By InMoBlog on
12/20/2007 10:02 AM
'Tis definitely the season to be thinking about stars.
Except, perhaps, for three certain gentlemen from the East tracking one across the desert on camelback two millennia ago, few people have ever experienced the grandeur of a starry winter night as gloriously as those stargazing down a deserted highway on a smooth-purring cruiser.
For one thing, it's cold. Particularly at speed. Particularly if you're wearing anything less than a full snowmobile suit , electric vest, electric socks and electric gloves. All that stuff will keep you somewhat warmer than you’d otherwise be, but it will also dull your senses. And one thing you don't want on a late-night December star search is dull senses.
Try it, instead, in heavy denims and leathers with maybe a thick-with-pre-Christmas-advertising newspaper stuffed under your jacket. Accept the cold, make it part of you, allow it to merge with the rhythm of the road, the feel of rubber on concrete or asphalt, the thrum ...
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