I was on vacation last week. We took the family to Annapolis to attend my wife’s brother’s graduation from the Naval Academy. We had a great time and the weather was awesome. We spent some time in “the other Washington” and saw the Smithsonian and other sites.
Unfortunately we had to leave before Rolling Thunder really [...]

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Time for ABATE to spin the “wheel of denial”…
Nine of the 10 states with the worst motorcycle death rates don’t require adults to wear helmets, according to the Scripps Howard study of records provided by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration.
In sort of related news, the same source found:
An unusually large number of divorced middle-age [...]

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Results from the second annual GMAC Insurance National Drivers Test announced today suggest that licensed Americans lack basic driving knowledge and exhibit alarming behaviors on the road. The study revealed that one in eleven drivers - nearly 18 million people - would fail a state drivers test. Furthermore, [...]

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Being a long-time gear head and motorcycle rider, one might expect that I would have picked up a few pearls of wisdom along the way. And you would be correct.
Some of these gems of knowledge have been quite obvious, others more arcane. And, a couple have probably saved a life, or at least [...]

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Check out the histories on these 3 morons.
SANTA CLARA COUNTY / Neighbors charged in dirt bike incident / Anger over noise may have lead to strung-rope trap
Rising anger over noise may have led three Los Gatos hills residents to booby trap a road where a motorcyclist was seriously injured, neighbors said Friday, while an attorney [...]

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