The businessman who gets on the back of this bike is far less well protected than I was. I had a leather jacket and gloves and a leather lap robe. But he still arrives happy — in the ad at least
Paris
Daily Ride – This is pretty much what it felt like…
Holy cow – we were moving really fast… at least, it felt that way to me. The creatures in the video below could have been interchanged with me and my pilot on the road from CDG to Paris, that fine spring morning last year…
Daily Ride – the pain of sitting in a taxi cab at Roissy – CDG
Oh, the pain… the suffering… the angst. Getting stuck in a cab at CDG… what a horrible way to start a Paris visit. Once you get out of the airport, if the roads are open, it’s not so painful, but imagine what it’s like when the roads are clogged. Yeah, not so much fun.
This video is speeded up in some places, which is how I wish a lot of my cab rides had been.
Daily Ride – car ride, showing moto taxis splitting lanes
This humble little video is shot from the inside of a car and shows motorcycles passing by the traffic … which moves very, very slowly. This is one of the reasons I took a moto taxi last year in Paris.
Daily Ride – Through Paris on a Yamaha TDR 125
Nice footage, nice music. Enjoy this 2:08 minutes of sightseeing
Daily Ride – Through Paris on board the RoissyBus
It’s not aboard a motorcycle, but it does have plenty of views of Paris – and motorcycles – looks like Montparnasse to me.
Daily Ride – Motos go to brunch
Daily Ride – 56 businessmen on moto taxis in Paris
It’s one way to get to your meetings!
Daily Ride – Motorcycle in Paris
Let’s take ‘er out for a spin, shall we?
Two or three old women came and asked…
Two or three old women came and asked him [Suzuki Shosan] about the essence of Buddhism.
The Master said: “I do not know anything that I can teach you.”
After a while he said suddenly: “You will die, you will die. Never forget the fact of dying…”
From : Death Was His Koan: The Samurai-Zen of Suzuki Shosan By Winston L. King (P.285)
It looks so harmless on a web page
… and in all honesty, that’s pretty much how I felt, one fine spring afternoon, on the back of a motorcycle flying down a highway near Paris.
What happened that day crystallized a whole lot that I’d observed about myself, doing business with the French, and the practical uses of Zen.
And the book is nearing completion . . . ready in early 2015. So stay tuned.
Zen and the Art of Moto Taxi Survival 