Subject: Re: Guzzi sighting/chase
Author: John Chicoine
Date: Jan 21, 2005, 1:09 PM
Post ID: 1718250556
Great story Tom.
John
67 V7 & offspring
----- Original Message -----
From: "thomas halchuk" <halc-@comcast.net>
To: <Loopfram-@topica.com>
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: Guzzi sighting/chase
| Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Like music? Get a CD player on us. Click here. http://click.topica.com/caac2NUb1dfltbN7eKTa/PermissionData ------------------------------------------------------------------- I moved to Atlanta from Boston in 1986 for a short term job, 1 yr. While riding alone on Peachtree I pass a Guzzi Lemans. I do a quick 180 and chase him down. After several lights and a bit of highspeed I catch up to him. Turns out he is from Boston also and lives a mile from my house in Boston. He is down visiting a friend |
| is riding some sort of non-descript Jap thing. We end up riding in |
| Georgia together that day. I end up losing touch with him after that |
Go to 1998. I'm back in Boston. I had just pulled my T-3 out of moth |
| a year earlier. My commitments had grown up, etc and I was starting to |
| back into back into riding. I hook up with a couple of local Guzzi guys and go out |
| a ride about 80 miles from my house We stop at the Vanilla Bean in |
| CT. A great place to hang if you have a bike. Euro in the morning, Harley in the afternoon. Anyway we are all sitting around and shooting the |
| here something about this guy I'm talking to that is familiar. And I've seen that bike before. Then it hits me. He's the guy Bill from Boston, |
| chased down in Atlanta. Since then we have become riding buddiesand we |
| still ride Guzzis. What a wonderful story and true too. Tom in Boston ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Adkins" <ianad-@alltel.net> To: <Loopfram-@topica.com> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005 7:39 AM Subject: RE: Guzzi sighting/chase Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Click here and get your free* stock car racing gift. http://click.topica.com/caac48Qb1dfltb7hDhIa/PermissionData ------------------------------------------------------------------- Great story Tom, In the 10+ years I have ridden Loops (and knew of their existence) I have only passed two while out on the road. One in Montreal on a divided |
| near my home. This bike turned out to be a bike that I eventually stored |
| the owner while she moved to Toronto from Quebec City. The other sighting was when I had first moved to Dahlonega, GA. I was heading home from |
| and saw this fellow pass by heading out of Dahlonega. He was wearing a |
| helmet and black jacket. Funny but that image has remained in my mind. A |
| months later, through this wonderful list, I met my Loop wrenching/riding buddy Ed. I look forward to my next encounter each time I head out. Ride safe...Ian
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