Joy:
<<When I was a kid, young men in their twenties wore
leather jackets, ducktailed their hair, and rode motorcycles.
I assumed that, like police, gogo dancers, and marines,
18-year-olds were forever signing up>>
Good motorcycles are expensive. Also, a lot of parents fear
that their kids will get killed.
<<and 40-year-olds were retiring or doing desk
jobs--constant turnover.>>
You want to retire guys in their prime? That happens on
television. Besides, bikers are loyal to their calling
(like deadheadism, it's more than a hobby).
<<Instead, it seems, at least around Philadelphia, no
one enlisted after 1970 or so, and all these guys in the
clutches of degenerative diseases>>
OK. I'll introduce you to some bikers. Seriously, why do you
think there's a retirement age for riding a motorcycle? There
isn't for any other kind of riding...
<<are inventing wars and taking sides like
testosterone-crazed teenagers. Maybe I'm an
ageist.>>
The de rigueur question is de rigueur not asked (because
noblesse oblige), cough, cough, tap microphone.
Does anyone remember Ellroy's Suicide Hill? I recall there
was a picturesque biker in that one. A fun hardboiled
novel.
Regards,
MrT
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