One of the enjoyable tasks of planning a long ride is keeping an eye on the weather in the areas that will be part of the trip. In May last year, while returning from the Harley-Davidson Primary Officers Training seminars in Las Vegas, NV, my riding partner and I came home to the South Plains [...]
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What’s The Weather Going To Be?
Posted in Arizona, Harley-Davidson, Las Vegas, Nevada, New Mexico, Trip Reports, weather, West Texas on April 12, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Here’s Proof Harley Dealers Have Hearts
Posted in Harley-Davidson, West Texas on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lots of Harley riders after buying a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle and paying way too much for it find themselves scratching their heads and wondering if their dealer even has a heart. Now comes evidence out of Abilene, Texas, that they do. The Abilene Reporter-News, the daily newspaper in that West Texas community, reported this [...]
Another Great Day; Another Great Ride
Posted in Trip Reports, weather, West Texas on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The weather conditions on the South Plains of Lubbock during the month of March can be difficult, if not impossible, to predict with any regularity. Last Friday there were tiny flakes of snow falling; four days later it was almost 85 degrees. When the March weather turns off like it did Monday, those who ride [...]
What If There’s No Place To Go?
Posted in Harley-Davidson, Trip Reports, weather, West Texas on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you ride a motorcycle and live in Lubbock, Texas, you have to ride 100 miles or more before the scenery changes. The flatness of the terrain around here frequently rivals that of a pool table. The great people of Lubbock reside on what is known as the Llano Estacado, a region that covers eastern [...]
Those Sunday Afternoon Rides
Posted in Flatlander HOG Club, Trip Reports, weather, West Texas on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I was a youngster in the mid-1950s my dad would round up the family on a Sunday afternoon and we’d go riding in the car around town, gawking at the different things we would see. More than a half-century later, it’s still pretty much the same, except the vehicle of choice is a motorcycle. [...]
What A Great Time To Ride!
Posted in Trip Reports, weather, West Texas on March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Planning motorcycle rides for the month of March in Texas can be a dicey proposition because of the wildly fluctuating climate that we have. There have been times in March where we have had blowing dust storms, driving rain, heavy snow, and oppressive heat—all on the same day! But when the weather conditions in Texas [...]
If It’s Winter, It Must Be Time To Ride
Posted in Trip Reports, West Texas on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When it comes to predicting the weather, it’s been said by a variety of people in almost every region of our great land, “If you don’t like the weather now, stick around for five minutes, it’ll change.” Nowhere is that more true than in West Texas. Here we are nearing the end of February, dead [...]
How Much For A Life?
Posted in News Reports, Opinion, Safety, West Texas on January 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For some reason, and I don’t begin to try to determine why, the lives of those who ride motorcycles don’t seem to be valued very highly by prosecutors or juries. If I’m wrong about that, why are so few people sent to jail, much less even prosecuted when they are involved in a wreck that [...]
Laid Up and Going Nuts
Posted in surgery, weather, West Texas on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today is Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009, and it’s been since Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008, that I have not been able to ride my motorcycle…and I’m having lots of problems adjusting. I knew that when the doctor told me that I was going to need surgery on my left ankle to repair damage caused by several [...]
