A couple of adventure bikes are looking at a creek crossing when, out of nowhere, …. a Harley Davidson Street Glide scoots across the creek!
Not only that … He has his wife and small child on the bike….
While I can’t recommend doing this without the proper gear, and a Harley is not the best motorcycle for this type of riding …….
Take that adventure riders! 🙂
Motorcycle Radio…The #1 Motorcycle Show in the US
This week on the DawgHouse…. lots of discussion not a lot of news 🙂
– Ken’s News –
Kid rides Canadian university tunnels and they’re not happy – watch the video:
AMA announces loss of another legend of motorcycling.
First 4 of 10 tips when attending a bike rally.
– Warren’s News –
Top10 bikes used by women riders.
Best bikes for passengers????
– Racing News –
Discuss MotoGP
Results of Flat Track
My daughter and I rode in a charity ride supporting Neurofibromatosis (NF). The ride was hosted by NFmidatlantic.org and the Baltimore Ramblers Motorcycle Club.
NF is the most common of the “rare” diseases. Neurofibromatosis is extraordinarily complicated. It comes in many forms, is often undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, and presents in a myriad of forms. Read more about the different types of NF here.
The event began with a pancake breakfast at Applebee’s in Timonium, MD. After everyone had their fill of pancakes the riders, about 50 or so, broke into smaller groups for the ride.
Members of the Ramblers guided us through the back country of Maryland for about an hour and a half before we finished at their clubhouse. The ride itself was quite nice, we only had to dodge giant farm tractors twice! 🙂
There were a few vendors and food available at the clubhouse along with door prizes and 50/50 draws (Eryn 5 feet 100 Lbs won size XXL gloves 🙂 ). There was also several vintage motorcycle to look at including an old Indian and a 1953 BMW. After hanging out for a while and talking with the volunteers from the Mid-Atlantic NF and the Ramblers Eryn and I headed for home. BTW the Ramblers are one of the oldest AMA motorcycle clubs in America, founded in 1929.
Much to my worry, the sky started to darken and the closer to Leesburg the more rain drops we felt. Luckily we missed the down poor by a bit and made it to the garage dry. The XM radio traffic worked well and had routed around a jam and saved us from getting wet!
By Warren S Massey
Motorcycle Radio…The #1 Motorcycle Show in the US
This past week we had another successful radio broadcast of the DawgHouse (show #270). If you are interested you can download this or any other episode at the NTNRadio website.
On this episode….
Kenny Kelley of Adrenaline Crew joins us in-studio to talk about his new product the Silent Beacon.
– Ken’s News –
Stunt riders shut down Florida highway.
Harley sales disappointing while Polaris excels.
– Warren’s News –
New Indian model announced.
Will there be a new street fighter version of the Suzuki 1000 GSX-R?
Mark Hinchliffefrom motorbikewriter.com calls in from his ride to Sturgis.
– Racing News –
Motocross from Washougal.
Flat track racing from Sacramento Mile.
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Me pretending to do radio! 🙂
Well that was the extent of my afternoon ride. I was back and forth over these state lines just hitting the back roads of the area. Riding to nowhere but getting all over the place.
I stopped for a few pictures and a bottle of water a couple of time (it was over 90F) but otherwise I just rode on. I put on just over 200 miles during the afternoon (and popping 29K on the Army bike) before stopping to have dinner with the wife at her place of work!
By Warren S Massey
Motorcycle Radio…The #1 Motorcycle Show in the US
The podcast for episode # 268 is now available. On this show…
– Ken’s News –
PAL-V Flying Car is actually a flying motorcycle!
Vintage motorcycle cannonball run.
Warren was right about the Harley recall – which became officially suspiciously just after the release of Harley’s quarterly earnings report.
Freedom of speech means even idiots are allowed to voice their uneducated opinions about loud pipes.
– Warren’s News –
9 Epic Motorcycle Road Trips, from ABC News?
Epic ride gone wrong, body found near motorcycle belonging to missing man.
2014 EBR 1190SX Superfighter Specs and Pricing Announced.
89 Year Old Motorcycle Momma, still riding!
-Motorcycle Racing-
Motocross results from Buds Creek.
AMA Daytona Sportbike/AMA Superbike + World Superbike from results from Laguna Seca.
Moto2/MotoGP results from the Sachsenring.
World SBK is on an extended hiatus till September. Next MotoGP races not until August 10 in Indianapolis.
Just what it says!
Over the 4th of July holiday weekend Debbie and I took a long motorcycle ride, 889.3 miles to be exact. We rode out to Canton, OH and the Pro Football Hall of Fame (HoF). That would be the HoF for American style football, not the World Cup/FIFA type of football.
We left the house about 9 AM on Friday morning heading west on I70, traffic was heavy but moving well. By the time we were on I68 traffic was very light but the police presence was heavy. For a while it seemed we saw a police cruiser every 15-20 miles. Even with all the cops, traffic moved at a nice 70-80 miles an hour!
Not being in any real hurry we stopped whenever we needed or when Debbie had to stretch her legs. I also collect Harley Davidson dealer pins and have all but two for the shops in West Virginia, Bluefield and Wheeling. This ride would have netted me the Valley HD, (Wheeling) pin but they were closed for the 4th. Moving on, we arrived at our hotel, the North Canton Courtyard, about 4PM. We were tired from the long day in the sun so we had a small meal in the hotel bar and “retired” to the room and it’s whirlpool tub.
The next morning we rolled out to the HoF. We had a really good time, reviewing all the displays. The history of professional game was quite interesting, if you every get a chance to check out the uniforms of the Duluth Eskimo’s it will be at the HoF!
The one thing I was surprised about was how small the HoF was, with over 100 years of history I expected more content. Also, I thought that some of the displays were not set up in a manner to ensure that they are going to last another 100 years. I hope that the HoF is taking preservation more seriously then it appeared.
It took about 4 hours to make it through all the exhibits of the hall. After lunch we decided to go to a couple of the local HD dealerships. It was here that a VERY surprising weakness with the built in GPS appeared. I selected Freedom HD from the list of local dealerships in the GPS and we rolled out.
After about a 15 minute ride the GPS announced that we had reach our destination “on the right”. “Technically” it was correct, Freedom HD was on the right, but we were in the middle of the interstate and the dealership was about 300 yards, a large ditch, a fence and another road away. It was no better when we attempted to go to Adventure HD. You could see the dealership as we traveled down the interstate but, the GPS lady directed us in the opposite direction when we hit the exit. Following her directions we ended up in the parking lot of a Sheetz gas station.
Not only did it fail to find these two dealerships, it also failed to find Steel City HD on our trip home, placing the shop about a mile away on the wrong side of the road. We only found this store because there was no place to turn around along the road. To give the GPS system database of dealerships some credit it did find Valley HD and Neidengard’s HD with no issue. This is a brand new 2014 Ultra Limited with the most current software load. To only find 2 out of 5 dealerships listed in the database is poor quality control at best and plain stupid at worst. I am going to do a more in-depth review of the bike as soon as I have the first service completed.
The ride back home was completely uneventful until we reached the merge of I68 and I70. I think the highest speed we reached between the merge and I81 was 45 MPH and that lasted about 30 seconds. When we reached I81 I headed south until we reached Martinsburg, WV and then hit the back roads home. Normally that would have been a longer ride, but I bet we saved an hour of scraping my boots along the road.
We road nearly 890 miles through 5 states (Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio) on a comfortable bike. Our “storm chaser” powers were never activated, which means we stayed dry. As you can see in the pictures, we crossed some cool bridges! We both like pro football (although Debbie is a Dallas Cowboy fan) and the HoF was worth the trip, highly recommended. All in all it was a great weekend away.
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DawgHouse Motorcycle Radio…The #1 Motorcycle Show in the US
On this episode of the DawgHouse we discussed: (download here)
– Ken’s contribution –
It’s a long one, but here you’ll learn how the EU is destroying the motorcycle safety training for the sake of safety? Yeah…we’re not kidding.
AMA motorcycling Hall of Fame inductees.
You took apart my bike man!
– Warren’s news –
Pawn Stars’ Corey is a shooting star.
Devil’s Ride “White Boi” loses his bike.
Pikes Peak Motorcycle Race
NO ABS= Lawsuit for Harley
Motorcycle Racing:
Motocross from Muddy Creek.
Moto2 & MotoGP from Assen (that is in the Netherlands….not Phil’s Netherlands BTW).
World Superbike picks for Portimao.
Motorcycle Radio…The #1 Motorcycle Show in the US
During the last episode of the DawgHouse Motorcycle Radio (the podcast, #265, is available here) I learned something interesting. Turns out Ken and Phil have been paying for the cost of the show from their pockets the entire time, over 5 years.
The most expensive part of the effort is the bandwidth that folks use to download the show. The web hosting provider charges by bandwidth consumed which limits the show to about 140,000 downloads per month. They (now we?) have been maxing out the available bandwidth on a reoccurring basis.
The price jump from the current level of bandwidth to the next level is insane and in order to improve the show and make it more available to everyone the DawgHouse is looking for some patrons. If enough folks become patrons the DawgHouse it might even add video…although I am not sure if that is a good thing, unless we get hot models to stand behind the hosts!
To help find those patrons the DawgHouse has begun using Patreon.com.. What is Patreon.com you ask,,,,
“Founded in May 2013 and based in San Francisco, California, Patreon was created to enable fans to support and engage with the artists and creators they love. Empowering a new generation of creators, Patreon is bringing patronage back to the 21st century.”
The DawgHouse is in that awkward position where it needs more listeners in order to get advertising but can’t get the additional listeners without extra funds!
So, the show is remaining free to all but if you want to help take The DawgHouse to the next level please consider becoming “a patron of the arts” (say that with your noise up raised and with a rich person accent)……… well the show is kinda like art, right, in a Jackson Pollock kind of way?
I JUST WANT 2 RIDE!! 