Podcasting with the world-famous White Roof Radio
In 2005, two guys (DB and Todd) got together over the internet to talk about MINI Coopers. They recorded those conversations and the White Roof ...
Automotive Journalism for Motoringfile.com
In 2002 Gabe Bridger, a designer in Chicago, bought a MINI Cooper. He liked it so much he started blogging about it. That blog grew ...
Writing for Bluecat Motors of St. Paul, MN
In 2011, I served as documentarian for BlueCat Motors, a motorcycle repair shop in St. Paul, Minnesota. Specializing in vintage and modern European and Japanese ...
In 2007, I bought an old Italian scooter. It was so much fun, I wanted to write about it. An early version of The Ride ...
Project Streetliner: My tilting 3-wheeler concept
In 2010, I got an idea. It was an idea that stuck hard in my head and wouldn't go away. I've always wanted to build ...
I announced it on Twitter already, but the whole point of this blog is to talk about things that matter to me. My career ...
Wrench log: A horse of my own. Part three.
"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.
Wrench log: We don’t work on Goldwings
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 ...
It's news that I've shared in a lot of other outlets, but I've neglected to post it here. My impulse is to try to write ...
In our initial repair session with my 1974 Honda CB450 Supersport, Jeff and I were confident (if incorrect) that the engine had avoided disaster during ...
Chances are, you haven't heard of Kevin Smith's penultimate film Red State, which was released on DVD, Netflix, etc. yesterday. That, assuming you've even heard of Kevin Smith. Best known for what are affectionately known as the "Jay & Bob" movies, Smith got his start shooting the now iconic Clerks on a lark, for less than $30,000, mostly on his own credit cards. Clerks was a smash hit at Sundance that year and Kevin Smith went from living in his parents' basement to being an established writer/filmmaker.
Wrench Log: A horse of my own. Part two.
On day two of resurrecting my 1981 Honda CB750 Custom, things were going well. The carbs were cleaned out, rebuilt and bench tested. Though I'd already done most of the work myself, by the end of our previous session Jeff, my Moto Dojo sensei, had turned me loose completely on the CB750.
