Category Archives: technology

There Are Tires and There Are Tires

Posted on October 12, 2022 by toomuchexperience

Earlier this spring, a friend rode his Suzuki TU250X from Santa Fe to the west coast and back. On the way back, he got hammered by winds that were almost enough to exhaust that little single-cylinder 250 into a low … 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 toomuchexperience

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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How Do You Know I “Can’t Ride?”

Posted on November 2, 2020 by toomuchexperience

One of the local gangbangers was justifying his noise maker on the grounds of “safety,” and I recommended, as always, that he invest some time in learning how to ride competently. His response was, “How do you know I can’t … 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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