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View larger map It’s been quite some time since I’ve posted any of the ride routes I’ve been on. Not all of them are easy to remember the exact routes, so I won’t share misinformation with you. However this route was fairly easy to map out (and I had made notes!). This particular ride I…
The key component, my motorcycle. This week I passed an important milestone for myself and my bike. I have completed 20,000 miles in the saddle of of my BMW R1100RTP, my first bike. I purchased the bike back in October of 2009 and have ridden it a heck of a lot since then. I’ve enjoyed…
By jjron (Own work) GFDL 1.2 (www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html), via Wikimedia Commons If you drive a normal 4 wheeled vehicle (what we motorcyclists like to refer to as a “ cager“) then you might not have noticed, but the motorcyclists on the road rarely honk at you — especially when you’re trying to kill us. I only…
Damn lot of cargo space The 4th of July is coming up soon, and that means summer is here! I decided that the holiday would be a perfect time for me to take a few extra days off and take a little motorcycle road trip. The thought was to take the motorcycle down someplace nice…
Halloween is my favorite holiday of the year. It’s a fun holiday where people get to mess around, have a good time… and family isn’t involved. For me, since about middle school, it’s been all about the decorating. I’ve done a lot of different decoration effects over the years, once I went as far as…
If you look back on the number of Ride Friday posts we’ve had, you’d think there isn’t much motorcycle riding going on. Fortunately, that isn’t true, just not a lot going on that is noteworthy. I ride my motorcycle almost every day now, though, to be fair it isn’t very far. I take it from…
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