One good bike becomes another...

ZENers may not know the depths or heights to which my adherence to cyling, for the longevity of life-on-our-planet-as-we-know-it, is founded.

So I thought I'd take a moment to post my red Bernard Hinault, Lord Mega (what a 'roidal trademark, whot?) steel-frame cycle, that I've happily ridden since November 2000... The first photo shows the Sled in 2004.


On approach to the base of Vail Pass, by one of the I-70 'beaver ponds' produced by the Colo. Department of Highways. The very first trans-oceanic voyage of this bike, with ZEN, to the Ancestral ZEN Domain...


And the most recent reincarnation, with new bottom-of-the-line FULCRUM wheels (hope my major investment in their product aids them to bring their website up to snuff!), as well as 10-speed Campy Daytona shifters, and a myriad of newly-installed toys...


I love the suffering produced by climbing on a cycle, because of my 'Need for Speed'... and at 50, I hope I can retain what strength I have for at least two more decades... :-)

Thanks for amusing yourselves with this little fetish of mine...

ç*””*”*”*ç*””* ZENmud *””*ç*”*”*””*ç

Fly Kurt, and be free!

Oh Kurt, my Kurt...


I thought of you as I thought of Will Rogers, or Mark Twain: those who really made the States a good place to be.

Your wit went wide and far: it bit sharp as a deep cut, if we were not oblivious to your deeper meanings, we salted, and pepper-tasted the phrases that you turned.


I think of your political quotes, and know that I have your voice here, when I offer a chosen small memorial to you.


You once were speaking of 'Man's role on this planet', and with the deepest, most incredible sincerity...

... you said:


"The irony would be that we know what we are doing."


Flying to Mars may do you some good, your time here has done me some good...
... take that last-wisdom flight above the sun... nice view?

We always have a better picture, the farther away we may see how this beautyPLANET turns, the one you loved as I do, and promise to...

Thank you for being, have a nice afterwards!

I'll down a Rioja for you, brother... save me a seat in the Watchtower... !

Sniff...........................


COURAGE, to those of your admirers here, to we
for whom you pass beyond...

... But!!!

Hey, man, KURT! Wait! Is there a door?
A "There, there"?

"Set the controls, for the Heart of the Sun..."

Or is the Tibetan Book of
the Dead messing with my head?
We know you want to pass us that message!

:-)

ç*”*”*””*ç”*”* ZENmud ”*””*ç*”*”*””*ç