They’d Ride

Says Red Molly, to James, “Well that’s a fine motorbike.
A girl could feel special on any such like.”
Says James, to Red Molly, “My hat’s off to you.
It’s a Vincent Black Lightning, 1952.

And I’ve seen you on the corners and cafes, it seems.
Red hair and black leather, my favorite color scheme.”
And he pulled her on behind,
And down to Boxhill,

They’d Ride.

—-Richard Thompson, 1952 Vincent Black Lightning

Cozumel, Mexico

The Ones Who Have Gone Over

“The Edge…There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. The others-the living-are those who pushed their control as far as they felt they could handle it, and then pulled back, or slowed down, or did whatever they had to when it came time to choose between Now and Later. But the edge is still Out there.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

Motorcycle Gang on scooters (where else but) New Orleans, Louisiana

Motorcycle Gang
on scooters
(where else but) New Orleans, Louisiana