First, some comments about the crowd...
It seems I forgot my helmet
... Of the 200 or so people in the theater, about 40 of them had helmets with them. Girls in skirts with helmet, couples in work attire with helmets. I know almost every place you can park a bike in and around Union Square, and there ain't NO WAY there could be 30 bikes or scooters in the area.
I guess it was the moto equivalent of wearing a Jeter shirt to a Yankees game.
OK - then there were the 2 dozen trend following hipsters who had to get in on this.
Then there were the clusters of kids who use the words "Brah," "Dude" and "Like" WAY too many times per sentence.
Now the movie-
In all seriousness, I will be buying the DVD this weekend. It was effectively a 2 hour info-mercial to buy the DVD. It was actually really nice watching a movie in a theater and not having to sit through 20 minutes of previews - screen went dark - LWD started.
The focus of the movie was on the trip. No prep, only about 8 minutes of Eve McGregor on screen (I really wanna see what IG is on about
) and the entire thing felt rushed. Really, really rushed.
I'm glad I went, but it felt weird to watch it in public. I'm so used to watching the LWR DVD's in private that to see the Elixir films splash, the stupid LWR song and the "Diary Cam" shots with other people was disconcerting.
The one thing I did notice from LWR is how much better, in general, they are as riders from the 2004 trip.
It was worth my $12.
Thanks for reading, have a great night!