Ain't No Pillion

If you ride a motorcycle, you’ve heard it all before: “How can you ride those things? They’re so dangerous!” ER employees call motorcycles donor-cycles, and common sense among the non-riders of the world is that motorcycles are extremely dangerous, blah blah blah. As riders, we get it all the time, and we mostly ignore it. [...]

It occurs to me that I haven’t actually mentioned our official trip website yet. Silly me. If you want to follow along on our overland trip from Boston, MA to Ushuaia, Tierra Del Fuego, you can do it at our website: http://www.CorporateRunaways.com . (It’s not case sensitive – just easier to read that way.) We’ve [...]

With the recent funding coming through for the trip, we’ve been ordering a LOT of things for the bikes and ourselves to get fully outfitted for being on the road. I’ve spent much of today combing around for other things to buy and caught myself in this uncharacteristic consumer attitude. I started thinking about things [...]

This week’s Monday Q&A is regarding helmet speakers in Massachusetts. I got an email from a reader last week saying that he thought it was illegal to have speakers in your helmets in Massachusetts, and asking whether I know something he didn’t know. (I think in regard to the Sena SMH10 Motorcycle Intercom.) I was [...]

More trip-planning minutiae – the bikes are off getting a pre-trip checkup. We’d always intended to have a BMW dealer look them over before leaving for the trip, but the timetable was moved up because we went to change the oil in Masukomi’s bike and had problems removing the drain plug – the prior owner [...]