The Ride Report

I was riding with some of my club brothers this afternoon on the way home from our meeting when ***plink!*** my throttle cable snapped. One minute I’m accelerating my way through a turn, the next my throttle is twisting freely and not doing a damned thing and I’m slowly coasting to a stop because [...]

One of the great benefits of riding in California is lane-splitting aka “lane sharing” or filtering or white-lining — in other words, riding the gap between two lanes of cars that are doing the tired old traffic jam thing. It’s illegal in most states, and while it’s not technically legal here, it’s also not [...]

As promised, I’ve recorded some more video, this time with a better camera and at higher resolution. I fabbed a camera mount out of PVC pipe and a galvanized steel corner brace and used this to mount my miniDV camcorder on the bike. The mount came out really well; I even managed to [...]

I made my first foray into Youtube-land today with the below video. It’s only about about two minutes long. I leave my back driveway and ride a few blocks up the road, then for some reason I thought I should stop the recording before the filesize got too large, so I leave you [...]

I took my daughter out for a ride with my club this weekend. One of the guys has a connection with the organizers of A Day in the Dirt and could get us in for free (which is exactly how much I think everything should cost), so he was speaking my language. We met up [...]

I went on the Love Ride last Sunday, as I’ve done almost every year since 2001. I had my doubts about the different format this year, with the ride going to the Pomona Fairplex rather than Castaic Lake, and rolling the ride in with California Bike week, but I think it worked. The [...]

I rode my Road Glide to Colorado last month to scatter my dad’s ashes in the river where we used to live. I wrote about the experience in my other blog, and since it’s motorcycle content I’m posting it here too. It’s a twofer!
Day One

Los Angeles, CA to Hurricane, UT. 415 miles.
The [...]