new and old, large and small, rat bikes to carbon fiber Panigales.
Most places here in America, however, you're correct, it's either Harleys and the occasional sportbike, or, if you're out roaming the hinterlands, it's Harleys and BMWs and Gold Wings, and that's about it.
Oh, and call me crazy, but this...
...looks a whole lot healthier than this...
It also looks a whole lot more fun!
Quote:Oh, and call me crazy, but this...
...looks a whole lot healthier than this...
It also looks a whole lot more fun! To an old man who has paid his dues, absolutely. However:
Long time go, in a galaxy far away (Toronto, actually) I lost a job and drove a cab for a better part of a year. At that time, any suggestion of a motorcycle taxi would have been considered a sheer lunacy. But today? There is no doubt that Toronto (just like NYC for instance), is more than ripe for a motorcycle taxi service (that would be the dudes in hi-visibility vests on the photo above).
While I no longer have a job to loose, if something forced me to consider my old trade again, I would knock on the door of whatever TO municipal department was in charge, and apply for the taxi license renewal, with my CB1100 in tow... (I know a lawyer down there that would be given a chance to fight the rejection as a re-payment of his overdue student loans...
(I'm sure I must now be very close to be asked to remove himself because of the dreaded "thread drift"
My wife is from Costa Rica and our retirement plan probably puts us down there for large portions of the year. 15 minutes from the coast...I'm buying a moto taxi and will transport travelers up and down the pacific coast...stop in at resorts and hotels and give Spanish lessons to guests. Motor inland to remote towns nestled in the mountains where I'll teach English at local grade schools that otherwise would never have an English teacher. Gotta have a plan.