Tag: roadglide

  • Road trip 2019: Motorcycle pilgrimage to the Harley Davidson Museum

    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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  • 2015 Motorcycle road trip: An Unexpected Journey

    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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  • Lung infection and six months on my Harley

    Lung infection and six months on my Harley

    Two weeks ago I came down with a cold, and a week ago I was diagnosed with a lung and sinus infection.  The doctor said it was probably a variety of “mild” pneumonia, what is sometimes called “walking pneumonia”.  So I’ve been coughing, clearing my sinuses, and generally feeling crappy. On the plus side, the…

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  • My other Harley: 2011 Road Glide Ultra

    My other Harley: 2011 Road Glide Ultra

    Earlier this year I completed a motorcycle skills training course, bought a Kawasaki Vulcan, and got my motorcycle license.  I had ridden before back when I was still a teenager, but this time I actually got my license.  Between May and September I rode about 10,000 kilometres- most of that was smaller rides in the…

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