Temperatures from low to high 40s, sunny and windy in the afternoon. Yep, I meant gremlins, not leprechauns which would have been in keeping with the theme of today's ride! I decided this morning to give group rides one more chance by deciding to participate in the ColoradoBeemer's Saint Patrick's Day ride to the annual Saint Patrick's Day parade down in Colorado Springs. I was heading towards Morrison on the west side of Denver and about halfway there my brakes warning light telling me there... Read Full Story
Beautiful riding day! Temperatures ranged from low-50s to mid-70s! Sunny for most of the day. I started my ride today a little before 0800hrs and got back home around 1530hrs. Got in around 274 miles of riding and discovered a couple of neatly twisting canyon roads to add to the repertoire of such roads within easy distance of home. I slabbed it on I-70 to US270 to US36 to get to Boulder. The skies were kind of overcast during the first hour or so of riding but it was not too bad. I cleared... Read Full Story
Temperatures from low 40s to low 50s F°, sunny to partly cloudy. Pretty good riding weather today, started off a bit cold in the morning but was quite nice by the time I made it out of the house at 0930. The plan had been to just run errands and perhaps checkout motorgearoutlet.com's brick and mortar store in Arvada. I first rode over to the HarborFreight store near the intersection of Alameda Avenue and I-225 and picked up a reflective vest for $10 and some air tool adapters. Cheap tools but... Read Full Story
Temperatures from mid-40s to mid 50s F°, overcast over Denver, sunny in the mountains. A glorious motorcycling weather day, even better than yesterday which I could not ride during due to it being my turn to watch the boys while the wife got her kitchen pass to see her friends. The ride started off sometime after 0830 with the initial objective of just going downtown to take a more recent picture of the Blue Bear who is a feature at the Denver Convention Center: Security Guard who came to... Read Full Story
Some members of Suzuki’s R&D department decided to create this styling study for the company’s popular Burgman 400 scooter. It was created in an attempt to gauge customer interest in this type of scooter (apparently trying to gain a younger scooter audience than what it consists of at present) and displayed at Suzuki’s dealer show last September to gauge their interest as well. Apparently it was a hit with the dealers. What do you think? Let us know your thoughts on this sporting take on... Read Full Story
Temperatures from mid40s in the early morning to low 50's. Felt much warmer by 1300, sunny. I had spent some time last night surfing the motorcycling forums and came across a posting on advrider.com where toolkits and what they should be composed of were discussed. It got me to thinking that perhaps I should do a couple things re the tools I already carry on Maria when riding: 1. Ensure I've a tool for every type of fastener on Maria, it'd be pretty frustrating not being able to fix something... Read Full Story
Temps from high 30s to high 40s, almost made it to 50F°. Sunny over Denver Metro Area, overcast over Limon. I wandered over to the Eastern Plains today since the foothills had gotten snow showers overnight and were probably a bit slick. Little did I know that heading too far East would be chilly as well. I went to the town of Watkins by way of Quincy Road and Watkins Road. The intent had been to see how far north I could get before I hit US76. As I cruised East of Watkins I spotted signs for... Read Full Story
Already a few weeks ago, 4 October (I really don’t know where time goes), early Ontario Saturday morning—I joined up with about twenty other enthusiastic women trail riders and their motorcycles. We gathered for our riders meeting which would set off the fifth annual fundraiser--“Megs Ride”. THANK YOU MOTORESS SUPPORTERS —your contributions helped MEGS RIDE exceed goals! This “women’s only” event is hosted by Ontario’s Northumberland Trail Riders Club (NTR) with the purpose of raising funds... Read Full Story
Actually, it got here two days ago, but I've spent some time since then "tweaking" it to my satisfaction. Before I show you the pictures from the first time around ( link ), you'll have to keep in mind one of the "tweaks" I've done this time around. The first one, is the one that'll require some imagination on your part until I can get current pictures of Maria. Tweak 1: The cheesy looking orange plastic on the leading edge of the case? Painted black, first with glossy black Krylon paint... Read Full Story
Evening Journal Entry Day 1 - Ride White Lines : North we went, riding the white lines hard from Flagstaff, AZ towards the exit to Tuba City. Once again trying to out run the Monsoon storms and the impending nightfall. Our day had been long enough as it was and not a one of us wanted to extend it in to the night. Fortunately once you get on the north side of Flagstaff the road runs straight for miles - dead straight - so it's easy to open it up and run 85 to 90mph and we did, trying... Read Full Story
