I am at the Cleveland IMS right now taking pictures. In the next couple of days I will be posting up a full report.
Yes, it has been a long time since I have posted to the board!
I guess that is to be expected. The temperatures here in Ohio have been absolutely miserable. It has been snowing just about every day and we are buried under a ton of snow. The only good thing I can say is that we are more than half way through January.
One good thing happens in Ohio in the month of January: The Cycle World International Motorcycle Show.
I can tell that people are starting to get interested because the hits to last years writeup are going through the roof. Of course, I will be attending again this year and I will post up pictures of everything that I found interesting. If you are planning on attending you can download a coupon to get $3 off of the admission price at this link. You have to be a member of the RideOhio.org board to download the coupon, but if you are not a member on the board you should be! It is a great bunch of folks and it will help you get through the winter. Make sure you say hello, and DO NOT tell them that Tank sent you!
In other news, I have purchased a Lenovo S10 Netbook, and I am actually using it to update the site! This is an awesome little device, and I can’t wait to go mobile with it this summer! It is very compact, but still big enough to be useful. In fact, I suspect this is going to be my main machine now. I can’t tell you how much I love this thing! I doubt if it would be much good for games, but for what I do it just can’t be beat! I tried to sign up as an affiliate with Lenovo so I could make some money from everyone I talked into buying one of these, but Lenovo does not like ridewithtank.com nearly as much as I like their netbook, and they declined to accept my affiliate offer. I am a bit offended by their rejection, but I really do love his S10!
Buying a motorcycle and choosing the correct motorcycle is not an easy task. Often, we are motivated more by what we think we want, instead of choosing the bike we need.
The first step in choosing a motorcycle is that you have to be honest with yourself. This is probably the hardest step of all. You need to honestly look at yourself and determine exactly how you are going to ride the bike. I know you have dreams of riding coast to coast, but are you actually going to do that? Maybe you have visions of dragging a knee around the corners – but again, is this something you will actually be doing? Is that something you SHOULD be doing?
The RideOhio guys met up at big Muskie and now Passinthru, Skid, and I are getting drunk. If it gets wierd I will continue to post pictures.