Tag: Harley Davidson
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Motorcycle Road Trip 2012 #2: the Sunshine Coast and Vancouver Island
I was lucky to be able to enjoy a second “significant” motorcycle road trip this year. My brother Colin and his son, Troy, came out to the coast from Alberta on their motorbikes. Colin had previously ridden up the Sunshine coast and wanted to share that with us, and it sounded fantastic to me. I…
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Motorcycle Road Trip 2012 #1: Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alberta, and back again
My first “real” (i.e.: more than one day) motorcycle road trip of 2012 began on July 30. Myself, my nephew Shane, and our good friends Jeff and Tim set out on a journey to buy Shane a T-Shirt. Yes, that was the only actual specific, tangible objective of the trip. Everything else that happened was…
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HARLEY DAVIDSONS LEAK!!! Kinda…
I will state this now very clearly: Harley Davidson motorcycles built since the late 1980’s (i.e.: those with the Evolution motors) do *not* habitually leak. These engines are generally as tight and well-designed as any, albeit with a different aesthetic than the finely balanced Hondas and BMWs of the world. That said: my beloved Road Glide began…
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