New Year approaches, which also means the Dakar Rally is about to begin. Stage 1 starts on January 2, and for those catching up, Dakar has gone through some significant changes. For starters (just in case you blocked out 2009 entirely) it’s nowhere near Dakar, as for the second time the rally will be held in South America and not Africa.
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Motorcycle USA often gets story submissions, or reader requests for story ideas they’d like to see. But a recent email was a new animal altogether - the demo clip for a TV show pilot dubbed “Geezer’s Garage.” The name seems self explanatory, but here’s how the show was pitched to us: “Think American Chopper meets Mayberry.
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Forget Noble Firs and White Pines.... There's more than one way to decorate for the holidays.
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Ever wondered what the disembodied heads of Yamaha factory riders Valentino Rossi, Ben Spies and James Stewart would look like on ghastly Christmas sweaters?
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In case you were wondering, in Motorcycle USA’s recent travel feature, Ghosts of the Oregon Coast, I’m the tree hugger. That’s right, I hugged a tree and ain’t ashamed that the entire known universe (that’s connected to the Internet at least) knows the fact.
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My grandmother was a published poet – cowboy poet, actually. So I have a sentimental sweet spot for rhymed verse, be it the off-colored limerick, sappy heroic couplet or eye-rolling free verse. So when an email arrived with a link to a motorcycle poetry blog, motorcyclepoems.wordpress.com, I had to check it out… There’s some fun ditties in there.
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An interesting thing happened to me last night as I was flipping television channels. I couldn’t find any of them! Or at least some of them. One of the most notable absences was #28, the Speed Channel.
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