Got home real late last night after a full day of riding Motorcycles and drinking with the guys, and my wife left a message in the kitchen:
I got her message loud and clear!
…she wants me to eat more fruit.
Bless her heart!
Tag: Motorcycles
The Roller Cycle
The Roller Cycle ($1999.00) is a personal power accelerator which takes you safely up to 25 MPH on inline skates, skateboards and anything you can strap to your feet.
The powerful, two-cycle, 40.1 cc engine enables intermediate to advanced skaters to tackle any terrain.
Check out the safety video and this is a demonstration video of the Roller Cycle doing everything.
Don’t be fooled! This is exercise. Roller Cycle is an extreme workout as the force of the motor travels through the body. You feel the burn in your legs, the burn in your arms, as if you were traveling down a snow filled mountain. The same kind of energy is exerted and is a grueling exercise.
Roller Cycle inventor Greg Rosenwald cruising on grass at 25 MPH on Pine & Varee Roads cross the border between NE Philadelphia and Montgomery County..
This video is being used for the construction page of the new www.rollercycle.com until the new Flash web site to be released in 2011.
Describing a prototype model, Fortune Magazine, wrote the following:
“Extreme was a word tossed around a lot at the Super Show- meaning daring, risky, unboring, cutting-edge. And nothing was more extreme than the Roller Cycle, which even when seen, can’t be quite believed. An in-line skater leans into a yoke around his hips. Behind him and attached to this yoke around his hips, is a small gasoline motor driving a wheel in contact with the ground. A tug or two on the starting cord and vrooom! – the skater looking like he is being chased down the street by a rototiller, is off, propelled forward at speeds up to 25 miles per hour. He can, if he likes, tow one or more unmotorized skaters behind him.”
Roller Cycle’s press has been extensive over the last several years since the first prototype was created. It never fails to catch people’s attention from the moment they see it in operation. To date, here is a list of television, Internet and magazine articles which Roller Cycle has been featured:
• Discovery Channel
• Learning Channel
• Fortune Magazine
• The Wall Street Journal
• Popular Science
• Popular Mechanics
• Philadelphia Inquirer
• Philadelphia Daily News
• Bucks Courier Times
• Fox 10 O’clock News {3 times}
• ABC Don Polec’s World {2 Times} & Good Morning America
• NBC Today Show{2 Times}
• Donahue
• Real TV
• AXN (TV Program)
• Pro 7 TV (Germany)
Man Buried Riding His Harley Davidson
Man Buried Riding His Harley Davidson
84-year old Billy Standley of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, who recently died of lung cancer, was buried straddling his Harley Davidson motorcycle in a casket made of Plexiglas and plywood. According to his family, it was a funeral he started planning 18 years ago.
“This was his dream,” said one of his daughters, Dorothy Brown.
David Vernon, director of the Skillman, McDonald and Vernon Funeral Home in Mechanicsburg, said that, when Standley first asked him about it, Vernon gave him one condition:
“I told him, ‘I have no problem doing this for you, but I don’t want you to come off that motorcycle.’ ”
So Standley and his sons designed a brace that hooked into the bike and led up his back to surround his rib cage. Five years ago, Standley went before the Champaign County Board of Health, which told him he’d have to come up with a special vault and drain all the fluids out of the bike before he could be buried with it.
A company in Springfield designed a modified septic tank for a vault. He bought three plots in a cemetery outside Mechanicsburg, next to where his wife, Lorna, is buried, so there would be enough land to bury him.
Standley and his sons also designed his casket. They painted the wood bright green, like the fields Bill imagined riding through for eternity. They painted the floor black with a single white stripe, like the highway that would take him wherever he was headed after this life.
“He lived to ride,” said his son Roy Standley.
His life was the stuff of legends.
Bill Dixon’s Motorcycle Stunts
Bill Dixon is a stunt motorcycle rider and also the world’s top freestyle competitor. He competes in stunt and trick riding competitions as part of the XDL Championship Series. Last summer he became the first man to win three consecutive XDL titles.
Enjoy!
Stunt rider Bill Dixon showing off his motorcycle tricks and skills at the XDL Championship Series event in Albuquerque.
Liberty Vintage Motorcycles
In a crowded Philadelphia garage, Adam Cramer revives vintage motorcycles and the American tradition of grease-stained self-reliance.
I met Adam Cramer five or six years ago, when I was living in South Philadelphia. My film career was just getting started and I was spending a lot of time in a local coffee shop called Gleaner’s Café. It was the neighborhood hangout, and while the coffee was good, it was really the local color that drew me to the place. Adam was a regular with an iced-coffee always in hand, and from our very first meeting, he made an unforgettable impression.
It wasn’t until I started rebuilding vintage bikes myself that I learned that Adam, coincidentally, did it for a living. With our shared interest — his much further honed than my own — it wasn’t long before I started imagining a short film about him. I feel incredibly honored to have had this chance.
I’m compelled by what Adam has to say. As someone who rebuilds motorcycles as a hobby and comes from a blue-collar family (my grandfather had an auto body shop, and my dad’s a woodworker), I personally get enjoyment from working with my hands. And while I don’t agree with Adam’s entire take on things, I do believe he makes a valid argument. Clearly, it comes from his heart, his head, and his own skilled and calloused hands.
As an aside, I do think that the larger setting of this film is worth mentioning. Liberty Vintage is in Fishtown, Philadelphia. The name of this neighborhood is derived from the area’s historic role — since the 1800s — as the center of shad fishing on the Delaware River. The area has been a working-class one for generations, and I wonder if Adam’s thoughts resonate widely there. I have a feeling they might.
And finally, many thanks to the Japanese band Mono and Temporary Residence Limited for allowing me to use their music. I’m appreciative beyond words.
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