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RD350 Yamaha Update

The 1974 RD350 has been faultlessly buzzing around south-central New Mexico these last few months without any attention. The old…

2 years ago

ExNotes Product Review: The VJMC Magazine

The 1970s were the golden years of motorcycling. New and exciting motorcycles poured out of Japan at dizzying speed, so…

2 years ago

A Colt Visit

The city of Hartford in Connecticut is Mecca if you are a Colt fan (as in Colt firearms), and I…

2 years ago

Dream Bike: Honda MT250 Elsinore

The first motorcycle that I couldn’t hold the throttle wide open through the gears was a CR250 Honda Elsinore. I…

2 years ago

My Best Breakdown Story Ever

Nope, it's not my breakdown story, and it's not Gresh's, either.  This one comes to us as a guest blog…

2 years ago

I knocked over a vending machine…

I travel a lot.  It's all secret missions, you know.  Litigations, defense industry work, secret manufacturing processes, and the like. …

2 years ago

Mentors: Woody Peebles

One of the influential people in my life was Woody Peebles. Woody worked at Admiralty Marine down on Shelter Island…

2 years ago

Admiral Gordon Smith

From time to time Gresh and I have written about a few of the great people we worked with over…

3 years ago

The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boys of CSC

"Time's fun when you're having flies," as the frogs like to say. Susie and I were headed north in the…

3 years ago

Movie Review: The Many Saints of Newark

The Many Saints of Newark is a movie that spoke to me on many levels.  I'm from New Jersey, I've…

3 years ago