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Merry Christmas to all!!
I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season, and however you celebrate, do it with STYLE! Now we each need to figure out where we are riding in 2014! Myself, I’m going to sit with a hot toddy and some maps and get to dreaming! 😉
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Riding the World…2013 A year of contrasts and loss
A ponderous year, 2013, full of poignant moments, sadness and bliss. I lost some wonderful friends this past year as well as my father, all of which broke my heart bit by bit. Thank the stars for the gift of travel and the renewal I receive from the journey. Gladly, I move into the new…
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REPOST: Bike and Babes: The Female Rider…who is she and why does she ride a motorcycle?
photo credit/chickthatrides What is the quintessential female rider? In fact how do we define women riders in general? Who are those women that decide to reject standard female roles for a less common practice. Are they adventurers, enlightened or just plain mad? The population of female riders is expanding and with that expansion, come women…
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Alex Chacon–A Modern Motorcycle Diaries–82,459 miles
Alex is from El Paso, TX USA but feels at home just about anywhere in the world as you’ll see by his video! I throughly enjoyed this particular travel video, although his right hand passes made me quite nervous as well as some of the crazy narrow cliffside roadways. The photography is stunning and his…
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Winter is right around the corner…and for some it’s already shown it’s icy face!
Every approaching winter season I try to post a good article on winterizing your bike, for those unlucky folks that live where to bike is garaged for several months while the snow flies! Everyone has their own “winterizing” system, but I felt this was a pretty good overview and good enough to repost! This year’s…
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Lois Pryce–Adventuresse!
What a delight to have found this interview of Lois Pryce to follow up my last posting. Lois was able to sum up the attributes of a motorcycle adventure aptly having gained her writing skills as a by-product of her adventure. I love that she personifies her “matter of fact attitude” and is able to…
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Finding Balance…
Tioga Pass I don’t know, maybe it’s where the moon sits in the sky or where the stars are all located or maybe it’s just because I have another impending birthday that leads me to my 62nd year of dulling patina. I can’t pinpoint any singular cause, but I feel like I’ve been spinning circles…
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Why We Ride….trailer for a new film!
I can’t wait to see this film…it’s visually stunning and looks compelling!! Why We Ride Website
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Lanakila Macnaughton–The Womans Motorcycle Exhibit
I had posted earlier this year regarding Lanakila Macnaughton’s Womans Motorcycle Exhibit that was held in Portland, OR. She is an OR rider and photographer that prides herself in showing “real women riders” not just the sexy female prop draped over a beautiful motorcycles. Lanakila likes the more gritty, fun, raucous, presentation of REAL female…
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Rachael Clegg–TT Artist and Model
Photo credit–Rachael Clegg on Vimeo Rachael Clegg, the daughter of the TT racer Noel Clegg and granddaughter of Clubman’s TT racer, Tom Clegg, Rachael came by her passion naturally. She was raised on the milk of the TT, having “clock” watched from a very young age. The clocks are single hand mechanisms that are operated…