Don't Forget: Ride To Work Day, Wednesday, July 18th 2007

G is for "Gotcha!"

Are you like me, constantly getting performance awards from the local constabularies? If so, here are the top ten cities to avoid (as released by the National Motorists Association) because they are the top speed trap cities in the USA:

• Detroit, Michigan
• Colorado Springs, Colorado (of course, as I wrote in my last ride report, the cops don't chase sportbikes in Colorado Springs)
• Houston, Texas
• Orlando, Florida
• Nashville, Tennessee
• Ann Arbor, Michigan (second one for Michigan, so I vote we just avoid the entire friggin' state!)
• Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Washington D.C.
• Denver, Colorado (oops, second one for Colorado too, but I can't give up all the great riding in Colorado!)
• Virginia Beach, Virginia

Source: Public responses at www.speedtrap.org

Ride Report: Rocky Mountain High

My ride report -- Canada and back, 5000 miles in ten days! -- is now complete in both the forums and on my website.

Where I've Been Lately (Updated)

My latest adventure added the states of Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas (as well as British Columbia and Alberta, Canada) to the list of places where I've recently ridden my motorcycles.

4,874 Miles Later...

...and I'm home again, safe and sound, already dreaming about the next adventure. This is my longest ride ever: nearly five thousand miles in ten days. With my friends Elaine and Greg, I went all the way to Lake Louise in Banff National Park, Canada, with so many stops in between (New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas) that it'll take me a month to get the ride report completed. How cool, though, to have ridden in both Mexico and Canada in the same year!

Except for a wiring problem in a turn signal that I deemed too difficult (but not impossible) to bother fixing on the roadside, the ZZR performed flawlessly, arriving home with over 32,000 miles on her odometer. What a great bike this has been for me: fast, comfortable, reliable. Up in Canada, I got my best gas mileage ever: 45.9 miles to the gallon (12.1 miles per liter, if you're Canadian -- ha!). Nearly 46 mpg on a machine making 160-something horsepower? That's just unbelievable.

Full report to follow. Watch this blog or my website...