I've only seen one of the photos, but what you said 'bout a girlfriend taking a pic could well be true, going by what I saw in a documentary about her "The Real Winona Ryder".

As for the Google thing, I thought America was supposed to be a land of the free and all that ;-) So long as you're not a threat to security I wouldn't worry about it. Fact is that everyone, everywhere, is being monitored on the internet from the moment they connect, in both your neck of the woods and mine - everywhere!

GoldWing? Hell yeah :-)
Ever since I got up close to one I've wanted one. I remember years back, on a day out to Skegness; They had heaps of them travelling through the streets like some convoy, and they all met-up at some pub, it must have been some fan-club meeting or something.

Anyway, some dude let me sit on it, and well... you can guess the rest. That's some machine, I mean a 6-cylinder engine in a bike - lol Even the back seat looked like a leather armchair and the entire bike was black (with just a hint of chrome) - and it looked a lot better than the tarted-up things they had there.

I never got to ride on it unfortunately, but you could see, as some of them took-off, it must have been like gliding on air - and for a big-bike like that, they seemed to shoot-off really quick, and even so, you could bearly hear the thing.

I just thought - WOW effin' WOW!

As for Harleys, they're cool, but until they make a bike that's as practical as a GoldWing, I tend not to be quite so impressed with them. I just think a GoldWing is brute-power/refinement/practical all in one.

Yes... sigh it's nice to dream.
(I'll see if I can find a pic of the model I meant)

The wait can be horrific, but the outcome can be worse - pumeco 2006