Doc, Kaiser Bill, and Sonny wear their hair in thick ponytails.

Kaiser Bill and Sonny have pulled their manes back into ponytails again.

Kaiser Bill, one finger against his lips and his head bowed, stands beside Beezer.

Kaiser Bill shouts, and he speeds up, too.

"That sure as hell is it," says Kaiser Bill.

Kaiser Bill manages to get to his feet and, after another epic struggle, hauls his bike upright beside him.

"Kaiser Bill had a hell of a run: better than fifty years," Sam said.

There was that stretch in the twenties when it looked like we might square off against Kaiser Bill, and the alliance pretty much lapsed.

I could not even bayonet an effigy of Kaiser Bill convincingly.

Kaiser Bill, went around in a pointed hat.