It’s mid-September, and there’s an autumn crispness within the air, like piercing the outside of an apple or cracking the binding on a brand new college textbook. Sure, this bracing sensation confirms what you already knew, which is that summer season’s over and also you’ve were given to begin dressed in pants once more, which is more or less unhappy, however it additionally approach top using season is upon us, and that you’ll be able to in spite of everything put on wool and climb hills with out sweating your [insert your preferred genital way here] off:
![](https://i0.wp.com/bikesnobnyc.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_9886.jpg?resize=736%2C981&ssl=1)
Via the best way, are you able to spot the natural world in that picture?
No?
Right here’s a better glance:
![](https://i0.wp.com/bikesnobnyc.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screenshot-2023-09-15-120922.png?resize=605%2C627&ssl=1)
I don’t know the rest about searching, however is it the time of yr when you’ll be able to shoot those fuckers but?
Via the best way, in a while I took the picture above (and completed urinating–you’ll be able to safely suppose maximum footage in this weblog have been taken right through pee stops, sorry if that makes you uncomfortable), the deer and a spouse galloped into the street and into the trail of an oncoming automobile at the back of which I used to be intently following.
Only one thing more to be cognizant of while using highway motorcycles, I assume:
Yikes:
![](https://i0.wp.com/bikesnobnyc.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screenshot-2023-09-15-150041.png?resize=736%2C363&ssl=1)
Just right factor the bicycle owner was once dressed in a helment…and the deer was once dressed in antlers.
That’s why I by no means experience a motorcycle with out first placing on antlers.
![](https://i0.wp.com/bikesnobnyc.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/antlers.jpg?resize=720%2C544&ssl=1)
Talking of using highway motorcycles, and the Cervino particularly, I’m no longer virtually sure that my one-handed moving idea is right kind, as it’s virtually beginning to really feel herbal to take action:
![](https://i0.wp.com/bikesnobnyc.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_9889.jpg?resize=736%2C981&ssl=1)
It was once more difficult to take that picture than you’d suppose…and no, I used to be without a doubt no longer urinating on the time..
Certainly, all the motorcycle is beginning to really feel moderately herbal, and I’m rising very keen on it. However do I love it up to I stopped up liking the Vengeance Motorcycle?
![](https://i0.wp.com/bikesnobnyc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IMG_2369-1.jpg?resize=736%2C552&ssl=1)
I by no means anticipated to fall for the Vengeance Motorcycle once I won it most commonly for ironic functions within the spring of 2022, and it did take me a while to heat to it–however by means of September of that very same yr it had change into my favourite highway racing-type motorcycle, which I do know as a result of that’s once I determined to take it to Switzerland with me:
![](https://i0.wp.com/bikesnobnyc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/IMG_4706.jpg?resize=736%2C981&ssl=1)
I feel the tale will in spite of everything seem in a definite mainstream newsletter in a while, however principally I were given invited on some large experience in Switzerland ultimate yr, and by means of that point I’d change into so keen on the Vengeance Motorcycle that of all of the motorcycles I personal* it was once the only I sought after to take with me–42×21 low equipment and all.
*[Actually, the bike I really wanted to take with me was my A. Homer Hilsen, but I knew everyone else would be on road racing-type bikes and that I’d need the extra speed.]
Now it’s virtually precisely a yr later, and as I climb up the deer-infested hills of suburbia at the Cervino–which additionally has a low equipment of 42×21–I in finding myself questioning, “Would I take this motorcycle to Switzerland presently?”
I dunno. Via that point I’d had the Vengeance Motorcycle for like 5 months, and whilst I didn’t fall for it immediately, I stopped up growing a unusual and admittedly traumatic affinity for it that troubles me to at the moment. (Once more, I wound up liking this ridiculous hunk of historic plastic such a lot that I took it with me to Switzerland. With out converting the gearing. And I don’t even remorseful about it.) In the meantime, it hasn’t even been two months since I took supply of the Cervino, so in all probability it’s untimely to attract any conclusion at this level. It might be that come January (that’ll be 5 months because it arrived) I’ll have change into in a similar fashion connected to the Cervino–indisputably a number of the very greatest antique bicycles to have come underneath my purview. Or possibly the Vengeance Motorcycle merely touched my interior Lone Wolf in some way no different motorcycle has or ever will once more:
![](https://i0.wp.com/bikesnobnyc.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/lotus-guy.jpg?resize=736%2C387&ssl=1)
We don’t at all times select our motorcycles. Every so often they select us.