Linda Hansen autographed a Bell Helmet during our 1995 model year closeout.
On it she wrote, in white sparkle paint,
"To Ken, always wear your Bell Helmet & think of me, Love, Darla, XOX."
I do!
 
 
 
 
 

 Marilyn LaRock played my request on
WKNR Keener 13 AM Radio when I called in once.
She later had me arrested for hiding in the station house bushes.
We got over the incident, though, when she saw my Virago.
 
 
 
 
 

Charlie Kotz rides his Bultaco to Wright Air Force Base.
An avid inventor, he was able to ride through a terrible hail storm,
all the way to Hagadorn, Michigan,
by wearing a commonly found ceramic cook's bucket.
He gave me this picture as proof.
 
 
 
 
 

Tim Wertheimer was at our dealership.
He was locked out of his telephone service truck.
He was really nice and very friendly
(after I used my slimjim to open his door, and then hot-wire his truck)
He bought me a can of Coca-Cola for helping him out.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 Stanislaw Zumenko always calls me "Comrade,"
and says, "Let's share secrets!..."
I always say, "Okay, you first!" and he suddenly gets thirsty for vodka.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 Natasha Zumenko gave me $300 and her new set of luggage,
leather sides, with gold studs in a snake design.
I just had to pretend I was her husband.
I'd do that again.
Her accent melts the soles off my shoes.
 
 
 
 
 

 Sheilah Porter hired me to work in the stalls.
I can't remember too much about it.
A horse kicked me in the head, but I was fine in a year.
I wish I could do something about the scar.
 
 
 
 
 

Denby Hathaway treks the lost canyons down under in the Outback.
He claims you can't do a "walkabout" on a Yamaha.
I know I could have finished, if I'd had enough spare parts.
 
 
 
 
 

 Marie Borgström rode my Yamaha into Houghton Lake.
When I hauled it out of the water, leeches were all over my skin.
Marie peeled them off and placed them safely back in the lake.
The bike keeps overheating now. Something got clogged inside it.
 
 
 
 
 
 

 Rabbi Hugh Foxx is the only Bolivian Irish philosopher I have ever met.
He said I was spending too much time
searching for what I did not wish to know.
He said one day I would be left wishing to
find out what all the time I had lost had gone for.
 
 
 
 
 

Chris and Barry Lomas know the International Morse Code by heart.
They are FCC "Extra Class" HAM radio operators.
We had breakfast at Denny's for 7 weeks, so I could try and learn code.
Now I know the Morse Codes for SOS, and What's your QTH?,
and Show me yer QTS!