First of all, any post from the Bike EXIF folks usually grabs my attention. My little daily reward for keeping my head down at the workplace is to read the daily pick. Extra points for me if the featured bike is adorned with knobbies. But the cerebral blokes blew me away when they opened this post with a quote from Cormac McCarthy’s novel (and film) The Road. I recently saw the film which featured Viggo Mortensen as the main character. Bone chilling and depressing. I’m not ready to dig a fallout shelter and stock it with Spam and peanut butter just quite yet, but I would have to agree, if the shit hits the fan, this is the bike you want. The questions is this: at $18,500 plus tax and shipping, you could probably buy 5 Kawasaki KLRs. Still, I am searching for more information about what it takes to get your name on the waiting list. This thing is badass. Check out the full post on Bike EXIF.

Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other’s world entire.—Cormac McCarthy, The Road.

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