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 [...]
Tag Archives: motorcycle
The Quiet Zone
January 2, 2008 – 2:30 pm
4 Days and 1,000 Miles Later
August 9, 2007 – 8:58 am
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!
August 8, 2007 – 10:22 pm
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
July 18, 2007 – 8:36 am
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
July 17, 2007 – 2:00 pm
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 [...]
Importance Of Down Time
June 25, 2007 – 9:47 am
At my previous job I rarely took vacations outside of the typical holidays. I was always ‘too busy’.
When I quit - one thing I vowed to do was take more vacations! This weekend I went motorcycle camping in the North Carolina mountains with a local group of the DoD - a group of [...]
Zen, Tools and Web Development
January 25, 2007 – 9:46 pm
My new years resolution was to blog more so now that it is almost February I thought I should get started!
A few weeks ago I was out in the garage working on my motorcycle. I had it up on the lift, my tool chest was out and the KLR was in pieces (I was replacing [...]