Recent content by AFJ

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Never have bought a new motorcycle - or bought a motorcycle from a dealership. But have bought about 2 dozen "project" bikes over the years. Fixed them up if they needed work, plated them, rode them until "something else" caught my eye. Then onto something else. Have kept four old bikes that I...

I would suggest looking at joining the CVMG (cvmg.ca) if older (and less costly) motorcycles (and motorcycling) are beginning to look more attractive than the "latest bikes, costs and things in motorcycling". And often, I gather, that new motorcycles and the dealerships that sell and service...

A couple of motorcycling books by Canadian authors that I found were good reads - "Make Haste Slowly" by Michelle Ann Duff 1999 by Mad8 Publishing and Bar Hodgson "The Winged Wheel Patch" by Max Burns and Ken Messenger. 1993. Published by Vanwell Publishing, St. Catherines (A...

Five inches of snow Nov. 7th. Another 2 inches since then. Up to + 4 degrees C to-day Nov. 11th but still cold and dreary. Southern Ontario, typical autumn (end of riding season) weather. (Salt & sand on the roads now.) AFJ

I bought an old (31 year old) dismantled motorcycle and rebuilt it into running and licensed condition. I service it and store each autumn, re-service it and put it back on the road every spring, renewing any needed parts like tires. It was 87 years old this year and after the spring service it...

It occurred to me that - of the 2 dozen or so different (second-hand) motorcycles that have owned since that '57 Ariel Colt (200cc) motorbike in 1958-59, none of them was a new bike when I purchased each of them. And, while I have had to purchase a good many parts and do a lot of mechanical...

Thanks for all the interesting posts on our "old" (first bikes). Been off line for a while with software problems and such-like matters. AFJ

Thanks for the compliment. Looks and feels like spring to-day - and so riding season - is not far away - here in Southern Ontario, CANADA! AFJ

My first motorcycle was a 1957 Ariel "Colt" in 1958-59. Bought second-hand with about 4,000 miles on the clock. Rode to high school in Toronto all but 2 weeks of the winter and sold in Sept. '59 to pay for college tuition. What was your first motorcycle? AFJ

My view of the "motorcycle noise issue.

"I was reading thou that a high percentage of fatal collisions are suicides." So where did you get that supposed statistic? I accept the idea that a lot of fatalities on the roads result from "suicidal driving or riding behaviour" BUT.... as far as I understand this issue unless some...