Halloween Evel
Posted in Neutral on Oct 31st, 2008
I saw the coolest Halloween costume ever on the freeway this afternoon. Unfortunately, I didn’t have my camera with me so I didn’t get a picture. I was tooling down the 101, heading north through the Cahuenga Pass near Hollywood Bowl, when I saw a motorcycle coming up on me in the left hand lane.
White helmet with stars… White jumpsuit… V-neck pattern of white stars on a blue border… Cape flying behind him in the wind… It was Evel Knievel!!!
I stuck my arm out the window and gave him a big thumbs-up as he passed. In return, he gave me a very Evel-esque wave of acknowledgement. It was a cool moment for me — I was in the presence of motorcycling royalty. Well, by proxy, at least. And he was on what I think was a Yamaha rather than a Harley. But still, it was pretty damned cool.
Evel lives! At least on Halloween…
That’s really friggin cool!
I thought up this idea this year, but takes too much planning for such short notice from when I thought it up. I want to ride around on my bike as an Oompa Loompa.
Maybe next year.
I think it would get a lot of reaction!
Way cool! :)
Hey…thanks for the blogroll link! I appreciate it. :)
Off to reciprocate now…
Cool story, one of the better costumes I’ve heard of or seen this year.
That’s pretty cool. Too bad you weren’t able to get a picture of it.