Recent content by xrljoel

Maybe it's the hopeful, positive outlook guy in me (who I thought was LONG gone) but I thought the same thing. Maybe (hopefully) it was good natured kidding around, and he assumed you'd dry out really quickly. I guess it depends of the look on his face when he did it, and we can never know his...

Gone.

Exactly!! IF you want to be a motorcycle manufacturing company, why wouldn't you try to poach somebody from the executive suite of a successful motorcycle company?

Too often large companies talk about, and hire leadership focusing on the "brand", and when a company like HD in their situation market-wise starts talking about brand it changes the conversation, and these legacy executives on the board lose the plot. Their focus should be on product and let...

So they're going from a guy with experience selling marketing running shoes to one with experience marketing golf stuff?? Are they really doubling down on the notion that their customers are all just about dead, hence a guy from another senior-focused activity? Was the senior executive in...

I saw you ride past Base31 as I was going in. That end of the island is surprisingly sparsely populated, which makes it a nice area to go for a ride. The southern part around to Waupoos is nice too.

It was a beautiful day for a ride and though it was as busy as expected in the county, there are a few different and less travelled routes to get to the Picton area. The show in on part of Base31, a former RCAF base with some history to it (bomber training). Most of the old structures appear to...

This is going on this weekend, It looks OK. There's a couple self-guided GPS tours, some test rides available, bike displays and vendors, and other festival stuff. Perhaps a bit pricy with a day pass about $50, but then again it's pretty easy to spend close to that on lunch at a restaurant...

I can sympathize regarding ergo comfort on a 1090. I had a KTM 990 SMT previously and was in absolute agony within 3 hours. The pain was in my tailbone, hips and lower back. I changed seats and it improved. I bought my 1090 in 2019 or 20 and have made comfort a priority, as I wanted to take...

Where's Waldo??

I was cycling with my wife on the rail trail between Lindsay and Peterborough a few years ago and a guy on one of those scooters passed us. Like many on those f'n things he wasn't what you'd call considerate or polite. A few km. later we caught up to him as the battery had died (I assume). It...

David Booth had an article about them in Fridays paper. https://driving.ca/column/motor-mouth/e-bikes-e-scooters-woefully-unregulated

I'm sure it would be pretty close to the same though.

LOL. I followed him along Hwy.2/Dale Rd. and north on Hwy 28 out here in Port Hope. It was only a few minutes. The drive you noted would have taken long enough for me to learn how to play golf.

I've done that trip hugging the water from Hamilton, through Niagara Falls and onward. Loved it. As Guzzirider says, the nice thing about this route is that if you find yourself running out of time you can easily slab it home quickly on the 401.