Life In America 2006 – Median household income is $48,201. Heat waves strikes Europe and US in July. Google purchases YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock. Nintendo releases Wii, MSRP $299.99. Justin Timberlake has year’s number one song, SexyBack. Tina Fey’s 30 Rock debuts on NBC. Johnny Depp has another number one hit with the [...]
One of the best rides that I’ve ever done: We left Toledo around 1030am for our first day’s destination of Frankfort, Michigan. It looked like we were in for light rain between Grand Rapids and Muskegon. Unfortunately, the weather built; and we ran into a downpour just outside of Muskegon. We geared up and continued [...]
In the summer of 1980, I took a 22 day trip from Stuttgart, Germany, to Munich, Salzburg, Austria, then to Split, Yugoslavia, ferry to Pescaro, Italy, rode north to Florence, then to Venice. From Venice, I rode west for awhile and then up through Switzerland for a couple of days, then back to Stuttgart. I [...]
We take a detailed look at the brand new Arai Signet-Q helmet video review. This helmet has a long-oval fit, and will be replacing the Profile in their helmet lineup. The Arai Signet-Q is based on the RX-Q shell, but is elongated 5mm front to back. You can check out all of the graphic and [...]
2009 Ride West – August 1 to August 14 Day 1 Signal Mountain, TN to St. Louis, MO 477 miles Hello …and so it begins. Today was a great day. Got an early start, as I wanted to repack my gear to get the weight distribution to my satisfaction. Kickstand up and wheels turning at [...]
This is NOT your ordinary Sunday ride! 318 turns in 11 miles! And I don’t mean wide sweeping turns, we’re talking sharp 90 plus degree turn’s and plenty of them! No time to look at the scenery, here comes another turn and HOLD ON! Ride a motorcycle? Don’t like to ride in a straight line? [...]
My days of riding started a long time ago at about age 10 or 11 when I could spend all day riding the trails on our Honda Scrambler. Then while in college, I fell in love with a new ’81 Suzuki GS 550TX that I saw at the local dealer. This was 1983, and the [...]
Hi I live in the San Francisco Bay area and on my birthday [june 25 th] there was one ski resort still open in California. My Son Kyle and I had figured a way to attach our Skies to or motorcycles and we headed off across the Sacramento Valley. We had about one hour of [...]
As far back as I can remember I’ve owned a motorcycle. So did my father and brother. My first bike was an Indian 50. I’ve added a few years since then, but I still own a bike and appreciate a good ride on country roads to enjoy the scenery. I can even be found on [...]
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