by Doug Thompson | Sep 9, 2020 | Coronavirus, Motorcycle Musings
As an avid motorcycle rider with a preference for Harley-Davidson machines, I had friends who rode to South Dakota last month for the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, considered the largest public gathering of partying people without masks during the current COVID-19...
by Doug Thompson | Jun 26, 2017 | Motorcycle Musings, Musings
Slept in this morning. Didn’t plan to but the clock on the night stant read 6:56 a.m. when my eyes popped open. That’s more than 90 minutes later than when I usually get up. Shouldn’t have happened. Went to bed at 10 p.m. Sunday – much...
by Doug Thompson | Apr 10, 2017 | Motorcycle Musings, Musings
The temperature sat on 30 degrees at 6:45 a.m. as I fired up my Harley Davidson Switchback Sunday to ride over to Tuggles Gap to meet up with Nick Piazza for a ride down Woolwine Mountain on Virginia Route 8 to Stuart and then East on U.S. 58 over to Martinville and...
by Doug Thompson | Feb 21, 2017 | Motorcycle Musings, Musings
Celebrated quality time on Presidents Day Monday on on two different motorcycles — my Harley Switchback and Amy’s Can-Am Spyder. Different bikes, different styles, different ways to ride. The Switchback is a classic cruiser, based on...
by Doug Thompson | Feb 12, 2017 | Motorcycle Musings, Musings
Another incredibly warm day in the middle of winter here in the mountains Friday and a nice afternoon to climb on a motorcycle to ride. Topped off the tank of my Harley Switchback in Floyd and headed south on Virginia Rte. 8 down Woolwine Mountain, carving the twisty...
by Doug Thompson | Dec 25, 2015 | Motorcycle Musings, Musings
If I am fortunate this weekend, the rain will let up by Sunday and with temperatures slated for the 70s, I will be enjoying Christmas on one of my Harleys. I get asked more and more if I should still be riding at age 68. Why not? I have a riding friend down on the...
