Divorce has been on my mind of late, but it seems I’m not alone.  Frederick and Hamel (1998), for whom the topic seems so all consuming, it has become work as well as past time, cautiously estimate that “almost one in every three Canadian couples (31%) who married in 1991 will eventually split up if…

Snakes on a Plane is at best a stale collection of B-movie cliches cobbled together into the semblance of a movie and propelled skywards by meme-happy bloggers and a hyperactive marketing machine, but as a barometer of the American psyche it could not be more telling. Steven King, a man not unfamiliar with shock-slock, posits…

After a morning of franticly trying to source a hotel room, floor space or tree to sleep under for MotoGP, I can’t help but wonder if the greed of local hoteliers is going to kill the Laguna Seca MotoGP slowly.  At the low end I’m looking at about a grand Canadian for a dodgy two-star…

I’ve been out testing the Burgman 650 Executive since Friday and the weekend saw us out “scoot-touring” for an upcoming article, but last night I went out on the local bcsportbikes.com ride for giggles.  The turn out was awesome and better yet the roads for the ride back co-operated, with traffic being stopped in two places for construction. …

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…