Category Archives: motorcycle

For the Well Dressed Motorcyclist

Posted on August 1, 2022 by toomuchexperience

I’ve had a line of stuff available on Zazzle.com for several years and I appreciate the business many of you have sent my way through that company. I have a couple of Geezer shirts and I wear them, often, to … Continue reading →

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Go Places, Meet People, Burn Their Fuel

Posted on August 1, 2022 by toomuchexperience

August 2022: This is another old one, from the Geezer blog (never published) in 2008. I thought enough of the title to turn it into a t-shirt and I still wear that shirt often. I sent this one in from … Continue reading →

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#104 A Good Beginner’s Bike

Posted on August 1, 2022 by toomuchexperience

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 toomuchexperience

(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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The High Cost of Being Stupid

Posted on June 29, 2022 by toomuchexperience

About a year into the pandemic, I was marveling at the anti-vaxers willingness to test their own immune systems often followed by their panicked attempts to jump to the head of the line in healthcare and even begging for a … Continue reading →

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I Am Jealous After All

Posted on June 25, 2022 by toomuchexperience

While I was in my backyard working on one of my wife’s godawful honey-do projects, a couple of mostly bald, scroungy pony-tailed, noisy and blatantly incompetent Hardly goobers fell over in the driveway of the abandoned dump next door. For … Continue reading →

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Getting Parked and My Opinion

Posted on February 21, 2022 by toomuchexperience

February 2022: Man, talk about digging up the past! I wrote this essay after writing an essay, twice, about the subject of motorcycles and urban parking. Andy has been a good friend for longer than he has known me, having … Continue reading →

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Miles and Miles to Travel (1994)

Posted on February 19, 2022 by toomuchexperience

February 2022: This is a really old one. I was living and working in Colorado at the time. An old friend called wanting to celebrate his recent brush with Microsoft fortune and fame by inviting me to his place near … Continue reading →

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eBikes, Mopeds, and Motorcycles: Is There A Difference?

Posted on September 26, 2021 by toomuchexperience

eBikes (“e-bikes”?) are becoming the most dangerous vehicle on the road, despite eBikers claim that bicycles and eBikes are not “vehicles.” Hint: if you are not walking and you are moving you are in or on a “vehicle.” "noun: vehicle; … Continue reading →

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Book Review: A Craftsman’s Legacy

Posted on February 3, 2020 by toomuchexperience

A Craftsman’s Legacy: Why Working with Our Hands Gives Us Meaning is one more book by someone who left the corporate world for the world of making expensive garage sale bait for the 1% and a few fools who want … Continue reading →

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