taking the next natural step

[hoops]

well, yesterday i got unhooked... i underwent a 72 hour EEG and had electrodes glued to my head. i looked like frankenstein waiting for the storm. now today there are red scrap marks left behind from the electrodes and i look like a real frankenstein. i've been having some difficulties with losing place and time and such and i've been undergoing some tests, the EEG being the early stages, next i do a two day one night sleep test ( i can;t wait i get to sleep!!!) then the spinal tap and after that well who knows. anyway, as i was driving home the other day looking like a bad face lift i got the inkling to do something i've always wanted to do. maybe it has to do with being a pinch away from 40, maybe it has to do with this years junk, maybe i just wanna do it, but i figure the next natural step after have4 your brain tested for "bugs" is to...get my motorcyce license!! i'm so excited i could plotz! i've signed up for the complete course and by the end fo may beginning of June i will be a biker! Dude!!!! i've picked out the bike i want and i thank God that i am a small person cause the only bikes they make for people like me are far less expensive than the bigger ones. i suppose i should wait till i get all the test results but then i think , nahhhh. i can;t wait
peace
hoops

[Eva]

Thank goodness. I though you were talking about brainsurgery :eek: You are one of 'us' but not THAT crazy yet ;)

Go for the drivers licence Hoops. And get yourself a sexy chopper. I predict that the women will be standing in line for you. They all want a ride from you!

Eva

[GodSistah]

Good luck, hoops!

:)

~Andrea~

[mixtymotions]

Here's some motorcyle songs - wishing you miles and miles and miles of adventure!

The Other Kind, Steve Earle
I'm back out on that road again, turn this beast into the wind
There are those that break and bend, I'm the other kind
I'm the other kind

See, it used to be I was really free, didn't need no gasoline to run
Before you could say Jack Kerouac and turn your back, I'd be gone
Yeah but nowadays I got me two good wheels
And I seek refuge in aluminum and steel
It takes me out there for just a little while
And the years fall away with every mile

The Motorcycle Song, Arlo Guthrie
I don't want a pickle, I just want to ride on my motorsikkle!
I don't wan't a tickle, I just want to ride on my motorsikkle!
I don't want to die, I just want to ride on my motorcy.......cle!

Bat out of Hell, Meatloaf
I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering ram, on a silver and black phantom bike
When the metal is hot and the engine is hungry, and we're all about to see the light....

I can see myself, tearing up the road faster than any other boy has ever gone
And my skin is rough but my soul is ripe
Ano ones gonna stop me now, I gotta make my escape
But I can't stop thinking of you
And I never see the sudden curve til it's way too late
No I never see the sudden curve til it's way too late
Then I'm dying on the bottom of a pit in the blazing sun,
Torn and twisted at the foot of a burning bike
And I think somebody somewhere must be tolling a bell
And the last thing I see is my heart, still beating and breaking out of my body
And flying away like a bat out of hell

New Sensations, Lou Reed
I took my GPZ out for a ride
The engine felt good between my thighs
The air felt cool, its was 40 degrees outside

I rode to Pennsylvania near the Delaware gap
Sometimes I got lost and had to check the map
I stopped at a roadside diner for a burger and a coke

There were some country folk and some hunters inside
Somebody got themselves married and somebody died
I went to the juke box and played a hillbilly song

They was arguing about football as I waved and went outside
And I headed for the mountains feeling warm inside
I love that GPZ so much, you know that I could kiss her

Ghost Rider, Rush
(of course, the whole song is about motorcycling, so here's an excerpt I especially like):

Sunrise in the mirror, lightens that invisible load
Riding on a nameless quest, haunting that wilderness road
Like a ghost rider

Just an escape artist, racing against the night
A wandering hermit, racing toward the light

From the white sands
To the canyon lands
To the redwood stands
To the barren lands

Born to Run, Bruce Springsteen
In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream
At night we ride through mansions of glory on suicide machines
Sprung from cages out on highway 9,
Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin out over the line....

...baby I'm just a scared and lonely rider
But I gotta find out how it feels
I want to know if love is wild, girl I want to know if love is real

Unknown Legend, Neil Young
Somewhere on a desert highway, she rides a Harley-Davidson
Her long blonde hair flyin in the wind
She's been runnin half her life
The chrome and steel she rides, colliding with the very air she breathes
The air she breathes.

Motorcycle Mama, Neil Young
Motorcycle Mama, won't you lay your big spike down
Motorcycle Mama, won't you lay your big spike down
I always get in trouble when you bring it round
Motorcycle Mama, won't you lay it down.

I'm runnin', I'm runnin', I'm runnin', down the proud highway
Yeah, I'm runnin', I'm runnin', I'm runnin' down the proud highway
And as long as I keep movin' I won't need a place to stay.

[Darlene]

Have a great time hoops!!!!!!!!!:D


mixty are we spending a little too much time listening to motorcycle music? :confused: :rolleyes: LOL

Peace, Darlene

[Dee]

What about that Christopher Cross classic, Ride Like The Wind (which I really like)

It is the night
My body's weak
I'm on the run
No time for sleep
I've got to ride
Ride like the wind
To be free again

And I've got such a long way to go
(Such a long way to go)
To make it to the border of Mexico
So I'll ride like the wind
Ride like the wind

[hoops]

bowing graciously
thank you all :)
peace
hoops

[DaveM]

Hoops, if you run into any snags with the written test or the motorcycle course, feel free to drop me a line. I'd let my certification lapse for so long that I had to start from Square One when I bought a bike last summer. The course is WELL WORTH WHILE and will help you with lots of tricks that aren't in the manual. Lots of practice will help to--even after you get the certification. Find a quiet part of town and drive around blocks, alternately left and right. Or find an empty parking lot and practice slow-speed maneuvers. Those seem to be the toughest....the "parallel parking" of the motorcycle exam. Above all--HAVE FUN!

Good luck, and remember....you never see a motorcycle parked outside of a psychiatrist's office.

[lucille]

I have had a motorcycle license since I was 18 (just after the wheel was invented :D ), and have ridden all sorts of bikes. Presently I own a scooter and use it for shopping and banking etc. It sure saves on fuel. BUT, you must be aware that you have to drive defensively. Motorists here tend to ignore motorcyclists, and it pays to give way to them even when they are wrong, and mostly they are.:p

[gisli]

... i underwent a 72 hour EEG........ i looked like frankenstein waiting for the storm. hoops

Hoops a good one as in: coffee not in the mouth but all over the computer, but is that not how one looks like when one is riding on a motorcycle with the wind blowing in your face.....hair and stuff.

72 hours of EEG, I am not going to pretend like I know what EEG means, I don´t, but that must have been hard.

But you go for that motorcycle thing if you want to.....just take care when riding it........don´t want to see you blowing off into the wind.

Just if I I wasn´t such a sissy........

[Mimi]

Good luck for tests and the drivers licence, Noel, and take care!!!

Mimi

[hoops]

gisli,
an EEG is a measurement of the brain waves, small electrodes are glude to specific areas of your head , they are attached to a small machine about the size of a walkman and they measure everything that goes on in your brain for the time that a person is connected. if you remember the bugs bunny with the orange monster when bugs did his hair...it looks a lot like that. it's not an unpleasant feeling, but not enjoyable either...gettin gthe super glue out of my hair was the hardest part of the whole thing.
yeah i guess comparing it with the way a persons hair would look after a helmetless ride on a motorcycle would be a good way to describe what i lo9oked like when it was all done
peace
hoops

[Randy & Betty in Pa]

LOL Hoops Hoops Hoops.....

You know we all love you BUT..... Stay the hell off the sidewalks with your bike.... At least now I won't have to worry about the car being "borrowed" when your in town.... Stay happy and healthy dear fiend.....

Best

R. from Pa

PS.... Down with the helmet laws!:mad:

[gisli]

gisli,
an EEG is a measurement of the brain waves, small electrodes are glude to specific areas of your head , they are attached to a small machine about the size of a walkman and they measure everything that goes on in your brain for the time that a person is connected.

Well that would be a whole lot of waist of time, that is if I was plugged in like that, my line would be completly flat......there is nothing up there.......Thank God we have people with brains, like you hoops.

Take care and be save.
Gísli.

[Eva]

my line would be completly flat......there is nothing up there.......
LOL :D You're funny Gísli. If it's flat it means the patient is dead. Luckily you are both very much alive. :D

Eva

[DaveM]

Does the line go flat from that Icelandic antifreeze?

There is an American product I can recall from my non-sober years, some stuff called "Sokolov", basically grain alcohol diluted to 80 proof and of such a cheap grade that flavoring is added to make it drinkable. As I recall, it was something resembling anise. I doubt that it had the proof rating of the Icelandic version, though.

If I recall correctly, this "stuff" sold for around $10 a half gallon. Which probably tells as much about the quality and the target market as anyone needs to know. Taste it at your peril!

[Bat]

Sokolov, hmmm? Sounds like the Russian version of Torpedo Juice!

[DaveM]

That's pretty much it, Bat....basically for the drinker who doesn't care any more.

[hoops]

sokolov, that sounds familiar for some reason but i can't remember where from. i hear about all these potent beverages and i wonder, but i don't taste which is funny cause i took my motorcycle permit test and i only got one question( out of 20) wrong, it was an alcohol question. i don;t drink so i don't know the lingo and they fooled me with the question. i start training on the 1st of june weeeeeeeeeeeeee
peace
hoops

[Darlene]

Congratulation hoops, It is pretty cool that you only missed one question about something you don't know about alcohol. And watch out for those cars because it feels like "Oh, there is a motorcycle let's see if we can hit it!".
Take Care,
Darlene

[Bat]

When I was 50, I bought a motorcycle, took the course, and find that even in the car, now, I seek free space...don't like to ride or drive right next to someone unless going slowly in city traffic and there is no other way to do it.
They'll teach you that, probably...look for open space and maintain it, so you don't have anyone around you when you're on the open road.
I was pretty glad to have that bike, because I didn't have a car, my credit was very limited, my income was the same, and I put 10,000 miles on that bike in one year going back and forth to work in South Carolina. I burned it up, took it apart and had it rebored. Got another engine when it burned up too. Now it sits in various places in my garage...it runs like a champ but won't shift, and needs taking apart--again. I think it will probably stay there a bit longer. But I do think about fixing it up and taking one last ride, then selling it. I do love to ride!

[DaveM]

My bike came with a complete disassembled parts bike (everything but the frame), so....when something needs to be taken apart, the stuff to put back together is around!

Rather fortunately since it's a '78 Honda and you simply can't get parts for them any more.

[Irish Beth]

For "Easy Rider" fans...........first thing you do.......throw away your wristwatch :rolleyes:

[DaveM]

Definitely....if anyone has seen the recent movie "Wild Hogs", there is a great play on that near the end of the movie. For that matter, most of the film is full of subtle winks at "Easy Rider". Very funny movie if you don't mind a fair amount of lowbrow humor.

[ponytail]

Good luck with the bike, Hoops -- my only experiences with bikes have been sitting behind the driver hanging on for dear life (and loving it!):o

[Eva]

Mine was in Athens, without a helmet. Doing that equals an attempt to commit suicide. The horror of that traffic! :eek:

Eva