The Ride Report

I was riding up to the clubhouse Friday night for our Christmas party and was saddled up and ready to go before I thought about the weather. It’s been getting cold here lately (well, cold by SoCal standards, at least: in the high 40s) and all I was wearing was a T-shirt, a flannel, and […]

My MC had a two-fer on surprise birthday parties this weekend — one for me, one for our president. Mine was Saturday night. Our club has a standing routine of having a barbeque at the clubhouse Saturday nights. If you’re busy you don’t need to show up, but if you’re looking for something to do […]

I saw the coolest Halloween costume ever on the freeway this afternoon. Unfortunately, I didn’t have my camera with me so I didn’t get a picture. I was tooling down the 101, heading north through the Cahuenga Pass near Hollywood Bowl, when I saw a motorcycle coming up on me in the left hand lane. […]

I think it might be time to break out my “winter” helmet. I was up in the mountains over the weekend and it was shirt-sleeve weather on the way up, but by the time I came home around midnight it had gotten pretty damn cold. (Well, cold by SoCal standards: 45 degrees or so). That […]

Yesterday, I made my last and final payment on my Harley. She’s mine now, free and clear. I’ll be watching my mailbox for the pink slip…

Me and the family were talking over dinner about a party my M/C is throwing next weekend and my wife asked if she was getting in free. I said she could if she worked the event and that I’d probably have her work the gate, collecting the entry fee from attendants. But then I remembered […]

Aaaaaaaaaaand…. I’m back. Actually, I’m still here — I never left, I just got lazy. I got busy with the club, busy with the bike, busy with the wife (pun intended), busy with work… You’ve seen it before: Blogger blogs, blogger falls off the face of the earth, blogger comes back and resumes posting fitfully […]

I’ve been riding for about 25 years now and I like to think I’m a good rider – skilled, smart, experienced, safe(ish), etc. But there’s a saying about riders with multiple years of experience under their belt, that those years don’t necessarily mean you’re a better rider. Are you a rider with 25 years of […]

Me and two of my club brothers made a run down to San Diego today to do a poker run one of our MC’s chapters was throwing. We’ve made the run down to San Diego together quite a few times before but I don’t think I’ve ever done it faster. It’s 140 miles each way […]

I happened to glance at my rear tire today and realized I was down to nothing on it. Some tread was left on the chicken strips but the middle of the tire was a slick. Since the forecast calls for possible rain and I’m riding down to San Diego tomorrow to do a poker run […]