Month: August 2024

  • Tour Pack replacement: relocating the license plate

    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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  • Breakage and removal of a tour pack

    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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  • Road trip 2016: to the Black Hills with my Brother

    Road 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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  • Why does this geek ride a Harley?

    Why 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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