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How to spend a dreary winter day
Yesterday morning dawned bright and cold, –40 to be exact. At –40 it doesn’t matter whether you are using the Celsius or Fahrenheit scale – they cross over at –40 which, in anyone’s experience, is just...
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I have a project!
What is winter good for if not to provide us with free time to do ‘stuff’ to our motorcycles? I have been pretty busy in the shop doing various things but I was beginning to think I’d make it through...
View ArticleAttention test
Spend a minute watching this auto commercial for the new SKODA Fabia; your time won’t be wasted. Interesting, isn’t it? It may only be a commercial but it provides a perfect example of what we’re up...
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Summer’s coming – where to ride?
They tell me (and I believe it to be true) that eventually this miserable winter will end and we’ll have some fine summer riding coming up. Which leads to the inevitable question: Do I want to do a...
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How I spent my winter vacation
Remember back in grade school when one of the first assignments of the new school year in September was to write a report on “How I spent my summer vacation”?I always had trouble with that as my summer...
View ArticleGetting ready.
My regular readers are probably tired of me and every other rider in the northeast complaining about the lousy winter we’ve had and the late spring delaying that first ride of the season well into...
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Guest post: State Route 21–Arkansas
At just under 100 miles in length, State Route 21 is one of the most enjoyable rides that Arkansas has to offer motorcyclists. Beginning at the south end in either Clarksville or Berryville, riders...
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First ride of the year, almost.
Okay. The new tire is installed. The front fork oil has been changed, as has the engine oil and oil filter, and the transmission oil. The additional USB outlet is installed and ready to accept the...
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From the “It’s always something” department
We’ve had spectacular weather here the past few days (we earned it!) and yesterday I put down the yard work tools to go for a ride. Not a long ride but I needed a few things at Canadian Tire and a stop...
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Misty Green
With so many builders out there and so many styles it’s inevitable that some bikes, while beautiful in the eyes of the builder/owner, trigger my gag reflex. And then there are many, many that do...
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A day at the auction
One thing I’ve learned since owning a tractor is that everything tractor related is hellish expensive. Actually it’s a bit like owning a Harley come to think of it.At any rate I need want to get a...
View ArticleProblems do not exist in isolation
There are many ‘laws’ that affect our daily lives. Some, such as the earth circling the sun, are immutable laws of nature. Others are simply truisms, or maxims, like Murphy’s Law. Now I believe I have...
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There’s always someone to spoil the day
After a spectacular May we have had a pretty miserable June so far with lots of rain and very cool temperatures. So when this weekend was forecast to be sunny and hot (YES!!) the die was cast –...
View ArticleSound of silence
I was out for a short ride the other day and came up behind a couple riding a full dresser. Maintaining a respectful distance, and over the sound of my exhaust and theirs, as well as 80 kilometre wind...
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The Best Bar in America – a review
I don’t recall where I first came across this film, but it was somewhere online. As soon as I read the first sentence of the synopsis (“A whisky-fueled writing assignment takes one man on an epic...
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They came, they saw….
… and - whoosh! - they were gone, continuing their whirlwind tour of Eastern Ontario. I had the pleasure of being host and tour guide for Roland and Sonja while they spent a couple of days in the...
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Country living – the dump.
Country living has a lot going for it – the solitude, the beauty of raw nature, fishing off the dock, and the dump.Not all dumps are treasure troves like this one:...
View ArticleI am alone
It is a beautiful fall day and I am alone. Sure, there are other vehicles on the road – lots of them – but mine is the only motorcycle I see. I feel sorry for those who have already put their bikes...
View Article2016
It’s hard to believe it’s 2016. Wasn’t it just yesterday we were all panicking about Y2K? Sure seems like it. In fact I still can’t bring myself to refer to the 1900s as “the last century”. But the...
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Hoarding
We laugh at, and are fascinated by, those unfortunates portrayed on reality TV shows like A&E’s Hoarders. People who, for whatever reason, sane or insane, normal or not, cannot stop collecting...
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