Music. Welcome to the hole in the head moto story time podcast with Andy Taylor and Blaine dimlo. It's like Car Talk, but less helpful in this episode, forgotten acquisitions, hard won trophies and rekindling old flames. You
Andy, I am full of questions for you. We've had a two week break, yeah, but in that two weeks, things have happened that we need to discuss. Yes, all right, I want to go over the process of your recent trip and acquisition. All right, so you tell us what we need to know about the trip out there to the Italian motorcycle Honey Hole. Yes, that you've been hoarding for yourself. Tell me about what you got. And then I want to, like usual, I want to find ways to make fun of you while you
tell the story. So go ahead.
Well, yeah, it's funny, because when you started saying, I was like, Wait, what did I get? What did what happened? You know,
you're we are so addicted to this whole process that last week means nothing to us. No, I mean the most recent you thinking, you know, we thinking, I bought a motorcycle two weeks ago. It's time to look for another one, yeah, well, and
it's kind of like, you know, there were relationships that I had, and maybe high school or college where it was just like, the end of the world, and oh, my God, this tears. She's such a bitch. How could she do this to me? Oh my god. And then, like, a month later, it's like, what happened? I don't remember. Yeah, totally fine. So, yeah, there's
this girl at the pizza place. I can't wait to get her number, right. So,
yeah. And then I realized that the Honey Hole is out in, you know, Eastern Washington. And I was really spun out about it, like, what do I do? I got, I got the, oh, my god, can I afford this time, money, you know? And then, but hearing you ask, how about this recent acquisition? I was like, What are you talking about? And then I was there another one. Was there another one. No, no, not yet. Not yet. I forgot that I had actually gotten an acquisition since we talked. That's right.
So now, did you go out there just to do that, or did you couch it as a family trip that you were giving to everyone all
the above? Yeah, of course. So I said, Hey, there's this guy in wherever I would like to go see this thing. It's really cute. You know, it's collectible bike, whatever. And you know, what can we do that's out that way I'm going. You guys are welcome to come. And somehow that turned into this may just be me trying to retain my manhood or something, but somehow it turned into a trip to Glacier National Park, which was great, and it was amazing,
beautiful. We spent a full week out there doing all this stuff. It was awesome, but, but
you were only 50% effective on the motorcycle trip acquisition then, because you had to devote other time money. And one of the things I want to ask you about is what you've disclosed to your wife about this, because I caught you in the phone in an awkward moment, and so we're going to talk about that in just a moment anyway. So you made a family trip out of it. Did it? Did you have to compromise the motorcycle part of the trip in order to accommodate the family?
No, I really didn't. The only compromise that it was was not being insane with you know, I only have so much time. I only have so much space and money. I bought one of the things that I wanted. I may have gotten the wrong one of the two things that I wanted, but I feel pretty certain that if I had bought the other one, I feel the same way. Okay, that's I need to get both of them. I just split it up and so, well, you
got the first one. What you're saying? It's the first and second. It's not one of the other.
Yes, correct? Yeah. So I got, I'm at one out of two of the acquisitions that I need to get. Actually, I'm at one out of about five. But there's two that, again, I just want to remind
anybody, everybody out there, that we've had this discussion for a while now, and that you're going to hoard all five of these things for yourself, and you're not going to let me in on any of them. But, yes, but okay, but that's as evidently as part of the story that we're going to stick to. Okay, you're comfortable with that.
Yeah, that's fine. Okay, yeah, good, good.
All right. Which one did you get? Which one did you start off with?
I got the MV Agusta.
Okay, gear, make and model. Tell us.
I got a 58 ish MV Agusta with two engines. So depending on which engines in it, I got a 125 or I got a 175 okay, and they are both
what model, what do they call it?
God, if you hadn't asked me again, that's how that's how insane it is. I was so spun up about it. And if you'd asked me, could have been like, Oh, it's this particular GS which was also manufactured. Yeah,
I'm my. Jaw is a gape at the fact that you cannot recall the model. Yeah, because you've already moved on, you're getting something else.
Yeah, I just haven't, I haven't prioritized it. It's, it's an RS, and I
have to look up so a 58 envy. Augusto, the model is, it's
a rat, it's a sport. I think it's a Rally Sport, Rs. I believe. I think it's a RS Rally Sport,
okay? And it was a 125
and it came with a one a the stock motor was a 170 No, it was stock motor's a 125 but the the sump is cracked or something, I gotta, I can't really look at it again, but it came with all this additional 175
okay, and it's a little four stroke motor. It
is a four stroke motor, okay, alright, yeah, it's gonna need a new piston rings. And, you know, perishables, of course, and then it won't it's gonna need to be rebuilt. The whole edge is gonna have to come apart.
What do you know about getting stuff for it? A lot of people would think she's a 58 MV. Augusta might be a little bit of a hard fought Yeah, which would affect its buy. You know, when you want to sell or when you want to buy a project, one of the issues for a lot of people is How available are parts.
So fortunately, this was back in that, in that day of late 50s, early 60s, where everybody was using all the parts. So it's all the same, all the same. So So taillight is a CEV that also came on the Ducati Manza or whatever likes so things like that. I don't mind piecing together. It's not, it's not one of those. And I'm not that guy anyway, where I'm going to restore it showroom and
it's period correct. But everything is there, enough and parts are available, enough that I can, I can get it back together. Worst case, what
about the what about the motor parts? Do you have to go to envy Augusta? Or is that kind of standard Italian too? You're looking just for like a 84 millimeter piston? Yeah,
the piston I'm not worried about, because there were other interchangeable ones as well. Okay, some of them are domed, versus the ones that have little pockets for valves. But I think there are some that are pretty readily available. I know there's a guy on eBay who basically, you put in the year make and model of your Italian motorcycle. He's got
a piston for you. What's a piston and ring run for
last when I bought one for the store nello was 131, 50, something like that. Okay. Not terrible. Yeah. Enough to be like, oh shit, you know,
yeah. So, yeah, yeah, not, not a deal breaker. All right, so it's there and you have it in the garage,
it is in my shop, yep, and it is right. So every time I walk in, I'm reminded of, like, hey, hey, dip shit.
Yeah, stop selling pots on,
you know, it's funny. Craigslist, I
was and get to work on your motorcycle. So
I then I thought, Well, okay, let's be responsible. I bought this Augusta for I bought that one first because it was the lesser of the two in terms of cost. But it needs more work. So by the time I buy all this shit, I'll probably be right. Yeah. The other one, that's a runner.
So now you've got to work your side gig enough to find what
I'm doing. So in my head, I'm like, Well, I'm going to do this. You know this this well, for nobody else that knows. Nobody does know I've arbitraging planter pots, right? So, yeah, yes.
Let's just quickly trace, trace the history of your side activities. You were in the cuckoo clocks for two weeks.
I'm still in a cuckoo clocks, but I've hit a point where the part that I need for the project that I'm on is 150 bucks. And it's like, yeah, I'm not that into it.
No, you can buy three cuckoo clocks Exactly. So that's at a point. So then after cuckoo clocks, what did you do? You had another project after sewing after,
no, oh, yeah, well, no, you're making bags. Hang on. That's still ongoing. And here's, here's the like, I got a lot of shit going on right now. It's amazing. Like, yeah, you do. So one of the things that,
okay, this is going all, all of this is riveting,
by the way. It's so it's 120 it's a 125 rapido sport, okay,
thank you. Rapido sport. That sounds very Italian.
Rs, what is it? It is a rapid Okay, good. Thank
you for looking that up. And you feel like you're gonna do a motor. Let's just go onto the motorbike for a little bit. Yeah, you're gonna feel like you're gonna do the motor, and then just to clean up and dry ride,
absolutely it's gotta take. It's what has become the Italian orange. Yes, only Italian orange because it used to be Italian, right, right, right, and it's just faded. But it's, it's complete. There's no rust on the frame. Everything's there. It's, it's cute. It is cute. You
sent me a picture of it. Just two things I wanted to ask you about it. First one is that when you look at a project like that, and you're sitting there in that guy's garage and he's telling you about it, you've already decided to buy it. You're not saying so you're being coy, but you're running through your mind. What's the picture that runs through your mind about owning this motorcycle? Is it I can see myself on a shady mountain road cutting through here in this thing run? Or do
you picture? Oh, I can't wait to clean this up, because I. Can just get hard on about polishing something every now and then thinking, I cannot wait to clean this. What goes through your mind? What went through your mind when you thought I'm getting the motor the Envy Augusta and what
I think about what I can do to this that would differentiate it between the other singles that I have. And then I get excited, because basically, these little Italian singles are platforms for one of like, three different things, right? It can be you can either, you know, throw it back to a little scrambler, a little cafe racer, right? A stock a stock little cruiser that some, you know, well group, well heeled person would be right, right,
any iteration of those. And so I get excited about getting it functionally running. I want to know what it's like to experience an envy Augusta single versus a Ducati versus a goosey single. And then, based on that, what do I want to turn this into? So do you want it
to you picture working on it first, or do you picture writing it working working on for sure,
because it because at the end of that, and part of that is, what is it going to look like when it's done. Like what like again? What is this differentiator between the other ones? This one seems a little more the Augusta seems a little bit more robust. The tanks a little little curvier. The proportions of the frame to you know, the tank and the seat are a little bit more I guess, even, than a Ducati or a goosey. And so there's just, like, it's a
different look to it. So I'm really trying to figure what that look is. Yeah, it
does have a different look to it, because it's got some real retro throwback, oddball Euro shit on it. I mean, the way it looks, it doesn't, it doesn't look like, you know, the other period bikes that are starting to develop a similar look. You know, this was definitely a holdover or a holdout. I can't decide which,
yeah, and just, it's, it's all, it's, um, excuse me, it the Augusta history, racing history, right? So it's like, I really do want to get this running as best I can get it running, and then just go out and do a side by side and say, Okay, well, what's the you know, how do these handle differently? How nuanced are these, you know, one to 250 CC Italian singles, right?
Are they all? Well, that's kind of curious, because, like, this is picture yourself being, you know, an Italian of motorcycling age in the 60s, and getting to decide between all those companies, you know, how would you decide? That's a very interesting concept, you know. And it would be interesting too to kind of look at that country by country, except for Japan, because it doesn't matter if you ride, uh, Yamaha Suzuki or a Honda or Kawasaki, they're all
the same. Yeah, they're all the same.
But I'd be curious if we find out that all the Italian bikes are pretty much basically, you said they're all built from the same parts anyway, so they're just different stickers on them. Or,
I know there's different gearing, and then there's, you know, the pistons are a little bit different, and, you know, Valve timings and all that. But it's like, well, they're all basically the same. They're single, they're single cylinder 150s,
okay, the thing I really want to get to, Andy, if I can now, is that I had a very awkward phone call with you in the middle of this one. You called me, and I thought it was to give me notice that there was something for me to buy in the pile. But no, you just called me to gloat that you're there, you're getting it. I'm not which well, which endears you actually, believe me, the
only reason I called you was to try and get a better price, because I said, Hey, do you mind if I make a phone call? Okay, I just gotta. I was your fake. Those are one of those. Yeah, it was. It was one of the right. Well, and then the other interesting thing
is that I kind of broke the rule, it's none of my business what you paid for these. But I asked out of exuberance, just because I wanted to know, is there anything in the hole for me still, and could I afford to get into that hole? So I was curious
what you paid for it. So I asked you, what you paid for it, and then there was this very long awkward silence where all you said was, yeah, I could see that either you were in the car with your wife and you had not disclosed to her how much you were spending, or you were in the middle of the deal with the guy. So where were you when you refused to answer my question that that admittedly was inappropriate for me to ask, but nonetheless,
I was, I was in the car with your wife, with the girls, with my wife, and you
did not want to spurt out a number that she could associate with the purchase of this. Yeah.
Well, because I again, I try every time I try as best I can to be as honest and forthcoming as possible. Yeah. And so going into this, I said, there are two bikes here. She said, how much are they? I said, Well, one's 500 100 Yeah,
you should bleep that out, but you got to bleep that out, and you don't want anybody to
know where these things. Oh, yeah, no. And so I what I'd Okay,
so you got what you got the one idea didn't want, no
okay, necessarily. Her to know was which one I got, because I got the one that I should have got. In other words, if I was going to have to bring home one, I got the one that was the most responsible to bring home, which would have been the cheaper, um, you know what I mean? Mean, so if I had said, Yeah, I just spent a, you know, whatever, on this, this other one, the cheaper one I decided not to get, I would have caught a lot of hell, and I just wasn't interested. It had been a nice,
pleasant trip. I just, I'm not interested in catching hell,
right? Yeah, we call that. There's an artful avoidance of touching issues, you know, like, if we have to get into it in order to be well, like, if the counselor says you have to talk about this. Okay, we can't, but if we don't have to, let's just skip it and pretend that we don't know that there's something going on and just live, you know, in the in the facade which most of us live under anyway, about things going great,
yeah, and it's fine. In fact, I'm actually pretty excited because now that it's coming up on well, it sucks, because it's starting to get winter and fall here right, then later in the year when we go to Texas. I'm going to do another shuffle of things, going into long term storage, you know, so that frees up some room
in the shop. I've got to get the boat back together that'll free up some room in the shop, and then when we do this drive, or anytime in between, when I get the space, then I can go back and grab this perilla.
I've totally lost interest in the Honeywell. I don't want to hear another word about,
yeah, so he's got a few things, but he's, he's just like, you know, he just collects them, and it's like, yeah,
you know? Well, you know, this is going to be a sore spot for me and because now what's going through my head is that there's something really special there for $300 that you're holding
on. No, I would have brought it home and gloated already. All
right, there's probably a chance that we can heal our relationship over time if you don't keep doing this. Okay, hey, you probably want to know what's happening with me. I've been waiting for you to ask. No,
I gotta go. No, I
wouldn't know. Yeah, I want to hear about the motor. Oh, I'm sorry. You got to go over to Big Lots and buy some planters. Yeah, but yeah,
what's where I was earlier? Big Lots. Tell me about the motorhome. Yeah,
okay, before we get to the motorhome, I want to let you know I went back to pick and pull and I had two experiences there that I want to share with you, because, you know, I love picking parts. Yes. I mean, to me, it's like there was a time in my life I had a couple gold mines that were just holes in the ground, but yet, every time, because it was officially a gold mine, and
someone once found gold there. I could go up there and all day, Andy, I could take rocks and Chip them open, and each one I thought was going to have gold in it. And I could be there for 13 hours chipping rocks. And I don't know if it's greed or excitement or the treasure hunt, but I could stay, I mean, I would stay there forever and just break open rocks, and none of them had any golden Yeah, but I didn't. But I feel that way about pick and pull. I just
think I might score. I mean, I am so euphoric as I'm paying my $2 to get in. I am shaking with anticipation, because I think, I think I'm here for this. But what if I find something? Yeah, you know,
do you look online? Do you look online at their inventory before you go, yes, okay,
well, yes, because that's what I'm there for. But you know, when I'm done, what do you do? You cruise all the aisles to see if there's any other, you know, you know, handy little finds there. So anyway, I went back to pick and pull, and I had this two experience I wanted to share. One is I found a Volvo wagon with a five speed or a four speed transmission, and the overdrive, okay, all right. The I like that overdrive. It's a Laycock overdrive, is what it's
called. And it came on all kinds of British cars and Aston Martins and MGBs. I mean, anything in that had an overdrive in it. In the 60s had this lacock Overdrive in it, and they stayed with them till about the 70s. Then a company called gear vendor bought out the whole company in the whole stock and adapted that Laycock overdrive with some minor changes, into an overdrive unit that just bolts on the back or anywhere in your driveline. So you can put an overdrive in a motorhome or in
an old truck. And if you buy a gear vendor or one like that, chances are it's a, it's an ancestor of these Laycock overdrive Okay, okay, so it's just a mini little it's just a one one gear transmission. It's a one gear automatic that you put behind your transmission. So when you're in fourth and you want to go to overdrive, there's a little electric switch you hit and these are cooking, and it
clicks in all right. So now, my Volvo 1800 has one, but I've always thought that that would be a great unit to put in, like an old vintage truck, because they're always way, way under gear. You know, they top out at 45 and so I thought I wanted to, but the gear vendor overdrive is two grand to buy it new, okay, right? Yeah. So anyway, you find
one, pick and pull. I found the overdraft, right, and I got it and I took it to the took it to the counter, and they don't know what it is, so I have all the power, right? I have all the power. And they say, what is
it like? It's a windshield wiper motor. I said it's
a two. Tail shaft assembly off of a off of a transmission, and they look at it go, Yeah, see, because here's where the drive line goes, right? There's a whole little, teeny, tiny automatic transmission in there, but it's in the tail shaft housing. So I got it for $29 right now. This is all the time that they've taken the shit out of me at the counter. Every now and then I
get raped over there. Yeah. All right, so this is time I kind of went even, and I technically didn't lie, it is the tail shaft,
yeah, right. But that's that made it feel all the better. I
got it and it was easy to get out. All right, so fantastic. After I get home, I realized that I also need the main shaft out of that transmission. Because what I want to do is I want to take that, that little transmission that is geared right now machine to fit up against a Volvo transmission. And I want to make an adapter and put a drive shaft yoke on it so I can put it on anything in the middle of the drive shaft. Okay, making sense?
Yep. Okay, all right. So I need the main shaft out of that transmission now, in order to have make it all work from the Volvo. So I go back to I go back to get the main shaft. It's 108 degrees in fucking Tucson, all right, underneath a dark red steel car. Yeah, yeah, all right, and I got this gearbox out, dropped it on the ground, got transmission fluid all over me, you know, I'm just an oily hot mess, and I cannot get that fucking thing out because I don't have a snap ring pliers.
You know those little snap rings are there's, yeah, right, right, for people who don't know there's just a little steel ring that fits in a groove and it's under tension, right? And it's got two holes on the end, and you need the pliers. It either spreads it out or that closes it to get it out of whatever housing is it, right? I don't have a snap ring pliers. It's late in the day. I failed. I went there to conquer and you didn't get it. All day, I didn't get it, wow, I didn't get it,
and I went home. Just an oily fucking mess, right? That's
a 3030, Cent snap ring. Kept you from, yep, and I
didn't have time to go to harbor freight to buy a snap ring pliers and come back and get it. Yeah, all right, I got, I just, I just got beat. I lost today, you know, no, okay, two weeks ago, week later, I'm up there buying stuff for the motorhome. I'm thinking I'm going to stop by, pick and pull and see what my chances are. So I get a snap ring pliers. I go out there, I take out two snap rings. I cannot get the main
shaft out. I can't I don't know, you know the usually, I know how that comes apart in sequence. There's something I can't reach and I can't get it, and I'm googling how to get this gearbox apart. I've only done it once, and I've forgotten how. So anyway, I'm defeated once again, and I finally just figure, fuck this. I'm gonna buy the transmission thing, not going home without it, right? So I go to the counter, and I throw it up on the counter, and again, I
am just an oily mess. I am just greasy, dirty, you know, transmission fluid. I mean, just can't imagine how dirty you get working out there. And plus, you're sweating like a pig too, you know? So it's just the most disgusting representation of myself as a human being. But I go in there and I throw that thing on the counter, and Andy, I feel like I had a trophy, right? I wanted, everybody knows. Like, look what I got. Yeah, look what I got. I won.
All right, I have scored. Like, the one thing I can liken it to is that I'm not a hunter anymore, but when I was young, I used to hunt with my dad, and one year, I shot a deer with my black powder rifle, and I was so proud of it. We tied it on the fender the Jeep to go back home, but I made sure that we stopped for breakfast and went into every gas station along the way, so everybody can see that I bagged this beer with my powder rifle, which obviously people have been doing for 100 years.
It's not that big of a deal. But you feel like you're, you know, you're displaying,
you're participating in that. Yeah,
oh yeah. Anyway, this euphoric feeling. The guy looks at it and I and he goes, transmission. I go, Well, it's part of one because, actually, I dumped all the other parts out on the, you know, underneath the car. So I only want the main shaft. So I took off whatever gears would come off the end. And I said, the only thing that's really in there is the, is the main shaft, you know. But I said, but whatever you got to do, they gotta go, okay, main
shaft. $22 yes, I got the whole rest of the transmission with the main shaft in the casing, all right, and didn't have to lie to do it. So that's, you know, that feels one thing that feels good. It's one thing when you I know, because it's one thing when you get a great deal and you lied a little bit to get it, you kind of, you have that sort of angst. You have to work
out. But here's one that I tiptoed right up to the line of line and stood on the line and leaned over, yeah, but didn't actually lie outright, yeah, yeah, all right, and I Yeah, yeah. So
now I feel that way when I do tech my taxes, yes, it's exactly well, I mean, I actually use 10% of my house. I mean, yeah, strictly speaking, you know, but yeah,
yeah, put it in the allowable category.
Yeah, that's awesome. So anyway,
I got one other thing that, and let give me one more little chat out of the way, because I got some notes about something else. I got the electronic ignition parts for the motor Marine. Oh, yes, they showed up.
Shit. Okay, yeah.
And so here's what that means. I ordered this in June, right? It came through the US Postal Service, all right, to Chicago. It had the wrong zip code on it. I thought for sure, it's going back to fucking Sweden, right? It bounced around Chicago. Of course, you can't get anybody on the phone with the post office. I go down talk to the local post office person. There's no
fucking way to trace it. I couldn't put an insurance claim on it, and they said the only way we can find it is if you have the person who sent it contact us. Sure. So I asked them to fill out the form. They fill out the form, it got rejected for an error, and said her only recourse is for her to call. So I called to see if I could intervene. I spent two and a half hours online before they
hung up on me. All right. So, like, I'm gonna get a person from Sweden to do a two and a half hour international fucking phone call to get something from the US Post Office. That's how bad it's got. Yeah, right. Anyway, lo and behold, it showed up. Wait, the original one. The original Oh, units, okay, someone corrected the zip code and sent it on to me. I got it yesterday, and here's what it did. Andy, it felt like I got a new motorcycle. Did it? Oh, no, I haven't even put it on yet.
Oh, is that? You know the possibilities now that I mean, like, this is chapter two. And sometimes that doesn't happen with the same vehicle, right? But, like, when I got it from you, it was glorious because I just got it, yeah, you know. And then it's faded because it's like, oh, it runs like shit. I'm gonna have to work on it. So then I put it in the garage and forgot about it because it was
too painful. Yeah. Then yesterday it showed up, and it's like, Oh, if my Marini runs as good as yours, or has the possibility we got to do it again, it'll this was the feeling that I was looking for that I couldn't get, yeah, but I might get. I have the most, the most difficult stone to turn over is ignition. Yeah, and I've turned it over now, and so now, if I find other problems, I'm sure I will. I don't. I'm okay
with that. I don't care if it takes me three days, three years, to get it gendered properly. I don't care. Yeah, but at least this was an unfindable part, and this was the most difficult thing to men, you know, kind of figure out. So at least that's figured out. So from here, I don't care if I have to junk the carburetors and put something else on it, make it run, you know, I'll, I'll figure it out. But the biggest
part of it. But I wanted to ask you, have you ever had the experience of having something that you have, that you've grown weary of because it's shitty, and you think, I'm going to sell it or get rid of it, then you accidentally, or on purpose, fix it, and you think, Oh, my god, yeah, this is like
having something new, yeah, the, you know, the Vespa. The
Vespa, was it like that? Yeah, because,
god damn it, this thing is so stupid. Who Why the fuck do I have a Vespa? This is dumb. It's the only scooter I have. Who cares? And it ran, this is a piece of shit. And then, you know, I think I did the advance, and it wouldn't, wouldn't, wouldn't idle, wouldn't accelerate. It wasn't idle, it would it would bog down. I couldn't not get a consistent spark. Just it was too Italian to be Italian. And, I mean, like, yeah, it was just, I could not figure it out
for a second. You figure they're all right. This is shit, yes, yeah, everybody's right. And
then I brought it home and or to this house and spray a little carb cleaner in it, and all it was was that it wasn't sucking enough fuel in the carb or something. And so, yeah. And now just like, it's a first kick scooter, and I just, and then go get some donuts. It's just glorious. Yeah, and and I just, for some reason the wiring, I could not figure it
out. I tried this that, and I couldn't, I could not get the headlight turn on, and then one day, I just put the green wire next to the red wire, and it turned on. Everything's fine.
Oh my gosh, yeah. It totally redeemed it, right? Yep. You're like, oh yeah. This is, well, I don't know if I've redeemed the mortar Marini, but now you know, it's riding season here, so it's like 79 to 85 degrees every day, and there's lots of good twisty roads here. So this is the riding experience I want to have is right now with that motor
Marine. And in my mind, I feel like I'm going to have it now next week, when we find out that it needs other stuff, I'll be in tears and I'll need counseling
well, but at least you'll be having some forward momentum, because last week you were just stuck waiting. Yeah, yeah.
It was an embarrassing Hulk in my garage gathering dirt. I even washed it with a bad seat. With a bad seat. The only seat I can find for it is in Washington at some douchebags house,
and I gotta look for a seat for you. All right, I
just wanted to give you the Marini update.
No, that's that's exciting. I'm okay. I'm anxious for that because we had a good, I think we had a good bride with it in Oklahoma. But,
oh yeah,
I don't feel like, you know, we did the full thing, right?
Yes, yeah. I think we're still due to take him out on a good. Long run. But I'm glad that we had fun and that we tuned, you know, tuned up what we could when we did, because it revealed to me is that I would have been super depressed if I would, if we just said, Oh, listen, we're riding these things to the Grand Canyon and back, and the whole way I had to ride that choking bucking bronco, you know, at 55 miles an hour as it spit ran over rich and just made me feel like, I
fucking hate this. Yeah, and then it would be even worse, because yours runs absolutely perfect, and I got on yours, and it was the dream that I wanted to have, and it's got the seat that I want to have,
well, in a way that would have been better, because you would have been able, it wouldn't have been like, oh, motor Marines suck after all. Yeah, that that
would have been a very big disappointment to have gone that far and realized this is what I got, yeah for that, this whole mystical dream of riding the unicorn of motorcycles. Yeah, you know, and yes. So anyway, so that possibility still exists that we can have that heavenly moment of two Italian bikes running perfectly on the perfect road during the perfect time of the year it's coming up. Keep your eyes open for it. Yeah. All right, okay,
well, all right, we'll talk okay.
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