What Are We Riding For?

Afer reading the last two issues of M.M.M., it struck me how difficult it must be to write about motorcycling in 1999. First, the majority o...

Who Has What?

[This was the first "official" Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly Geezer with a Grudge column, published in the November 1999 magazine. ...

Selling Garage Candy

Here is my list of wild and crazy motorcycle adds. Feel free to add your own collection of nuttiness to this list: "Harley Davidson Spo...

Seventh Day Adventure

I overspent on a motel last night, it was “biker-friendly,” clean, had plenty of hot water and towels, and convenient to food, though. $100 ...

Fifteen Days on the Road and Going Nowhere Special

Up early, pack up my gear, hit the road in deep fog, again. It must be my karma. My historic moment, today, was to find the most eastern poi...

Cruising through Oil Fields and Forests

I did the tourist bit out of Roosevelt park, took some pictures, walked some distance, and had fun owning the park road at 6AM. Heading nor...

The End of North Dakota

Nothing is open at 6AM in northeastern North Dakota, so I put in a 110 miles before breakfast. The bike was barely warmed up before I passed...

One State Tour Recapped

Obviously, from the dates on the previous posts, I'm home and have been for a while. Probably the aftermath of being soaked for 6-out-o...

Getting Parked and My Opinion

A while back, Andy Goldfine asked me to write a Geezer column about motorcycle parking laws and other irrational human activities. I took ...

A New Traffic Violation

On our trip north, my grandson had a lot of time to observe traffic and he came up with a new traffic offence category; DWBAD . Like DWI an...

Commuting, Again

I'm back to work, after a summer "off" from my regular job. I'd been to a couple of meetings before school began and one o...

How Long Can You Do This?

This month marks the 10th anniversary for the Geezer concept. Who'd have thought that an idea based on irritating readers to generate le...

Are You Stupid?

All Rights Reserved © 2006 Thomas W. Day Last January, outside my kitchen window, I watched three typically spoiled, unskilled, good ole...

A Most Un-American Idea

For the last month, I've been barraged with catalogs, junk mail, and e-mail all promoting the "top 10 things to buy for the motorcy...

Don't Ask Me

All Rights Reserved © 2008 Thomas W. Day There are more things that I don't know than things that I do by such a large number that I con...

The Geezer on YouTube

About 5 years ago, I had a regular local motorcycle show on cable called "Motorcycling Minnesota." The show ran a few more than tw...

Getting Geezerly

All Rights Reserved © 2009 Thomas W. Day I've noticed a change in my attitude since turning 60. I care less and less about the future of...

Perfect Motorcycling Weather

I've said this before, but fall is my favorite time to ride. The weather is usually pretty predictable in Minnesota, unlike spring. So, ...

You Didn't See Me

All Rights Reserved © 2010 Thomas W. Day Last winter, in the span of two days, I had a pair of "you didn't see me" events. T...

Bigger is Better?

All Rights Reserved © 2010 Thomas W. Day Often, when I'm hanging out with a collection of motorcyclists the conversation gets around t...