Well gee this has nothing to do with crashes of the sorts.... this is just a fond memory I have with my sister as a kid.
In the 70's every weekend on the radio America's Top 40 music with Casey Kasem played in the morning/afternoon. In the spring we'd get on our little bikes, cuz we wuz little you know with the transistor radio in my sisters white woven front basket of her magnificent rolling machine.... hee hee..... and ride round and round the blocks while we sang along with each song as it was so elegantly presented each week. I rather miss that kinda time with her. Every once in a while I'll see someone either walking or a kid riding with a transistor radio playing ..... oh what a smile I just can't help. Come to think of it .... when I was 16 or something I went on a bike trip with a buddy to go see Rush with Max Webster in La Crosse, WI. .... Lee Anderson was his name. He was as unpredictable as I was .... so we always had fun. We didn't talk about or tell each other what we were taking other than I had a 2 man tent and we both had sleeping bags. Well I go over to his house and we start rolling and he pulls out a tape recorder.... you know ..... a big honkin' cassette tape recorder ! For those that don't know the magnitude of such a device ... https://www.hifiengine.com/images/model/panasonic_rq-2379_portable_cassette_recorder.jpg . He straps it onto to his handlebar top .... and we rocked to Billy Idol's album at the time .... the one with White Wedding and Hot in the City .... and holy smokes ... it was hot .... like over 100 degrees hot... and humid. This is Minnesota after all ... where it gets really cold ... AND really hot and very humid. I gotta say ..... in some tiny little Ma and Pa market between Rush city and La Crescent .... I never had a cold bottle of Gatorade taste so good ! A glass bottle too .... everything tasted good in glass those days..... the returnable bottled sodas and the beers.... even cheap beer tasted good in those bottles. Orange Crush ..... oh my ... enough to shiver your timbers it was so good. Yeah ... returnable glass bottles that were sterilized and refilled at the factory ...recycling before recycling was even a "thing". We eventually get to La Crosse and we stay in a hotel instead because who can sleep when you're head is like a fried egg ? The day of the concert we eventually and eagerly start walking down to the Arena, maybe a mile or so.... as we're in no condition to ride a bicycle, if you know what I mean. You gotta remember this is 1982, no internet ... only newspapers and radio and pay phones when you're away from home ... and we had no radio and of course and no one watches tv when you're on vacation ! So we get to the Arena ..... man it sure does loo quiet .... too quiet .... and where's all the people ... there's no one around !!! Are we in the Twilight Zone ? Oh... we look up at the Arena illuminated sign ..... "Rush with Max Webster .... CANCELLED... ReScheduled " NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!! We rode all this way .... planned the whole weekend .... and oh shoot ..... oh well ..... So we just meander back and "party on" .... that's right Joe..... even before Wayne's World was invented. Ahahahahah !!!! The eventual way home was one of navigating the Mississippi Bluffs then open unsheltered plains and the heat abated thanks to a cool front..... but we were headed straight into the high frontal winds due west..... the kind of winds that can bring you to your knees laughing unless you are a strong cyclist which neither of us were. We survived to ride another day ! I can still hear Billy Idol .... on a hot summer night .... " HOT in the City Tonight !!! " In epilogue ..... Life was just fine without the internet, cell phones and being "connected" with stuff electronically. We missed the planned concert ....a shrug of the shoulders .... what's next , the night and day is young ! The Earth never stopped rotating, hearts never skipped a beat..... stuff happens and you roll with it ..... and Life just goes on and on in All Life's Glorious Self ! Leah I know this is supposed to be about crashes and all , and every story I read I seem to recall another crash that I hadn't much thought about. Maybe later .... I talk in person and on the phone seemingly forever but typing ..... I'm not so loquacious .. besides.... it would prolly be as long as a novel .... then again ... Life is a Novel.... a Living Real-time one .. pretty darn cool . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/1eed2280-dfc2-4002-a73c-d547e4adcdfb%40googlegroups.com.
