Anyway, a bit of an introduction to what I consider the best writing I have ever run across. This is the bike:
The bike on the left is Cack. The bike was originally a Honda Pacific Coast. Look closely...see the luggage rack on the back of Cack? Look closer. Can you tell what it was, originally? Yup, it is the handle and pull rope from a push lawn mower.
If that doesn't pique your interest, let me give you the background on the story this picture is from. First, the picture of Cack and the dual sport is from Alaska. The owner of Cack, Vermin, took a trip from California to Alaska and left the bike in the backyard of a fellow ADV reader. Then he flew home to return to work.
Vermins rationale was that when you have a vacation, and especially when you take a ride as your vacation, half the time of the vacation is spent riding back to work, which makes a heck of a long commute, doesn't it? So, he thought, if you ride for six days and on the seventh day fly back home, you have doubled your vacation.
So, Vermin returned home where he found he had been let go. So, with no job, it made the chances of getting his bike back (he lives in Detroit) somewhere between slim to none.
But, some ADV Rider's decided that was a crappy way to end the Cack Chronicles and started to fantasize about going and getting Cack and riding it back to Vermin, so he could take another trip and write about it.
Somewhere along the way, someone said 'I'll do it! But only to XXXXX'. Of course, that means someone else had to speak up and prove how awesome they were and volunteer for a spot and soon, what was probably just internet optimism actually came into form and ended up with a 61 page ride report, which is actually about 11 pages without all the filler posts by readers.
Anyway, if you have a few minutes to spare (really, that's all it will take, honestly) go read the first story in the Cack Chronicals.
At first, I enjoyed the report, then started to wonder if Vermin was slightly off his rocker but slowly found myself agreeing with his outlook on life...which is a little worrisome :)
Well, go read the first in the series Detroit to San Diego, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Negligence
Trust me, it is good stuff.
