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So I have a motorcycle to ride while I'm fixing, repairing or restoring the other ones.

In Ontario, mandatory motorcycle helmets special motorcycle class licences and other restrictions on motorcycles/motorcyclists came in force only in the late 1960's. I started riding/commuting in 1958 in Toronto. Gasoline was 9 cents a litre, basic M/C liability insurance was $32/year. Bought a...

Long ago, not too long after I started driving cars and riding motorcycles on Ontario's roads, I read a report of a provincial police study of 4,000 drivers stopped and questioned on a Friday evening as to whether they had been drinking before driving. Apparently 25% of the drivers had been...

Long, long ago, I was asked what the "AJS" logo on the bike I was riding at the time stood for. I couldn't resist replying "All Junk and Scrap". (Actually it was a pretty good bike - either in road or trail riding form.) I didn't get any further question on why that name. AFJ (added later) -...

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My thought would be an 8' x 12.5 "Lifetime" shed. (Which can be lengthened in 2.5 ft additional sections, if needed.) Although they are now about $2,600 a Home Depot rather than the $1,000-$1,200 I paid for the 2 that I built some years ago they stand up very well, are secure but ventilated...

GWS!

I bought a used 2011 Santa Fe in 2016. It's licensed and on the road and several times since, including just a year ago, I was contacted to bring it in for a recall for minor upgrades to the computing systems or trailer wiring harness (but it was not originally equipped with the latter. i get...

P.A. McBride in the sidecar, his wife driving. Early 1920's date of the picture. The motorcycle is a inline 4 cylinder Henderson as sold by McBride's from 1916 to 1931.

Obviously "No pain - some gain?" AFJ

I have been riding motorcycles for a good many years. And every year in the early spring when I do the usual "spring service and overhaul" on the bikes, I wonder about the increasingly stupid actions by car and truck drivers that seem to be more common year-by-year. Long ago I started the...

If you have been happy with Wawanesa, I would suggest that you contact Wawanesa directly and ask if they have a broker near to you who you could contact. I had been with Dalton Timmis as agents and Aviva as motorcycle insurance for many years. NFP came into Ontario several years ago and...

I seem to recall that - perhaps later on - Helmut rode a goodly number of enduros, particularly the Terra Nova Enduro put on (still) each year by the Halton Off-Road Riders. AFJ

Minus 15 C at 8 am Feb. 24.

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Minus 10 degrees C this morning outside at 8 am, but sunny. AFJ

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