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A yearly MotorCycle show in DC
at the Convention Center
which i attended again this year
for one of the three days
(Friday, Saturday, Sunday)...
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Booths
MiniTrack
Wheelie machines
Stunt Show
At 6 pm (1800) three riders
with an MC hawking them
performed and the Wheelie stuff
shut down during it, as next to it
and
for 20 minutes just before me,
I got a seat, but too tired to do much
having been in lines for hour(s)
at that point, and next up...
I got some video of it, but behind
a wall of people, while the announcer/
MC had said it's a live show,
if a motorcycle is coming towards you
get out of the way,
they had prepared the slick concrete floor
with syrup, and heated it, otherwise
it would have been an ice rink,
one booth nearby had a Harley?
running and exhaust going towards
us in the line, maybe making it all more
realistic (rush hour stop and got in a Conv Ctr?).
Others wanted earphones/ plugs
but at that point i didn't care,
too far into my day, having been up most
of the night, down at dark or so when i got
home, and back up around midnight or two am,
and out 6 am or so, for 8 am openings
and all night store(s), for errands...
One being checking grocery store
clearance shelves for the last of the
stollen (see PostHolidayTreats2020
which is still going on at some Harris Teeter
and maybe some others which have stuff
left over, Aldi stuff my first stollen
and then passed on mini stollen
long gone...)
Walking into DC from Northern Virgina
and back may have had a lot to do with it,
going past the Court House Farmer's Market,
just at closing at 12 noon, and walking
Iwo Jima, and crossing back over Rt50
some woman, a blonde
stopped on the service road around it,
asking about my vest,
where it was from,
was passing right by,
but pushed/ hit and run
left just as quickly
after i declined a ride,
maybe wanting help with parking,
while i was doing
perhaps macho bragging rights
on walking there and back....
and offered a ride, but not knowing
and wanting to walk it, i declined...
Somehow one is a beggar if walking
instead of the desired mode of transit,
saw ducks and that the i66 bridge can be hopped
over and into Theodore Roosevelt Island park,
and there is a sidewalky area on the South side,
only remembering one on the North,
i66 is slower there and not limited
to vehicular traffic, closed for BikeDC
and likely other types of events,
perhaps Marine Corps marathon, etc
i have bicycled it, sometimes,
and walking is much slower,
the wind was high, and had to attach
my hat, an Aldi GardenLine gardening hat,
which pulled up and around is more
big sombrero (sp?) or CowBoy hat like...
(yeah, too many
SomeOldShows2018
Westerns on H&I mostly)
Unfortunately, no picture of the duck(s)
that i recall, low tide and
not the most photogenic,
mostly wanted to get off of that bridge
some construction on the downstream one,
Memorial bridge (where Rolling Thunder
BakingStallingDraggingRollingThunder2016
photo ops towards the Arlington Cemetery/
Ft Myer (sp diff than Florida meyers, and lemons?)
and Marine Corps marathon take place
much less YouthBikeSummit2017 ride )
two oncoming, a couple, got my unsolicited
advice high winds or such...
Overheating, forecast was 70 degrees
very unseasonal for January,
more likely snowd out day risks
only insurance companies and high overhead
margins places could risk it, afaict)
almost unbelievable plus laundry,
and i was one of the few in shorts,
heavy Aldi jacket a $5 half the
ThereIsSomeThingWrongInWhoVille2019
returning trip $10 originally $20 but sleeves
too short for an XXL, imnsho,
Asian stuff is too small i've got monkey arms
but don't play BBall...)
and cowboy like hat, even the Vet panhandling
was commenting upon, at the entrance of the
convention center, when i finally got there
asking a blue jacket woman in DownTown DC
7th street, i remember from
Leganious? HomeLess Soccer tournament
...and he posed wit ha StreetSEnse for me,
not a sports fan, i didn't really even know who
he was, until researching/ fact checking myself
later...)
One of my very few out at night and in DC
at night times, in recent years/ dacade...)
Booths weren't that interesting to me
TrackDays2012
i never found MotorCycle Excitement
who had let me in for free one year
as being part of the exhibitors crew,
having done the SuperVIP package
option, my first camping pre track day
evening before at Summit Point with
the new moto now 10+ years previous,
surviving that and two track suits,
Kangaroo Jerry, given the rental suit
(won a raffle, traded a track day for the
rental suit, my one on order hadn't come in,
MIA)
as Kangaroo skin, kinda annoying like
deer are here, and a pouch/ carrying
stuff (me so baggy) and the name stuck...
BMW was rumoured (sp?)
not to be attending
the MotoShow this year,
and the (at the door) Tickets were
$25 with a T Shirt,
(fine print short sleeve0,
some stalkers/ aka concerned followers?
warning to eat up my food(s),
drink the two seltzer water(s)
i had bought cheaply so many hours before in
Northern Virginia (SkyLine area)
while passing on AirHogs flying MotorCycle
RC car like thing, not quite drone, afaict,
that i hope i got a picture of and went
beyond that to something i'm looking forward
to constructing, my more typical winter time
activity, and hoping to make it through the normally
depressing season(s), but went there did that,
got the t shirt, and a rash, blisters
or something afterwards,
wondering why i was heated up too much,
trying to take off the layers, loaner pants
jacket, helmet and gloves went back,
after locating my Husky? cheapo
handyman type gloves with FreezeOut liners
something CycleGear, the booth people
doing stuff there, and had a booth,
had wandered thru there, not finding
Gerbing like electric gloves with the electrical
cords people were annoyed i was like a kid
with training gloves strings not to loose them,
but misplaced quickly and dropped on the way
in the entrance gates, having repeated
the cycle all day/ season long...
stuffing them in going into stores and people
think you are hiding their products,
taking off a jacket, cutesy type backpack
also Ald (one of the three ~$4 each the zippers weren't f'ed,
with dog ears, an alternate, you have no ears on
given bicycle
BadBunny2019 helmet with Easter Bunny type
ears, and photo release, reading the ticket
and glanced at the big poster after buying
"They own your ass" i told the couple near me,
one was from Philadelphia, but RVA type t shirt
and go on ahead of me, cash got to jump the line,
a bit when split between three windows,
charge/card, charge/card and one cash,
sign and get receipt, a coupon/voucher for a shirt,
and down after movie theatre like entrance
down the escalator to the show room floor,
a huge mostly underground pit type area,
display bikes, and marketing, here is a bag,
good, likely lit and other stuff to shop and buy,
my money all gone just getting in,
but plans for getting something on the way back,
even if i had to MetroRail,
turns out shuttle buses along the Ballston corridor,
and ended up walking it...
Likely a few more hours of the s how still going on,
PR hawking it, from the other side of sign your rights
away, no license check, responding to
like Karaoke, or something a laugh / counter
argument track, live on one side,
and TV screen on the other,
hype, and annoying at that,
mostly stoic people around me some
exhibitors behind me,
and paired up into groups of 5
trying the electric bicycle (several booths on that)
Yamaha, being a big one, this set were
and a sales guy checking for questions on the line,
wondering which place he was, kind of a trapped
audience, my being talkative,
some people crashing into the plastic jersey walls,
luckily all geared up from CycleGear,
mostly pulling signs which people ,
instructors, staff, etc put back together,
we had done with WABA at the NBC Health Faire
one year, I was volunteering on the other side of the
fence so to speak, putting cafeteria hair nets
on kids and helmets to many older and less privileged
kids which may not have ridden, at all,
in their lives, the same with moto,
the kid in front of me, not parent to be
seen, and/or not associating,
from Southern Maryland,
Budd's Creek dirt bike,
(
DroningOnAboutMultiRotors2015 ?)
and not yet old enough to do
the next two list items on signup/register
give all my rights away to thrill ride?
i had clicked on,
waiting sideways and pairing/
queuing into line, a German like
guy i talked to and we worked out the line,
later appearing at the wheelie line,
the drill Sargent, forceful and likely
very annoying to me
BagCheckTheLineWoman2019
type personality,
and we clashed immediately i could
not follow her instructions, and i guess
the role for her was bouncing,
finding out an hour wait,
and 5 minute time on the simulator,
the left one was one, a beginner,
practice, the other had rollers/ dyno like
and the guy (tattooed), who did it without
helmet, and showing off standing on the back
killing time, they later said, while waiting,
a guy with camera, not honking but real
digital SLR, i offer photo advice, action cameras
he has but not with, he didn't want to see himself
and went off ahead of me to really cover the stunt
show, good natured, imo and some comradere (sp?)
honor among bikers/ thieves/ the guy behind
after the German guy left, had other things
to do, annoying beyond belief to be not
trying it after more than half an hour
wait, and i offered to switch, not getting
his timing, down to 6 pm,
7 pm shuts down, and last of the people
for the day in line,
I've mistakenly, really only a couple of times
gotten my front wheel off the pavement,
once on a turn, new chain and more power,
not ridden in a while and taking it a little fast,
local police in the suburbs likely used to me,
only a couple blocks from a police station
i'd been in for a Bicycle map feedback session,
having crashed the bicycle on the way there,
and Tilman Lane? MH/treatment center,
and a depression support group,
West SpringField, and other stuff
volunteering and stuff not happening,
for me, nor others near there too...
Several people die there, Old Keene Mill road
or similar and West of the Springfield Mall
type CycleGear closest store,
Laurel MD i've also been
NorthByNorthEast2018
bicycling and down to
Aldi SmokeTown at Potomac Mills
discovering homeless stuff
and find the link to the last big ride down
and public transit back, feeling sick,
heat likely an issue, mid day sun,
and high mileage, fumes, and
low resources, but made it back,
haven't done that again,
similar in feeling to today,
slow getting started, catchup on stuff,
important game playing
higher than giving unsolicited advice
and critical review
(spray the gear, helmet, gloves, etc
i don't think they do, and likely rather gross
after three days, sharing gear,
some commenting right near my ear,
conflicting he can have them,
and we can sponsor him,
conflicting with nasty woman
they want their stuff back,
while we have helmets with audio
instructions and paired beeping BlueTooth,
Sena likely not the Cardo (sp?) pair
i binged on good stuff originally with
ColeManPowerSport feeling burned,
you are family, when buying now trash
for not having the latest stuff,
following one little racer, to CycleGear,
buying sets of stuff, and their
Second Chance bought dirt gear
coming in, blowing what i had left,
and wondering about going thru it
all again, predatory sales sweat box,
my biggest check ever, $6k last years
2009 Versys 650 (now have 350?
and 1000 CC version ABS options)
and then accessories, full suits,
and doubled to $13k? blowing most of
my inheritance, tax title, extended protection
plan, (doesn't cover much scheduled maintenance)
and later trashed bike,
totaled in the parking lot
of SlumLords2013
and nobody saw not'in type GangLand
maintenance and we don't care about you,
again Xmas night trashed plastic bags
(another $1k), parking on the hill
hearing a crash, and nothing found
but parts of my bike,
wondering sales and service and
RedneckGarage2013
all benefiting much more than i,
AndTheHorseYouRodeInOn2011
and much more problems,
a 4/11 like attack on i66 I've not written
much about but seemed Terrorist
swarming in the outbound,
and we want information 411
type sickly enjoying my rolling
around crashed on the highway,
near Dunn Lorring, somehow people
right there, perhaps and something
coming towards me, someone parked
beyond, some lifted up the bike,
and a reckless charge
which got dismissed my Clarence Darrow
type performance with a friendly
WeldingBasics2013
classmate helping get me back and forth
to finish the certificate program,
rumoured to be targeted
beyond the way out there bullying
sick people seem to be doing to
some they don't like , city people,
non mil vets using VA Benes
likely prostitution and dying people
chemical problems, and toxicity a lifetime
of Mil service and welding god knows what,
and likely clearance and other issues,
GodsEgo2013
and other issues...
so all that and more wrapped up into
trying to research do i go at it again,
having burned thru one inheritance
would i go again into the moto world
asking the wheelie guy instructor
if he was having any fun,
not really lose voice, say the
same thing over and over,
recording not really an option,
personalized service,
it takes about 5 years to learn it,
all the while not a good feeling for me,
i'd rather keep my license,
the guy behind me showing video
of him doing a wheelie on street,
I'm not sure I want to see that
legally, he skipped the beginner,
somehow waving, might have been
one of the performers,
once out of superman uniform
what they called leathers
and what hyped up on adrenaline (sp?),
my usual cocktail of endorphins
(exercise aka bicycling),
alt med substitutes, light therapy
with welding for some winter(s)
and not having done that,
left with caustic like reviewing
gMaps2019
and half a million views,
now more and that
AldiBXRdsGrandOpening2019
one of three pins, already gone,
only a few months after opening,
most of my effort gDumped
in the bit bucket finding it in gPhotos
so many months and hundreds of
MegaBytes per day screenshots
of games, a few photos per day
(say food log? CookSomeThing2019
HomeCookedMesses2014
DropFoodScale2019
or whatever
BikeTechWheelBuilding
Picassa gone DoDoBird),
many more on days out
sampling the ducks, people,
locations and events,
same year diff problems,
they own your ass, but i don't
want to be photographed,
free for all cameras all around,
trying to stay out of them,
my usual, but somehow peer based,
and reading the ticket, irrevocable
but revocable so much on their side,
OneSidedPartnerships
and it's a press event,
you are the product,
type almost gDrug level
Web2.0 but really more hype,
money and risk
worried some kids and others
are going to do the stupid stunt
type stuff, remembering MC
asking who rode (here,
not really heard
til after) had raised my hand,
those around me, having heard
i hadn't ridden in a year,
the instructor on (show) track not believing
me, i hadn't ridden in a year,
October with birthday and Xmas
money from Mom
(now passed)
went to ThereIsSomeThingWrongInWhoVille2019
training costing >$500
for
BabyNeedsNewShoes2016
both type pads and tires,
the free inspection
way more expensive than one
would want, and get/take your bike
type have to buy something new
and we are a dealer,
have some thing here,
sell you predatory type
even between shops/ dealers
FTheDealer, they are F'ing you
type stuff...
Most bridges are burned, looking for
something else, and no options to really
be found, the new ones $16k+
staring out for a 1000cc next gen
even up to AfricaTwin do you want
DTR? or similar dual transmission
sales and having to repeat my self,
the Honda booth having started out with
a TLR200 or TLR250 passed the block
of where i bought one used, so many decades
and crashes/ spills/ drops ago
sore today, even yesterday, walking there,
and carrying bags,
physically and emotionally, the losses
MourningPages2019
MourningPages2016
even still TimeForAChange2020
and taking risks with rental/
borrowed we have gear, but not seeing
them spray the stuff, wondering which
of many problems, almost Adrian Monk like
listing the problems i might have but have
to wear to do the first ride simulators,
seasoned guy with patches, vests,
exhibitors, and the only ride in town,
only a few drove/ rode there
Harley Davidsons' my York Special Ops
long sleeve, found for clean laundry
but sweaty already in the AM
pre walk into DC, and getting warm,
and wonder what the biker Brother/Sister
just plain 'Hood gives back,
commerce and hype, my first stranding
doing to an associated
BakingStallingDraggingRollingThunder2016
previously parking lot, flea market
in stadium parking lots, like
and have to be towed home,
buying stuff ,and it not starting up again,
Twisted Throttle telling of
AdvMotoRally2015
ADVMotoRally2014
to the kid s tarting out,
not yet left high school
and at the Kawi dealer/
Kawi sales guy
and associated guys standing
over I'll be seeing you,
if you get the
Check out the Adv magazine
based in Chantilly for the mods
spoked larger front wheel,
skid plate, maybe need a Dakar
like winch, NJ Big Bike off-roading
and other survival of the big
bikes and mud/ dirt/
off road type cultures,
Africa to Alaska?
and other hype new years resolutions
finally get there this year?
Sturgis2013
following a Daytona Florida Key West
trip i'm not even finding the link to now...
and get on the roller coaster again?
Only a few more minutes/ if that of the
MotoShow today, and get your grubbies
on, ride gear, New Year, buy new leathers,
helmet, etc, sign up for this, that and the other
SWAG, spend and splayed out,
sliding along pavement, and
keep a positive attitude,
as you end up where you look,
told to new guy (s) on track,
test track cameras on you,
all the spectators flowing to the
show, like a kiddie pool,
track and next to it:
wheelie machine and then
stunt track
clearing the air, only 15 minute ride,
20 really stunt show, and 15 minutes of fame,
before you die/ crash/ go broke,
if you even had the coins/ 'nads/ cahones?
to try it in the first place...
Modified Text
What's Missing?
What Can Be Found?
What Can Not Be Found?
How To Analyze?
Lenses
Noob
Kid
DisAbled
GF?
GasFree?
aka eBike?
now eMoto?
Woman
Girls
Poor
DisAdvantaged
UnderPrivileged
General Public
Assumptions
Simulators safer than reality?
locked on like rear stand
Test track has less traffic, cross and others,
AstroTurf? indoors? what holds that carpet
like stuff over the slick concrete on?
anything?
eBike charging time?
Swap out batteries?
$700 for another battery worth it?
~$2500+ for an eBike
why not buy a Chinese moto?
Isn't that like the Japanese
bikes first showing up?
Time Limits
Last hour(s)
Day and seasons/
Big Top Show
Big Money Little Budget(s)
Book Data
Book a tour?
Self tour and go it alone?
Blog a tour?
Tour? Four Letter Word?
ISBN
Bound
CopyRight
Pages
index
Links
So many see above?
Eventually if ever cleaned up might
suit up and show up here
Conclusion
Summary of experience or similar
Nothing much, some data,
some bashing, some rash/ bites/
something stress likely a part of it,
photos/ camares/ one sided contract
to even attend, not killed by bikes skidding
across convention floor,
but not also doing nor enjoying
wheelies, despite a try everything offered,
sign rights away type
we sell alcohol on the floor,
and then they stand around
waiting to ride, not license required
just sign and ride, the pin
walked in, rode out,
theme and marketing,
but with negative stuff like this,
wondering my first ride on a BMW
was the old guy hanging around for a sec
the old mom's bfriend who had the BMW
so many decades ago
and i didn't recognize him?
The safety and a doc,
and got me into all this stuff,
wondering if i was getting a bike for XMas,
and other kid like fantasy
of ride for life, and safety vs,
what i see on the showroom floor,
having been there at booths on the other
side for technical stuff, WABA Health Faire,
and other stuff, so many year/ decades now
and the building been there that long?
How much is hype and how much
fact checking one day big show,
type talking and wonder what's in the air,
didn't even drink the water,
guzzled the seltzer water,
heat and other stuff, truck/ bike
fumes and getting all party up
and Saturday night,
walking dc back city place?
think Silver Spring photogs
and leotard wearing tall model
I know him, he's shy how cute,
get a photo of him,
to passing the White House
and Trump baby gates security and construction
we have a postitive ID on him,
secret service uniformed,
and GPS was off,
turn it on the other side and can't
get signal how i was carrying,
but total
NokiaGo2019
just shy of 20 miles that day,
show room floor, walking before
and to and after, and it's been a walk
day, not a ride day, brief
carny town time, over and get home alive
Saturday night thru GeorgeTown,
Key Bridge and passing the quiet blond(i)e
happy new year she's rather quiet
my appearance, likely not helping matters
worried about the guy head down,
the panhandlers looking up
and was she going over the bridge
can i sense a suicidal person,
not made it thru the holiday aftermath,
and did i not ask her how she was doing
and then went swimming from 50+ feet up?
to her death? and/or am i being dramatic,
photos, actresses, models, performers,
families, kid scared of dad who rides
on the street like that other family,
different hues and girls doing wheelies,
too young for the simulators,
and check the simulator,
make a photo booth options,
and we can make something of this really
big shoe/ show,
party is over, pack it up,
on to the next week/weekend/
month and show,
not part of the
OldClownsHome2015
HippieClownCamp2011
nope, not having fun,
just SadClown
reality and 'experience is knowing
what you don't want to do',
Wheelies are an uncontrolled type of feeling
for me, the place to do it (off street),
the costs of crashing,
and not having the time and lifespan,
broken hip at my age,
young and stupid
is likely required for this stuff,
and other requirements of not rich enough
instead of tall enough for this ride
type carnival circus type ride...
Wonder where the Key West write up is??
Never can get as high as the first,
the drug training about the same,
as the adrenaline junkie type Moto stuff,
even Bicycle Stuff eBike
eBikeCheating2017
and thrill of motion,
motion kids late in the day,
and running around while waiting
on dads/ bfriends/ baby momma's
/daddies,
etc...
We wanted to, some of us have,
and would we have the next gen do it?
Neck brace/ plate?
Safety balloon,
flying cars?
Humans in drones and flying
those personal flight vehicles
(What's the marketing term now?)
Not George JetSon, but seen
YouTube on that,
eHang coming to the US and
we have the technology, you got the money
what a ride it would be, if it doesn't kill you,
type stuff...
Hype included, no charge...
Discussion
A place for feedback on the page presented
How do you know to risk something like that?
What rights have you signed away and regretted?
What types of transit are you comfortable with?
No?
Why?
Why Not?
What age do you need to be to be Sane
on two or more/ less wheels?
Can you do a UniCycle?
Wheelie on a BiCycle?
Moto?
Ever done a frontie on a CanAm?
Spyder?
Polaris?
Betting all or nothing on some
latest invention/ gas/ battery
powered thing?
What happens if it crashs,
doesn't work, can't get insurance,
don't have the power to push it?
It doesn't have reverse and weighs
400+ pounds?
On a hill?
Put that leg down and it's a rut?
Say from trucks stopping in Manassas?
And/or further out?
Can you lift your fully loaded
adventure bike up after a spill?
Do you have to take the Bags off?
Hope your tank isn't full adding how many pounds?
to the top of the pendulum?
What of the alternatives?
Ever seen the Harley e/Moto/Bikes?
What's in the gas tank?
LiveWire?
Where's my chrome?
Can i get a Patented Harley Sound for
my eBike? eMoto? Prius?
How loud are your pipes?
What did you say?
Can't hear enything?
going Deaf...
But at least they are not going to hit
me, they know where i am,
given that i'm not as wide as a 4 wheel
much less 16 wheel and can't have
aux lights like a Xmas tree...
What would you bet your life on?
And how much is that worth?
And with out that? What?
did you write this on Reese's Chocolate
PeaNut butter Santas?
Seems so, runs on so much...
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