Category Archives: minnesota motorcycle monthly

VBR 5 and Me

Posted on July 10, 2023 by T.W. Day

A while back, Andy Goldfine invited me to be a guest storyteller at the 5th Very Boring Rally (Aerostich’s 40th anniversary). I have had a long, enlightening, and valuable friendship, first with Aerostich, and, after I moved to MN in … Continue reading →

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Before #1: Geezers on Beemers: (AKA: Steamboat Springs 1997)

Posted on November 9, 2022 by T.W. Day

All Rights Reserved © 1997 Thomas W. Day [For the last many years, I’ve said Geezer #1 "What Are We Riding For? (The original, from whence The Geezer came from October 1999" was the first thing I ever wrote for … Continue reading →

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#104 A Good Beginner’s Bike

Posted on August 1, 2022 by T.W. Day

All Rights Reserved © 2008 Thomas W. Day August 2022: Another old one that didn’t find its way into this blog. This is a 2008 Geezer column that was inspired by the zillionth time someone asked me about a “beginner’s … Continue reading →

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Geezers on Beemers

Posted on July 25, 2022 by T.W. Day

(AKA: Steamboat Springs 1997) July 2022: Turns out, this might have been the first article I wrote for MMM in late 1997, published in issue #13. If that’s true, I don’t know what happened to the letter that I intended … Continue reading →

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Being Stereotyped

Posted on July 22, 2022 by T.W. Day

Originally Published April 3, 2013 One of the downsides of being a motorcyclist is that when people find out that I ride a motorcycle they immediately start stereotyping me. My 12 year relationship with Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly started out when … Continue reading →

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#76 Hearing Damage and Motorcycling

Posted on June 28, 2022 by T.W. Day

This was one of my personal favorites among the 20+ years of Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly essays I wrote between 1999 and 2017. I’m referring to it in my next Geezer rant and was disappointed to discover I hadn’t yet ported … Continue reading →

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Product Review: Sargent Cycle Products World Sport Performance Seat

Posted on April 18, 2022 by T.W. Day

04/2022 This is another really old (2009) MMM review/Geezer column. There are two interesting, at least to me, things about this review: 1) It is a great product that I lived with for 70,000 miles and 2) This was the … Continue reading →

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#1 What Are We Riding For? (The original, from whence The Geezer came from ;-) October 1999

Posted on February 21, 2022 by T.W. Day

February 2022: Now we’re really in the Wayback Machine to 1999, the very first Geezer with A Grudge column (before it was called that) in the original Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly Magazine. I wrote this first essay on a dare from … Continue reading →

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#77 On Being Alone

Posted on February 21, 2022 by T.W. Day

February 2022: This is another old one, from 2008, and another Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly Geezer with A Grudge column. For me, today, there were a lot of insights into my own personality here that I didn’t unpack until I’d been … Continue reading →

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#84 Because It Is Still There

Posted on February 21, 2022 by T.W. Day

February 2022: Yet another one from my deep, dark, boring past and the 84th Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly Geezer with A Grudge Column. All Rights Reserved © 2007 Thomas W. Day George Mallory, the British mountaineer, supposedly told a reporter that … Continue reading →

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