If you are the sort of motorcycle mechanic who does your own work because you know you can do a better job than most local shops, the uView 550000 is for you. One of the best reasons to live in Phoenix if you are a Goldwing owner is Stu Oltman.… Continue reading
While on a ride in Turkey several years ago for RoadRunner Magazine I met Dan Moore, an accomplished entrepreneur from Cleveland. Dan’s an irrasible, irreverant, charming 70 year old with more potential for trouble and excitement than half a dozen 14 year old boys. He’s also managed to create more… Continue reading
Finishing an article on a Death Valley ride I contacted the woman I wrote about. Our group had met her briefly in Shoshone, CA. I called her to confirm what I’d remembered about our conversation. She sent me this photo of her riding the purple VFR which will figure in… Continue reading
We met in the fall of 1996 at a retreat outside Philly. Jerry Michalski had convinced Ester Dyson (his editor at Release 1.0 and producer of PC Forum at the time) to pull together a small group of people from diverse disciplines who had, in the past year, said or… Continue reading
Christa from Road Runner magazine (a terrific publication, by the way, and if you don’t subscribe you absolutely should) was here a few weeks back and asked me about riding the Mogollon Rim Road. It is a 55 mile forest service road from Forest Lakes to Show Low, AZ and… Continue reading
Leno’s review of this iconic sports car is especially sweet given that I have a 1969 Lotus Elan SE sitting in my driveway. And even more sweet is the fact that I purchased the car in 1973 and am only the second owner. It has never been “restored” and everything… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
About six weeks ago an interview with David Hough in the BMW Owners magazine in which he highlighted the lack of a single comprehensive list of motorcycle training schools in the US, prompted me to begin putting such a list together. You can see it here. Since creating the list,… Continue reading
We are in the process of revising the site and adding lots more new content. Until it is done (say, mid-February) you really don’t want to visit here. The site will be a major mess with broken links and things generally not working. In fact, even navigating to this site… Continue reading