Category Archives: noise

Noisy Kids Who Go Nowhere

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

I was sitting in my backyard, mostly enjoying the quiet country environment, but being intermittently blasted by various noise machines: motorcycles, jacked up pickups, sportscar-poser Honda Civics, totally illegal-for-street-use ATVs, and other noisy toys. After the umpteenth laughable Hardly yard … Continue reading →

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Why I Think They Are Wrong

Posted on September 6, 2023 by T.W. Day

The constant reminder that the “Normalcy Bias” plagues motorcyclists into making fatal and foolish decisions is one of many reasons I decided my Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF)/Minnesota Motorcycle Safety Center(MMSC) instructor career was not worth continuing. Years ago (2006), I … Continue reading →

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The High Cost of Being Stupid

Posted on June 29, 2022 by T.W. Day

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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#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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I Am Jealous After All

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

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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This Is Who They Are

Posted on January 15, 2021 by T.W. Day

Mostly, I keep my political opinions on another location and, yep, I am a “libtard” as are all of the intelligent people I have ever known in my life. If there were ever going to be a moment where my … Continue reading →

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Seat of the Pants Performance Comparisons

Posted on November 28, 2019 by T.W. Day

A few years ago, when I was still capable of riding half-quickly and competently off-road, I was riding with a group of Twin Cities Dual Purpose guys north of the Cities. The “route” was a convoluted collection of gravel and … Continue reading →

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