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RIDING IMPRESSION
2015 ZERO DS
STORY BY RENNIE SCAYSBROOK
PHOTOGRAPHY BY JUSTIN DAWES
N
oise is something I gravitate
towards. I make noise. My friends
make noise. Noise gives us feel-
ings, assurances. Makes us human.
Silence is harder to identify with, more
difficult to dissect. Silence can mean
serenity, calm. Silence can be a peaceful-
ness companies like Charmin try to impart
to you when their business is anything
but charming. No noise could also mean
danger, that something isn't right.
As I sit at the traffic lights on the Zero
DS, its electronic motor emitting abso-
lutely no sign of a sound, my peripheral
hearing starts to pick up the muffled noise
not of the car engines surrounding around
me, but people's radios. First I decipher
the bumbling rant of an unrecognized talk-
back host, then, wonderfully, the classical
stylings of Beethoven and his timeless
Ode to Joy, followed by Taylor Swift's
Shake It Off – all of which I can live with.
But then my spidey senses tingle with
immediate danger, an evil lurking amongst
QUIET AND
STEALTHY, THE
ZERO MEETS
RENNIE, WHO
IS ANYTHING
BUT QUIET OR
STEALTHY.
CRANK UP
THE
SILENCE