Archive for 'General' Category
Bike Weather - for good?
10 May 2005Around the Great Lakes, we really appreciate the return of good weather. After what has seemed like a very long, cold and wet Spring, the weather has finally turned. I’ve said before, those of you in the warmer areas may not feel quite the same about it but when the bad weather lasts so long, [...]
Motorcycle winner thinks they’re unsafe
21 April 2005Wouldn’t you know it? A guy in Cleveland, Ohio wins a 2005 Harley Davidson Sportster in a scratch off lottery game and then says he’ll sell it because he thinks motorcycles are unsafe. If that’s not enough, this same guy had previously won a Cadillac in the same scratch off game. Does he have X-ray [...]
Motorcycle auction results
10 April 2005The motorcycle auction I mentioned here has come and gone and the high dollars went to the Harleys. There was a Velocette for $27,000 and Vincent for $24,000 but the highest prices were Harleys. One was a really nice looking HD board track racer that went for $27,250. Interesting results. You can see them all [...]
Riding season delayed - please hold
3 April 2005All available weather representatives are busy, to expedite your request, press 1 if you do not find 8 inches of fresh wet snow amusing, press 2 if the sound of snowblowers is getting old, press 3 if you needed 4 wheel drive to go to the store this morning, press 4 if your power went [...]
Motorcycle auction
30 March 2005The 17th Annual Mid-America Motorcycle auction will be held in St. Paul, Minnesota on April 1-2nd. Lots of interesting bikes are up on the block, Ariels, Indians, Scott Flying Squirrels, Velocettes and lots more. If you’re in that area or could be, you might want to check it out.
Cop handcuffs doctor on way to baby delivery
29 March 2005Maybe I see more of this because I noticed it the first time and it just pops up on my radar. A doctor riding his motorcycle on the way to the hospital to deliver a baby is stopped by a traffic cop.
Dr. Anthony Chidiac was driving his motorcycle 35 mph in a 25 mph [...]
Naked women and traffic cops
27 March 2005Got your attention, didn’t it? Now I have nothing against traffic cops, for the overwhelming majority who do great work, stories like this just make them look bad. But explain to me why a stop on suspicion of drunk driving led these two cops to confiscate the woman’s cell phone, search it for photos [...]
911 says “Too Bad”
24 March 2005A Connecticut caller to 911 trying to get help for an injured motorcyclist gets the response of “Yeah, too bad” and then they hang up! The call was routed to the State Police barracks and was answered by Trooper Robert Peasley. Thinking they got a wrong number the caller tried again and the next trooper [...]
