Mid-Life Rider

 
I met Gary at a conference. I was doing a keynote on story telling and showed some pictures of me on motorcycles and mentioned my deep interest and miscellaneous ramblings on these vary pages. Gary tracked me down and we wound up having an email conversation.
Tell me a little about yourself. What do you do, [...]

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Looking through my feet as my bike slid across the turn and into the dirt, my first thought was about the bike. “I hope I didn’t hurt it.” My second thought was, “Hmm, maybe I should get off my hip and slide on my back.” Followed by, “Don’t start tumbling.”
I lay on the pavement for [...]

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Ted Bishop wrote one of my new favorite books, a wonderful contemplation on riding and more called Riding with Rilke (I reviewed it here).

Riding with Rilke
Ted Bishop. W. W. Norton 2007, Paperback, 272 pages, $7.99

He and I started up a fun correspondence and I persuaded him to opine on some of my own musings about the metaphysics of [...]

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One of the great joys of being all 24/7 about motorcycles is getting to offer my opinion to friends and acquaintances about what bike to buy. In fact, that was the original motivation behind writing up this comparo of sport touring bikes.
The other day someone found this blog and sent me a note asking me [...]

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Also known as the ZR750-H3.
Summary: Excellent beginner bike / street rat.
I bought this bike in late 2006 from a lovely Canadian couple for my son to learn to ride on. If you’re not familiar with it, and few people are, it’s a carbureted, four cylinder, two-valve per cylinder, 70 hp, 750cc bike with digital ignition. [...]

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Arai and Shoei are the titans of motorcycle helmets here in the big PX. They invest tons of money in research, materials, and manufacturing and it shows in every way. The quality is outstanding, the finish equally so. Everything fits and works just like it should.
Probably more so than Shoei, Arai helmet owners love [...]

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“You may never be able to ride your sport bike again.”
You mean my brand new Aprilia RSV 1000 Factory? The one I just bought? The one with 600 miles on it? The bike of my dreams? Never again? It felt like a death sentence.
Maybe six months ago I began noticing pain in my right hand. [...]

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Today two motorcycle magazines arrived in my mail box. Doesn’t really matter which ones, it seems like I get all of them. And all the catalogs. And the ones that don’t show up themselves I go buy.
I’ve been buying and reading “buff books” my entire life. When I was a kid, my fascination was cars, [...]

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This is just too funny. If you don’t like the F word, don’t watch it.

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Tags: BMW, GS, Charlie and Ewan, Long Way Down, Hitler, Mid-Life Rider

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