Karen Davidson, a descendant of the manufacturer's co-founder and the company's creative director for general merchandise, riffed on freedom, the spirit of the road and the fabric of America, but she struggled to be heard over the bar chatter, an indication that the familiar motorcyclist tropes would not sway this crowd.
Furthermore, roads and built fabric seem to have a negative impact on landscape appreciation.
It suffered from wet and dry rot, vibrations from traffic on the busy nearby road had damaged the fabric of the building and thieves had stolen the lead off the roof.
For example, Phongsak Assakul, who owns a textile mill in Bangkok, ships his pre-dyed fabrics by road to neighbouring Cambodia, where another factory cuts and sews them into summer blouses for Benetton, an Italian brand.To compete with China, ASEAN needs to make it easier to move goods around.
But these oases are never far away from wide-scale chaos: bad urban planning from the Mao era means that huge roads cut across the fabric of the city, so the sound of cars is a constant in the capital.
"Three bad winters have really shaken the fabric of the roads and put extra pressure on many roads which were already vulnerable," he said.
He works to weave coincidence, twins, faith and the nourishing blast of 60's proto punk -- garage bands with the keening Farfisa organ solos that you can't shake from your head -- into the fabric of a road picture.
His best-known book, "The Culture of Fear," took apart several stories poised somewhere between urban myth and the lead item on the evening news, arguing that according to statistics, teenage moms aren't really tearing up the fabric of society, road rage is less of a problem than lightning strikes, and gun control, not building more prisons, might be the best way of stopping violent crime.
"There's no doubt that the road is damaging the archaeological fabric and therefore we couldn't not consider it".
"The mixture of really severe cold and wet winters has got really into the fabric of the road.
Beth Thomas, WHS co-ordinator, said traffic along the narrow road was "damaging the archaeological fabric" and closure had to be considered.
