Traveling solo it seems you are never alone. Boiling around a corner and onto a straight stretch east of Rock Creek my line wavers at a surreal scene. On this lonely stretch of the Crowsnest Highway set against a verdant backdrop of rolling Okanagan ranchlands lush with unseasonable rain and shot through with rocky outcroppings,…

The saying is that people in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. I had that witticism reiterated for me during my first day back in Vancouver last Friday.  While executing a turn in my beloved, yet dodgy, Isuzu Rodeo a Honda Civic plowed into the Green Beast’s front passenger side corner.  My original blog for today…

I finished the “day job” in tech last night with a suitable number of drinks.  This celebration was not for my departure so much as the complete death of my common sense, which once merely beleaguered has been beaten to a mash by my passion and curiosity.  I have a huge “need to know”, and…

I read the e-mail and started chuckling, then realizing the Editor writing it was serious I began a second round of laughter.  This rejection was one of the oddest validations I’d ever received.  I’ve been shopping an article around to a few print magazines as another outlet for my words.  The response this local magazine…

The Harley rider, in the parking lot of the Princeton Chevron, claims to have been riding for 50 years and from his weather beaten look I don’t doubt it.  The amazing thing about Suzuki’s new power cruiser the M109R is everyone talks to you; this grizzled, longhaired gentleman replete with missing teeth (not just one…

I’ve been out on the GSX-R 750 for the better part of a week and I have to admit the bike or at least the suspension is getting my goat.  There’s a multitude of adjustments possible here and I’ve just about got it right, except for the rear preload.  The manual says that you require…