Archive for April, 2009

Last year at the Motorcycle Show in Northern California, Mansoor Shafi of Roadgear asked me to try a pair of his new riding socks. He promised I could wear them ten days in a row, never wash them, and they won’t stink. I thought this was incredible and began thinking about how to test them. In true Motorcycle Consumer News tradition, I found a way to put them to the test and the article is here.

The hardest part was convincing friends to test them with me. First, to not only wear these socks for seven days without washing them, but then to participate in blind sniff tests each night. What we don’t do for readers.

Last spring Kari Prager, co-owner of the BMW/Triumph dealership in Mountain View, CA sent me an email saying a rider traveling from the southern tip of South America to New York would be stopping at his shop and did I want to meet her? I would and I did. Her name is Annette Birkmann and she may be the only person to ever abandon a legal career in Denmark to become a motorcycle mechanic in Argentina. She is likely to be one of the few women to ride solo though from the South American continent.

I wrote about her adventures for Motorcycle Consumer News. A copy of the article is here. You may find her “Top Ten Mistakes: Either in life or motorcycle adventures,” very interesting. Let me know what you think.