Category: Moto

Masks Are The New Cigarette Butts

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Cigarette butts drive me crazy. My eyesight may be blurry, but I can spot a cigarette butt while riding along a beautiful singletrack or while hiking or when setting up a campsite. My brain is wired to focus in on this trash and it really bugs me. It is bad enough that these butts “harsh my mellow” but now I’ve got a new nemesis on the trail. Face masks! Flicking cigarette butts has been glorified by everything from movie stars to the Marlboro man. From combat solders to rock stars.…

People For Bikes Make A Bed We Are Forced To Sleep In

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The trade organization People For Bikes was instrumental in crafting boiler plate legislation to get electric-motorized bicycles legally recognized and defined as human-powered bicycles. This trade organization made sure, through design or ineptitude, that identifying illegal e-bikes is difficult or impossible for consumers, land managers and police. They also included loopholes big enough to slip a shipping container full of e-bikes through. The Xion CyberX shows how easy it is to offer a bike that meets the e-bike’s legal definition but, with a push of a button, can become a…

2021 Arizona Route 66 Tiddler Tour Set For May 15th

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Damn the pandemic! The VJMC Arizona Route 66 Tiddler Tour is rolling again on Saturday May 15th at 9:30ish so get ready to social distance on the coolest ride of its kind. The Tiddler ride welcomes all motorcycles with less than 30 horsepower on a 120-mile, out-and-back tour on the historic Route 66 Highway, starting just East of the California/Arizona border at the Topock Marina and turning around in the mountains above Kingman, Arizona. You can get full information and entry forms by dropping an email to groupklemm@aol.com. The ride…

Headed Down That Long And Lonely Highway

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Jimmy Mac On Two Wheels, the internet’s best kept secret, is loaded up and headed out for a month-long tour supporting our latest stories. We will be appearing nightly at the finest Speedway gas stations in California, Arizona, Texas and New Mexico. We will also be appearing at select Subway restaurants. Keep checking back here for times, dates and locations. If you are not lucky enough to catch one of our live performances (we are not down with streaming), we feel for you. We’ve posted a few photos to give…

The Passing Of Another Friend And Thoughts On Mortality – Updated

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Mike Bell’s shop-sponsored Husky broke during a Carlsbad CMC Pro moto and he was pushing it off the track. A long-haired, 250 Junior got behind him and helped push the bike back to the pits. Mike was appreciative, said thanks to the guy and flashed his famous smile. I was around 21 years old so Mike would have been 17. I never imagined that we’d be friends the rest of our lives. In hindsight, it is not surprising. Almost all of my long-time friendships started out on a motocross track.…

Harley-Davidson Rides Off Wall Street And Onto Main Street

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Today’s report on Harley-Davidson from the Motley Fool explains why the company’s stock price fell 18% during Tuesday’s trading. Wall Street forecasters predicted that new CEO Jochen Zeitz’s turnaround plan, dubbed “The Hardwire” would result in an adjusted profit of $0.21 per share for the company’s third-quarter results. Didn’t happen. Instead, the company posted a loss of $0.44 per share. I suggested in May of 2020 that the best course for Harley-Davidson is to leave Wall Street and return the company to private ownership. Today’s news makes it a lot…