brilliant loop follows inauspicious start
Kickstand up. Kill switch off. Reach left hand down. Turn key in the ignition to on position. Press start with right thumb. That’s my routine. But on April 10,…
Kickstand up. Kill switch off. Reach left hand down. Turn key in the ignition to on position. Press start with right thumb. That’s my routine. But on April 10,…
I didn’t look up and I wasn’t in ‘totality,’ but I knew when the eclipse was happening. It was about halfway between Denbigh and Hardwood Lake when it started…
I knew when I bought a 1996 Yamaha Virago in September 2022 that I wouldn’t be riding her until the following year – I wasn’t quite ready to move…
I first met BMW rider Ray Hemmerling at Karson’s garage in Pakenham in the spring of 2022. I had stopped for gas and he was having his truck fixed. We…
Mississippi Mills is a favourite tourist destination and a gateway to the Ontario Highlands’ awesome motorcycling roads. Almonte, which is the part of Mississippi Mills in which I live,…
“Wow, that’s a lot of kilometres,” a then-friend said when he saw the number on my odometer. “Is it?” I replied. I started riding in September 2021 and chalked…
The answer is simple: oops! Blue and I had a great ride back to Almonte, ON, from North Hatley, QC, a distance of about 425 kms. I should have…
I was determined to make today’s ride work after yesterday’s misadventure in which I stayed out too long in the scorching sun and almost set myself and Blue on…
It was meant to be 30 C (feels like 42 C) by early afternoon and I don’t handle searing hot temperatures well. Had I left on schedule at 7 am,…
Get up at 8. Check the weather on laptop. Forecast: clear until noon; rain for the rest of the day. Maybe I can get a ride in before the…