Ain't No Pillion

Over the weekend, the Corporate Runaways took a bus to NYC for the Progressive International Motorcycle Show. I won tickets courtesy of #motochat on Twitter, and Kay has gone 3 or 4 times now and this was to be my second trip. Last year, we went on a chartered bus with the Yankee Beemers. It [...]

We’ve always ridden in winter – as long as the roads are clear of ice and snow. So we’re not new to riding in low temps. We never winterize our bikes, beyond topping up the gas, throwing some seafoam into the tank, and checking the battery periodically – because we always intend to ride. But [...]

  Got a biker on your holiday list? What did you get him or her? I took the opportunity to get my SO a new pair of motorcycle gloves. I have a pair of Rev’It! Zenith H2O gloves that the SO has been drooling over/bumming periodically for the last few years. We have the same [...]

The decision was made to acquire a Ural, so we spent a lot of time reading up on them. One thing that became very clear very quickly was that the handling of a sidecar rig is completely different than the handling on a two-wheeler. Some new riders spend hours or days driving them around parking [...]

So you may have guessed from the picture I posted in my last entry that we bought a Ural over the summer! When we went on our Americas trip, it was great, except for one thing… when we came home, the dogs had been “broken” by the dog-sitters. We believe that Kay’s dog had been [...]