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Two wheelin’ (the easy way)
So I’m down at the corner coffee shop this morning, and I see this guy outside the Safeway next door: His name is Don and he’s the inventor. He told me the fan pushes him along at 25mph on flat ground. He’s in the process of securing his patents and is just starting to market […]
Some after-action reportage from our Las Vegas visit, this time with photos: My son Gregory arranged for us to ride a couple of BMW motorcycles Saturday morning. We checked out a dual-sport R1200GS and an R1200RT touring bike. Both were 2008 models with low mileage. We rode north from Las Vegas to Mount Charleston, skirting […]
After tearing my motorcycle apart on Tuesday, taking a little ride on it Friday seemed appropriate. Ed, my partner in maintenance mayhem, came along to make sure we’d put everything back together correctly! We rode south and west on back roads through the Santa Rita Mountains to Patagonia, stopped for lunch, continued west along the […]
Two months ago my motorcycle key slipped from my fingers and dropped down between the fork tubes. Before I could grab it, it slipped beneath a plastic shroud and fell down inside the fairing, deep inside where no hand could reach. I was, of course, 25 miles from home at the time. Donna, the kindest […]
First, it was to be a solo motorcycle trip to Las Vegas and then on to Death Valley, camera in hand. Now it’s an airline flight to the rental car counter in Sacramento, where we’ll embark on a Northern California road trip to visit friends and family in Folsom, Oroville, South Lake Tahoe, Pittsburg, and […]
Every year a local car club puts on a car show in Tubac, a resort community halfway between Nogales and Tucson. I started to aim my camera at hood ornaments and grills, as I did at the Barrett-Jackson auction last week, but there were always people in the way, so I gave up and just […]
Speaking of cars (see previous entry), I’m riding my motorcycle up to Scottsdale tomorrow to see the Barrett-Jackson Auction. Judging by the prices people pay for cars at B-J, I figured it probably cost a couple of hundred just to get in the gate. This year I took the trouble to Google ticket prices, and […]
I’ve been neglecting the motorcycle lately, which, if you believe machinery and the skills required to operate machinery work better if regularly used, is a bad thing. So I woke up this morning determined to ride, and even though it’s cloudy and wet, put on my gear and went for it. Okay, it was only […]