My boss Dan MacLeod and I set out today to answer a question that’s messed with the heads of many a philosopher over the centuries: How many trips across Portland does it takes to cook hot dogs on a motorcycle engine? We double wrapped four, Maine-made, red snapper hot dogs in foil and wired them to […]
It sounds strange, but without Portland Harbor, there’d be no Mt. Washington Auto Road. I learned this tidbit while riding up the famously steep byway on Thursday with my buddy Johnny Sideburns, a local comedian and fellow sidecar enthusiast. The 7.6 mile-long road sets aside a day or two every year during Laconia’s long-running bike […]
(Attention! This post is nothing more than a sweet, sweet video and photo dump. You have been warned.) I spent a week in Moab, Utah, riding motorcycles, at the end of April. I’ve already made one video about my experience and posted it on this blog. Here’s a totally self-indulgent video followup on that report. […]
I started planning the April trip before Christmas. It was epic. I drove four days straight, more than 2,500 miles from my home in Portland, Maine, to Moab, Utah, a mecca for desert motorsports adventure. Dragging my Russian sidecar bike behind my truck, I made it all the way out west, over the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, […]
I think we’d been talking about it for years and Saturday seemed like as good a day as any to do it. We woke up in our tents after a night of rain and snow, but it wasn’t very cold. Thermos brought a trophy he scabbed together. It was made from old motorcycle parts and […]
This is day 10 of 12 installments of my best pictures and videos of 2015. Today, it’s all about adventure on two or three wheels. Like last January (watch the video above) when I went camping in temperatures colder than Russia. Take a look below at my best motorcycle adventures of the year. My magical […]
It was drizzling and it was damp on Friday night as I headed to camp. I loaded up my sidecar and rode out into the rain. On the road, I’d like to freeze as I motored up north looking for trees but before I could hit the woods I got stuck in the Rumford homecoming […]
It’s hard to say what kind of animal ambled out in front of Tommy Stone and his motorcycle on Sunday and doesn’t really matter, anyway. He knew he didn’t want to hit it. He tried to swerve and crashed his bike, a 2012 Suzuki DRZ400. “Even thinking back on it now all I see is […]
I looked up at the figure in front of me. He towered, motionless, at least 20 feet above my head. He held an ax, as long as I am tall, in both his hands. I raised my camera for a picture, my left eye squinting through the viewfinder. “Folks in Bangor aren’t going to like […]
I took an experienced rider education course a couple weekends back courtesy of some federal grant money administered through the Maine secretary of state’s office. Read my blog post about that HERE. If you missed it, you’re in luck, they’ve got money left over that has to be spent by the end of the year. […]
