Posts will be lite until next week after vacation riding the BMW R1200GS out west. Visit the R1200GS link in the garage to follow the […]
Motorsports Roundup July 2010
It has been a while since the last update, but not because interesting and surprising stuff has not been happening! Several of my favorite races […]
The Other 2-Wheeled Boxer
Although several motorcycle companies experimented with horizontally opposed engines, only a few stuck with the layout for any length of time. BMW is the obvious […]
Honk If You Don’t Exist
Are you invisible, is your vintage vehicle invisible ? Inquiring minds and so forth…. As a child, many of us would often imagine that we […]
The British Are Coming…Again
History tells us that we rejected the British approach to things centuries ago and established an independent nation to do our own thing. Exhibit A, […]
R90S Rally 2010
Tis the Rally and show season, and it seems like every weekend presents multiple opportunities to ride, drive, and ogle cool vintage stuff. This year […]
The Helmet Club
The first riders I ever saw on motorbikes wore no headgear, but I secretly wanted a helmet. Helmets were pretty rare on the street at […]
The Illusion of Speed
Racing school instructors all roll out the old adage that fast is slow. Famous racing drivers talk about being in the zone where speed turns […]
Ten Dollar Disablers
How many items on your vintage car or bike cost less than $10, but could leave you stranded someplace? It turns out that there are […]
Record Wreckers
They say that records are made to be broken. Well someone (Todd Trumbore) decided that the record for the most BMW motorcycles on a ride […]
Motorsports Roundup April 2010
Vettel about to clean right ear..Well, the start to the collective seasons has not been dull. However, in Formula 1, that has been mostly due […]
A Gathering of Nortons 2010
About 7 years ago, I owned a Norton and became aware of an annual meeting of Nortons not too far away in Washington Crossing, PA. The […]
Who Framed Norton?
Norton is in stiff competition with Indian for the brand that has died and been resuscitated most often. While they are both back among the […]
BMW 700, Heart of a Bike, Body of a Car
For a long time at the turn of the 20th century, Cars and carriages shared a great deal. Indeed, the first cars were truly horseless […]
Discovering Mars
On a recent visit to the Solvang Motorcycle Museum, the machine that was the most impressive, in a field of very impressive motorcycles, was a […]
Gear is Good
The point is, ladies and gentleman, that gear, for lack of a better word, is good. Gear is right, gear works. And gear, you mark […]
Solvang and the Octopi
Solvang California is a strange and delightful little town. It is seemingly pretty remote being inland and up in the hills well north and east […]
Motorsports Roundup Feb 2010
RTE SportAt this point, a couple of championship series are underway, and a big one about to begin. The WRC is underway, and Miko Hirvonen […]
The Theory of Oil Retention
Those of us that own vintage iron are very familiar with the challenge of keeping all of the oil in the compartments that it was […]
Rock Store Rebels
The Rock Store is a famous biker hangout a little north of LA. On any given weekend it is the destination of hundreds of bikes. […]