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Sunday. Bloody, Sunday

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  So, It's Saturday. The one after the day killers gave me a deposit on the "Susuki". The official 7 day deadline of holding onto a bike that I just want GONE from my life. Again  It's not worth anything and frankly the only reason I'm charging money for it, is because a lifetime of lessons showed me that  anything  attempted to be given for 'free' is perceived as worth less than that, and therefore impossible to rid yourself of. Oh! nice Ferrari! Free? No thanks.. ?? Listen to me, I'm always right. Oh crap. I got this thing a decade ago. 'For free' Do I blame the bike? Drugs? Vanilla Ice? I know I could keep the stinky $100 bills the Methhead handed me and just re-sell the thing to someone else, and I'm SURE there's another story there too, but what could possibly go wrong? This binary wheeled pinnacle of 80's style and technology has been sitting in the bed of my El Camino, Josephine Dirté, for a week now as my personal give-a-shi

Cooter sells a bike.

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"Free things always cost you the most" -SR   Lord help me from murdering a fellow human today... I MUST let it out or you'll be reading about me on the news, and I don't mean NPR. I got realistic about my 'motorcycle problem' and posted a few things for sale. One of which is a complete piece of shit, old, beat up, not-registered-for-a-decade, ex-wanna-be racer GSXR-750. From 1989. You remember 1989? I'm old now and had JUST graduated HS for Christ sakes, and this thing has been passed around the prison yard since I was spotting beers at the 7-11. Why not spray paint the whole engine silver from 5 feet away? Day-Glo flames? Mis-spelled "Susuki" in shitty Mandarin? I can't begin to get in the technical detail, but you get the picture. At least $100 in zip ties have died on this bike. Weld the subframe to the frame? Of course! The "why" doesn't matter. I mean there isn't ONE thing thats nice on this turd and it should be put ou