Today is the start of my big overnight weekend on Vivie. It’s my first 120 mile overnight solo ride, a biggggg baby step for me!! My plan was to just hop’ my way over to Helen, Georgia, east of Blue Ridge in the northern part of the state. I finished packing and got out the … Continue reading Motorcycle Riding, Big Baby Step
Thought I'd type up my itemized packing list for riding a motorcycle overnight, with a few notes for clarification. All of this fit into my tiny 20 liter day hiking backpack or onto my body. It then leaves a little space for comfort-and-joy type items if you wish. NOTES BACKPACK Small zip wallet in … Continue reading Motorcycle Riding, Packing List, Itemized
I’m going to toss in a plug here for Pareto’s Principle which basically states that a disproportionately small number of inputs is responsible for a disproportionate number of outputs in pretty much any arena of life. In this application, we would pay attention to the likelihood that, in general, we only use approximately 20% of … Continue reading Motorcycle Riding, The Power of the Packing List
Viv has had her saddlebags for a whole month already, and I still hadn’t found the opportunity to take my first overnight trip. It really stretches me to think that a “long distance” trip will be leaving me really hanging out there, what feels like, completely on my own. At first, it seems like I … Continue reading Motorcycle Riding, Packin’ Light
I guess there’s not too many wives who are leading the charge, encouraging their hubby to find a bike, so they can go riding. Well, David was obviously sufficiently motivated, because guess what he picked up today?!?! A 2014 Triumph Tiger 800!! Looks like there’s a new girl in town!! Nuff said!! Lolol, omg!!
Tonight, I ended up crashing and binge watching the show a friend told me about on Amazon Prime – The Ride. Those guys are nuts – they rode their BMW adventure bikes 21,000 km/13,000 miles all the way from London to Beijing, China. They rode the Silk Road through Turkey, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, … Continue reading Motorcycle Riding, Riding on Borrowed Confidence
I went for a ride at 3:00 – I’m not sure that anything new came out of it for me – I felt stalled out on my learning progression today. I tried to just go with the flow – I went out the ridge, dropped down on the road that had dumped me coming up … Continue reading Motorcycle Riding, Stalled
With every new iteration of upping your game, you always start out at the same place – sneaking up on the idea, stretching your thoughts as to what is possible. I had talked to Adam about riding Viv out to Tahoe, for like a second – he’d said, enthusiastically, “Go for it!” That was great … Continue reading Motorcycle Riding, Stretching My Thinking
A few days ago, I relayed to my riding buddy, Adam, that I’d been reading up on someone who said a 250cc bike could be a touring bike. This had gotten my imagination cranking.… I got to thinking, maybe I’ll just ride Vivie out to Tahoe sometime this year, and then hike the 173 mile … Continue reading Motorcycle Riding, Percolating
My pretty girl and I decided to go for a ride today. We scooted all the way across town, negotiating traffic nicely. We went for a ride, up on Signal Mountain. We handled the 180 degree uphill on the switchbacks of the W Road of Signal Mountain like we’d done it a dozen times, even … Continue reading Motorcycle Riding, Settling In
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