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Categories: Road tripsRoad trip 2024: Home again
I described the ‘outward bound’ part of this year’s road trip in an earlier post. After spending four great days visiting family and friends in the Edmonton area I began my return journey. My route used highways I haven’t followed before that took me through Rocky Mountain House, Nordegg, and Radium Hot Springs. Along the…
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Categories: General motorcyclingWinter is coming…
I decided a few days ago that it was time to put my bike up for the winter. When I lived in the Lower Mainland I kept my bike insured for riding year-round: I was usually able to fit in ride or two even in the winter months. Here in the Kootenays, however, winter is…
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Categories: Road tripsRoad trip 2024: to Edmonton
I seem to have unintentionally established a tradition of completing one ‘large’ motorcycle road trip each year. COVID put a stop to that for several years, and various other factors mostly relating to the deterioration of my ancient body have kept the trips fairly compact since then. But I decided to ‘stretch my wings’ a…
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Categories: Repairs and upgradesTour pack replacement: installing the tour pack
In my previous posts I covered removing my Road Glide’s broken tour pack and relocating the license plate to accommodate the replacement’s configuration. In this post I’ll go through all the steps I followed to get my new Advanblack King tour pack installed, including a few ‘side trips’ for things that went wrong. As a…
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Categories: Repairs and upgrades
Tour Pack replacement: relocating the license plate
I started looking for a way to get my broken tour pack repaired shortly after removing it in 2023. My preference was to find a specialist who regularly performed body work on motorcycles, preferably on Harley-Davidson bikes. I finally found a motorcycle dealer with a body shop in Kelowna, Konquer Motorcycles, but the news was…
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Categories: Repairs and upgrades
Breakage and removal of a tour pack
My 2011 Road Glide has served me well over fourteen years and 130,000+ km without major complaints. But something fairly major broke in 2023: the tour pack. The tour pack is what Harley-Davidson calls the full-dress touring bike’s ‘trunk’. Mine had not been babied, occasionally being overloaded and mis-treated a bit more than it should…
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Categories: Road tripsRoad trip 2016: to the Black Hills with my Brother
This is a bit of a strange situation: I’m writing about a motorcycle road trip eight years after it happened when normally I assemble such a post within a few weeks of getting home. I don’t recall why I never documented the trip at the time and can only say I regret not writing this…
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Categories: General motorcyclingWhy does this geek ride a Harley?
I ride a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, specifically a Road Glide full-dress touring bike. But why a Harley and not some other bike? The short answer is that I like the Road Glide and that’s why, but that is not a very satisfying answer. So maybe a bit more detail is in order, starting with a bit…
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Categories: Road trips
Road trip 2023: A Motorcycle Journey through Illness
Riding my motorcycle is generally a good form of mental therapy. I find that it requires a level of attention that induces a degree of mindfulness, inducing the closest to a Zen like state that my over-active mind can achieve. So I jumped at the chance when the opportunity came in 2023 for me to…
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Categories: Site adminWelcome to Geek on a Harley!
Hello- I’m Kelly Adams. Check out the ‘About‘ page here for a bit of background on who I am. This is the ‘first life’ post for my migrated motorcycle related content from my main blog, Kelly’s World. The main reason I’m relocating my motorcycle content here is to make it easier for people using Google…
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