Author: Kelly
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A Bus, a bike, and a Bird…
I left my motorcycle behind when we moved from Langley to Castlegar. Our move was in March: that’s an impossible time to ride a bike through mountain passes. And after much thought I decided I preferred the idea of riding it to its new home versus trailering or shipping it. So into storage she went.…
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Road trip 2019: Motorcycle pilgrimage to the Harley Davidson Museum
Getting out on my bike has become less of a common thing the last couple of years. The reasons are not terribly interesting: disruptions in health, work pressures, depression. But I still build up a need for two wheel therapy, probably even more so than when I was riding every weekend. And so I’ve focused…
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2018’s motorcycle road trip- Saskatchewan and back
In the ‘better later than never’ category, I present- the motorcycle road trip I took for 2018:
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Motorcycle road trip 2017: Selkirk International Loop
My brother Colin and I have started to make going on a motorcycle road trip to gather into an annual ‘tradition’. This year, our trip was close to home: the Selkirk International Loop.
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Road Glide: fast idle with ‘fly by wire’ throttle
My 2011 Road Glide is my ‘baby’, and when something starts behaving a bit odd I generally notice it fairly quickly. Twice now, once last fall and again just this past week, my bike has suddenly started idling at over 2,200 RPM. The normal idle is about 1,200 RPM, and the high idle revs make…
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2013 motorcycle road trip #2: The Three Brothers
I was going through some draft posts on my blog and came across an outline for an account of a motorcycle road trip from back in 2013. It was originally written shortly after the event and, although it is in bullet form and rather sparse on detail, it does account for some events I had…
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2015 Motorcycle road trip: An Unexpected Journey
Life is full of surprises: some good, some not so good. I don’t deal well with surprises, but to counter that I’ve adopted a ‘seize control’ mentality that sometimes kicks in and gets me past the unexpected. My motorcycle road trip for 2015 is essentially a case history of that adaptation of mine, and I’m not…
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2014 motorcycle road trip: Yellowstone
I set out in June of 2014 (June 28, to be precise) to meet up with my brother Colin for the second of our ‘annual’ motorcycle road trips. The plan was simple: go to Yellowstone Park, and see what is to be seen. A very rough map of the sites we visited (if not the…
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A Cornucopia of crash caps…what I’ve learned about noggin protection
Everyone who rides a motorcycle should wear a helmet. I am sure some people will disagree, and that is their right. But, and I mean no insult, wearing no helmet at all is foolhardy. I might even say going lidless is stupid. But hey, stupid is a choice sometimes too: and it is true that…
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Looking for things to make us go: Road Glide performance upgrades
I decided in December of 2013 that 2014 would be the year I upgraded the performance of my 2011 Harley Davidson Road Glide. There wasn’t anything particularly wrong with my bike’s get up and go. But after over 65,000 kilometres of riding, I felt I knew better what I wanted when I rolled on the…
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