Category: Motorcycle Safety
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Global Civilization Collapse Maintain the status quo, whatever we do. We continue to hear an ongoing diatribe about sustainability. According to the work of Dan Brooks Humans have become dependent upon technology, assuming that technology can and will save us from ourselves, from our behaviors. In reality, we should be considering how survival is to…
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The Inadvertent Road Less Travelled
Either bulldoze the Potholes – Or Create a Road Today, driving a motorcycle in some Canadian cities is like taking a trip to the badlands. I was driving along a pothole today, and almost hit an inadvertent Butte of road sticking up. Had I, undoubtedly I would have written off my motorcycle. One significant reason…
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If You Could Go Back and Have a Talk With Your 18-year-old Self, what would you say?
As I am in, according to statistical data, the last quarter of my life, I often wonder what I would say to myself were it 54 years earlier? It isn’t a simple question to answer if one is honest. When young, we ignore time, we ignore risk and we ignore our health. Finding one’s feet,…
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Risk Aversion and Motorcycling
Are Younger People Today More Risk Averse, and what are the factors that will enhance their purchase and use of motorcycles in the future? Today, seeing a young person riding a motorcycle is almost a surprise. While I’ve been aware for a while that the motorcycling community seems to be aging, the argument was, for…
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Riding With Pain
Often, I think of my youth. I was always able to find a way to get what I wanted done, as long as it only required physical effort. I was small for the first fifteen years of my life, small but spry. I was capable of almost anything physical that I set my mind to.…
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Twelve Camping Technology Musts for Motorcycle Camping
When traveling by motorcycle and camping at my age of (72), shortly, there are a few technologically more advanced items that I require, particularly if I’m heading into the wilderness, which I plan to do. These aren’t your typical mainstream must-haves. You have the basics. A tent, sleeping bag, water, food, utensils, cooking heat source,…
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Honda’s Crosswind Technology
Technology is always a contentious issue. Some welcome its advent, while others eschew its existence entirely. I suppose I fall somewhere in the middle as many of the features on my Kawasaki Ninja 10000sx I am glad to have. Nearly twenty years ago, my role was defined by my CAO in a municipal government setting…
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Life Safety
For those of you who venture into the outback, which as far as I’m concerned is anywhere where help will be unavailable to you, whether in the mountains, a desert, on the ocean, or the tundra. You must think through the ‘worst case scenario’. Planning will only take you so far. If you have never…
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Adventure Anyone?
Today I came across a blog by Thomas W. Day that was published in 2014 in Reader’s Digest December edition, entitled Being Stupid is Not the Same Thing as Having an Adventure. His writing and his irreverence reminded me, of me. I had been thinking of an article that I was going to entitle, Adventures…
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The Best Tent, for Me
Motorcycle camping is something that I have enjoyed, however, now that I have a piece of steel that sticks out of my leg very close to my knee, I can no longer kneel down. It appears that a new tent that can accommodate me walking in and out, instead of crawling in and out, may…