Mid-Life Rider

I started wandering in and out of Ride West, the Seattle BWM dealer long before I bought one of their bikes.  The truth is that I wander in and out of a lot of bike shops, but there was and is something different about Ride West.  Everyone is just that much friendlier.  The place is [...]

One of the very best parts about buying a new bike is researching all the farkles you just know you’ll need. Sometimes the treasure hunt leads you to familiar places, for example Touratech is always a first stop. Sometimes, and this is particularly true when you add a new marque to your stable, [...]

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 [...]

 
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, [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]