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The Does-It-All Motorcycle-ooterThirty years ago the average 150cc scooter could run along side cars because the speed limits were lower. Our highways averaged 55 mph speed limits. In my home state...
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A Christmas wishI originally wrote this as a reply to Scooter in the Sticks. I can think of no better way to speak to you to share my wishes for whomever might still be reading here.Merry Christmas to...
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RebirthThere's a special feeling when you take that first ride of the season. Part of you, no matter how many times you check things over before you even fire up the bike, anticipates something...
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Group Rides for St Cloud Area RidersI put up a forum not too long ago. (You'll find it if you look just to the left) I don't know what this will eventually become, but I wanted to have a site where...
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Sometimes Group Rides, Sometimes Just bombing AroundTonight was a night for a group ride. I started a forum to encourage local riders to get together for some of the local rides. But it's not the...
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Riding the Straightest Roads in Central MinnesotaWhen you need to be somewhere you tend to take the modern highway. A purpose designed and built concrete runway connecting large cities and states....
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Testing, 1, 2, 3.. Testing...It's been a long time since I was able to post here. Some type of computer error seems to have been resolved. Not sure quite what, and possibly even how, but suffice it...
View ArticleThe Land of Ten Thousand Lakes
And the Roads which Take You Around Them. You can try to predict how a riding season here in the north woods might go, but you really can't be sure. The nation suffered an incredible stretch of...
View ArticleAreYou Satisfied?
It wasn't that long ago (or was it) that 55mph was a national speed limit. One that's been increasing since before I was a rider. I can't tell you if this is a good or bad thing. The few minutes...
View ArticleSize Matters
When you ride a bigger bike, you might see smaller displacement bikes as only slight variations on each other. You might say, for example, that not enough power is not enough power. That it takes X...
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Sometimes a person has a thought which ruminates in the background of a certain subject matter. Some idea which doesn't really come to light until a certain moment. And then that person says...
View ArticleCity Rides, Country Rides and Smiles
Have you been out riding over the summer? Busy but still able to fit in a few of those really good rides you were hoping for? Good. No one wants to look back on summer and feel like none of the fun...
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SatisfactionOver the long winter I thought about what I might want to do this season. Places I'd like to go. Places which were a bit of a ride from here.Of course a man can rationalize any number of...
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Riding Safely in CrittervilleHave you ever thought about where the majority of those critters come from when you see them about to dart into the road ahead of you?I'm not talking about suburban rides...
View ArticleMerry Christmas!
The season of riding this last year felt short. Incomplete. As my children grow, decisions are made regarding how my time gets spent. So in one sense, you lose one thing but gain another. Trade...
View ArticleMerry Christmas part II
Fog. The bane of the rider. A thick, wet, clammy-to-the-skin sensation. In warm seasons it can be refreshing. Somewhere in the forties though, fog can be debilitating. When it's in the valleys of...
View ArticleDear... Journal. The motorcycles are gone, the scooters are on the way out
It's been several years since I wrote anything here. If you're reading this, think of it as a new beginning. A fresh start.Was there some sort of accident which led me to quit riding? No.Was there a...
View ArticleCulinary Displeasure
I've never been a "foodie" Frankly I treat the term as a derogatory description of a glutton. You should eat to live, not the other way around. If you can stare down a plateful of obsessively...
View ArticleEarly Spring Optimisms
It's March first, in the year of our Lord, 2020. A warm, blustery day of sun and fleeting clouds. Nicer than usual. Especially for minnesota. We live in the first world. Yet, until recently, we...
View ArticleNear Perfect Spring Roads Companions
So I'm sitting here in my living room. Just finished dining on home made pizza courtesy of my wife and daughter. Now, my wife isn't a bicyclist. She rode as a kid because it was her only means to...
View ArticleBike Weights, Carbon Stiffness and steel Comfort
I suppose I can post this [here] since no one really looks at this page anymore. Probably one of the darkest corners of the web there is. Who's going to read this? Just a handful... Thank you for...
View ArticleManic minnesota Spring
I sit and wait for the temps to climb into the barely tolerable. Just so I can ride. Even a short distance would be acceptable. As an atheist to the mantra of extreme sports, well, sports in...
View ArticleWhy This Became a Bicycle Blog
I've been a motorcyclist most of my life. Before owning and riding them I had motorcycle toys. Everything from matchbox motorcycles to an Evel Knievel air pump ramp which made a spectacular little...
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