A freaky doppelganger sighting and one more pic of Natasha

Yesterday, while riding home on Brigitta, my 1987 R80 Airhead Beemer I caught sight of a rider in a black riding outfit similar to mine. He also had a silver flip-up helmet and was waiting at the same stoplight as I was except he was in the cross street, and to my left.

So what you ask yourself? Plenty of riders out there in black outfits, plenty more with silver colored helmets!

Here's the freaky part: He was sitting astride a black URAL motorcycle with black sidecar! An incredibly close replica to the rig I am eagerly awaiting receipt of this Friday. This is the first and only URAL I've seen on the road here in all my years in Denver!

He had patches on both shoulders as I do on my riding jacket. Heck, had he had his faceshield down, you'd have thought that was me in about three days! Freaky.

From Wikipedia:
The word "doppelgänger" has come to refer (as in German) to any double or look-alike of a person. The word is also used to describe the sensation of having glimpsed oneself in peripheral vision, in a position where there is no chance that it could have been a reflection. They are generally regarded as harbingers of bad luck. In some traditions, a doppelgänger seen by a person's friends or relatives portends illness or danger, while seeing one's own doppelgänger is an omen of death, or results in immediate death upon the two coming face to face. In Norse mythology, a vardøger is a ghostly double who precedes a living person and is seen performing their actions in advance.

So to dispel the negative karma of the sighting, I give you this great picture of Phil with his lovely wife Sharon. It's a Christmas picture they used one year, and presents Natasha, the 1996 Ural Sportsman he's swapping for Maria, my 2004 R1150RT Beemer.