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[motorcyclistonline] - Bay Area Artist Karen Ide’s 1996 Ducati M900 Monster | ME & MY
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Karen Ide is a graphic artist who was riding an RD400 until a Moto Guzzi LeMans sparked her affair with Italian machines.
When I was 17 I told my mother, much to her horror, that I was going to get a motorcycle. My first bike was a Yamaha RD400, a boy-racer with BUB pipes, rearsets, low bars, and black spray paint to make it look cool. A blue RD followed, and then I graduated to a Moto Guzzi LeMans CX100 that sparked my love affair with Italian motorcycles. It wasn’t just visual attraction but also about the sound. I went from riding down the road buzzing like a bumblebee to setting off car alarms with that unmistakable low rumble. Viva I’Italia! Two years ago, a driver talking on a cell phone rear-ended me while I was stopped at a red light. Thankfully I was in my car and not on my bike, but I was still seriously injured, and my hands are just now able to ride—and to pick up a paintbrush—again. I was lucky enough to check the Isle of Man TT off my bucket list recently, and that has changed my life and refueled my passion for bikes. I’ve also started a series of paintings of my dream bikes, in oils. While I may not be able to own all the handsome bikes out there, I can still render them on canvas. The artist René Magritte once said, “Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.” To that I add: “And I ride.” MORE Me & My Bike features HERE Click here for full story...
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