Motorcycle Misadventures Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:08:57 PST

• All San Francisco Side Stand Up Podcast  Tonight, Side Stand Up gathered at BMW Motorcycle in San Francisco to do a live podcast with a great lineup. We missed Tom Lowdermilk, who was stuck south of Fresno on a wild ride I'm sure we'll hear about next week. So Joanne Donn (GearChic) and I did our best....
• Join the live podcast today at 7pm Eastern THE AMERICAN MOTORCYCLE GIRLS  Today at 7pm Easter (that's 4pm for you west-coasters), I'll be joining the motley crew at Sidestand Up Radio. I'll be interviewing longtime motorcycle journalist, author, columnist, and songwriter, Chris Sommer-Simmons. She's collected photos of women riders for more than thirty years and created the new book, "The American Motorcycle...
• Why did I unfollow you on twitter?  I tweet, and I follow a lot of twits. But I unfollow every day. Why? Because I don't want to get text messages, I want small info bytes that helps me with my work, or informs me in some other valuable area. I want tweets on topic, and with links....
• Greek villages on a Dalmatian island that moved to the Italian Adriatic Coast  The Promontorio del Garganano doesn’t seem to belong to Italy at all. It is a geographic anomaly, a hunk of earth that lunges out into the sea. Millions and millions of years ago it started moving here from Dalmatia to settle uncomfortably, and now it seems to reach southeast toward...
• Cindi Servante makes major dent in the fight against helmet hair  A hairdresser by trade, Cindi Servante has made a major dent in the fight against helmet hair by developing satiny "Style Saver Scarves" to wear under your motorcycle helmet. "They're based on the concept of those satin pillows women used to sleep on to keep their hairdos in shape in...
• Today at 12:30 Pacific Time: Listen to Motorcycling Morocco  Today I'll talk with Ann Lombardi on The Trip Chicks program about my motorcycle trip in Morocco. Listen in at 12:30 pacific time, or listen to the archives. Click here to listen.
• Secretly longing for a sport bike, but embedded in cruiser culture?  You just might not get kicked out of your club if you show up on this: The Suzuki Boulevard M90 is a sport bike disguised as a cruiser, rumbling up like a Harley-Davidson and zipping away like a Ninja. With accessories it could function nicely as a light touring motorcycle,...
• Your Road Trip to the Sacramento Delta Area can include Beekeeping Tour in Brentwood  Attention all road trippers, bikers, and tourists: Here's a great stop in a loop from the San Francisco Bay Area to the Sacramento Delta area on Sunday, July 12. Did you know that one in three mouthfuls of the food we eat comes as a result of the work of...
• On the road: If you just need a shower...  My friend Steve Frey, who used to be a trucker, wrote me with this advice about finding showers on the road, which is really helpful because by the end of the riding day it's often too late (dark, cold) to want to shower, and who wants to get their hair...
• The Alps to Atlas journey through Europe and Africa is over  I'm home in the San Francisco after my Alps to Atlas journey on a Ural sidecar motorcycle. You can read my dispatches and take a look at my twitter page for reports on this 2009 journey from Linz, Austria to the Sahara desert and back. The trip took me through...