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I’m not a modern sport bike guy. Once in a while, I get a wild hair to buy the ugliest ’80s superbike I can find, but mostly, I’m a UJM man all the way. Meanwhile, there’s Vimeo — where aspiring and professional filmmakers are sharing their art with the world. This particular video was made by the people at Nikon (w00t!) to promote their new digital camera. It tells a simple, small, enigmatic story about a guy and his sport …

Recently I got excited and made a thing. That thing is Scooterfile.com — a site I’d intended to create for more than a year. Riding my scooter around the Twin Cities is a big part of why I started my own blog. And as most regular readers know, I’m currently the Senior Editor at MotoringFile.com — the internet’s premier source for MINI-related news, reviews and opinion. ScooterFile hopes to take its place next to MotoringFile and …

Air. Fuel. Compression. Ignition. These are the building blocks of internal combustion. In the correct ratios, they’ll turn common gasoline into noise, heat and best of all, speed. Speed was exactly what I had in mind as Jeff and I continued resurrecting my 1974 Honda CB450 Supersport. I felt like I was running out of riding season.

I wrote this the evening after I found out I’d landed a new job, but couldn’t share it at the time because I hadn’t yet told my former employer.

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This morning I got an important phone call. It was a job offer from Razorfish — arguably the pre-imminent company in my field. It’s something that’s been in the works for a few months, but was never any kind of sure thing. When my wife and I were first considering Chicago, it …

I announced it on Twitter already, but the whole point of this blog is to talk about things that matter to me. My career definitely fits that criteria, so I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll soon be joining the UX team at Razorfish. I’ve admired their work for a long time and am both proud and intimidated to be brought onboard. I don’t know of anyone doing more meaningful or interesting work in the industry right now. I. …

“Are you ready for a real bike?”

Robb projected his question over the growl of The Mrs’ Honda CM400 as I pulled up to the open door at BlueCat Motors. Out front was my green Honda CB750.

Buying a nearly three decades-old Honda Goldwing is not an easy decision to explain. I wonder about it myself sometimes.

For the last year it’s been a tradition that nearly every Saturday I drop by BlueCat Motors to see what’s going on. At first, I often felt very in the way. Me and my camera, snapping away. Was I really supposed to be there? Was what I was writing on their blog doing them any good? A year on, I can’t imagine my week without at least one visit to BCM’s Prior Ave shop. I have two more weeks of …