So it’s been almost 4 weeks (!) since my accident and I thought I’d follow-up and do an entry about all the gear I was wearing during my accident. I’ve been riding since my early teens and this is my first accident. I’m fairly religious about safety and practice ATGATT (all the gear all the [...]
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Tonight I should be on my way to cf.Objective for my first conference speaking gig. Unfortunately I won’t be attending. Over the Easter weekend I was hit by a deer on my motorcycle. Thankfully I practice ATGATT (all the gear, all the time) and made it though the accident. I did suffer a broken clavicle [...]
This summer my riding buddy Tom and I headed out to Virginia for a few days of back roads motorcycling. One of our destinations was the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Green Bank Telescope. It was a VERY cool place to visit. Tom was channel surfing a few days ago and saw this great show about [...]
Jalopnik has a nice one: Remembering Robert Craig “Evel” Knievel, Jr. Growing up in the 70′s and begging my parents for a motorcycle was due in no small part to Evel Knievel. He was bad. He was cool. He was Evel! I had the wind up toy Evel and motorcycle. I had the Evel Snake [...]