I finished a company event in Martin, Michigan at the end of last week, and Mrs. G flew out to meet me, so we could spend all of this past week touring the Michigan Upper Peninsula.
Our first stop was the Gilmore Museum in Hickory Corners. It’s a huge and magnificent car museum that dwarfs most collections.
One small building houses their motorcycle collection. Among several historically significant bikes, look what we discovered. Here’s Mrs. G telling me that now I can’t sell mine…
Their bike is in good company, next to a CBX.
You can see the famous “Meet the Nicest People” ad above the CB1100, and they had some neat ads representing other brands.
This might help me convince my boss at my museum that my CB is worthy of indoor parking when I ride it to work!
On the BMW brochure, someone recently posted this on an ADV forum on the topic of BMW "brick" motors, but I don't think it's real.
(07-30-2023, 05:17 AM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote: [ -> ]I finished a company event in Martin, Michigan at the end of last week, and Mrs. G flew out to meet me, so we could spend all of this past week touring the Michigan Upper Peninsula.
Our first stop was the Gilmore Museum in Hickory Corners. It’s a huge and magnificent car museum that dwarfs most collections.
One small building houses their motorcycle collection. Among several historically significant bikes, look what we discovered. Here’s Mrs. G telling me that now I can’t sell mine…
Their bike is in good company, next to a CBX.
You can see the famous “Meet the Nicest People” ad above the CB1100, and they had some neat ads representing other brands.
This might help me convince my boss at my museum that my CB is worthy of indoor parking when I ride it to work!
Looks like Mrs. Gone ought to be a rider.
We’re actually discussing that… again.
(07-30-2023, 09:01 AM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote: [ -> ]We’re actually discussing that… again.
Yeah... she's been bike-curious for quite a while, and my standing gift to her for last anniversary is a basic rider's course. She's starting with a new job near the beach that will put her mostly on my commute route, but with staggered hours that will put her headlong into beach traffic.
Once she starts banging her head on her steering wheel in traffic, we'll talk about it some more.
(07-31-2023, 02:07 AM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote: [ -> ]Yeah... she's been bike-curious for quite a while, and my standing gift to her for last anniversary is a basic rider's course. She's starting with a new job near the beach that will put her mostly on my commute route, but with staggered hours that will put her headlong into beach traffic.
Once she starts banging her head on her steering wheel in traffic, we'll talk about it some more.
It is this time of the year when lane filtering/splitting becomes extra practical as the weather is usually very hot in North America. I can't imagine being parked in L.A. freeway traffic during the midday sun on an air-cooled motorcycle.
Yessir. Came home from our trip to a heat wave. My morning commute is early enough that it's cool, but it's darn hot for the ride home, and no, I would not want to sit in traffic. It's significantly cooler near the coast where my office is located, and I can feel the heat rising as I head inland to home. At least it's a fairly short ride. While I can split lanes, this is the time of year where freeway detritus includes surf boards, barbecues and folding chairs being blown out of the backs of pickup trucks on the way to or from the beach.
We saw plenty of riding on our trip through Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois in the hot and humid. Lots of shorts, tank tops and no helmets.
So... in regards to my assertion to my boss that I should be given indoor parking in our motorcycle display, I got a "Thanks for sharing" response.
I'll take that as a no.
this is the time of year where freeway detritus includes surf boards, barbecues and folding chairs being blown out of the backs of pickup trucks on the way to or from the beach.
You forgot to include ladders, or was that because you find ladders in the road all year long?