Mid-Life Rider

Dateline: London
Did a lot of walking yesterday.  I must be the only guy who doesn’t own an Aston Martin. Geez, they’re like Honda Civics over here.  Even the maids drive them.
It takes awhile to get used to seeing cars without drivers coming down the street towards you.
Was walking along Walton Street, runs behind Harrods towards [...]

I don’t love this site, Motorcities–it’s not pretty and there sure are a lot of ads–but there are lots of bike pics. Here’s a nice one of the new BMW superbike.

To the bike, it’s not a breakthrough other than it’s a BMW that is right down the middle on current hyperbike thinking. Will [...]

Apropos of absolutely nothing, but funny as &@#%

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Nick Sanders has to be one of the half dozen greatest motorcycle adventurers of our time. His ridden the world in every conceivable direction, on a Yamaha R1no less, and with significantly less kit and support than those other famous motodoodlers from the UK, Ewen and Charley.
His latest adventure, called Parallel World, is pure, brilliant, [...]

I got a note the other day from the guys at www.bikeexif.com, Creative Director Chris Hunter and image master John Kratz. It’s just a stunning site and any motorhead worth his keys should spend serious time checking it out. Among the many stunning findems is this gem . . .

Here’s [...]

I met a lovely lady named Amy at the recent Seattle Motorcycle Show who was handing out cards for Dynamic Ducati Driving. She has since sent me a note . . .
My husband and I had the opportunity to experience Dynamic Ducati Driving in May / June 2008. We rode 2 days through [...]

I just got a note from one of my pals at The Motor Company . . .
We just posted a few of the winning entries from the Bikes, Camera, Action! video contest to the Harley-Davidson YouTube channel, and I thought I’d reach out and send the links your way. Not sure if you recall [...]

Since I was ten years old or so I’ve been going to car show, motorcycle shows, both, occasionally neither, sometimes boats . . . you get the idea. This was my fourth Seattle Motorcycle Show, one a year since I’ve moved here.
Quick Takes
Where the hell was BMW. The guys at Ride West told [...]

If you like maps, Worldmapper is a very cool site.  Tons of maps that reshape the world according to different criteria.  For example, here’s the world reshaped according to population . . .

And the same map for two thousand years ago when the world population was estimated to be 231 million . . .

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A colleague was kind enough to send me this note about something I wrote . . .
In one of your posts (specifically, “In Search of My Lost Moto-Mojo“) you referred to a period in your life as “the valley of the shadow of responsibility” during which you were busy raising kids and establishing a career [...]