h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I just got around to the post where you posted the Chernobyl link, and I spent hours last night, going through her pictures. The last time I came across that blog, it was only one chapter long! What with a few moves and changes of computer, I lost the old link. Elena is an amazing young woman.

I also got a good look at how consumerism works in the Ukraine, as she talked about what it took to get her motorcycle, keep it running, and even update and soup it up! Her taking about it in the Motorcycle link was funny and thought-provoking. But, I bet you knew that.

Truly, thank you very much.

It *would* help if I referenced the convo, wouldn't it? "Rights of the Few" it was, in Hyp's journal.

maybe you could highlight the url for that ??

er and then copy and paste it in a reply here ??

I think it's www.elenafilatova.com

SC, quite a site, innit? And reading between the lines gives me a bit of hope, too. Elena used to insist that all of it was her own work (probably because she had a bit of protection from her daddy), nowadays she admits that she´s not a solo flier. Maybe one day she´ll even be able to tell the names of her friends without risking to get them jailed.

And as to her bike - OK with me. Most of the machines available there are rolling scrap with a 100 miles ride / one hour spannerwork ratio.
No kidding - the best motorcycle made in Ukrainia is a copy of a prewar BMW! 750cc, all of 25 horsepowers, and with that fleapower it´s supposed to tug a sidecar. Without the chariot it will do 50mph until it overheats.
(In case you didn´t guess: yes, I grew up as a and still am one at heart.)

Actually, Elena mentions in the My Motorcycle area on her blog that her bike died. It threw a rod for the second time, and she doesn't think it's worth trying again, with it. So, currently, she's scrounging for cash. If I understood what she's saying. I've never ridden on a motorcycle, but I thing they're great machines!

Elena had said in the blog that she's had "passengers", but she also said she wouldn't ride with another biker there, as the dust kicked up by two bikes would be hazardous. She has ridden with her father, I assume on the same bike.

SC,
(sorry - this convo somehow dropped to "long ago") Elena knows what she´s doing.

Ride behind someone in front and you breathe the dust his bike raises - and that dust train can stay in the air for hours.

But what the eff - you don´t need to enter the "forbidden lands".

East and West prospered (more or less) and the "buffer zone" countries were left in a timewarp they haven´t yet awoken out of.

If ever I can afford a bike again I´ll pack a sleeping bag and go time traveling.

Hi Pit, this dropped to "the past" for me, too.

I've wondered what my life would have been like if I'd accepted the ride offered me by a biker I knew, who was overly fond of doing "wheelies" on his Harley... Now, of course, I'd need a bike with a cane rack.

So where´s the problem? If you live anywhere but in Germany, where that would be rather expensive, a combo (bike with side car)!
Easy to spot a man to meet your needs, too. On any bike meet (especially in winter)the combo acrobats are the balding whitebeards who still drink grog around the campfire when everybody else has long ago retired into a happy coma.

The closest thing to a Bike Meet around here that I've seen is about 1k strong called the "Love Ride". A bunch of bikers and clubs pack new toys on their bikes and rendezvous to donate them to poor kids at Christmas. Not much grog there, until after, I'm thinking. I used to live close by their route. Noise and the crowd of bikes -- pretty impressive!

Luv, that´s the kind of thing real s try to get their reputation back by. Hell´s Angels and suchlike are organized crime, nothing else and we don´t want to be sold in their envelope. Quickmarch your crutches to any club like the one that does that Love Run - they´ll find someone with a technical solution to get you aboard. One club might be in Lemgo, close to my old hometown. Their annual meet is called "Hexentreffen" - "Witches´ Rally". You feel like you might drop by?

Considering that I missed a demonstration I was supposed to be picketing at on Saturday, just from being under the weather a little, it might take more gumption than I have at the moment!

The Love Ride is maybe a *few* of the HA, more like ex-HA, but that event also includes loads of celebrities, this being Hollywood (Jay Leno is the only one who comes to mind at the moment), and it is for a great cause.

My personal space here decided to let me back in today! I've been locked out for 4 or so days. Wouldn't let me sign in, or let me register all over again, just to find out what's going on from TPTB. Turns out they just hate Google Chrome, I think. Firefox, IE and Safari are okay with them. Trouble is, GC is my very favorite browser, it eats less of my screen than the others.

! I believed you KIA - that two weeks old posting of yours isn´t even listed! OK, now I know you aren´t all dead and wormy...

Love, Elena mentions this one on her site:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lleQPaALSLo

Goosebumps stuff!

Really interesting, Pit, thanks for the link! Very eerie.

I've put a few links up from Elena's site, one just after Fukashima failed, and another a couple of days ago, when someone said that we should let the Iranians just build their reactor, and if it blew, no skin off our noses.... How can people be so dense?

>How can people be so dense?<
Bar stool scientists. "Don´t bother me with your "scintofiffic facts", that´s commie bullshit."

If that's true, maybe the world has too many bar stools!

Give me a solid bar stool instead of an iffy contract. The best deals in my life always were on "shake hands, you have the job" basis.