In the banquet room of the Cranberry Tree restaurant, 20-some members of what may be Skagit County’s oldest riding club gather for their monthly meeting. Most arrive on their bikes in anticipation of the after-meeting ride despite the cold, wet and gray weather. Inside, the fireplace and the people make for a warm and inviting [...]
I’m trying to beat the Spring rush to get my bike ready for the riding season. I have scheduled a full maintenance visit with a mechanic and ordered a few upgrades and farkles to install while the bike is down.
First up is a re-worked seat. The stock seat has never been great. I have heard [...]
The new year is here and many folks are making resolutions for 2008. I’m not usually the resolution-making type, but I do have some goals for the new year that could be considered resolutions. First and foremost is RIDE MORE. 2007 goes down as a very low-mileage year for me. Partly due to weather and [...]
Dan over at Musings of an Intrepid Commuter has produced a thought-provoking commentary on the “motorcycle lifestyle.”
To say someone lives a motorcycling lifestyle would then mean they were using the bikes to get somewhere they think is more desirable or enhanced than where they are. A lot of people do that very thing. There’s a [...]
Remember George Costanza? Jason Alexander’s character from “Seinfeld” had a wallet so overstuffed with junk that the term “Costanza wallet” became a way to describe a pocketbook ready to explode…
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