Alright campers, the other day, I told you how I’m driving to Sturgis and, just like I said, I made it to Nashville with no issues. Oh, I hit the usual traffic in Atlanta, which if you know anything about Atlanta, Georgia, you know that traffic there is bad any day that ends in “y”. […]
Well, I figured I’d go ahead and document my ride to Sturgis this year, especially since I’ve gotten the crazy idea to drive it on my bike. For the four of you that regularly read my column, you know that it’s a long ride – about 1,750 miles, and that I’ve shipped all my “vacation” […]
Way back at the first of the year, I told you guys that I was going to clock 15,000 miles this year and that I was going to ride to Sturgis this year. The way the year started, I wondered if that was actually going to work – losing a motor does tend to slow […]
Well fellas, for any of you that ride more than trailer, Sturgis is almost on top of us. Even if you have a trailer queen, you still want to look good and run smooth, and that all starts with tires. I’d noticed that the tires on the Sportster were getting a little thin, so I’ve […]
As I was sitting down to write this, the tragic news of the killing of five Dallas, Texas police officers and the wounding of 7 more is still playing over the news. As some of you that read regularly will remember, I was driving through Dallas three days ago on my way back from picking […]
Okay, maybe I’m getting old, but it occurred to me, sitting under a bridge the other day, waiting out a storm, that sometimes, it may just be smarter to haul my bike to some of the places that I usually take it. I’ve had a few hair-raising moments in heavy traffic over the years, and […]
So last week a buddy of mine across state lines called me up and had just dropped a wad on a new old bike. Actually, it was a really old, beat up one that he’d found in the classifieds – he showed me the ad – “Old Harley-Davidson. Needs work but engine turns over and […]
One of the great things about having a well-connected and independently wealthy old lady who owns a technology company is that I get invited along on some great business trips. It is tough, but I manage to look pretty for the job and try to hide the fact that my fingernails have some grease under […]
U.S. Interstate 95 forms a long black ribbon of highway from Miami, Florida to the Canadian border between Houlton, Maine, Woodstock and New Brunswick. Travelers can access any major city on the Eastern seaboard and because of that, it is the favorite of long-haul truckers, tourists, snowbirds, and every-damn-body trying to get to Florida. I […]
So I’ve got a question. Do all of us riding Mother Davidson’s finest shrink from a little work in the garage? I think that it is pretty well documented that I love to wrench on my bike and I know that plenty of other folks out there do, too. So why do I see so […]
Okay, I’m just gonna put this out there. Now, that’s not to say that we are perfect, but in the 1594 miles I rode in the last two weeks, I saw one seat warmer that looked good. One. And honestly, she wasn’t so much good looking as just considerably smaller than all the other ones […]
Okay, I’m not a stock and bonds kind of guy. I’ve got a working knowledge of it, but it is far from my specialty. But a few weeks ago, Harley Davidson released its first quarter results and they were somewhat enlightening. H-D sold 83,000 bikes in the first quarter. H-D saw the biggest increase in […]
Ride To Work Day is Almost Here! Alright fellow motorcycle enthusiasts, June is almost here (holy crap!) and one of the best parts about June is that “Ride Your Motorcycle To Work Day” is going to be here on June 20. So that means put up the leathers, get on the suit and tie, and cruise […]
Last weekend was the kind of weekend that everybody thinks of when they picture a weekend. Not too much to do around the house, not a lot of humidity, no mosquitoes, and some 2 inch thick ribeyes waiting for the grill to heat up. Yep, you guessed it – I got out the bike and […]
Alright, guys. Let’s face facts. We’re bikers. A lot of us get on the bike and pretend to be rebels, but for most of us “99 percenters”, we’ve got a mortgage, kids, debt, and real jobs. Hell, I’ve got all of that but a real job – but I do remember what that feels […]
Howdy, boys and girls. Now that virtually all of us are out on the road, the sad truth is that some of us are going to have a little fender bender. A slow lay down, a knockover in the parking lot, something is going to happen. In fact, we talked about this in answering a […]
Okay, so this is going to sound pretty self-deprecating. My old helmet stank. You know? The one that got liberated on the college campus two weeks ago? Yeah. It really must’ve smelled awful, because my new one WSB Beanie smells amazing. I mean, it stands to reason, we sweat when we ride and our heads […]
Okay, this is ludicrous. I had to meet with the Associate Dean of a local university this morning – I’m talking to him about some different courses that the school is offering to the blue collar guys – and while I was there, some sum-bitch stole my lid off my bike. I mean, who wants […]
Last weekend, I took the Sportster on our maiden voyage. Sure, I’ve logged hundreds of thousands of miles on this bike over the years, killed it few times, rebuilt it, flogged it at the track, and damn near blew it up (along with myself), but this was the maiden voyage with the new motor. It […]
I may be the only guy in the world that will acknowledge that he watched Jackie Chan’s movie years ago “Rumble in the Bronx”, but I do remember that the movie seemed to have a number of dirt bikes in it and I also remember thinking that dirt bikes in New York City didn’t seem […]
So, you are a young rider or a new rider and you are looking to buy a new bike. Maybe you have an older bike that you want to trade in and with the sheer volume of bikes out there, you are trying to figure out what to get. You’ve looked around to try to […]
Brothers, if spring isn’t here for most of us, it’s right around the corner and I know my friends in the Provinces are itching to get going. Make it happen, captain! All you folks that have been following my Sportster rebuild have probably noticed that I haven’t had the dyno numbers yet. I was planning […]
Here we go! Spring is so close that I can smell it and for all of us who are starting to get an itchy throttle hand, I have to talk about what we’re looking forward to.For those of you who have followed the blog, the Sportster is up and running and I’ll have all the […]
It’s Alive! The Evo fired up and made noise today! After nearly 6 weeks of drama and a lot of late nights in the garage … and a little cussing … I got the Sportster to fire up and idle smoothly. Now, there is still a ton of work to do since I have damn […]
The following question was recently asked on Quora.com and we thought we’d add our 2 cents to some already good answers… Read Bikers' Den's answer to What steps can you take to reduce the risk of being injured while riding a motorcycle? on Quora Let’s start with some basics – I don’t believe that motorcycles […]
Alright! Enough already! Ever since Sons of Anarchy (SOA) went off the air in December on 2014, folks have been clamoring for more. Prequel, sequel, lost editions, spin-offs – nobody cares, as long as Kurt Sutter does something that ties directly to SOA (I know, the whole Mayans thing is cool, but plenty of folks […]
We thought it was time to take another stab at answering a motorcycle related question on the “Question/Answer” site Quora.com. We considered answering some mechanical type issues or first time rider questions when we came across this one and couldn’t resist. We’d love to hear what you think so please don’t hesitate to add your […]
