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Article: Mayhem in metropolis.(Kawasaki Vulcan 2000 from Kawasaki Motors Corp.)
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- Cruising Rider
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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The rain has been falling hard for hours, washing the colorless streets of grit and garbage in endless streams of city jetsam. Cigarette butts washed up against the bike's rear wheel, forming a sickly eddy of blackened filters, some still smeared with lipstick.
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I threw mine into the swirl, like tossing it into a flushing toilet. It was time to ride, the storm would have to do better to keep me off the saddle.
Steam was still rising from Biggie K, a nickname I gave the titanic Kawasaki Vulcan 2000 floating under me. I had only stopped for a few minutes to wipe my sunglasses, have another cigarette, and figure out how the ...