One Hell’va Adventure

Two Best Friends, 15,000 miles – the ultimate motorcycle adventure – on the Fox Reality Channel is about an amazing motorcycle journey with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman in “Long Way Down.” 
The show makes its U.S. television premiere on Fox Reality Channel, Saturday, August 2 at 9pET/PT.  This is a follow-up series to “Long Way Round.”  [...]

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Everything Old and Nostalgic

Over the past year I’ve made a couple work trips to Orem, Utah (30 min South of Salt Lake City) and I’ve been watching a “new” Harley dealer come on line in the town of Lindon.  The dealership finally opened last Friday, July 25th. 
It’s not your typical motorcycle dealership.  It’s a three-level building built completely [...]

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The Tri-Glide

Not sure how I missed this with the 13 press releases on July 22, 2008, but thanks to “ride-it-like-you-stole-it” for commenting on my 2009 line up post.
Harley-Davidson is officially moving into the three-wheel (trikes) motorcycle segment with the introduction of the Tri Glide Ultra Classic.  It’s based on a new chassis specifically built for the [...]

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Play more, To Have More Fun

This past weekend I was in a Seattle area hospital concerned about a family member who is having “chest” pains.  Everything turn out good. 
However, while there I passed the time reading the local paper and about the sad passing of Dr. Randy Pausch at the young age of 47. 
I previously posted about how I was first introduced [...]

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Ridin’ Easy Now

I read an article about the Harley-Davidson Museum which was accompanied by a photo of the “Captain America” bike in the movie Easy Rider (1969). 
It’s unclear if the film was essentially a western with bikes replacing horses or a post-classical Hollywood male-bonding LSD joy ride.  No matter what your viewpoint, the film was added to the [...]

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30 Days Till The Ride Home

We’re warming up the tires…it’s a month from today before we kick off our ride to the “motherland” and attend the 105th Anniversary. 
There will be thousands of riders taking to the roads in the Northwest during this time frame to converge in Milwaukee during the last week of August.
According to the Harley Ride Planner 2.0 [...]

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Harley Rolls Out The 2009 Line

Harley unveiled the changes in their motorcycle line up today in the form of 13 press releases!  Call me crazy, but I find it questionable how a PR department see’s value in doing so many press releases in the same day?
At any rate, many of the changes feel a bit cosmetic or like minor “updates” [...]

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Laughlin River Run Fugitive Turns Self In

Following up on my previous Laughlin River Run post. 
You may recall that forty-two members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club (HAMC) were indicted on federal racketeering and firearms charges from the confrontation between Hells Angels and Mongols members at Harrah’s Casino in Laughlin, NV, on April 27, 2002.  The gun battle left three people dead [...]

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Harley Museum “Closed” During 105th Anniversary

This week Harley performed a “ribbon-cutting” ceremony that made welder’s around the world proud…using an acetylene torch Jerry Gagner (museum maintenance crew) lit the torch and let the sparks fly as he cut through motorcycle chains to officially open the new Milwaukee museum.
 
At a cost of $78 million the 130,000-square-foot museum includes exhibits, a 150-seat [...]

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Kiwanis Girls

While attending the 2008 OR State HOG Rally, I previously posted about a couple of ladies (Linda and Lynette) who introduced themselves and we chatted for a bit about “save-the-date” cards they were passing around to restaurant patrons.  I had just finish eating dinner at Hamley’s Steakhouse in Pendleton.  As volunteers of the Pendleton Kiwanis Round-Up [...]

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