As an introvert in a busy office with people constantly seeking my time and in a seemingly endless stream of meetings, I am often needing time to escape and just have some down time to decompress and rejuvenate. For me there is noting better than helmet time – just getting away on the bike with…
How often do we crave to ride in far off exotic places and just forget to explore and take in what’s around us … in our backyard. It hit me a couple of weeks ago after an afternoon’s ride with a friend in the ‘snowies’, Australia’s high country just a couple of hours from home. …
Hands up everyone who when they get home from a ride the first thing they do is clean and lube their chain. Now half of you put your hands down because you know you only think about doing it … because that was me. Chain maintenance is something that most bike riders have to deal…
I remember when the new ZX14R came out in 2012 and everyone was saying how much better it was over my 2008 version I owned at the time. And it was for that reason that I didn’t ride one. I didn’t want to know. I was acutely aware that an outcome of our US/Canada motorcycle…
That’s not big sky … this is BIG sky – I remember standing on the side of the road in Montana comparing big skies with our guide. Mostly people associate motorcycles with sinuous tarmac winding through mountain passes. Not wide open roads with barely a corner in sight. The two just don’t seem to go…
Here we are sitting on a brand new $42,000 Honda Goldwing in our local Honda motorcycle dealership and I’m wondering how I got here… How is it that parked outside is my bike – one of the fastest production bikes ever made and I’m in here entertaining the idea of a big touring bike? What…
When we started planning this trip I had originally intended on hanging onto the bike for an additional day so that I could do an Iron Butt 1,000 mile in 24 hours ride – that way I’d have a certified ride in the US as well as Australia. However in my route planning for the…
