October/November 2009 Archives - Page 2 of 3

Jac-Knife Your Harley Floorboards

Cycle Boyz Customs, out of Brandon, Manitoba, has hit the market with some innovative new highway pegs for Harley-Davidson floorboards. These top quality discreet highway pegs tuck neatly under the...

Wild Horses

“I know I dreamed you a sin and a lie I have my freedom but I don’t have much time Faith has been broken, tears must be cried Lets do some living after we die Wild horses couldn’t drag me...

Big Sid’s Vincati

Big Sid’s Vincati is Matthew Biberman’s honest and heartfelt expression of admiration for his father as well as love of motorcycles which comes through as a memoir of two men reconstructing...

Big Ear Makes a Great Impression!

In early spring of this year I met Mark Hood from ‘Big Ear’ who happened to be one of my dining partners at the Hogs on High Seas cruise. Mark, who is also an avid motorcyclist, was one of the...

A Ship Load of Fun!

Like many rallies and events you rarely get to personally meet the organizers and rarely have nothing in common with them. Meeting Dean and Debbie Anderson on the other hand is like meeting old...

The Flight of Pegasus – Part 3 – Heading for the Prairies

The Flight of Pegasus is a humorous on-going series of articles written by Paddy Tyson, a wandering Irishman we met in Moncton, NB at Atlanticade in 2008 after he and his Aprilia Pegaso 650,...

Smokin’ Roadie

Growing up in his father’s motorcycle shop meant that Shawn Arsenault would have had a wrench in his hand for most of his life. It doesn’t take a far stretch of the imagination to think that...

Nova Scotia Biker’s Down Society: The Toad Memorial Fund

The day is one of those memorable ‘it’s so great to be alive and riding’ days. It’s the kind of day that is comfortably warm, sunny with vibrant blues skies and the pavement is smooth. You...

Catch and Release

I was mad. I had driven two hours with a pal who asked me to help him buy his first bike. The lying creep selling the bike didn’t like me at all when I asked why the front wheel had spokes and the...

2009 Kawasaki Voyager 1700

Touted by Kawasaki as the first Japanese full dress V-Twin tourer, the all new Voyager 1700 marks Kawasaki’s re-entry into the full touring segment. It is also the flagship of their newly...

Exploring Manitoulin Island Back Roads and Trails

Manitoulin Island is a large fresh water Island that is accessible from the Bruce Peninsula via the MS Chi-Cheemaun ferry from Tobermory, ON to the south, or Highway 6 from Espanola, ON from the...

Are You Gaining Experience or Just Logging Miles?

I like a good discussion so when I’m not riding, I enjoy visiting various motorcycle forums and participating in, or starting a good debate. Recently a thread on riding experience created...