Where is Hunter Thompson?

[enki]

Saw this in Coulterville Sunday.

 

[gixxerjeff]

I thought he was in the dirt by now.

 

[planegray]

he went into space

 

[enki]

Sorry, was trying to load a photo of a Vincent Black Shadow.

 

[i_am_the_koi]

Shot from a 50 foot tall cannon into the desert surrounded by select family and friends?

 

[NeilInPacifica]

I didn't know who Hunter Thompson was/is, but in searching for background found this really interesting article on past famous MC riders.


http://www.artofmanliness.com/2011/04/10/famous-men-and-their-motorcyles/

 

[flying_hun]

I didn't know who Hunter Thompson was/is,

Kids.

Good link though.

 

[aminalmutha]

I didn't know who Hunter Thompson was/is, but in searching for background found this really interesting article on past famous MC riders.


http://www.artofmanliness.com/2011/04/10/famous-men-and-their-motorcyles/

 

[gixxerjeff]

Kids.

Good link though.

 

[Z3n]

Song of the Sausage Creature

What makes me laugh though is that a 900SS is a slow, boring machine by modern standards. Suitable for a new rider, probably!

 

[gixxerjeff]

The thing about Hunter is he is known as a motorcyclist but I can't help think he was probably a pretty shitty rider.
A big fan and outer fringes ambassador certainly, but I suspect he was too wasted to develop any kind of a skill set.
The dude sure was good theater though.

 

[aminalmutha]

Song of the Sausage Creature

What makes me laugh though is that a 900SS is a slow, boring machine by modern standards. Suitable for a new rider, probably!

Still fast enough to get you dead. Besides, a half way decent rider on a 900SS could run circles around half the people I see running around on late model sprotbiles.

 

[Donelop]

name a journalist that blows your socks off with how skilled they are at anything else.

 

[LectricBill]

Song of the Sausage Creature

What makes me laugh though is that a 900SS is a slow, boring machine by modern standards. Suitable for a new rider, probably!

Yes, as splained by Thompson:

"The Ducati people in New Jersey had opted, for some reasons of their own, to send me the 900ss-sp for testing - rather than their 916 crazy-fast, state-of-the-art superbike track-racer. It was far too fast, they said - and prohibitively expensive - to farm out for testing to a gang of half-mad Colorado cowboys who think they're world-class Cafe Racers."

 

[Z3n]

name a journalist that blows your socks off with how skilled they are at anything else.

Cathcart.

 

[ST Guy]

"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Hell's Angels" are must reading.

 

[unobtanium]

name a journalist that blows your socks off with how skilled they are at anything else.

Don Canet

 

[TerryM]

name a journalist that blows your socks off with how skilled they are at anything else.

Varian Fry

 

[bikeama]

name a journalist that blows your socks off with how skilled they are at anything else.

For the folks

Jody Nicholas

 

[firstbuell]

Jody wins!

Cathcart & Canet in a cross-generational tie

I'll have to google "Varian Fry"after I follow the linky