Zorba the Greek Returns

Zorba the Greek has returned! Unless you have lived in a box for the past 20 years you know what this means. Euro trash is unleashed on Los Angeles in high style. My friend and co-conspirator Kemball has graced us with his presence for a couple of weeks before he is off again on a motorcycle trip to Alaska and salmon fishing with his buddies. OMG, is this guy too much or what. After several months in Europe and the mid east – I classify Greece as Mid East – he is back again and sporting long hair and the ever-increasing baldness of a Stud monster. I am so glad that Kembal is back. We had a great ride today together starting from Stan’s Monrovia Bike shop going through the usual South Pasadena coffee shop route and back through Sierra Madre and on to Monrovia and Arcadia.

Speaking of Stan’s Monrovia Bikes, I have to tell you a little story about Stan. Last Friday Stan had a Heart O’Tac…or rather a severe bonk on the bike stopping after 15 miles and driving himself to the hospital for a check up. Now what is that about…Let me see…I think I have chest pain and will just drive MY SELF to the hospital. I gave him a ration a crap for that one. After an angiogram just for kicks and a few liters of electrolyte replacement, “I feel just fine now thank you!” Dehydration and electrolyte imbalance were the messengers of chest pain and severe exhaustion for Stan. We are all so glad that his episode was nothing serious but the DRIVING MYSELF TO THE HOSPITAL thing has to be corrected for everyone and needs to be reinforced I think. We all stopped by Stan’s house on the way to Pasadena just to say, “We all love you Stan” and to harass him a little. After the angiogram he will be off of the bike for a week to let the groin heal a little. Actually I would like to see him bleed a little just to pay him back for the driving “himself to the hospital thing.” Next week it will be no mercy.
I took a couple of pictures today of a new bike to the group Sunday ride…fixed gear from Waterford in mauve no less. What a beautiful bicycle Mike got himself. I am in serious envy mode now and will have to fix that in the future fer sure dude. Here are a couple of pictures of the fixed gear that he sported today.

There are a bunch of pictures from the Sunday Riders at Stan’s Monrovia Bikes that are available here on the site. Today I have included a

couple of recent shots that you can view just by clicking the ‘More’ button

. Enjoy and Zorba On on ye me harties.