20 years ago, I started a second career as a motorcycle journalist, and I’ve been lucky enough to see many of the beautiful places in the world and publishing stories and photos of my adventures. I’ve started documenting my bicycle adventures in a similar fashion, and will be sharing those stories here. Please join me.
“The idea is to die young as late as possible
Ashley Montagu
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Had a great discussion with motorcycle designer Greg Tada about his journey to becoming a motorcycle designer, his design influences and idols, and his advice for aspiring motorcycle designers.
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The next chapter of my electric cross-country adventure is now on Substack. I’m still in Nevada, spellbound by it’s rugged beauty and gobsmacked at how George A. Wyman and others before him crossed these vast, inhospitable distances. https://open.substack.com/pub/followingwyman/p/07-across-the-forty-mile-desert?r=2rzwg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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Where are the voices telling us that a bright future is possible, that if we can make it through today’s turmoil, a better tomorrow awaits?
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It was just another beautiful morning in the high desert. I put on the solar glasses and tracked the moon’s collision course with the sun. I nommed on an energy bar, chatted with my neighbors, and looking up again, I saw the sun then half-obscured, but everything else seemed normal. Only at 80-percent coverage did…
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Looks like #motorcycle#motorcycle #riders#riders were already #hooning#hooning back in 1905. EDIT: The Internet can be a fun place sometimes. After I posted this news clip on Reddit, I was contacted (via LinkedIn) by a motorcycle who lived in South Pasadena and got a kick out of it. He happened to be a motorcycle designer, and…
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I finally leave the safe confines of California – and it’s relative abundance of EV charging stations – for the literal and figurative deserts of Nevada… https://open.substack.com/pub/followingwyman/p/06-into-the-desert
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Have you ever heard an electric motorcycle before? Whaddya think? From my electric cross country roadtrip in 2016. Visit “In the Tire Tracks of George A. Wyman” on Substack for more.
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After a long hiatus, chapter 5 of my Wyman story on Substack is published.
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2023 will be remembered as the year I got into folding bicycles. I’ve long admired Bike Friday’s folding bikes but never rode one. That changed with the purchase of a used Pocket Rocket, and I quickly understood what all the fuss was about. When the All Packa was introduced, I was immediately drawn to…
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In September, 2023, we created the number “100” out of BMW motorcycles at the BMW Riders Association national rally in Davis, West Virginia to celebrate the 100th anniversary of BMW Motorrad. It took a lot of volunteers, perfect weather conditions, and a bunch of eager BMW owners willing to wake up early to make it…
