After making his fortune (he founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros), he took off in 1990 for a two-year motorcycle trip he chronicled in "Investment Biker: Around the World With Jim Rogers".
Mr. Dillon's fascination with motorcycles echoes that of Jim Rogers, the former Wall Street hedge fund manager who retired at 37, spent two years on a motorcycling trip around the world and described his adventures in a book, "Investment Biker: Around the World With Jim Rogers".
This, however feels like a direct A to B. With the adrenaline pumping and that ET cycle-sequence feeling of bikers all around, it's easy to get carried away with enthusiasm.
Within days, bikers around Dyersburg started asking Mr. Warne to build frame kits so they could create their own Chevy-powered bikes.
The museum's director, Wim Pijbes, had sought to eliminate the bike route and put the museum's main entrance on the site, routing bikers around the building to protect pedestrians.
I started hanging out with the Unknown Bikers around 1975, and I became one in 1976.
Then, about ten years ago, he was riding north on Sixth Avenue, "doing everything legal," he says, when another biker came tearing around the corner, "illegally," at Twenty-second Street and clipped him; he spilled, and barely missed having his head crushed by a passing car.
The picture is the latest minimalist provocation from the infuriating but talented French director Bruno Dumont, who began his career, in 1997, with "La Vie de Jésus," a movie that offered the prickly notion that divinity might have been implanted in one of God's meaner creatures — a scrawny and unpleasant biker tearing around the featureless countryside of northern France.
First-person footage of a mountain biker cycling around a bumpy track plays on a TV screen in front of her.
Biker gangs have been around almost as long as motorcycles have been around, but they achieved their unique counter-cultural status in the 1960s when they were rhapsodized and condemned by "gonzo" journalist Hunter Thompson, whose relationship with the bikers ended when he got the crap beaten out of him by several members after Thompson rebuked one of them for punching out his wife.
ALSO AROUND TOWN BIKER BABES -- Motorcycles and diapers are an unlikely combination, but the "Bikers for Babies" Pamper run requires a diaper donation; riders take a police-escorted route from Brooklyn to Hale House in Harlem; food and festivities are the rewards for donations; meet at 9 a.m.
