Chuck Taylors

Chuck Taylors

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High threadcount kitty

High threadcount kitty

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Jerez, Motorcycle Grand Prix Weekend, 2001

Jerez, Motorcycle Grand Prix Weekend, 2001

The streets are packed with people. The curbs are packed with motorcycles. THe big show has come to town and brought the circus with it - riders from all over the continent celebrating life on two wheels. I saw them on the way down from Sevilla, nearly all sportbikes, nearly all in head to toe leather, the anti-Daytona, the anti-Sturgis. A beautiful thing.

And then in the night comes a gasoline-fueled scream. The unmistakable sound of a sportbike revved to the redline and beyond. Ripping canvas. No, that metaphor doesn't do the sound justice. It's the wail of a metal banshee in falsetto, assaulting the senses like nothing else. The unseen bike is popping off the rev limiter repeatedly and then the air is filled with acrid smoke. A burnout.

No sooner does the first bike stop it's wailing when a second commences. BwaaaaaahhhHHHHH-Pop-POP-POP!!!! Again and again. I'm drawn to the commotion - it's just a block away. A great big crowd has gathered, people covering their ears and noses from the sensory barrage.

I soon find out that this isn't even the main course. Just beyond, they've closed down a street block, lined it with chain link fence and hay bales placed in black plastic bags. Beyond the chain links are bleachers, where people are watching a parade of hooligans navigate this impromptu course on all manner of vehicles - sportbikes, Gold Wings, scooters, quads - each doing a wheelie or a stoppie or a burnout or simply French-kissing the rev limiter for a lap.

The air is filled with smoke. My nostrils are filled with the stench of spent fuel and burnt rubber, and my ears are taking a beating, but I've somehow snuck my way into the course, crouching by the hay bales and shooting what I can. These are my people - my two-wheeled, sport-biked, leather-clad, hooligan brothers, celebrating the motorcycle in a unique way. This is Jerez.

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This is the mayor of Jerez joining in on a quad.

This is the mayor of Jerez joining in on a quad.

That's a lie.

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Ok, it wasn't Jorge Lorenzo

Ok, it wasn't Jorge Lorenzo

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