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Harley’s Financial Woes
The NYTimes ran an article in the Economy section a couple of weeks ago entitled Harley, You’re not getting any Younger. Being interested in all brands of motorcycles, I dove into the article. The story told how Harley’s core customers, the aging baby boomers, are currently unwilling to shell out 20K plus for a “big…
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“How NOT to Crash” by Ianisme
OK everyone, as promised here is the follow up article. Taking a cue from the first article, we have decided there are basically 3 types of crash. The highside, lowside and impact. The best form of surviving these crashes is to try and avoid them in the first place. These are a few ideas I…
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“How to Crash” by Ianisme
Now before some of you start waffling on about not crashing in the first place, this thread is designed to help when fate overtakes desire and you end up tasting tarmac. I plan a followup article with the opposite title. There are several ways to crash but your reactions to all of them will be…
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Crashing: Ways to avoid it!
This is going to be part one of a three part post: Today–Crashing: Ways to avoid it Tomorrow–How to Crash Day After–How not to Crash I believe that everyone will take some information from all of these posts with irreverent fun, but serious overtones.
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Riding at Night: The Twilight Zone
I found this at TriumphRat.net forum and found it very useful. I imagine most of us have found ourselves off schedule a bit and have had to do some night riding. Others choose night riding, preferring the roads less crowded. Either way, the gentleman who wrote this has some wonderful insight into the “twilight zone”.…
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A Motorcycle Ride Back in Time
Yesterday four friends braved the spring winds to take a cool jaunt into history. By that I mean we traveled to visit a Civil War Re-enactment preformed in Knights Ferry, about 100 miles south of Sacramento. The route we took was less than direct so we could incorporate some of the twistier roads and avoid…
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Need a moto-chair?
While surfing the web the past couple of days, I discovered that when you do a blanket search into a browser you are playing bingo. You either get more of what you need or something totally unrelated. Either way can be entertaining. I was entertained by what I considered some very interesting home furnishings. Once…
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March – Back roads riding with Gary
Today, my general dislike of riding with others had a face lift. I went riding with my husband and had a delightful ride, right in our own backyard. We shot over to the gold country and traversed several back roads crisscrossing between farm country, hillsides, dams and tiny towns. The wildflowers were in full regalia…
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Riding with Others: Finding your “Pace”
After posting about why I continue to ride solo most of the time, I thought of all the others that completely enjoy riding with others and how, for many, riding together is what riding is about. This post is for you!! In regards to “the group ride”, as a new rider a few seasons ago,…
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Confessions of a solo female rider…
Today my husband asked if I wanted to go for a ride up into the Sierra foothills traveling over some of the most fun of our local roads and my knee-jerk reaction was why not? But the more I pondered the route, the roads, the ride, the less interested I became and before I knew…
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Donna & Gary – Aventuras en Spain