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Motorcycle Reviews: A Year without a Microwave
Motorcycle Reviews-modifbike.info Sheila and I haven’t had a Microwave Oven since we left California and purchased our house in Oak Park more than a year ago. The kitchen in our new house has plenty of plugs; but we never got around to buying one. I remember at some point we realized that it was missing, [...]
Motorcycle Reviews: Motorcycling Runs in the Family
Motorcycle Reviews-modifbike.info Miami, Arizona, 1936. I never knew my Dad as a young man. He was almost 50 when I was born, an age that I haven’t quite reached yet. I knew some of his friends as I grew up, and he was a legend with respect to all the stories that circulated about him. [...]
Motorcycle Reviews: Moto Guzzi V7 Classic — Exactly Enough Power
Motorcycle Reviews-modifbike.info The Moto Guzzi V7 Classic has been a resounding success for this company that is now approaching 90 years of continuous production. It is a comfortable, good-handling and very stylish ride. I’ve found it to be extremely reliable, a great 500-mile per day bike, and perfectly adequate on power. In fact, that’s the [...]
Motorcycle Reviews: How I Stopped Smoking in Less than a Week.
Motorcycle Reviews-modifbike.info When I first started working at WMS, it was a high stress job. I had moved out to Chicago from Northridge ahead of my family, it was snowing and the only distraction was the Irish pub around the corner from my corporate apartment (You can’t swing a dead cat in Chicago without hitting [...]
Motorcycle Reviews: Motoworks Chicago!
Motorcycle Reviews-bikemodify.info An exclamation point is the only way to end any sentence with the words Motoworks Chicago, located at 1901 S Western Ave. Johnny Scheff, the proprietor, is engaging, affable and enthusiastic about the brand and all things two wheeled. When you meet him, you instantly want to like him — this electricity is [...]
Motorcycle Reviews: Moto Guzzi V7 Classic – 10,000, ahhh, I mean, 11,000 mile report!
Motorcycle Reviews-bikemodify.info There we were, Fitz and I, at Frank Lloyd Wright’s family chapel across from Taliesin near the Wisconsin River. Pat is an architect and was giving me the most wonderful lecture on all of the graves and events around the area with respect to Mr Wright, and in turn we were slapping each [...]
Motorcycle Reviews: PIaggio MP3 400ie – The Weekend.
Motorcycle Reviews-bikemodify.info This is the third installment in a series of what it’s like to live with Piaggio’s revolutionary three-wheeled maxi-scooter. Part 1, initial impressions, is here. Part 2, erramds amd running around, is here. Saturday arrives and it’s my daughter’s tenth birthday. It is absolutely beautiful outside as I get up bright and early. [...]
Motorcycle Reviews: Piaggio MP3 400ie – Day Two and Three
Motorcycle Reviews-bikemodify.info Airports and Errands daughter models on my scoot… I had to take a trip out of town midday Wednesday with a return on Thursday night, limiting my time with this Piaggio, but I still managed to get a few things done, all on the scoot: Take my 9-year-old daughter to school around the [...]
