Good friend and fellow-rider Arthur Einstein (see his comment on “Buy the Right Bike” post below) emailed to let me know he’d let his beloved Triumph go and had purchased the BMW 1200RT. Here is picture of the happy couple. Arthur and Beulah – July, 2006 You know how they… Continue reading
Earlier today a friend in Oregon emailed me on some business stuff. At the end he said, “I really want to learn and then get a motorcycle. If you were advising someone, what would you suggest for the learning process + the bike to get? He’d ask another motorcyclist the… Continue reading
Earlier today I read Gabe Ets-Hokin’s article “It Ain’t the Tool: Revisited” on motorcycle.com. I dropped him a note telling him I thought it was a good article. He replied, “Of course – because your bike won.” I got thinking about it, because in a way he was right, I… Continue reading
Midway through our product launch preparations at Krugle I heeded the call of Davis Bales of Brazil Moto Adventures and spent eight days riding with him on some of the best motorcycling roads in Brazil. It was a fabulous trip which I’ll cover soon in Motorcycle Consumer News. I also… Continue reading
This weekend my wife Maggie and I went back to see our daughter graduate from Kenyon College in Ohio. What a kick! Many happy emotions – not the least being the end of college tuition payments and the chance she’ll get a job to support me in my old age.… Continue reading
I just heard from Keith Code that Reno Fernley Raceway, about 20 miles outside of Reno, has added a super technical new track, known as the “top track”. Per Keith’s note, the new section is perfect for training, a little under 2 miles, lots of corners, lots of laps and… Continue reading
Spending a quick weekend here in Phoenix before heading back to California and the intensity of getting a new company off the ground, I took my ’02 Honda Goldwing and ’05 Suzuki V-Strom for rides. Ever since beginning a serious upgrade to my riding skills about ten years ago, I… Continue reading
By Steve Larsen When MCN Editor-in-Chief Dave Searle called to check my interest on attending the Saxon Motorcycles 2006 launch event, I first wondered how many other writers had passed on the opportunity before he’d thought of calling me. My second thought was to wonder if he knew of my… Continue reading
Earlier today I got an email from Keith Code pointing me to some of his latest thinking on riding (article no longer on the net). In addition to being one of the best motorcycle instructors on the planet, Keith thinks deeply about nearly all aspects of riding. This article comes… Continue reading
This morning I met a group of bay area bikers at Buck’s restaurant in Woodside, CA and after breakfast, headed down to San Jose for the International Motorcycle Show. I still don’t have a regular ride here in the bay area so I drove down. It was raining, lightly (on… Continue reading