keepemflying
Tales of clutch cables and movie sets By Matthew Parkhouse #13272
THE FALL REMAINS nice for riding (in the mid-day, at least). We have received zero rain or snow in the last two months. Tem- peratures have been
above normal. We have had one glitch in the
neighborhood, however. Netflix is filming a feature-length movie based on the novel “Our Souls at Night” and picked our block for the houses of the main characters. The story, written by Colorado author Kent
Haruf, is about a widow (Jane Fonda) and a widower (Robert Redford) who live on the same block and get together. The operation involves a crew of around 70 folks, and they have taken over the neighborhood. When they are working, we can’t park in front of the house or on the side street. At one point, they actually came into our house to set up back-lighting for the front windows for a night scene. The crew consists of pretty nice people, and they are paying us for the inconvenience they are causing the neighborhood residents. Now they have mostly left, and the place is quiet again. During the final days of filming, I got a call from a rider who was up in the
mountains. He was “on the last couple of strands” of his clutch cable. Coming a cou- ple of weeks after I rescued the K-bike rider at the BMW MOA Weekend Getaway from a similar problem, at least this time I had the proper cable for a 1978 R 100 RS. Upon hearing that I had the part, he said, “I’ll be right there.” About 45 minutes later, just as the movie crew was breaking for lunch, a procession of four airheads and two oil- heads rode down my street and lined up in front of the house. A number of the pro- duction crew, being electricians, equip- ment operators and the like, were very interested in the old BMWs. The riders and film folks had a nice visit while I fitted the
I'm replacing a clutch cable on the gold R 100 RS while the other riders hang out and visit with the film crew. The apparatus behind us will be used to create a serious rain storm for a scene being filmed across the street.
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