[Fred Douglass]

...that bizarre, Baroque and otherwise freaky mustache riding around Scotland with a buddy. Both were on Triumphs, I believe.

When I lived in Bahia Mar (Fort Lauderdale) the crew member(s) on the Castro family's (Convertible sofa fame, not Cooooban Cwommie!) gorgeous yacht were always disassembling and rebuilding this terrific Ariel Square Four. Of course they were doing it on one of the finger-piers, and the yachties' most-feared sound ("ploop"!) was always audible. Valves, nuts, bolts, etc. were frequently tested to see if they floated! Ar-ar-ar.

Janie Carter will corroborate this scenario. Although she may have been more focussed on the blonde stud who owned the bike....

These Mensa guys would use their bikes to "hill-climb" the cement-bag rip-rap which bolstered the 16th Street Causeway Bridge in Port Everglades.

Bernadette Castro, whose father owned the fabulous yacht "Southern Trail" (which employed the Ariel Square Four guy), went on to become the State Conservator in New Yawk in Patace's (Sp?) administration. Small world.

Bob Reynolds, my mentor at Valor Tours (look up THAT website!) is utterly protean---among his plaudits are, of course, placing or REplacing WW II (check out Tarawa) monuments around the Pacific, flying "Lancs" in The War and.......owning an Ariel Square Four!

I was always partial to Bwittish bikes.....those new Triumphs are tewwific!

How's that for a Douglass "boomerang" story. ADD anyone? Ar-ar-ar!