tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6428154721977251894.post8339669179508485751..comments2023-12-11T03:32:58.722-05:00Comments on Twisted Roads By Jack Riepe: The Yellow Spot In The Snow...Jack Riepehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07531160098262862027noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6428154721977251894.post-31836873585168441082010-11-01T12:50:31.488-04:002010-11-01T12:50:31.488-04:00Everybody fuck off. Key West is mine. I like livin...Everybody fuck off. Key West is mine. I like living here for chrissakes. It's the first place I have ever really liked living and you are going to ruin it for me. People bitch and moan for 51 weeks of the year about bike week when a few thousand Harley poseurs show up and fart around town with their legs thrown out like whores on a couch. If you vandals show up and drag me around town being rude to people I will have to take my slow boat to Cuba and I might die crossing the Gulf Stream in my little skiff.<br />There is no room! All full! Bye bye! You have nice day now.<br />(retires grumping stage left to his Badger sett slamming door loudly behind him).<br />my word verification is runto. how fucking charming.Conchscooterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08016331487463993200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6428154721977251894.post-47664592981322627652010-11-01T07:50:30.815-04:002010-11-01T07:50:30.815-04:00Sounds like an awesome run, and a fine time. Wher...Sounds like an awesome run, and a fine time. Where do you want to meet?<br /><br />Oh, and I will be broke so bring child support money...<br /><br />-BuddhaThe Armed Christianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033003471578386807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6428154721977251894.post-80837568871039314042010-10-31T21:18:08.837-04:002010-10-31T21:18:08.837-04:00Chris,
I'm just going to sit back an nod while...Chris,<br />I'm just going to sit back an nod while all the plans are made so that when Jack backs out because of bursitis of his left testicle I can simply interject "screw you Riepe" and meet you in Key West.<br />MichaelCantwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17512417293017303810noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6428154721977251894.post-8501784301620194452010-10-31T12:56:35.882-04:002010-10-31T12:56:35.882-04:00Dear Nikos;
As my old Irish Grandfather used to s...Dear Nikos;<br /><br />As my old Irish Grandfather used to say, "It's an ill wind that doesn't blow somebody."<br /><br />Fondest regards,<br />Jack • reep • Toad<br />Twisted RoadsJack Riepehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07531160098262862027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6428154721977251894.post-69613540527663694752010-10-30T17:35:18.840-04:002010-10-30T17:35:18.840-04:00Jack
I'd be blowed if they celebrate 14th Mar...Jack<br /><br />I'd be blowed if they celebrate 14th March in Greece - they celebrate 28th October instead - "NO BJ" day.<br /><br />Best wishes from Wiesbaden, NNikoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03119901226987582553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6428154721977251894.post-44217411280009699282010-10-29T23:35:52.832-04:002010-10-29T23:35:52.832-04:00Dear Matt:
I can handle the straight roads. Chri...Dear Matt:<br /><br /> I can handle the straight roads. Chris Wolfe can handle the old ladies. <br /><br />Fondest regards,<br />Jack • reep • ToadJack Riepehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07531160098262862027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6428154721977251894.post-81195105846834236772010-10-29T23:35:04.199-04:002010-10-29T23:35:04.199-04:00Dear Buddha:
I m thinking that the first week in ...Dear Buddha:<br /><br />I m thinking that the first week in October 2011 would be a great time to meet in Key West. You have to give Chris Wolfe a full year's notice in advance because his social calendar is so full (of shit) and everything. <br /><br />I think you would like my ridsing buddies, and the four of us could have a blast chasing Michael Beattie around. There was some talk about this guy Bobskoot doing it too...<br /><br />Fondest regards,<br />Jack • reep • ToadJack Riepehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07531160098262862027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6428154721977251894.post-25596448878950861882010-10-29T20:25:37.584-04:002010-10-29T20:25:37.584-04:00Dear ADK (Chris Wolfe):
Others have seen you putt...Dear ADK (Chris Wolfe):<br /><br />Others have seen you puttering around the Adiorondacks on your Striumphet, wearing your antique helmet. Lee Kazanas mentioned it to me. He didn't actually say you looked like a douche, or anything, but there was the slightest pause in the conversation. <br /><br />Fondest regards,<br />Jack • reep • ToadJack Riepehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07531160098262862027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6428154721977251894.post-70489185187167151102010-10-29T17:05:43.673-04:002010-10-29T17:05:43.673-04:00It is a one week ride once out of the state of Tex...It is a one week ride once out of the state of Texas...<br /><br />Actually, Wonderful Wife made it home from Orlando in about 10 hours in a Honda Pilot a few years back. The words "We don't even have a fixed-wing that'll go that fast!" kept playing in in the back of my head. The front was occupied with the continuous flashback of my life. Apparently, there was a sale somewhere in town.<br /><br />An Iron Butt would put me meeting up with you somewhere along the Atlantic coast. I have never been to Key West although my Mom was born on Boca Chica while my Grandfather stationed on Key West. As long as the temps are above freezing (around 55 degrees, right?) I'm in.<br /><br />I'll bring a bottle of Texas Vodka and a bottle of Texas Rum for good measure. Though, I doubt there will be much of either left by the time I get there.<br /><br />-BuddhaThe Armed Christianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033003471578386807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6428154721977251894.post-55958448583320559812010-10-29T14:11:39.954-04:002010-10-29T14:11:39.954-04:00Jack, there's a ying and yang for you riding i...Jack, there's a ying and yang for you riding in Florida. The roads are all straight so as to not require leaning, but every other vehicle is as older woman in a minivan.<br /><br />Great story, BTW. I've only ridden in snow once, or twice, but only as the road got wet. Never sticking.MattPiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13478095197681336275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6428154721977251894.post-47616247634566143192010-10-29T13:59:15.232-04:002010-10-29T13:59:15.232-04:00OK DOPEY,
What on God's Green Earth is a &q...OK DOPEY, <br /><br />What on God's Green Earth is a "Triumph T1o0 C?"<br /><br />And BTW, word verification is 'blush'ADKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6428154721977251894.post-2718547434837824592010-10-29T12:56:59.814-04:002010-10-29T12:56:59.814-04:00Riepe said:
Maybe he'll wear his antique hel...Riepe said:<br /><br /> Maybe he'll wear his antique helmet too... <br /><br /><br />The only antique helmet in my possesion is not seeing the light of day if you're on the same continent.<br /><br /><br />If the price of escape was only a $15 martini I'd nail myself shut in the mens room on Rikers Island, but I'm sure that you'd find a way in somehow.<br /><br /><br />Hey Cantwell, why do we bother coming here?ADKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6428154721977251894.post-11194691301559243012010-10-29T12:36:19.305-04:002010-10-29T12:36:19.305-04:00Dear Shannon Baker:
As you can see, I am trying t...Dear Shannon Baker:<br /><br />As you can see, I am trying to foment a plot to ride in Key West with some friends of mine. Key West can't be farther than a 2-week ride from Texas. You could meet us there. Your Harley would add the volume, our Beemers would contribute the class, and Chris's piss yellow Honda would be the comic relief. Maybe he'll wear his antique helmet too... <br /><br />Fondest regards,<br />Jack • reep • Toad<br />Twisted RoadsJack Riepehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07531160098262862027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6428154721977251894.post-55665591386666119552010-10-29T12:26:30.468-04:002010-10-29T12:26:30.468-04:00Dear Conchscooter (Trotsky):
Now you've done ...Dear Conchscooter (Trotsky):<br /><br />Now you've done it... You have given me the idea to ride down to Key West with Chris Wolfe and Mike Cantwell. You'd have to enter the witness protection program by the time we left. Actually, Mike Cantwell would follow in our wake, apologizing to everyone. I can think of nothing more pleasurable than the sack of Duval Street with Chris Wolfe, followed by Mike Cantwell saying, "Did you see that one?" And "Good heavens, her tits were out."<br /><br />The only apect of such a trip that could be improved would be if Cantwell were a practicing criminal defense attoney, admitted to the Florida BAR. <br /><br />By the way, at what speed above the limit are mororcyclists rountinely arrested? (Chris wanted to know.)<br /><br />Fondest regards,<br />Jack • reep • ToadJack Riepehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07531160098262862027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6428154721977251894.post-3192577021349712472010-10-29T12:18:36.467-04:002010-10-29T12:18:36.467-04:00Dear Nikos:
The walls I referred to have not been...Dear Nikos:<br /><br />The walls I referred to have not been maintained by the Phoenicians since they were installed either. As challenging as I have made the roads in upstate New York sound, I suspect they are a lot less hair-raising than the ones you rode in Greece. But then again, I bet the roads in Greece don't see six feet of snow each year either.<br /><br />Do they celebrate March 14th in Greece?<br /><br />Fondest regards,<br />Jack • reep • ToadJack Riepehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07531160098262862027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6428154721977251894.post-69539581196484165812010-10-29T12:14:09.123-04:002010-10-29T12:14:09.123-04:00Dear ADK (Chris Wolfe):
You cheap mutha-fucker......Dear ADK (Chris Wolfe):<br /><br />You cheap mutha-fucker... Irish whiskey had yet to be invented the last time you bought me a drink. As I recall, they had to nail the men's room window shut at Kelsey's Mountain Retreat and Spa as you were able to squeeze through a four-inch opening like a roach — just to beat buying me a single $15 martini.<br /><br />And as far as that bastard from Key West goes, he has trouble staying upright going over two damp leaves, let alone snow on the shores of the North Branch of the Bouquet River. <br /><br />Now here's the deal... We are going to start planning this as soon as the heavy winter shuts our respective riding seasons down. Chris, you and I are going to Key West next year. Maybe we can fix it so we can spring the reticent boy wonder Cantwell too. That would be a pisser of a trip. <br /><br />Maybe we could shoot for the early fall. We could take the AutoTrain down and run rampant in Key West for a week. I'll ge a police scanner, so when we start spreading Krazy Klue on the benches by where the cruise ships come in, we can here the British accent tell people "What the fuck do you want me to do about getting your fat ass off the bench?"<br /><br />This could be the ultimate pisser. <br /><br />(I will never forget the time my Beemer had been sabotaged by that asshole tire vendor at the Vermort BMW rally... It was hotter than hell, and you said, "Beer time," and took off on the ancient Triumph... Only to return with a case of cold ones strapped to the pillion. That was the best tasting cold beer I had in my life.)<br /><br />Fondest regard,<br />Jack • reep • ToadJack Riepehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07531160098262862027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6428154721977251894.post-54210680941632327212010-10-29T09:47:06.436-04:002010-10-29T09:47:06.436-04:00Conchshooter, ('...scooter' is interesting...Conchshooter, ('...scooter' is interesting, '...shooter' has all sorts of possibilities),<br /><br />I wouldn't ride the Triumph in snow if my life depended on it. OTOH I hadn't intended to ride The Yellow Peril in snow either.<br /><br />Key West in any season would be OK w/ me.<br /><br />As for the NHS......I heard that The Rieper Fuhrer is retiring to the UK to take advantage of the NHS's illustrious sevices. Somewhat in the way that he's taken advantage of my wallet over the years. He reminds me at our every encounter that, "There aint nothin cheaper'n free".ADKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6428154721977251894.post-31542307857926345722010-10-29T08:48:20.852-04:002010-10-29T08:48:20.852-04:00There's an idea. Let's ride in the snow, s...There's an idea. Let's ride in the snow, something I haven't done in decades. Key West in February should be perfect. <br />Of course anyone who risks a classic Triumph in snow deserves to be returned to serve a life sentence in the NHS.Conchscooterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08016331487463993200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6428154721977251894.post-68771273436405983472010-10-29T08:25:13.294-04:002010-10-29T08:25:13.294-04:00Dear Fuhrer,
Your revisionist account...Dear Fuhrer, <br /> Your revisionist account has been noted, as has your latest deposit into your 'humour' account, which is still, for those of us who have listened to this twaddle for years, irredeemably in arrears.ADKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6428154721977251894.post-45709345745994754542010-10-29T08:23:04.213-04:002010-10-29T08:23:04.213-04:00Riding the up there sounds incredible...as long as...Riding the up there sounds incredible...as long as you can guarantee no snow or temps below freezing which I believe to be around 60 degrees.<br /><br />I hope to make some longer longer rides next year. All my vacation time this year was used moving my Baby Girl off to college and the birth of my grandson. Of course with BG off at college she now has more money than I do so we may need to talk about that back child support or free lodging while up in the great white north (anything north of Dallas). <br /><br />Hang in there<br /><br />-BuddhaThe Armed Christianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033003471578386807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6428154721977251894.post-55727287239925035452010-10-29T04:28:40.356-04:002010-10-29T04:28:40.356-04:00Jack
It's a real pity that the Phoenicians by...Jack<br /><br />It's a real pity that the Phoenicians bypassed Greece - stone safety walls on precipitous mountain roads would have been a really good innovation and I shall write to the Greek Ministry of Ancient Ruins (responsible for the road structure there)to suggest that they build some now.<br /><br />All the best, NNikoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03119901226987582553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6428154721977251894.post-51445576286994818672010-10-28T23:40:11.488-04:002010-10-28T23:40:11.488-04:00Dear Sir:
The person whose car was in the ditch w...Dear Sir:<br /><br />The person whose car was in the ditch was Chas Orttbach. And he wasn't gesturing "What the fuck." He was gesturing "Fuck you." There is a subtle difference.<br /><br />If you read the text carefully, you will see I got the Triump designation correct. And if you are going to be this way about it, consider my balance paid. <br /><br />Fondest regards,<br />Jack • reep • ToadJack Riepehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07531160098262862027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6428154721977251894.post-67835429677232357392010-10-28T23:36:11.744-04:002010-10-28T23:36:11.744-04:00Dear Dick:
You are too kind. Out of all the peopl...Dear Dick:<br /><br />You are too kind. Out of all the people who read this story, I had one critic who didn't think it was scary enough, nor written from the perspective of a potential crash. Oh, well. You can't please everyone. It was nice having dinner with you and Jane the other night.<br /><br />Fondest regards,<br />Jack • reep • ToadJack Riepehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07531160098262862027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6428154721977251894.post-38283389280998715022010-10-28T23:33:47.553-04:002010-10-28T23:33:47.553-04:00Dear Mr. Baker:
Thank you for your kind remarks. ...Dear Mr. Baker:<br /><br />Thank you for your kind remarks. I thought it was a harrowing tale too... But not harrowing enough for the rider who wanted me to include a body count, however.<br /><br />Thank you for reading my tripe, and for being impressed with it. You and I should go riding in the Adirondacks next summer. I'll introduce you to a Honda rider who screams like a little girl.<br /><br />Fondest regards,<br />Jack • reep • ToadJack Riepehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07531160098262862027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6428154721977251894.post-85693707573081738202010-10-28T22:02:19.003-04:002010-10-28T22:02:19.003-04:00The damp aroma of something less pleasnt than fore...The damp aroma of something less pleasnt than forest duff is rising under my nose as I read this shamefull parody of what was, for those of me who were present, a very trying experience. Your concern however is clearly evident.<br /><br />Through Chapel Pond Pass I rode past several cars that had run off the road. One driver, struggling with several helpers to push his car out of the ditch, gestured "What the Fuck?" at me as I wobbled by.<br /><br />And For the Last Time.......It's a 1971 Triumph T100C. Dolt!ADKhttp://kvvi.netnoreply@blogger.com