One of our areas local news anchors/reports, Ron Brown, has traveled to Russian several times and really enjoys the area. He recently ran into me on my Raven at a local parade and came up to ask me questions and share some of his own stories from his many visits to Russia.
I was surprised that he recognized what the Ural was (identifying it as a Russian bike) and I got a big kick out of the enthusiasm and obvious rush of memories that seeing the bike provided for him.
As it turns out it was one of the days where I had piled my whole family on the bike and Ron was fascinated by this. He gave me his card, asked for my phone number and requested that we get together and do an interview.
It took a little over a month for our schedules to coordinate but we finally got together this morning and shot some footage. The link below is the segment as it aired on our local ABC affiliated station. I think they did a really good job with it – obviously a lot was left on the cutting room floor… but all and all I think it came out nice. It portrayed my family and motorcycling/sidecar-ing in a very positive light.
Click the link and enjoy:
http://www.theincredibells.com/kirt/MOT ... atch12.wmv
I don't think my rig would ever get 40 MPG with four people on it, let alone with just Murphy and I.
