Motor Cop

Cool picture of a "motorman" from a flyer. Symbol Arts sent out a magazine insert with this photo.

Let me know if you can ID the rider or the bike, or the Sgt.

January Rain

The roads are clear and damp. The highways are coated with salt. The news crews are scurrying around in search of broken tree limbs and claiming we "will not believe" the scenes they will show on the evening program.

The reality is, most winters treat us to the beauty of freezing rain storms. More people than usual crash their cars, most just deal with it.

For all the hype and downed power lines, little is changed in the bigger picture. By Spring, the broken twigs and bent fenders will have been forgotten and a new riding season will be with us.In the mean time, motorcyclists will content themselves with visiting computer bulletin boards and perhaps dealing with some minor maintenance issue until Mother Nature decides to change her approach.

If nothing else, the freezing rain forces us to acknowledge a power greater than our own. So far no one (except maybe Al Gore) has figured out how to control the weather. We are faced with the choices of fight, flight, or adapt.

I recommend the latter.I think this is a good time to slow down and admire the art that decorates every twig and blade of grass. Even street signs and our vehicles are wearing their finest winter clothes.

We could choose to fight, but in the end, the windshield will be just as clear by starting the car earlier as by scraping and chipping and cursing our way to visibility.

We could flee, but how would we ever be able to experience the scenes created by freezing rain?

New Years Day, Lansing MI

Great day for a ride.

Members of the gl1800riders.com group that made the lunch were:
Sid Moen, CJS, MichiganMike, Cakeman48, Mainmouse, 5Ross, ZAT111, Bob VanNess, HiYoSilver, BlueWing & Holly, David & Jan Smith, Rich & Becky, and Radar 52. I probably missed somone but I chalk it up to exhaust fumes and the Chile Deluxe. (Not necessarily related).

Weather was cloudy, light intermittent rain, 36 degrees, damp roads.