Archive for the On Two Wheels Category
- Well, Now, That’s Xciting! - September 12th, 2007
- Bikers’ Fun In the Sun - September 12th, 2007
- Seems I’m not the Only One… - September 11th, 2007
- I Just Love to Agonize - September 11th, 2007
- All In All, Not Bad - September 9th, 2007
- First is Down, The Rest Are Up* - September 9th, 2007
- The Story of Wild Woman Donna, Scooter Maniac - August 29th, 2007
- A Tale of Three Cycles - August 12th, 2007
- Scooterville Folly - July 24th, 2007
- Zip Zapped … For Now - July 6th, 2007
Those who have been keeping up will remember that I mentioned yesterday that I thought that a look at the Kymco Xciting 500 maxi-scooter might be in order. Today, I trundled out to MotoStrada in Timonium to have a look, and to park my butt on the machine.
The Xciting 500 seems to have the utility [...]
Why does all the really cool stuff have to happen when I have to work? Ah, well. If you happen to be “downyaishun” this weekend (actually, starting tomorrow!), you may want to check out DelMarVa Bike Week. Looks like a fun entertainment line up, if nothing else.
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I’ve been a little remiss in reading some of my friends’ blogs. Steven, it seems, is jonesing for a bike again. Steve’s the fellow who’s little Suzuki 250 introduced me to actually riding on a motorcycle – at least as a passenger — back in the very early 80’s.
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After an hour-and-a-half at the MVA (we have MVA, the rest of you have DMV — go figure) yesterday, I now hold a new drivers’ license with a motorcycle endorsement added to the class. The little “M” is an exciting thing. Now comes the part about buying (and paying for) a bike.
We all know that [...]
Okay, I know that you all are simply dying to know how I faired on today’s motor cycle riders’ test.
Well, my ride was not exactly perfect. But, it was perfect enough. I got caught up on exactly the things I thought I would — primarily “the box,” where you have to make two consecutive crossing U-turns. [...]
Five-and-one-half-hours on a too-small motorcycle is a very long time.
As some may know, I’m working on getting my motorcycle license, so that I can ride something (anything) larger than a 50cc motor scooter. So, I’ve been taking the Motorcycle Safety Foundation Basic Rider Course. In our area, that’s a two-day course that gets kinda [...]
Today was another fun and different day here in Ba Haba, Maine. Donna and I rented a pair of little 50cc scooters for the day, and zipped off around Acadia.
I had a Vespa-esque Roketa “Venice” model, and Donna’s was a Qlink Axon50. The Roketa was woefully under-powered — in many cases, it was all I could do to make [...]
What I Thought I Wanted As you may remember, I had pretty much settled on getting a Suzuki Burgman 400 “maxi-scooter” for trekking around, to save some on gas and to prolong the life (agony) of my nine-year-old 169,000 mile van. The 400’s a sharp machine that feels good under me, and isn’t too hatefully [...]
It’s no Burgman 400, but it sure is cute!
The confirmation and course materials for my motorcycle safety and licensing class came in the mail today. Assuming all goes well, I should be licensed by the middle of September. Then all I have to do is figure out how to finance the Burgman …
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For the time being, I’ve decided that it would be best to hold off on buying the motor scooter. It’s not that it’s a bad idea, it’s just that I would prefer to go about it the “right way.”
After a lot of research and thought, I’ve determined that a 49cc scooter (for which a motorcycle license [...]
