Word: mike
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Although it's true that more wives have been coaxed--or have leaped--onto the back, getting "the" bike remains mostly a male dream, one that's typically realized after the last kid's college tuition bill. "My dream all my life was to own a Harley-Davidson," says Mike Becar, 57, who directs a police-training organization in Meridian, Idaho. When his five kids were grown, he bought one. His wife of 30 years, Rene, 59, found it scary at first, but now she's his partner in speed and power. "When he named his bike 'Sylvia,'" she says...
Those who do live it describe the experience in poetic and romantic terms reminiscent of Robert Pirsig's philosophical, Beat-biker book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. "You experience everything," says Mike Becar, "mist from a new rain, a meadow of flowers...
...consternation at being picked number one in the preseason Ivy media poll. While Bagnoli has every right to be pleased, he really shouldn’t be shocked. Although the Quakers lost each of their five all-Ivy offensive linemen, their quarterback and Ivy Player of the Year Mike Mitchell and their top defensive player Steve Lhotak, the scary thing is that they still might be the best team in the league...
...Mike Lin, who graduated from high school in the spring, stayed in rising high school senior Elizabeth Chang’s room the night of July 9. He then moved to rising high school senior Song Wang’s suite for the remainder of his stay, until July...
...knew that by asking Song, I was also putting him in a situation he could be penalized for,” Chang said. “If there was no rule against [co-ed overnight stays], I probably would have kept Mike in my room so that if anything happened, it would have just been me that would have been punished. I was comfortable with Mike...