Title: Riding with Injuries
Date: February 28, 2008 11:11 AM
Category: My Riding
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I’m in two minds as to whether I should be writing this. Ever since I took my Daytona around Nova Scotia last August, my right elbow has hurt. It’s one of those injuries that is an ache or a twinge [...]

I’m in two minds as to whether I should be writing this. Ever since I took my Daytona around Nova Scotia last year, my right arm has hurt. It’s one of those injuries that is an ache or a twinge in the joint, but only when you are doing certain things and almost never when [...]

Title: Motivation
Date: February 22, 2008 12:44 PM
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It’s still February, just, but it’s sunny outside today and the sunshine always makes me think of going for a ride. However, the amount of snow and ice still on the roads here in Toronto precludes it, at least unless you are [...]

I just ran across this in the news.
http://www.motorcyclenews.com/MCN/News/newsresults/mcn/2008/January/january-7-13/jan0908uncrashablebmwgallery/
If you’re too lazy to follow the link, let me summarize. It’s a BMW patent (apparently Yamaha have something similar) for a system whereby the motorcycle is constructed and engine-managed in such a way that a crash is far less likely. It works by monitoring inputs and conditions [...]

Title: Converting a New Biker
Date: February 10, 2008 12:42 PM
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I suspect, like most of you, at least some of your friends think you are crazy. No, I don’t mean for the fact you like to put potato chips in your sandwich. Or that you secretly listen to Abba [...]

I suspect, like most of you, at least some of your friends think you are crazy. No, I don’t mean for the fact you like to put potato chips in your sandwich. Or that you secretly listen to Abba in the car. I mean for the plain and simple fact you like to ride a [...]

Title: You Can’t Trust The Weather
Date: February 5, 2008 12:41 PM
Category: My Riding
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I know, i know: Global warming is a bad thing, right? Sure it is. if you believe experts, it’s likely to melt all the ice in the arctic anywhere between next Tuesday and 100 years from now, flooding [...]

I know, i know: Global warming is a bad thing, right? Sure it is. if you believe experts, it’s likely to melt all the ice in the arctic anywhere between next Tuesday and 100 years from now, flooding large parts of the earth in the process. It could turn much of the United States into [...]