Ups & Downs
Ups & Downs
UPs To Ezra Daly for recognizing the value of recycling. Daly, an Educational Technology Services staffer at Cal Berkeley, is a motorcycle fan and musician who built this stand-up electric bass using motorcycle gas tanks. Since fabbing his first more than 10 years ago, Daly has refined his building technique and constructs custom instruments to order, using various other motorcycle parts including twin-spar aluminum frames. See more at www.wrecknroll.com.
DOWN: To Cleveland Browns tight-end Kellen Windslow Jr., for approaching motorcycling the wrong way. Windslow suffered internal injuries when he crashed his justpurchased 2005 Suzuki GSX-R750 while learning to ride in a community college parking lot. An MSF course might have been better, perhaps? As for the team, most athletes’ contracts forbid “dangerous” activities and name motorcycling as one of those. Sounds like everyone involved could use some education.
UP: To Harley-Davidson, for taking care of U.S. military personnel. The Motor Company has long been a supporter of veteran’s issues, donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to the World War II Memorial and the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Fund, and is currently extending product warranty coverage for military personnel deployed in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
UP: To the Orange County Dualies, for recognizing a good cause. This past May, the Southern Californiabased dual-sport club hosted a charity movie reunion for the classic On Any Sunday, bringing in an audience of more than 1100 to help the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation. An estimated $40,000 was raised, thanks no doubt to the attendance of filmmaker Bruce Brown and stars Malcolm Smith, Mert Lawwill and Gene Romero.
