Category Archives: Motorcycling

The Quiet Zone

This summer my riding buddy Tom and I headed out to Virginia for a few days of back roads motorcycling. One of our destinations was the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Green Bank Telescope. It was a VERY cool place to visit.
Tom was channel surfing a few days ago and saw this [...]

Feel Like Jumping Something

Jalopnik has a nice one: Remembering Robert Craig “Evel” Knievel, Jr.
Growing up in the 70’s and begging my parents for a motorcycle was due in no small part to Evel Knievel. He was bad. He was cool. He was Evel!
I had the wind up toy Evel and motorcycle. I [...]

Too Busy To Blog

I got a new toy and have been too busy to blog much lately. Going from a 20 year old single thumper to a modern v-twin with a 6 speed gearbox has been ‘fun’ to say the least!
I also just wrapped up a cool little jQuery project I want to blog [...]

Metal Motorcycle Mayhem

What a crazy week!
Last weekend I went to Myrtle Beach to see Megadeth! Dave and crew put on an awesome show. Checkout the Megadeth site for some great concert videos! I’m sure I lost a bit more hearing but it was well worth it
Turns out [...]

4 Days and 1,000 Miles Later

Last weekend my riding buddy Tom and I headed to Virginia - it was time for our annual motorcycle trip! (photos here)
We left Thursday morning headed for Meadows of Dan and the Blue Ridge Parkway. It was wonderfully cool in the mountains compared to the 90 degree heat we had at home. [...]

Guilty Pleasure - Feasting on Asphalt 2!

Almost a year ago I blogged about Feasting on Asphalt - a show on the Food Network of all things.
In it - Alton Brown traveled across the US on motorcycle (along with a film crew also on bikes) eating along the way. It was a great show - and tonight I was flipping around [...]

The Story or Rush’s Red Barchetta

This is so cool. Are you a Rush fan? Like Red Barchetta?
This story was recently posted on one of the BMW (motorcycle) forums and is the tale of how Red Barchetta came about. There is more on Neil’s site as well.
How cool would it be to go riding with Neil Peart? [...]

Ride To Work Day - July 18

To quote the immortal Freddie Mercury… “Get on your bikes and ride!”
Tomorrow is the 16th Annual Ride To Work Day!!

Ride To Work advocates and supports the use of motorcycles and scooters for transportation, and provides information about transportation riding to the public.

I’ll be riding tomorrow (I usually ride every day!) to promote:

The number of motorcyclists [...]

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