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"The World's Fastest Indian" (2006) looks like a good film, another about motorcycles, besides the terrible "Sleazy Rider" some friends were going to make in Russian. Now that's a coincidence I was just thinking about Sylvia Plath's "Ariel" and hell I might catch for what I said about it. I had a 1956 Ariel that I grafted a 1963 Norton Atlas transmission into. It seems that when people were complaining about how much like the Kawasaki 650cc was like the British bike (a license from BSA actually they had bought, with heads made in Germany) they should have looked closer! I think all the British bikes were very similar to each other too. That Atlas was pretty close to Ariel, maybe Norton bought from Ariel. I just had to have a smidge taken off at my old employer's Gasser and Son, by a German tool maker from Canada. I also had some leftover steel from the former Denham Brothers iron yard nearby, a friends dad at Cadillac in Huntington had cut to fit around the new shape to be grafted into the frame. Norton went on to make target drones and spyplanes for Israel though an American has bought the motorcycle rights I read somewhere. Denham Brothers, once near the Centereach/Lake Grove, NY, border, once made the Shinnecock lock "doors" that allow one to go between the Atlantic Ocean and the Peconic Bay (between the two "tails" or "forks" of Long Island) that lets a boat, without going clear out to Montauk Point and back along the Atlantic side, access to the south shore, where Dune Road is, a strip of famous, expensive homes. It was called "canoe place" from the native "canoe carrying place" where its thought the Shinnecock (and others) carried their boats over land, a narrow "portage" to go from bay to ocean. Today, its where there is also a lot of heavy traffic in the summer. So maybe this is why BMW named their new motorcycle "Montauk"? Some places on Fire Island, the great barrier islands strung along the south shore, where if left to nature, the sand flows constantly along the shore from east to west, were referred to by anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss as like human canals like Venice has with water, Fire Island, with people. Great quantities of people flow out along the boardwalks and back during the summer from New York City.