I think there is a quiet understanding in the motorcycling community that it isn’t a matter of if you are going to go down, it’s when. There are likely very few people that make it through the entirety of their motorcycling journey without dropping their bike in some fashion at least once. Heck, I got …
Back home from the trackday, I would begin to experience a new part of being a motorcyclist, winter. Darryl and I would keep a close eye on the weather, looking for any days above 50 degrees for at least a few hours. We would time everything up, so that we would be ready to ride …
What an exciting first experience on a bike! I was ready to finally call myself a motorcyclist. There was a future of possibilities that laid before me, but first I had to learn to shift gears. The following week after work, Mike got my bike out of the shop and brought it down to the …
In the previous post, we talked about my childhood and life before riding that led to the events that follow, now we move on to the process of learning to ride for the first time, and getting my knee down in an unorthodox way. I was waiting for what could be one of the most …
It was once said by Soren Kierkegaard that, ” Life can only be understood backwards, but must be lived forwards”. I am finding more meaning in that statement now than ever. As I continue to look back on the events in my life, I am getting a better grip on who I am and how …
As the riding season was coming to an end, the store was closing, and I wondered what would I do now? At the end of that summer is when I would meet the people behind Tail of the Dragon, Ron and Nancy Johnson. Along with Darryl, they were going to run a trackday in November, …
So I did a thing in 2018, I got back on a motorcycle. I had been very fearful of riding a bike solo on The Dragon and gave up riding bikes in 2011 after a couple crashes that were beyond my control. After years of thinking I was in the wrong place at the wrong …
Women’s Motorcycle Tours is reinventing community by gathering women riders from all over the world, together in one place: online! Join me and 24 other incredible lady presenters from every discipline of riding and every corner of the industry on April 17-18, for the first-ever Women’s Motorcycle Conference Online. I’ll be sharing my story of …