Somewhere east of Prescott, the helmet-mounted video camera had to go. The wind was either going to rip the camera from the helmet, or tear the helmet off with my head still in it.
But before that …
On a recent trip to Phoenix, I rented a motorcycle, a sinister black Harley-Davidson Road Glide from Buddy Stubbs Harley-Davidson
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The dealership does a brisk rental business, especially in the months before Phoenix gets surface-of-the-sun hot.
Kris Kirk at the rental desk said in addition to daily rentals, the dealership gets a good bit of “snowbird” business in the winter months.
“We always get a bunch (of customers) from Canada (the Netherlands) and Germany,” Kirk said. “There’s a club from Sweden that comes every year. They get a bunch of bikes and ride around the Southwest.”
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