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What's The Perrycycle?
Perrycycle-What is it?
Perry
first moved to San Francisco in 1979 from Philadelphia with a dream to be "A
Comedian" (said melodically). His apartment was located
on the ever-famous Haight Street, a few blocks east of Ashbury, where The
Grateful Dead started.
One of the problems with living in S.F. (never call it Frisco to a Friscan) is the intense lack of parking. (When looking for a parking space, pull
over at the beginning of the block and wait 5 minutes for someone to pull out)
Being a party town, there is one
bar for every five adults, AND there is one parking space for every 3
cars. You can, however, rent a garage for about a hundred bucks a month
(property owners make a bundle). This explains why people in
San Francisco drink so much.
With parking scarcer than Kojak's hair, Perry decided to buy a motorcycle. He plunked down a few grand and got a blue 1977 Kawasaki 650, a 4 cylinder, smooth riding, road machine. And if you know Perry, you know that he is one mean road monster. It was a match made in the showroom. He outfitted it with a windshield (bugs taste terrible and leave pock marks in eyeglasses), cruise control (for freeway naps), and a matching blue trunk. On the gas tank and trunk was the word "PERRYCYCLE", meaning it was Perry's cycle. Not everyone got the joke. Often people would pull up next to him at a stop light and ask, "What's a Perrycycle?" "Mine." "Your name is Perry?" "Yes." "What are you, a comedian?" On replying yes, they would usually try to run him over. Defensive driving became a way of life.
In 1981, he traded it in on a 1979 model with the same
coloring (cause it was cheaper) and continued to cruise the Bay Area and the rest of
the West Coast. For many years he was the "Biker Comedian,"
as he had no car, and became an occasional writer for Motorcyclist
magazine spouting his limited ideas on comedy from the biker's 
viewpoint.
Sometimes, late at night, on his way home from some hell-gig in
the boonies, San Francisco police, who knew the bike & rider well, would pull him over just to
make him tell them jokes. They even let him park it on the sidewalk in front of
the door of The legendary Holy City Zoo.
After a few dozen trips to Los Angeles and becoming a regular at The Comedy Store in Hollywood, passersby would spot it parked out front and come to the club looking for a few good Perrylaughs. Boy, did THEY learn their lesson. Perry moved to L.A. in 1989. A short year later, Perry met his wife ONLINE.
In 1994, the Perrycycle developed some major engine problems and passed away. It is still a softly spoken legend to older San Francisco Comics and fans. It WILL be replaced with a new Perrycycle soon.
Perry now resides in Downtown Los Angeles where he
continues to perform at corporate events, clubs, and colleges (that
sounds awfully familiar) around
The United States and Canada, runs a few rooms for pro
comics to work out in, teaches comedy privately and in adult schools, is
a free-lance writer for The Tonight Show, and, continues to work
on the road. He also spends time as a Humor Motivator for Large Organizations
that need a little "Kick." And can be seen regularly sitting in
at the JJ Bad Boy Jones Blues Jam at The Gaslite in Santa Monica on Monday nights
doing his Improv Blues.