Mid-Life Rider

I started wearing Furygan leathers last year. I bought them for several reasons.
* A friend was wearing them and I thought they looked good.
* They fit my shape and build well.
* I had read about them in a British motorcycle magazine.
Later I discovered that the importer, a man named Keith Ellis, lived about three miles [...]

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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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Ted Bishop wrote one of my new favorite books, a wonderful contemplation on riding and more called Riding with Rilke (I reviewed it here).
He and I started up a fun correspondence and I persuaded him to opine on some of my own musings about the metaphysics of riding.
You are a professor of . . .
I’m [...]

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I met Carl (virtually) on a motorcycle forum. Think of him as your average, every day, mid-life motorcycle crazy. He agreed to answer my various questions. Lots of great thoughts about riding. He also has assembled one of the most impressive personal motorcycle sites you’ll ever find: loads of ride reports, maps, pictures, and more. [...]

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FJRobert told me his story in one long sweeping email. I continue to be impressed, and this may come from some sort of archetypal father/son longing, with stories of boys and their dads and the first bicycle. Robert’s tale of building his first bike with his dad echoes so many others I know of. There [...]

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I was sitting with Dave Richardson (of Guzziology fame) today and he was ribbing me about how I was filling up midliferider with other people’s words. “What a great gig you have. You get other people to do your writing for you.” Errrr, Ummmm, okay.
Leaving aside the fact that I generate plenty of [...]

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Lowell Goss is too young to be having this much fun. (I think that’s known as a “Zimmerman” opening.)
Lowell is yet another boy-genius who has figured out a way to combine a passion for riding with making a living. Actually, he’s working hard on a new internet venture called Fast3R, so the making a living [...]

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This is part two of an interview I did with Dylan Weiss, the genius behind Twisting Asphalt and Twist The Throttle.
How many bikes have you ridden? You must have a couple of favorites, or perhaps some that are most memorable. Give me a couple of sentences about your top five.
I honestly have no [...]

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It’s been a couple of weeks now, so I’ve already forgotten how I first met Dylan Weiss. Actually, that’s only sort of true. I found him while searching out more information on Ted Bishop, the author of my current favorite riding book, “Riding with Rilke.” Dylan had done an interview with him, and it kind [...]

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I met Terrie through a friend (actually the same chap who pointed me towards Susan Carpenter).
My guess is most days Terrie doesn’t think about it this way, but she’s living the dream . . . she owns and runs a motorcycle dealership. As she points out, it’s a business just like any other, but there [...]

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