|
Title: Choosing your hero Post by: Privateer on March 21, 2013, 05:27:47 PM Pointed at this article by an e-quaintance. It was a tough read for me, but worth it.
Searching for Spadino (http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/811/15803/Motorcycle-Article/Backmarker--Searching-for-Spadino.aspx) Title: Re: Choosing your hero Post by: ducpainter on March 21, 2013, 05:41:59 PM Definitely worth it.
Title: Re: Choosing your hero Post by: ungeheuer on March 21, 2013, 07:56:50 PM wow
Title: Re: Choosing your hero Post by: Buckethead on March 21, 2013, 08:41:27 PM Chills.
Title: Re: Choosing your hero Post by: cyberswine on March 21, 2013, 11:17:21 PM RIP guy. You don't have to live large to be great.
Title: Re: Choosing your hero Post by: zooom on March 22, 2013, 03:19:46 AM Mark Gardiner also did this, which was pretty compelling in a different way
http://www.onemansisland.com/home.htm (http://www.onemansisland.com/home.htm) but agreed...great link/story! Title: Re: Choosing your hero Post by: El-Twin on March 22, 2013, 06:49:20 AM Chills. Agreed!Title: Re: Choosing your hero Post by: MendoDave on March 22, 2013, 01:18:38 PM Thats something else...
Title: Re: Choosing your hero Post by: BastrdHK on March 22, 2013, 03:08:15 PM Great find, Mark is a good writer. I enjoy anyone who is willing to dig in as deep as he does!
Title: Re: Choosing your hero Post by: SpikeC on March 22, 2013, 04:03:38 PM Excellent piece.
Title: Re: Choosing your hero Post by: mitt on March 22, 2013, 04:40:40 PM Good story and message. I have been through that tunnel not too long after it reopened, and it was a bad feeling thinking about what happened in there. I had never heard of the motorcyclist though.
mitt Title: Re: Choosing your hero Post by: sleepyJ on March 22, 2013, 05:49:25 PM that was a chilling, beautiful story
Title: Re: Choosing your hero Post by: bob795 on March 22, 2013, 06:25:02 PM Great story.
Title: Re: Choosing your hero Post by: superkain on March 25, 2013, 12:35:48 PM WoW! I have chills. Thanks for sharing!
Title: Re: Choosing your hero Post by: Monsterlover on March 25, 2013, 01:12:54 PM [thumbsup]
Title: Re: Choosing your hero Post by: LA on March 26, 2013, 05:40:50 AM Most excellent!
LA Title: Re: Re: Choosing your hero Post by: triangleforge on March 26, 2013, 07:28:24 PM Thanks.
Title: Re: Choosing your hero Post by: stopintime on June 27, 2013, 05:01:18 AM (UPDATED: sorry, wrong tunnel
I was just there, by the tunnel opening, but not sure if I found the right spot... Anyway (http://i329.photobucket.com/albums/l394/stopintime/Alps%202013/DSC00218_zpsf3907ee5.jpg) Title: Re: Choosing your hero Post by: Jaman on June 27, 2013, 07:19:16 AM Thanks for that!
Title: Re: Choosing your hero Post by: stopintime on November 29, 2019, 02:48:29 PM WTF ???
https://www.revzilla.com/common-tread/spadino-redux-what-if-the-best-story-you-ever-wrote-was-wrong Title: Re: Choosing your hero Post by: kopfjäger on November 29, 2019, 04:01:52 PM That’s gotta sting. At least he cleared it up as best he could.
“Realistically though, I probably never will find that first reporter or try to pin him down. So I’ll just try to forget that the best writing I’ve ever done was, unfortunately, not very good journalism.“ Title: Re: Choosing your hero Post by: stopintime on November 29, 2019, 04:42:39 PM The OP's link is broken, so ...... http://backmarker-bikewriter.blogspot.com/2011/03/searching-for-spadino.html
|