I was born in 1964. The last official year of the baby boom and three months after John Kennedy was assassinated. I’m too old to be a Gen X’er and certainly feel too young to be a ‘Boomer.’ However, I was 10 years old in 1974 when the character Arthur Herbert Fonzarelli first appeared on…

There are certain 2 wheeled phenomenons in a biker’s life that unfortunately, can slide by without notice. If you have not yet done at least 5 of the following 10 biker events or venues you are selling yourself short on true life altering biker experiences: (1) Daytona Bike week, (2) Sturgis, (3) Laconia, (4) The…

My buddy, George, came down to Atlanta to ride in the mountains last year and was dragging all weekend, like a hung over college freshman. I rode his butt three days straight for being a lightweight. “Man, you’re turning into an old fart!” We rode a bunch of miles and he couldn’t keep up. I…

Isn’t it odd how you associate certain sights or smells of youth with events or times in your life that trigger memories? The smell of bleach always brings me back to my grade school cafeteria, and Sister Vincent/Teresa. Diesel fumes to my father’s work truck, idling beside our house on winter mornings before school. Certain…

I once tried a criminal case on behalf of a client where the facts were awful against us, the law was not on our side, and my client was guilty in every conceivable way, including in his taped confession. Despite the 6 witnesses testifying against him and the FBI Agents who watched him commit the…

Have you ever look around your office or your job site and noticed that everyone is getting younger and younger? Or perhaps look across at the driver next to you in traffic and realize it’s likely a teenager, in Mom or Dads car. Those drivers look younger and younger, the older I get. Sometimes disconcertingly…

If you are new to motorcycling, or are too young to have owned more than a bike or two, this article may not be of any interest to you. To appreciate these words, you must have a few years of biking and few miles of riding and perhaps earned that road taught wisdom that inevitably…

Odometers are a funny thing. We want ours to show lots of miles to prove our metal and illustrate the miles we have logged on our bikes. However, a ‘low mile’ bike is a thing to covet for collectors, or when purchasing to ensure good value, or when selling to get top price. It’s the…

As I write this article, tapping away on a small laptop, I sit in a pub in Helen Georgia called “The Hay Loft.” It is reminiscent of an old German Inn tucked into the countryside of the ‘black forest.’ I last rode there in 1984 aboard a ’76 Ducati GT 750. Today, I am on…

I just got off the phone with my riding buddy and fellow lawyer, Dan a.k.a. “007.” Dan’s a devout Moto Guzzi nut and won’t ride any bike newer than 1985. I’ll bet Dan owns 20 bikes, all piles of crap if you ask me, but hey, one man’s crap is another man’s “classic.” Nonetheless, he…