05-05-2025, 05:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-05-2025, 05:29 PM by Gone in 60.)
Man, Pdedse and Alp, I'm quite jealous! Those are some beautiful rides! Pdedse, hope you feel better quick! I'm nursing some bumps, bruises and sunburn from the event we just finished.
I took a day off to recuperate from being on the road for a while, and had to come up with a birthday present for my new boss. He was talking about the houndstooth interior used on certain '69 Camaros, and as luck would have it, there's a black and white houndstooth sweater currently being sold in the Petersen Museum gift shop - it's an homage to Porsche's use of the pattern, but houndstooth is houndstooth. Jumped on the Triumph and rode headlong into weekday traffic to zip up to the museum to buy the sweater for him. All-in-all in both directions, I ended up lane splitting about 30 or so miles. Very good ride-sharpening skills now that my commute is sporadic and doesn't have much traffic.
And, I got to show off the little bit of vanity I just stuck on the back of the Bonnie. My most recent registration year decal just showed up. In California, the new year decal is just stuck over the top of the old one, and this would have been on top of the stack with the original 2012 sticker on the bottom, making for quite a thick collection. I used a little heat to soften the decals to pull off most of them, but ended up taking half of the paint too. So, as long as I needed a replacement plate (can't have a nasty looking plate on my bike), I sprung for the "Legacy Plate", recreating the look of the 1960s era standard issue black and yellow license plates. I thought the look fit the bike quite well.
I took a day off to recuperate from being on the road for a while, and had to come up with a birthday present for my new boss. He was talking about the houndstooth interior used on certain '69 Camaros, and as luck would have it, there's a black and white houndstooth sweater currently being sold in the Petersen Museum gift shop - it's an homage to Porsche's use of the pattern, but houndstooth is houndstooth. Jumped on the Triumph and rode headlong into weekday traffic to zip up to the museum to buy the sweater for him. All-in-all in both directions, I ended up lane splitting about 30 or so miles. Very good ride-sharpening skills now that my commute is sporadic and doesn't have much traffic.
And, I got to show off the little bit of vanity I just stuck on the back of the Bonnie. My most recent registration year decal just showed up. In California, the new year decal is just stuck over the top of the old one, and this would have been on top of the stack with the original 2012 sticker on the bottom, making for quite a thick collection. I used a little heat to soften the decals to pull off most of them, but ended up taking half of the paint too. So, as long as I needed a replacement plate (can't have a nasty looking plate on my bike), I sprung for the "Legacy Plate", recreating the look of the 1960s era standard issue black and yellow license plates. I thought the look fit the bike quite well.
You know what? I actually would like a pickle.
