The Motorcycle Times - September 2013

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The star of the show is not a single new bike – rather, it’s the landmark product development effort that resulted in Project RUSHMORE.

Whoever said “less is more” did not belong on the Harley-Davidson® Project RUSHMORE development team, because when it comes to motorcycle control, more is always more. To that end, Project RUSHMORE delivers 2014 Harley-Davidson® Touring and Trike models

with more power, improved headlamp per-formance, and new Reflex™ Linked Brakes with ABS.

These upgrades enhance rider control in a variety of situations. More roll-on power pro-duces brisker passing performance. Brilliant headlamps illuminate the night, and make the motorcycle conspicuous to others. Re-flex™ Linked Brakes with ABS is the ultimate

rider-control tool when road conditions are less than ideal. Whether the ride is a cross-country ramble or a Saturday night cruise, these elements of Project RUSHMORE inspire rider confidence.

“I can guarantee when the customer throws a leg over this thing they are going to say wow,” said Bill Davidson, the great-grand-son of Harley-Davidson co-founder William A.

Davidson.In the largest scale new model launch in the company’s 110-year history, Project RUSH-MORE encompasses eight new motorcycles that feature improved power and braking performance, enhanced rider ergonomics, and styling updates that completely redefine and fundamentally transform the touring motorcyclist’s experience.

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I called the “25, 35, 45, 35, 25 ride,” because those were the speeds we went as we rode from small town to small town.

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Project RUSHMORE Control Features include:

High Output Twin Cam 103™ Engine: Har-ley-Davidson® powertrain engineers working with Project RUSHMORE tuned the new High Output Twin Cam 103™ engine specifically to deliver more passing power. Equipped with a new camshaft to optimize bottom-end torque and a new high-flow air box, the High Output Twin Cam 103™ delivers 5 per cent more torque than the standard Twin Cam 103™ powertrain in a Touring configuration. The result is a dramatic improvement in 60- to 80-mph roll-on acceleration in fifth gear, the kind of real-world power that hustles a rider back into the right-hand lane or up the mountain briskly, even with a passenger and gear on board. The new air box has the added comfort-enhancing benefit of improv-ing legroom and airflow around the rider. The High Output Twin Cam 103™ engine is Origi-nal Equipment on the 2014 Harley-Davidson Road King®, Street Glide®, Street Glide® Spe-cial, and Electra Glide® Ultra Classic® motor-cycle models. Twin-Cooled™ High Output Twin Cam 103™ Engine: Designed to maintain perfor-mance in the most-challenging situations, the new Twin-Cooled™ High Output Twin Cam 103™ powertrain is featured in the 2014 Ultra Limited and Tri Glide™ Ultra models. A combi-nation of air cooling and precision liquid cool-ing strategies allow the Twin-Cooled™ High Output Twin Cam 103™ engine to maintain peak performance under the most demand-ing loads and riding conditions, and enables a higher 10.1:1 compression ratio for increased power and efficiency. The Twin-Cooled™ High Output Twin Cam 103™ engine offers 10.7 per

cent more peak torque than the standard Twin Cam 103™ engine. Liquid coolant is routed through the cylinder heads in the area around the exhaust valves, then to ducted heat exchangers located in the left and right fairing lowers. The precision cooling system is thermostatically controlled, and uses an electric pump to circulate coolant. The Twin-Cooled™ High Output Twin Cam 103™ engine also may improve thermal comfort to the rider and passenger in extreme conditions, such as stop-and-go traffic in high ambient temperatures. Cylinder head temperatures are lower, the air box shape improves airflow, and a reshaped fairing lowers improve vent-ing of air to the rider and passenger. New Hydraulic Clutch Control: All 2014 Touring and Trike models except the Road King® model are equipped with a new hy-draulic clutch control that maintains the previous cable clutch-lever effort despite stronger clutch springs. The hydraulic clutch also does not require periodic adjustment or service, provides consistent engagement and modulation in all operating conditions, and provides consistent clutch-lever effort over the life of the vehicle. The 2014 Tri Glide™ Ul-tra model is equipped with a new Assist and Slip (A&S) clutch. The “assist” feature increases torque capacity at times of high demand while keeping lever efforts low. The “slip” fea-ture enables smooth downshifts and engine braking. Clutch lever effort on the Tri Glide™ model is thus reduced by 23 per cent. Reflex™ Linked Brakes with ABS: All 2014 Harley-Davidson® Touring models are avail-able with the new Reflex™ Linked Brakes with ABS as either Original Equipment or as a Factory-installed option. Reflex™ Linked Brakes combine ABS with electronically linked brakes to dynamically optimize front

and rear brake balance. Linked braking is ac-tivated when the motorcycle is travelling be-tween 32 and 40 kph. If braking is initiated at slower speeds, the front and rear brakes func-tion independently. When linked braking is active, applying the front, rear or both brake controls will apply braking force to both the front and rear brakes in a proportion deter-mined by the Reflex™ Linked Brakes system to optimize performance. The braking will stay linked as speed drops below the 32 to 40 kph threshold. Reflex™ Linked Brakes incorporates ABS to further help the rider maintain con-trol during braking events, especially those that happen in less-than-optimal conditions. Reflex™ Linked Brakes with ABS are Original Equipment on the 2014 Street Glide® Special, Electra Glide® Ultra Classic®, and Ultra Limited Harley-Davidson® motorcycle models, and a Factory-installed option on the Road King® and Street Glide® models. Tri Glide™ Ultra Linked Brakes: The new Tri Glide™ Ultra linked brake system allows the rider to apply both the front and rear brakes through the rear brake pedal. This is accomplished by actuating two pistons of each new, six-piston front caliper when using the rear brake pedal. This provides more than 30 per cent more brake responsiveness when the rear pedal is applied. The full front brake system is applied only through the front brake lever and remains independent. A new Tri Glide™ Ultra parking brake system uses a foot pedal on the rider’s left side to activate the rear parking brakes. Daymaker™ LED Lighting: The Daymak-er™ LED headlight and Daymaker™ LED fog lamps deliver a lighting pattern that is highly focused with outstanding “punch” into the darkness. The light quality closely mimics that of natural daylight to further enhance visibil-

ity, and its bright white colour is conspicuous in traffic. The Daymaker™ headlamp has two, D-shaped lenses: one that focuses light into a pool directly in front of the bike for outstand-ing low-beam illumination, and another, separate high-beam projector that delivers a super-bright, focused beam to penetrate deep into the darkness. Daymaker™ LED lighting is Original Equipment on the 2014 Electra Glide® Ultra Classic®, Ultra Limited, and Tri Glide™ Ultra Harley-Davidson® motorcycle models. Dual Halogen Lighting: The new dual halo-gen headlamp significantly outperforms a single-element halogen headlamp in high-beam situations. This is because the low beam is also illuminated, increasing total lumens output. On high beam, the dual halogen headlamp offers better “punch” and spread than the Daymaker™ LED headlamp, but does not offer the bright white colour qual-ity of the LED. The dual halogen headlamp is paired with halogen fog lamps on models so equipped. Dual halogen lighting is Original Equipment on 2014 Road King®, Street Glide®, and Street Glide® Special Harley-Davidson® motorcycle models. Improved Front Suspension: All 2014 Har-ley-Davidson® Touring models are equipped with new front suspension components, including larger fork sliders and stiffer triple clamps, which provide improved steering response. Fork diameter is increased from 43.1 mm to 49 mm (14 per cent). The steer-ing stem is supported by larger bearings. Suspension damping has been re-tuned for a smoother ride over minor pavement irregu-larities like tar strips.

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It seems to me when I am on the road there are two certainties. Either I’m gonna get stuck behind someone who has no where to go and all day to get there or some how time every intersection just right so that it goes red the moment I ap-proach it. My wife tells me it’s Karma, cause I tend to get good parking spots when we go shop-ping. I don’t know about that, but if I ever meet this Karma, they’re gonna loose some teeth.

So, as luck would have it — or maybe it’s that Karma — I find myself driving to our local Big Box store to buy something I probably don’t need, traffic was busy as usual and I’m driving in the right lane when I come up to this fellow holding up traffic in my lane riding one of those electric bicycles. As I approached him I also had to slow down to his speed of 32 kph until I could get over enough to pass safely.

The next light I approach, don’t I get a red light. I can see in my mirror, dude is approaching, pass-ing the cars now stopped for the light. He’s wob-bling all over, nearly hitting the cars beside him with his handle bars or the curb with his front wheel. He approaches my truck and I can see him duck his head to miss my extended mirror then continues into the intersection ahead of me and stops. He takes a quick look and decides to take the sidewalk and then the crosswalk to cross the empty street the rest of us are stopped at…what the hell was that?

I am getting sick and tired of these ‘wanna be’s’ on electric bicycles, convinced they are riding a motorcycle, taking to the road with NO Training, NO Licensing and NO Insurance. Without training

and licensing there is also no regard for the High-way Traffic Act either. The cities and towns are becoming populated with these inexperienced operators. They have no clue what to do in an emergency let alone normal everyday driving on our congested roads, and without insurance, guess who’s paying if you get into an accident with one of them.

How, can our governments, local, provincial and federal all be allowed to overlook this hazard on our streets. Are our elected officials really that retarded to not realize how unsafe these electric bicycles truly are. Many operators are under the impression that they are riding motorcycles that just happen to be electric until they no longer want to abide by the Highway Traffic Act and then they treat them like bicycles.

I have seen lane changes without a signals, no shoulder checks, nothing. All of a sudden, while approaching one of these bicycles, the operator just decides to cut across traffic and take a side street or into a parking lot – whatever it is, there’s usually little to no warning.

Not only are these electric bicycles unsafe for operators, the upkeep on many of the bikes I have seen, reveal broken pedals, plastic body parts missing or hanging off, just to name a few and a foam helmet for protection is the only safe-ty equipment they are required to wear.

And what about the retailers who are pushing these bikes like they were selling cocaine? Last year at the CNE in Toronto, I stood beside one of these vendors, just to hear their pitch. Think of every positive aspect these bikes provide their

owners, low running cost, no insurance, eco-friendly, small carbon footprint, and on and on. Not a single mention of safety except for the pathetic foam helmet required in most munici-palities. They were even using no licensing as an upside to ownership.

It does not matter that they only travel at 32kph, it’s fast enough to do more damage then our idiot politicians seem to be able to compre-hend. Perhaps those in our government or with the MTO who don’t think 32kph is very fast should be invited to experience the results of abrasion. Heck, forget about 32kph, have them run as fast as they can and just dive onto the concrete or pavement. Then tell those who have purchased these two wheeled electric suicide machines, that they don’t really need to have training.

Or, why not just allow the manufacturers to ramp up the speed to be able to travel at a 60kph pace. At least keeping pace with traffic rather than disrupting it would be arguably safer to the operators and those around them. Regardless, something needs to happen NOW. Require op-erators to be insured, and license their bikes then require riders to train and demonstrate a mini-mum standard of operational competency and knowledge of the road before being allowed to ride on streets at such terrifyingly slow pace.

Even limited speed scooters require a special condition M license. Regardless, I think that any vehicle that is not ‘people powered’ should re-quire training, licensing and insurance if they are going to be allowed on the road.

Ride Safe

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SKID MARKSTHE REAL WORLD

SKID MARKS is the place to let it all hang out, not literally. Have an outrageous picture of a friend and want to share it with everyone, recommend a road, get your scars out, share some top tips or just blather on about something funny. Watch our website, we’ll be posting the good stuff... for the world to see.

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WTF?Bet he can’t even pronounce ‘Suzuki’

Hank takes his chances, extends his leg, gives her the gas and overtakes Yakashito in corner two. One week later, Hank is found

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SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa -- Vertues Hass has a job most bike enthusiasts would envy. He hops on and tests the sleek Indian motorcycles that Polaris Industries will roll from its north-west Iowa plant to consumers next month.

Polaris’ revival of the 1901 iconic motor-cycle — with classic styling and high-pow-ered engineering — is creating a “buying frenzy” that leaders hope will bring even more growth to the region.

“We’ve got 50 bikes sold before they’ve even hit the floor, before they’ve even made it into the shop,” said Justin Vande-vort, general manager of Indian Motorcycle Lincoln in Nebraska’s capital city. He was hoarse from talking with customers willing to commit at least $19,000 to purchase a bike without ever kicking a tire. “People see the videos and fall in love with them.”

Already, Minneapolis-based Polaris has about doubled its Iowa workforce and op-erations.

Polaris’ purchase two years ago of the troubled Indian Motorcycle Co. has played a significant role in the growth, said Cory Knudtson, director of motorcycle opera-tions, and Brian Hines, director of plant op-erations in Spirit Lake and Milford, Iowa.

The company has added about 125 of 300 workers to make Indian’s Classic, Vin-tage and Chieftain motorcycles. Altogether, Polaris employs about 800 workers in Iowa.

The Spirit Lake plant also produces Polar-is’ Victory motorcycles, Ranger side-by-side utility vehicles, Brutus commercial utility ve-hicles, and GEM electric utility vehicles.

“The company has been a tremendous

momentum builder for the area,” said Kathy Evert, president of the Iowa Great Lakes Corridor Development Corp. “In many ru-ral communities, that space could have sat there for a very, very long time.”

The company is investing about $30 mil-lion in the added space, which will include a new high-tech paint operation.

“We did pretty well during the reces-sion, and one of the reasons is the products we’ve launched have been hits in the mar-ketplace,” Hines said.

It shows in the publicly traded company’s finances: Annual revenues have doubled to $3.2 billion over the last three years, and net earnings have tripled to $312 million.

Polaris has invested big in developing the new Indian Motorcycle lineup over 27 months: $100 million.

The company is pitting its Indian cruiser against U.S. motorcycle heavyweight Har-ley-Davidson, marketing the Indian Classic, Vintage and Chieftain as “a choice” when buying an American motorcycle.

Polaris has priced the Indian to compete, ranging from $18,999 to $22,999.

The Indian lineup was launched at the Sturgis motorcycle rally earlier this month with 5,000 attending the raucous unveil-ing. History channel’s “American Pickers” star Mike Wolfe, of LeClaire, Iowa, an Indian motorcycle collector, has become the mo-torcycle’s pitchman.

Given the strong showing at Sturgis, Ken-nison said Polaris could exceed its plan to add up to 140 dealers in North America by the end of the year.

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The death of a promising motorcycle racer from Calgary reverberated throughout Canada’s motorsports community on the weekend.

John-Ross MacRae, 24, died in hospital Sunday a day after crashing in Quebec at the Mont-Tremblant circuit of the Mopar Ca-nadian Superbike Championship.

“JR was going downhill and had no chance of saving it at the speed he was going,” said Darren James, MacRae’s men-tor and owner of their team, Ruthless Racing Inc.

“He was an amazing rider, had all sorts of potential. “He was going to be one of the best in the country.”

MacRae grew up around motorcycles most his life. He worked as a parts specialist at Blackfoot Motosports, alongside his father, Douglas MacRae, the company’s president.

On Sunday, Douglas recalled how his son climbed the company ladder from sweep-ing the parking lot and selling hamburgers to holding a managerial position.

However, John-Ross’ greatest ambitions were on the track.

“He didn’t want to die being a partsman,” Douglas told the Herald. “He wanted to race bikes.”

By the time he was a teenager, he had turned pro, taking second place in the 600 Supersport Championship on a Triumph

motorcycle in 2007.Soon, John-Ross was competing in vari-

ous contests, eventually surpassing his men-tor in some events. And James was proud to see his former protege succeed.

In a statement, Frontline CSBK Inc. — or-ganizer of the Mopar Canadian Superbike Championship — remembered John-Ross as a fierce competitor.

Two weeks earlier, he’d clinched his first national win in the class at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.

“It’s an extremely sad day for the MacRae family.”

A memorial service is expected to be held in Calgary.

The world’s fastest motorcyclists are prepar-ing to put their names in the record books at the Bonneville Salt Flats during the 2013 AMA Land Speed Grand Championships, also known as the BUB Motorcycle Speed Trials, Aug. 24-29.

By the end of the six-day event, the American Motorcyclist Association will have clocked numerous provisional record-setting runs in classes featuring everything from 50cc mini-bikes to 2,000cc-plus pur-pose-built top-speed machines.

“Land-speed racing is one of the most unique disciplines that we sanction, from the motorcycles, to the diversity of the par-ticipants to the venue,” said AMA Track Rac-ing Manager Ken Saillant. “The AMA Land Speed Grand Championships are the sport’s premier event, and the level of competition this year is going to be some of the highest ever.”

One battle that should bring a lot of at-tention is the run for the outright land-speed record on two wheels. Two stream-liners are currently registered, the BUB No. 7 Streamliner that will be piloted by AMA Mo-torcycle Hall of Famer and seven-time AMA

Grand National Champion Chris Carr and a Triumph streamliner with AMA Pro Racing road racer Jason Disalvo at the controls.

Both Carr and Disalvo will have their eyes on the current record, 376.363 mph, set by rider Rocky Robinson and builder Mike Akatiff in 2010. Carr is a former world record holder, running 367.382 mph in 2009.

“The outright land-speed record is one of motorcycle competition’s highest, most-respected achievements,” Saillant said. “The amount of effort, investment, practice and teamwork that goes into just a few seconds of time at speed on the track is amazing to behold. It’s not every year that conditions are right for a record run. We can’t control or predict the weather, of course, but it’s look-ing good a few days out.”

Other riders expected to lay down some fast times at the event are Al Lamb, who currently holds the sit-down, partially streamlined record at 262.471 mph, and Jim Hoogerhyde, who rides the all-electric Light-ning SB220.

The AMA Land Speed Grand Champion-ships run Saturday Aug. 24th through Thurs-day the 29th.

World’s fastest descend on Bonneville

Calgary motorcycle racer killed in crash in Quebec

Six motorcyclists who were clocked trav-elling more than 162 kilometres an hour on the Sea to Sky Highway in Squamish, B.C., have been hit with hefty fines and will lose their bikes for a week.

Police say that’s more than double the speed limit for the riders who were initial-ly spotted going 140 kilometres an hour.

But RCMP say the pack of riders travel-ling about three metres apart increased their speed while passing a police officer and were then pulled over.

Mounties say the riders each received a ticket for $483 and that their bikes were impounded for seven days.

Police say getting pulled over may have been the best thing that ever hap-pened to the motorcyclists.

“Since all six motorcycles were travel-ling within two to three metres of each other, we stopped the entire group,” RCMP Cpl. Robert McDonald said.

“Each rider received an excessive speed violation ticket under the Motor Vehicle Act, and in accordance with that act, each motorcycle was automatically seized for a seven-day impound.”

The drivers, who were riding Honda, Ducati and Aprilia motorbikes, were each fined $483.

“I would definitely categorize this as extreme speed, at more than dou-ble the limit. Their actions were even more dangerous because they were all two to three metres from each other,” McDonald said.

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Life Savers

the west breeze

One of the strongest debates among riders in-volves ‘choice’. It’s our choice to ride. It’s our choice what helmet we wear. It’s our choice what gear we wear. After all, if we crash, we are the ones to suffer to consequences of our choice and every time we get on a bike, we accept the risk.

A recent experience has changed my mind on how I view ‘our choice.’ I crashed in July – a com-mon accident for riders – gravel in a corner but what played out after the accident has made me realize that the choice we make as riders, affects so many people that we may not have thought about.

There were a lot of different voices around me, unfamiliar ones, some with international accents, all asking questions, asking me to open my eyes and asking me who I was. I had no idea.

As the voices grew louder, I slowly began to comprehend the sentences. I forced my eyes open and made my best attempt to compute my surroundings. There was a black umbrella over me trying to shade the sun from my eyes. I could see the double-yellow line of the highway lead-ing from the tips of my fingers down the asphalt. I looked toward my feet and the gravel look out over the cliff of the California coast was laden with people, and behind them, I could see a helicopter hovering.

“That can’t be good,” I thought. I asked if the he-licopter was for me. I didn’t like the answer.

What is your name? How old are you? Where are you from? Do you know where you are? Can you wiggle your toes? Where do you have pain? Do you know what happened?

We’re praying for you.All questions I had no answer for. Random

thoughts roamed through my head – What is going on? Why is that woman praying for me? I am so tired. It’s really nice here. Why am I lying on the road? I have never been in a helicopter. Did I shave my legs? I hope I get to look out the win-dow. Where are YOU from? Who are YOU?

As the events began snapping into place, I re-called the gravel in the turn, I remembered sliding and I remembered seeing the rapidly approach-ing guardrail and then the impact. “Damn! I went down.

At this point the voice of the Norwegian doc-tor on vacation registered, “Can you wiggle your toes?” I couldn’t answer. I looked straight up into the upside down eyes of an off-duty female fire-fighter who was holding my head so tight in be-tween her knees that I asked her to let go. “I don’t want you to move your head,” she said, “you may have a back injury.”

My eyes returned to my feet and on their way, passed my ripped up jeans and a nasty gash across my knee. My new boots and socks were being gently removed. ‘Of course I can wiggle my toes’, I thought, and I did, on the left, but the right wasn’t cooperating despite my best efforts.

Just lying there on the road in the afternoon sun, the smell of the ocean, the sound of the gulls, the beautiful rockery of the California cliffs, the slight salt taste from the mist and then the taste of blood on my tongue snapped me back to reality.

There was a young firefighter, about 21, he explained to me that he was going to have to cut my leathers off. “Not my new leathers!” I was wearing new Stella GP Plus armoured jacket by Alpinestars with elbow, shoulder, back and chest protection which fit like a glove.

I heard the scissors and felt the blade slide all the way up to my shoulders and as if that wasn’t bad enough, they also cut my sweater, my new MotoGP t-shirt and then made their way to my one-of-a-kind European jeans. “We’ll get you an-other sweater and a t-shirt,” said a familiar voice

on my right. “Haas!” My riding companion. It was good to see him yet bad at the same time as he was riding behind me and must have seen the entire incident.

I looked up again to see a few bystanders opening a tarp over top of me to shield me from the gravel upheaval of the unsuccessful attempt of the helicopter trying to land. “I’m not dead!”

They slid me onto a back board, handed out directions to the nearest fire hall a ways down the road and I was put down in the back of a pick-up truck and the sky began whizzing by in a beautiful blue streak.

I could hear the whir of the blades of the heli-copter and more voices introducing themselves as the flight nurses. “What about Haas?” I couldn’t leave him behind – I didn’t even know where I was going but all I could do was stare up at a heart monitor, IV bags, and feel the pain. I was taped down, wrapped tight and all I had to work with were my eyes and confusing thoughts.

I need a nap. I’m tired. I closed my eyes but the nurses told me I had to keep them open. I was concussed and had been unconscious for an ex-tended period of time. “Open?” I thought, “let me look out the window if you wanted me to keep my eyes open. I can’t see anything from here.”

Wheeled down the hospital hallways, the fluorescent lights flew by and soon I became the centre of a football huddle in the final quarter of the Superbowl. One man in charge ordering ev-eryone in the room what he wanted, how much of this, give her some cc’s of that, this test, that x-ray – surgery is standing by.

X-rays on my leg, back, chest, and who knows where else – my own doctor commented that she was ‘surprised I wasn’t glowing after all that radiation.’ Back and forth through a tube, inject my body with some dye, more back and forth through the tube and then racing back down the gauntlet hospital hallway to the football huddle where ‘players’ lined each side of my stretcher and we all listened to two surgeons behind my head going over the test results.

“No breaks in lower leg.” “Knee looks ok.” “Vitals are good.” “Don’t see any internal bleeding.” “Chest is clear” “Looks like a bit of collapse in the lower right lung.” “There isn’t even a fracture anywhere.” “Wow. She must have been wearing some really good gear.” With that statement, they faced the rest of the ‘team’ and ordered one ‘player’ to “clean the wounds of gravel, stitch up that leg and then release her.” Huddle over, everyone disappeared.

I had a concussion, was pretty banged up and was sporting a variety of colour on my right side where I hit the guardrail (my panniers went over the cliff and are currently floating in the Pacific). I had two perfectly plate-shaped bruises on either side of my ankle – a testament to my S-MX 5, Al-pinestars ladies boots doing their job making sure my ankle didn’t break.

I know I am lucky but I also know that this situ-ation could have been so much worse if I had not been wearing the proper gear for riding. A wom-an on scene who had seen the accident tracked me down on the internet and called me. This is when I realized the impact that my choice had on people that I didn’t even know. She thought I was dead. She cried on the phone. I spoke to her husband and to her 16-year old son who also saw what happened. They were relieved I was ok.

It made me think how my accident could have affected her if I had not been wearing the proper gear and they had witnessed more serious, pos-sibly graphic, injury. Their lives would be different.

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Admitting the business is a bit nerve wracking because it is so weather depen-dent and requires substantial financial in-vestment and physical work setting up tents, Margit loves Friday 13th in Port Dover.

“I’ve met people from all over the world. I’ve met people who have flown their bikes in from the U.K. and people who have ar-rived by limo. A lot of people come back every year and look for my clothing. They get to know you. It is a lot of fun,” she said.

Margit employs about 20 people for the event. She sets up Thursday and takes down Saturday.

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Women will often go for butter yellow or cactus green, if they are looking for some-thing different than black. Shoppers enjoy the quality and unique designs that Mar-git’s Dover Thunder Apparel offers.

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Rebellion

Rebellion is expected from teenagers. It’s nor-mal for youth to protest established traditions and test rules as they further reinvent them-selves in preparation for adulthood. But what about adults?

For 18-months I over achieved at the one-size-fits-all advice for widows after my hus-band passed away. I was still miserable! I was tired of cooing voices and puppy dog looks. I was exhausted from experts’ and friends’ direc-tions to be gentle and pamper myself.

What happens when we follow societal rules and expert advice and it doesn’t work, as I had done for a year and a half? Do we con-tinue indefinitely doing more of the same or choose to rebel against what’s expected?

Frustrated by advice that didn’t work, I threatened to do the most contrary thing I could think of for a middle-aged widow. I signed up for a 2,500-mile motorcycle road trip down the Pacific Northwest coast. The problem: I didn’t know how to ride a motor-cycle and only thirty days to learn.

My fantasy escape turned into one of the most challenging experiences I’ve ever tack-led. Learning to ride an 800-pound machine that has to be balanced and contains a mul-titude of buttons, levers and knobs proved ri-diculously hard. I failed my motorcycle license road test multiple times. While learning to ride, my relationship with fear became intimate, I eventually learned how to manage it.

Why is it that when we complete some-thing difficult that we know we’re good at, our satisfaction pales in comparison to the unfet-tered elation we feel when we accomplish something we believed we could not do?

On my trip I made a surprising discovery: every time I’d survive a new difficult riding challenge that I thought I couldn’t do, I’d dis-cover triumphant joy after completing it.

The deep happiness that I had been seek-ing came not from pampering and being good to myself, but rather from accomplish-ing the nearly impossible and testing myself. I felt happier than I had been in years after mak-ing it safely to the top of a steep gravel road and again after I rode across a 4-mile bridge so high that it rose above the clouds.

I never would have guessed that the way for me to find deep joy again was to tackle something difficult, test myself repeatedly and persevere through multiple setbacks before finally experiencing success. My family and friends were equally shocked.

The unwanted, unexpected, and unde-served happens in all of our lives, and when it does it’s natural to pull back from life to as-sess what and why. Although pampering and being good to ourselves is sage advice but at some point we need to move forward be-yond mere survival by reinventing ourselves and discovering how to thrive again.

I’m not advocating rebellion as the first solu-tion for adults, and I’m certainly not suggest-ing my choice was a wise one for others to fol-low. But rebellion can be a valuable adult tool when traditional advice doesn’t work.

Rebellion; offers an alternative to more of the same, opens up new possibilities by eras-ing old boundaries and uncovers truths not previously suggested.

What I learned from my motorcycle adven-ture was that growth isn’t just succeeding at accomplishing a difficult goal; it’s also the era-sure of a life-constraining fear that limits what we think we can do. I returned home from that motorcycle road trip with a determination to live life more fully.

When traditional advice doesn’t work, don’t copy teenagers by rolling your eyes, shaking your head. Consider rebelling like an adult by skipping the attitude, ignoring standard pro-tocol, and creating your own footsteps.

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For most of my life, wanting to fly has been a dream of mine. I’ve attended more than my fair share of air shows, all the while envious of every single pilot, imagining the freedom and the thrill they experience every time they strap into their cockpits.

A few months back while attending a motorcycle trade show, I had the pleasure of meeting Eddy Carolan who was repre-senting York Soaring Association. During our conversation, an invitation was extend-ed to schedule a visit and learn what they are all about, and the programs they offer. As it turns out Eddy as well as many of the instructors are motorcycle riders as well. He explains that the thrill and experience of riding is very much the same as flying. The precision handling and control, the mental and physical demands are all apart of mo-torcycling as well.

Located about an 1.5 hrs north west of Toronto, in the small town of ArthurYork Soaring Association has a 200 acre airfield outfitted with a few outbuildings, areas for trailered sailplanes and a designed RV camp-ing area with water/hydro, and a few cabins as well, for those who visit for an extended period, while working on their license.

York Soaring Association is made up of approx. 150 members, many of whom are seasoned airline pilots for some of the popular carriers you and I travel on. “They like to keep their stick, rudder skills honed, says Eddy, because the skills required to pi-lot a sailplane well, are a little different from power aircraft, a bit more demanding”

As we walk along the flight line, the differ-ent aircraft are pointed out and explained, everything from basic trainers to high perfor-mance sailplanes constructed from today’s most exotic composites are on the field to-

day including a vintage side-by-side trainer T21 Slingby from WWII era. “You’ll need a warm sweater, goggles and a ‘Snoopy’ hat, chuckles Eddy, if you fly in that one”

As we walk towards the beautiful two-seat, shiny sleek composite trainer they are taking me up in, I am briefed about what we will be doing and that I will be given the opportunity to take the controls and learn a couple of simple maneuvers.

I am firmly secured into the aircraft with the five-point quick release harness, just like I was strapping into an F1 car for a few hot laps. My Pilot, Charles Petersen sitting behind me, goes through the pre-takeoff checklist while the slack in the line connect-ing us to our tow plane is drawn taught. Be-fore I could get my camera out of it’s case and turned on, we are off the ground and on our way up to 3,000 ft. With my right hand lightly on the control stick and feet on the rudder pedals, I could feel the amount of control input my pilot was using just to stay in formation with our tow. We quickly reach altitude and with a clunk, we are re-leased and on our own sailing through the sky at 55 knots.

The sky was partially overcast with those many fluffy scattered clouds you see on the nicest summers riding days. It turns out; those fluffy clouds are just what a sailplane needs and what their pilots look for. They represent lift, thermals rising from the earth’s surface due to the sun’s energy heating the ground. As we get under one of those clouds, it feels just like an elevator taking off to the top floor, as much as 1,000 ft./min in some cases. It’s hard to believe there is just that much energy being released from the earth’s surface. Circling in these thermals and using each successive cloud as a step-ping-stone, glider pilots can keep a forward velocity going and maintaining altitude for hours on end. In fact, one of the final ex-

ercises required of a pilot is to navigate a cross-country circuit of approx. 600 kms and return back to the home field to land.

We spend about a half hour playing un-der the clouds. Charles briefs me on how to make a controlled right turn and then tells me “you have control”, I respond with “I have control”. Looking to the right out across the wing, I begin my scan of the sky, look-ing for other aircraft in the area, my scan is complete we are safe to make the turn. I ease the control stick to the right, press on the right rudder pedal to control the yaw and the plane begins to bank. Returning the stick to the neutral position and pulling back slightly on the stick brings the nose up maintaining a level turn. Then moving the stick to the left and giving left rudder input with my left foot, the glider begins to come out of the turn. As we approach level flight, the controls are returned back to the neutral position.

With a big grin on my face, thinking I was a natural at this, I hear Charles tell me that the turn was not bad but I was banked a little too much. 45 degrees instead of the recommended 30 degrees and my nose was down a bit too much during the turn. “Hmmm, gotta work on that I guess, after all, it was my first time” I said. I hear Charles chuckling behind me as he inquires if I’m up for some of the fun stuff?

We find a few good looking clouds and regain some of the altitude I lost during my trademark turns. Charles briefs me how he will be performing a wingover and then proceeds to bank the aircraft hard over and into a dive, gaining velocity our wings level out and as we pull up Charles banks the op-posite way – and that’s two G’s he says. All I could do was giggle like a little kid. After receiving confirmation that my lunch was still in my stomach and I was good with the flight so far, Charles proceeds to have a little

fun and do a few more wingovers before heading back towards the airfield.

We start to circle the airfield adjust-ing spoilers and preparing for the proper glideslope and airspeed to land. As quickly as we were up, the landing was smooth as butter and we were on the ground again. What an experience.

As we exit the aircraft, a fellow in his wheelchair approaches my pilot. Turns out, some of these sailplanes can be setup for total hand controls enabling some disabled people to experience flight and work to-wards getting their licenses. As it turns out, Charles explains that he is the founding di-rector of Freedom’s Wings Canada, a chari-table program under Youth Flight Canada Education Fund to help the disabled fly. The Youth Flight Canada Education Fund also provides flight youth education and training at no cost to those who are eligible and also rewards one youth per year with a bursary gift allowing them to get their pilots license.

As the day draws to an end, I am amazed at the camaraderie, which upon reflection is not much different than the brotherhood we as riders share.

York Soaring Association is reaching out to the riding community to experience a dif-ferent kind of thrill and enjoy a day of riding and flying you’ll remember forever.

As part of their invitation, York Soaring can host small or medium sized groups and prepare a BBQ with advanced notice during their summer hours. What a great destina-tion for your club or even just a few friends after riding the ‘Forks of the Credit’ or doing the ‘Butter Tart Trail’ (after all it’s a Canadian thing) on a perfect summers day.

Introduction flights are reasonable at $140 per person for a 30-minute experi-ence, which let me tell you is the experience of a lifetime. For more information check out www.yorksoaring.com TMT

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Nothing makes me cringe more than seeing a person out riding around without wearing any eye protection. Statistics show that over 1 mil-lion Americans have sustained some form of eye injury and over 40% of these injuries were caused by playing sports or other outdoor activities and in most cases were completely avoidable.

A case in point; I was out for a country ride the other day and barrelling along at around 80 KPH on a cruiser behind me was a person with-out a windshield or any form of eye protection. Now, many of us that have been riding for any amount of time have had the pleasant experi-ence of being hit by a large dune bug, rock or other matter while out on a country ride and we know how it feels when the object hits us on a full face helmet visor or on the cheek while wearing an open face helmet. It can re-ally sting. Even more scary is the thought that what we see happen to the dune bug on the front of our full face visors at speed when they are not paying attention to where we are go-ing is the same as what can happen to our eyes if they are hit without any form of protection.

Consider this; the consistency of the human eye is very similar to that of a grape. Thinking of it in this manner we can now understand that it does not take much force to damage our eyes and once damaged, we may experience a lifetime of negatively altered vision or worse, a future lifetime of blindness. Not a positive if you currently enjoy throwing your bike around the twisties on any given morning of the week.

So what is the best way to protect our eyes while riding you ask? There are basically three ways: wearing a full face helmet with the front visor closed. This is the very best way to protect your eyesight against unexpected collisions with flying objects as well as other annoying gremlins such as road dust and allergens. You can also wear basically any form of sunglasses when the visor is down to protect your eyes from harsh sunlight during day time riding.

If full face helmets aren’t your thing, then protective goggles designed specifically for motorcycle riding are in order. Goggles can withstand heavy impact from UFO’s during the ride and come in many shades and styles for both night and daytime riding. They usually of-fer a wider surface area of protective coverage around the eye area as opposed to sunglasses and premium models are usually vented in or-der to ensure no fogging during the ride.

Lastly, the most popular by far while wear-ing an open face helmet are sunglasses de-signed specifically for motorcycle riding. It is very important to understand that sunglasses designed for beach strolling use or sporting activities are not confused with wearing ANSI safety (pressure rated) shatterproof glasses with lenses designed to take a hit while you are riding your bike on the highway at 80 KPH.

If wearing an open face helmet consider wearing motorcycle eyewear that have a DOT approved level of protection for your eyes, have both a removable facial cavity to protect your eyes from road dust and debris as well as polarized lenses to protect your eyesight from the glaring sun. 100% UV protection coupled with 99.9% polarization is ideal.

Most motorcycle gear shops sell all three of these forms of protection. Bottom line - do yourself a favour and ALWAYS wear eye protec-tion while operating your motorcycle. TMT

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Motorcycle Licence TypesTo drive a motorcycle, you will need an M Class licence. The type of licence you get will depend on the type of motorcycle you want to drive. The three main types are:• M (includes M1 and M2): for full-speed motorcycles.• M w/condition L (includes M1 and M2-L): for mopeds and motorized scooters (also called “limited-speed” motorcycles).• M w/condition M (includes M1 and M2-M): for three-wheeled motorcycles.

Motor Tricycles Defined:Motor tricycles are eligible for registration as mo-torcycles for on-road use in Ontario. Typically, these three-wheeled motorcycles were designed with a single front wheel and two rear wheels.

Motor tricycles with two front wheels have emerged on the market. These can be registered for on-road use as motorcycles in Ontario if they meet all of the (federal) Canada Motor Vehicle Safety Standards contained in the Motor Vehicle Safety Act (MVSA) for a motor tricycle. Motor tricy-cles must also meet Ontario’s Highway Traffic Act (HTA) definition of a “motorcycle”, and all related legislative and regulatory safety standards and requirements for motorcycles.

The MVSA defines a motor tricycle as a motorcycle that:• is designed to travel on 3 wheels in contact with

the ground,• has seating on which all occupants must sit astride,• has no more than 4 designated seating positions,• has a GVWR of 1,000 kg or less; and• does not have a structure partially or fully enclosing

the driver and passenger, other than that part of the vehicle forward of the driver’s torso and the seat backrest.

The HTA defines a motor tricycle as: A self-propelled vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of the driver and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground. This definition includes a motor scooter, but does not include a motor-assisted bicycle. The HTA also specifies requirements and standards for braking, lighting, safety inspections, etc.

A driver of a motor tricycle is required to hold a M-class licence and must wear an ap-proved motorcycle helmet. A driver that chooses to complete their M1 or M2 exit road test on a motor tricycle — and that includes a motorcycle with a sidecar — will be issued an M licence with a restriction to operate motor tricycles only upon successful test completion. The endorsement will appear as Condition “M” on the front of the licence card and “Restricted Motorcycle” category on the back of the licence card. NOTE: Anyone with this endorsement is not authorized to operate a two-wheeled motorcycle.

An example of a motor tricycle that has two front wheels and one back wheel and can be reg-istered as a motorcycle is the Bombardier Recre-ational Products (BRP) Can-Am Spyder Roadster.

The Piaggio MP3, because of the close spacing of its front wheels, is considered to be a two-wheeled open motorcycle by Transport Can-ada. It can be registered as a motorcycle. Anyone taking his/her road test on the Piaggio MP3, will receive an unrestricted M class licence.

Trike License Class M Restrictions and Conditions Q&A

What type of licence would be issued to riders who take their test on a BRP Can-Am Spyder?The “Spyder” has two wheels in front and one in back, a steering handlebar, straddle seats, right-foot actuated braking system (rather than handlebar actuated), and a clutch.

The Spyder is an “open” vehicle, which has a windshield, no doors, no seatbelts and no airbags, and can accommodate one passenger straddled behind the driver, with an adjustable seat back.

Anyone taking his/her road test on the BRP Spyder would receive a restricted ‘M’ class licence.

This means, he/she could operate this type of motor tricycle only but not a two-wheeled motorcycle.

Where can I take a motor tricycle road test?You can take a motor tricycle road test at any DriveTest centre where motorcycle road tests are offered. For the nearest location, please visit the DriveTest website.

What happens if I take my road test on a motor tricycle and not a two-wheeled motorcycle?If you choose to complete your road test on a motor tricycle and successfully pass the test, you will receive either an M2 or M licence with an M Condition. The M Condition will restrict you to driving only three-wheeled motorcycles on any public road in Ontario.

Anyone with an M condition specific to three-wheeled motorcycles is not authorized to operate a two-wheeled motorcycle.

How do I go about booking a road test?Applicants should decide what type of motorcy-cle licence they need and bring the appropriate vehicle to the road test.

Road tests for motor tricycles can be booked using the Automated Road Test Booking System on-line at www.rtbo.rus.mto.gov.on.ca. Or call the 416-325-8580 or 1-888-570-6110 toll free. The automated on-line and telephone booking systems will inform and instruct applicants about booking a motor tricycle test.

Upgrading to a full-speed motorcycle Licence:

If I hold a licence with an M condition that only allows me to drive a motor tricycle, what do I need to do to upgrade to a full unrestrict-ed motorcycle licence?To upgrade to a full unrestricted M licence, one that will allow you to drive a full-speed two-wheeled motorcycle, you must do the following:

You must successfully complete an M1 and M2 road test on a full-speed two-wheeled motorcycle.

You will need a 90-day temporary licence that will allow you to operate a full-speed two-wheel motorcycle for training purposes, which can be obtained from the ServiceOntario. This temporary licence will allow you to practise on a full-speed two-wheeled motorcycle before taking a road test. Novice conditions may apply, depending on what licence you hold.

To further clarify any confusion: In Ontario you are required to pass a knowledge test which is the ‘trike’ equivelant of an M1 and is valid for only 90 days. Operators then are required to advance to the next levels of the graduated licensing program through approved training courses or through Ministry of Transportations required testing if they choose to continue to operate a trike. Check with your provincial or state licensing bureau for rules that apply to your jurisdiction.

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Before you get bent all out of shape and tell us that we missed the best” roads like the Blue Ridge Parkway, or the Tail of the Dragon, or the Cherohola, yes, they are wonderful bike roads, but we rode them two years ago. On this ride, we wanted to discover some of the roads we missed back then, and let me tell you, we found some great ones!

After an hour and a half of a Saturday morning’s insanity called the 401 and the Q.E.W., we crossed the border at Fort Erie and were gently reminded to sign our new pass-ports by the US border guard. New York’s 219, took us south towards Ellicottville, but after a few miles, we set the GPS towards Jamestown, NY, hometown of Lucille Ball, and our first evening’s accommodation at the architecturally designed Oaks B&B.

The Oaks, named after the trees that shade West Third Street. It was designed by local architect Raymond Freeburg in 1930 and features unique rooms, with details that will charm those of you who have an eye for dé-cor. We were quite comfortably ensconced in our suite, and took advantage of the large TV, and the pool table room in the evening. The pool table is badly warped, which evens out the play between those who can normally sink a ball, and those that can’t. (Hint: just shoot down the side rail.) Oh yes, any B&B worth its salt has a fine spread for breakfast, and the Oaks certainly provided this.

There are many ways to reach a destina-tion, if you have one. One is to plan, in infinite detail, which roads to ride. One is to let the

wind, and the weather determine your route. Our initial idea, this time, was to try to ride as many of the good riding roads in Kentucky and Tennessee as we could in our allotted time. What we discovered was that the best riding roads are often those least travelled, and there is a reason that they are less trav-elled – they generally go from off the beaten path to off the beaten path. This means that the riding was as nice as anyone living in straight-roads Canada could want, without having to spend a fortune to explore Europe, New Zealand, or northern India.

Once out of New York State, our route south took us through the hills and back roads of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ken-tucky, plus a detour through Tennessee to North Carolina and back. After Jamestown, the next few days of the ride, I called the “25, 35, 45, 35, 25 ride,” because those were the speeds we went as we rode from small town to small town. We rarely got out of fourth gear, yet 45 mph (approx. 70 kph) felt like the ‘right” speed at which to travel. How boring, you say? Well Mr. Speed, if you opt to ride exceeding the limits of sanity, you will, no doubt, end up sharing a close relation-ship with that rocky cliff face, drop off, or becoming much more intimate with one of the state’s more prominent coniferous or deciduous denizens.

The roads were deliciously curved as we rode through PA’s 60, 62, 666, 66 and 68, from Sheffield, through Clarion to Beaver and then on through Florence to Avella, where I thought that I’d read that there were sup-posed to be lots of motels. This was not the case, and we back-tracked to Washington to find an old Ramada. I say “old,” because it was: its restaurant was closed, the central air blew air from the smoking rooms into our room, there was no business centre computer, and the place had passed its “best by” date. On the other hand, it was as clean as a motel that was full of fracking rig workers could be, I suppose.

One of the “lessons” we learned from this

trip is that, if possible, end each day at an in-terstate highway, as in the USA, that is where the majority of the hotels, motels, and restau-rants now are located. Sadly, many of the mo-tels in the centre of small town USA have long since closed for good, been converted to stor-age facilities or into small rental apartments. Places to eat in small towns are also in short supply. This doesn’t apply to tourist towns, but does to many other places. Please don’t give me a line about the pleasures of camp-ing out. At our ages, our idea of camping is a three-star hotel.

We had a written plan of the routes to take and the roads to ride, as we wended our way in a southerly direction, but found that simply plugging in a destination, and then setting the GPS to “shortest route,” provided us with many scenic and challenging roads. Once one gets into the hills of Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky, it is quite easy to be-come “G.P.S.L.” – GPS LOST. You know where you want to go, and trust that the GPS routes are up to date, and find, after a few miles of riding on a road that is getting narrower and narrower, with less and less tarmac and more and more gravel, and holy “sh*t, what is that and where the heck are we now? Yes, you’ve reached someone’s chicken coop and yes, those are real “No Trespassing” signs, and yes, that does look a bit creepy, and let’s turn around and back-track now. G.P.S.L. Thank you Mr. Garmin, Mr. Magellan and Mr. T. Tom. That was another fine mess you’ve gotten us into! And we relish it!

On the third day, we rode to Waynesburg, Old Concord, PA, and over to Morgantown, not at all surprised to see two live deer stand-ing just off the shoulder, plus a dead one, no doubt wishing he’d stayed with his buddies, two wild turkeys, a few grouse, and a painted turtle attempting to cross the road. There were the 218, the 7, and then the wonder-ful twists and turns of the 33 and the 119 to Philippi, where we stopped to pose for pho-tos at the covered bridge. The +30 C heat got to us, and we stopped for the evening in

Weston at a Comfort Inn.One truly scary thing about travelling in

the States is what to do when you stop rid-ing for the day. As mentioned, most motels are just off of an interstate highway, and, I don’t know about you, but once I am off the bike for the day, I do not want to get back on to ride to supper, especially if there’s a decent place to eat within walking distance. However, it is not the plan, nor the custom, for interstate interchanges to have sidewalks between the motels and the restaurants or other services. Riding a motorcycle across the country is far less risky than attempting to take a walk to a restaurant from your mo-tel at most US interstate highway locations. What is with that anyway? Obesity epidem-ic? Wonder why no longer!

Once away from the motels, we contin-ued to ride wonderful roads, meet interest-ing people and have a great time. The ride on the 33 to Ripley had us giggling with those two-lane paths to riding bliss. On this trip, we rode more curves in a day than we would ride in an entire season in southern Ontario, or anywhere else in Canada for that matter.

We were sitting in a restaurant, eating lunch and waiting out a small shower that was passing over us. There was a young lad at the counter, the son of our waitress. He looked to be about seven or eight. This res-taurant was in a small town somewhere, can’t remember where. It was just outside of the main part of town, on the highway that most of the town’s teenagers must have viewed as the way to get the heck out of here. Every-one in the restaurant seemed to know each other – it’s that way in such places. An older grandfatherly-looking gentleman stopped by to chat with the youngster, to tease him a bit, as older folks tend to do with wee lads. We didn’t hear the conversation in its en-tirety, but we remember the child’s obviously chagrinned response, “I’m a boy, and I’ve got proof!” My wife and I looked at each other and chuckled – it was a line for the books. TMT (To be continued, Multi-Part Series)

Which State has the Best Bike Roads?The Road to Kentucky

by RICHARD ACKROYDContributing Writer - TMT

Clockwise: Fresh pavement too?, Kentuky & Tennessee - back roads with curves, elevation changes and no traffic, Sign on a drive-up restaurant that still offers curb service, the menu, Covered Bridge Philippi, WV., This is the type of unexpected thing one can run into when setting the GPS to “Shortest Route” in the back roads of West Virginia.


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When you’re a young boy or girl, and you no-tice a motorcycle or motorcycle rider for the first time, you envision yourself on a motor-cycle in some capacity; either riding on the back, racing on a race track or through some ‘bendies’, cruising down the boulevard or touring cross country. There’s always seems to be that first ‘vision’ of ourselves that will dictate what kind of rider and what kind of bike we will possibly identify us for the dura-tion of our riding experience. Would we be-come a ‘Squid’ or a ‘Loser’?

I’ve never used either term personally, but I’ve been around various types of riders and have heard them label the other with said terms. To each his own; is the motto I try to abide by.

When I was a very young kid I noticed sports bike first. The powerful motors and aggressive seating positions exuded speed, and in my young mind ‘cool’. I didn’t know it would lead to me being labeled a ‘squid’ one day. The cruisers, which were chromed out with a far more relaxed seating position with ones feet out in front of them didn’t ap-peal to me at all. It always looked to me like a bike your father would ride, which was bad (though I envied my father). When I was told they were slower than Sports bikes, it was the final nail in the coffin. I turned a blind eye to them and never looked back.

My first bike was a used 1979 Honda CBF750, which I thought was the fastest thing on the road, even though it was far from it. I couldn’t imagine myself on a cruiser. It didn’t fit my mindset at the time, or the image I had of myself. I saw myself as someone some-what on the edge of society with a need for speed. The guys I knew on cruisers were the guys who never fit in, in society as a whole and weren’t popular. I was popular though I didn’t want to fit in and wanted to rebel by using speed as my risk elixir.

I graduated from one sports bike to anoth-er, not knowing I was labeled a ‘squid’, which was the term used to describe motorcyclist who rode racing bikes. I never understood why that term was used, and was never curi-ous enough to ask it’s users as to why. I did know that it was coined by the ‘losers’. That’s the name I’ve heard many sports bike riders calling those who chose to ride cruisers. I think it goes back to the biker days from the sixties where some bikers would work odd jobs, and not really contribute much to soci-ety. The title stuck – in some circles.

I’ve never labeled anyone a loser or squid based on their preference of bike. Being a minority member of society I know the dam-age labeling can cause and how unjustifiable it can be.

I’ve never ridden up beside some soc-cer mom in her mini-van and had her stare straight ahead for fear if I saw her looking in my direction. I’ve met some of the most calm and almost pacifist riders on cruisers who scare soccer moms on a regular basis. Read-ing a book by its cover is still a best seller.

We all like to change things up a bit, and try something new once in a while. About ten years ago I traded in a sports bike and de-cided to get a cruiser. I knew it wasn’t ‘me’, but I wanted to try it because of that fact and to see how and if I could adapt to that style of bike and the cruiser mentality.

A hint of things to come was when I was ‘air pedaling’ as I left the motorcycle parking lot after purchasing a Yamaha Virago 1100. I can’t remember the year but it didn’t matter. It took me a short while to get used to sitting ‘in’ the bike instead of atop it. Likewise, it took be the longest time to get used to riding with my feet in front of my knees instead of under my butt. I don’t think I ever got used to that. The power or lack thereof was the most dif-ficult thing to adjust to, and to accept; which I never did. I was used to simply cracking the throttle and going. No hesitation or lag. I know cruisers can be fast, especially in com-parison to automobiles, but cruisers simply don’t have the quick response and raw speed of sports bikes, no matter how much you hop them up.

I must have put thousands of miles on the Virago but I could never get used to the ergo-nomics and power. I felt people looked at me differently also when I was on the road. When I was riding a sports bike, people tended to gawk at the bike or possibly frown at me in assumption I was a speeder. On a cruiser peo-ple tended to be less friendly or interested. It was almost as if they were simply trying to avoid all contact with me if possible. My Virago didn’t have loud pipes and I’m clean shaven and not prone to wearing leather, so I can imagine what the stereotypical cruiser rider’s deal with on a regular basis.

I guess at the end of the day, you have to be ‘you’ and whatever that is, so be it. Wheth-er you’re labeled a ‘squid’ or a ‘loser’ it’s simply a label and not any identifier of who you are as a person or rider.

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This is 40

Math is not my forte, but if I was born in ’73, that would make me, ummm, 40! Well that’s funny, I don’t feel 40, and I’ve been mistaken for my 17 yr old daughters’ boyfriend. The general consensus is, I don’t look it either. The most re-vealing thing about my age just might be my motorcycle. My “new” bike is a 1986 Yamaha Radian, air cooled, 4cyl, 600 cc, UJM. This par-ticular bike has no connection to my youth, I didn’t know it existed until it was extinct from the market. I bought it based on my 23 years of riding experience and what I NEEDED the bike to do for ME.

My first years riding were in the early ‘90s on various early ‘80s models. I started out small and moved to bigger bikes and different styles, learning the ropes as I went. I learned a lot just from reading various motorcycle mags, and watched lots of racing live and on TV.

Entering my 20s I landed a good paying job and I could now afford to get myself a new sportbike. I purchased a new YZF 600 in early ’94 and upgraded to the newer version in ’98. I learned a lot more about riding through my 20s, changing my cruising pace into a much quicker, fate testing pace. I made it out alive, no crashes, just speeding tickets. As the 90s ended so did the good job and the new bike. And I was damn near out of demerit points. Motorcycling as I knew it came to an abrupt end. Bike mags, Playstation and SPEED Chan-nel were all I had for motorcycling.

This insanity stopped in my early 30s when a 1986 Honda Interceptor came my way. Ad-mittedly, it was hard to imagine such a down-grade in equipment but for $500 I was back in the saddle. As the days and months passed, I grew fonder of the old girl and before long we were blitzing through the Colorado Rockies to-gether, with an old friend on his Yamaha FZ1. That little bike was nipping at the back tire of that litre bike when the roads got twisty, and that’s when I had the revelation. Half the cc’s, 20+yrs older, and a fraction of the price and I’m able to push that bigger bike to go faster. Genius, I am.

You can only ride so fast on the street and most bikes are nowhere near their limit, un-like the rider who is probably over theirs’. A smaller, older bike can be just as competent as the newer, bigger bikes when the road throws you a curve, and they’re much more forgiving if needed. My friends’ CBR 250 is a joy to ride on a twisty road, and once up to speed, will hang with most riders on most bikes.

The old Interceptor wore out its’ welcome, just boring and soulless. Much to my enjoy-ment, the Radian now parks in its’ place. This bike has character and soul, and much more fun to ride. It seems as though I’m stuck in 1986, but I’m fine with that because my prices are stuck there too! I’ve got a good looking, re-liable vintage bike, purchased and insured for under $2000. I commute to work, rain or shine, do two-up trips with the wife, and weekend rides with friends. The bike does everything I need it to do, and it does it just as good or bet-ter than any bike out there when it comes to street riding.

If you don’t think you can afford to ride, think again. You can probably sell your second vehicle, buy a reliable old bike, insure it and still have money left over for a road trip or two. You may even look your age.

Now if it’s an image thing for you guys, grab your crotch, make sure everything’s there, now go check out that older, smaller, cheaper bike. Oh, and let go of your crotch, they’re looking at you funny. TMT

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“This is how I want to bring home cham-pionships.” says Jordan Szoke after com-pleting a victory lap with the checkered flag. “With a win.” The newly crowned nine time Canadian Superbike Champion brought home his third championship of the season on Sunday. Having already claimed a National Observed Trials Cham-pionship and the Kelso Series Mountain Bike Championship.

“I am totally exhausted.” says Szoke “What a season, I dedicated myself to do something pretty special for our fans and sponsors and it feels incredible to have ac-complished just that.”

The final round of the Mopar Canadian Superbike Championship wrapped up on Sunday at the beautiful leCircut Mont Tremblant in the pristine village of Mont Tremblant Quebec. The 4.26 km road-course is surrounded by beautiful scenery nestled at the base of the mountains.

Szoke started from pole position after nearly claiming the track record during Saturdays qualifying. Szoke recorded a time of one minute, 39.207 seconds during his second lap. “It was the ideal lap, the bike was working perfectly.” says Szoke. “The weather has remained con-

sistent throughout the weekend so we have been able to move forward with our setup. Our crew really nailed it.”

Szoke jumped to the lead early during the 16 lap race on Sunday to claim the vic-tory. Completing the 68.16 km distance in 26 minutes, 51.253 seconds, 6.163 ahead of the rest of the field. “To win these championships means so much to me. I hope this never stops. I will be racing as long as I am bringing home results. This is what I was meant to do.”

The weekends exhilaration was mired in sadness as the motorcycle community lost one of the most promising young stars in Canadian Road Racing. John-Ross MacRae of Calgary AB crashed in turn one during Saturdays Qualifying and later suc-cumbed to injuries in hospital. “This is a huge loss to our community.” says a som-ber Szoke. “JR and his family are such a positive influence to our community and to have them touched by this is heart-breaking.

Blackfoot Motorsports has been one of my longest sponsors, and to know that their family is going through this is tragic. JR died doing something he loved, and he will be truly missed.”

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Alvaro Bautista narrowly missed out on fourth position in the Czech Grand Prix, finishing less than one tenth of a second behind nine-time champion Valentino Rossi.

GO&FUN Honda Gresini rider Bautista had infamously collided with Yamaha Factory Rac-ing’s Rossi on the opening lap of the Italian’s home Grand Prix at Mugello earlier this sea-son, before a near miss in Barcelona two weeks later. At Brno, however, there was no such hap-pening as the duo dueled for the majority of the race.

“Once again I had the chance to finish ahead of Rossi, but I ended up just 0.077 be-hind him at the line,” Bautista smiled. “However,

I am happy because we had a good race and ran a fast pace that was better than in practice.

“I had a lot more confidence in the bike to-day. It was a nice battle with Rossi and maybe he just had a little more than I did at the end. We’re going in the right direction, continu-ing with what we started at Laguna Seca two races ago; that is very important. Last year we didn’t have a great feeling at Brno, but this year we went well which confirms that things are getting better.”

After 11 races, Bautista – who started on the front row at Brno – remains eighth in the championship but now just four points be-hind Ducati Team’s Andrea Dovizioso.

Bautista all smiles after battle with Rossi

0.099 seconds -- less than one tenth of a second -- was the combined difference separating first from second in this past weekend’s AMA Pro Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson Series doubleheader at the Red Bull Indianapolis GP. The exceptionally tight battles for victory were a fitting way indeed to kick off this year’s $60,000 XR Showdown, and the increased stakes cer-

tainly produced the sort of intense racing one might expect.

Perhaps unforeseen, however, was the mammoth impact a pair of super spoilers had on the weekend’s outcome -- the ef-fects of which will continue to be felt as the XR Showdown moves into its final two stages.

While the rolling Steve Rapp (Aerostar

Global/Suburban Harley-Davison) en-tered the weekend as the pre-race favorite with a four-race win streak in his favor, the weekend wins were ultimately taken by a pair of talented wild cards: former GP hero Jeremy McWilliams (Harley-Davidson of Bloomington Indiana) and aspiring GP pi-lot Hafizh Syahrin (PETRONAS/KWR).

49-year-old McWilliams struck first. The

AMA Pro Vance & Hines Harley-Davidson Series Round 7 Recap cagey veteran won out at the conclusion of a four-man drafting war on Saturday, claiming a narrow victory over Eco Fuel Saver/Scrub-blade’s Tyler O’Hara, Syahrin, and Rapp.

The former Grand Prix race winner was elat-ed with his accomplishment after coming up short in his previous attempt on an XR at Indy. The Irishman said, “I was just in the right place at the right time. I sort of lost my way a little bit at the beginning and these guys started moving ahead. I thought I better dig in or it wasn’t going to work.

I just wanted to be in a position at the end to give myself half a chance. Hafizh passed me and at that stage I thought Tyler and Steve were going to get a way. Luckily it came back with the draft and if it wasn’t for the draft, I don’t think I would have got back on their tails.

“At the end, going into the last lap I was making mistakes, Steve was making mistakes, but I just luckily stayed in front (of O’Hara and Syahrin). Steve got through and if it hadn’t been for that I don’t think I would have won the race; I drafted him across the line.

Following their dramatic last-lap battle at In-dianapolis seven days earlier, which featured the two bikes making contact, on this occa-sion it was the Italian who finished ahead of the American MotoGP™ World Champion of 2006.

“For what we could expect today, I’m pretty pleased because I was able to have a consistent pace and I managed to get un-der 1’58 at the end of the race,” Dovizioso began. “I did the whole race in front of Nicky; I pushed my hardest and I didn’t make many mistakes. I’m happy with my performance, but of course the gap is too much; 35 sec-onds is really a lot.”

Dovizioso would finish seventh, with Hayden in eighth position and pleased with the fact that he was the only prototype run-ner to select the softer option front tyre.

“Once again, the guys in front were quite

a bit quicker than us,” Hayden commented. “Dovi got away from me in the beginning, but I was able to bring him back and race with him a bit. He was right in front of me at the end, but there was really nowhere to put in a clean pass without making it touchy; he rode a great race and covered all the lines the last couple laps.

“The bike was definitely better in the Warm-Up; and then in the race I felt the best over the bumps that I have all weekend. I did the sighting lap on the hard front tyre, but I switched to the soft on the grid. It was a bit of a gamble, but it turned out to be the right choice.”

Dovizioso and Hayden remain seventh and ninth in the championship, although the former now has GO&FUN Honda Gresini’s Alvaro Bautista only four points behind him.

Mixed feelings for Dovizioso and Hayden

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You just never know what life will bring any given day and this was one of those days.

It had rained and the sky had smatterings of blue behind the thinning grey clouds. It was one of Southern Ontario’s steamy humid Sundays.

I had my course set for Bayfield. All factors seemed readied for a great ride. The corn was high and green with the tassels like a horses’ mane. The bike was roaring and my spirits where flying.

I thought I would stop in Parkhill for a coffee and some gas then to Bayfield if the weather would continue to cooperate.

I turned left onto Highway 22 and the dark clouds where upon me within a snip-pet of time. The rain started to teem down. I was on the highway as the cars where lining up behind me, irritated that this woman in a pink motorcycle jacket riding a Harley was traveling ten kilometres below the speed limit. Well the weather was not blowing over, in fact the sky was quite dark and get-ting darker. I was now soaked and could feel the rain running down into my left boot.

An inner wrestling match was happen-ing; One voice saying “keep riding and get to Parkhill, there is a Timmy’s to hold up in till it stops raining” while the other voice said “pull over now and wait it out”. (Perhaps now is a good time to tell you that I had never ridden in the rain before). Immediately I thought I’m out of my comfort zone, time to get off the highway.

Approaching a farm house seeking shel-ter from the downpour that is now pelting me with hail. I proceeded slowly, half way down the long gravel driveway. I didn’t see any vehicles or any activity at all for that mat-ter. The porch looked like a good option so I parked the bike and headed for shelter. The thunder got louder, the rain heavier and the hail stones bigger. It was a damn good de-cision to pull off the road. Now with some time on my hands, my inner voices started their debating match. One voice saying I should be irritated, restless and totally per-turbed by this situation on some stranger’s porch. The other saner side embraced the opportunity to contemplatively meditate.

My jeans where soaked and the lining of my pink riding jacket was sticking to my arms. I could feel my feet sliding within the confines of my leather boots.

On reflection now, I felt somewhat like Gretel without Hansel on the porch. I was hoping the owners were away and no one would ever have to know I was establishing squatting rights on their porch.

It never really dawned on me to knock on the door. Well this dog looking like Lassie comes round the corner and up onto the porch. She moved quickly and quietly. I could tell she was friendly by her posturing and her well groomed coat. I greeted the approaching dog with a friendly hi and then round the corner came a tall older gentle-man assessing the friend or foe situation. Within a quick while we established why I was there and he beckoned me to come with him out of the rain.

I quickly offered my hand and said hi my name is Nancy. Soaked through and through, he lead me to his back door. We mutually sensed no danger and I entered his farm kitchen, wood stove and all.

He said he had been napping and thought he saw a shadow on the porch but could only see black boots. He then called out to his wife “we have rain company”. I guess that is farm code for strangers caught in the rain now on the doorstep. I heard a voice coming from the other room saying “good!” I thought how nice, how neighbourly.

She came toddling into the kitchen just arousing from her daily reprieving nap. I sus-pected this was well deserved from the years of farming. Her feeble locomotion was ac-companied by a subtle Parkinsonian tremor in her neck. I quickly introduced myself and she said her name was Catherine and this is my husband Jeremy. She remarked about the weather, that she too was surprised at the sudden down pour. While going to the refrigerator and rummaging through I could tell she was trying to come up with some sort of snack to be hospitable. She opened a tin of cookies and asked me if I would like a cup of coffee. I politely respond “yes” and continued to engage in conversation. Now more comfortable with this rain soaked lady with a Harley Davidson black tee shirt and flattened wet helmet hair. (Oh and lets not

forget the long black feathers dangling from my ears.) the dialogue was more meaning-ful. We talked about Jeremy’s arthritic knees and him getting tears of pain in his eyes ev-ery time he walked to the barn.

The dialogue was interesting, however I was more struck by this old couple in their home of forty six years and how they where warming up to this unusual stranger in their kitchen. The coffee dire tasting but the experience was irreplaceable. This couple interacted in simple, pure harmony like a beautiful waltz. Their conversational dance was magical. Their tone, their gestures in their place at the table was so close, I recall the two placemats touching each other. It was more than sweet, it was extraordinary. These two seemingly old love birds: still em-bracing this waltz of life.

What a treasure for me to see and feel this couples reverence for each other. Their un-derstated love and devotion was obviously integral to them dancing through each sea-son of their marriage. This is how it should be. The truth is, I believe few ever experience or even believe possible in the longevity of a marriage to be richer than the day it started. Right before me, here in this kitchen I see no pretence, only the enjoyment of this three some conversation. As each one spoke, there was a respectful, non judgemental listening of the other. There was no rushing the other or disinterest in Jeremy’s conviction that two glasses of pineapple juice per day had really helped his arthritis pain. I got the feeling that Catherine had heard this statement many times before, however her care and high regard for her husband overshadowed the likely redundancy.

We talked about the corn crop and the need for this rain. It was true, the tassel time for the corn is the time the plant is making the cobs and the moisture is needed to make this work.

While I looked at these two sitting side by side each with their own coffee and bland cookie interacting with such har-mony of mind, body and spirit. This is truly not the norm, certainly not the norm in my circle of life

My two marriages both started out side by side but didn’t last long in either. Given my own maturity, I think I understand the

dynamics of this working union before me. Like this farm life, both worked the farm like their marriage, dedicated to love and nur-ture the land like they did each other. Their lives intertwined and were interdependent to make the farm viable. Sharing the toil and sharing the joy. Their efforts, perhaps more tangible on a day to day level. The focus never changing from the love of their shared religious life, to the shared work of their farm and their family never leaving each others side. Nothing was staged for this stranger; just their sincere marital love, affection and devotion.

Well it’s now almost three in the after-noon and they had to go to church as they did each Sunday at three. The coffee cups where moved to the sink. It was still raining out and I thanked them for their hospital-ity as I directed myself to a stool on their covered porch.

I could tell they felt a little unkind as they locked the back door and got into their van. The engine was started then it was shut off. Catherine got out of the van with the keys in her hand. She said “we want you to stay in the house”. I am sure they were having their form of internal debate as to the appropriate-ness of leaving this wet “ragamuffin” alone in their home. I quickly declined, saying I was more comfortable with the situation to wait for the rain to stop on the porch.

They drove off to church and I rested with the dog at my feet reviewing what had just transpired. The rain eventually stopped and the sun did shine almost as quickly as the previous turn of the weath-er. I went into my purse and pulled out my business card, I wrote “thank you” on the back. I placed it on the small table on the porch, said goodbye to the lassie dog, got on my Harley and rode back home. Never regretting this unforeseen change of destination.

I am sure Jeremy and Catherine, upon their return chatted about their unusual encounter that afternoon with their “Rain Company”; at least till supper anyway. For me, I will always remember my first rained out ride, in that it was not a wash out.

What a gift, what an unforeseen treasure of “Rain Company”. TMT

by NANCY AMBROGIOContributing Writer - TMT

An unforeseen treasure of a rainy day.

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