Motocross Stories
40 years of motocross adventures and many more to come!
New places, new faces - no turning back!
Look at the date of the last journal entry... February 2020! In a month, it will be four years! How did that happen? Has nothing interesting happened in my life since 2020? The last thing I wrote was my personal elegy to my friend Ian who caught a nasty case of cancer and died shortly after. Have...
Raising the Bar with Ian Coristine
It seems like a lifetime ago, and I suppose it was. I started working for Ed Huck Marine in 1990, one year after their centennial celebration. Ed Huck Marine is a marina located in Rockport Ontario in the heart of the Thousand Islands and I was hired on as their SeaDoo mechanic. I enjoyed wor...
The Thistle Off-Road Festival
A couple of years ago, while researching what local race I could attent with my vintage RM 250, I discovered the Ormstown Vintage Off-Road Festival. While I had planned to attend, the universe had other ideas for me and I had to pass on it. I was okay with my decision because there will always be...
Radio Interview for Rally for Rangers
I was interviewed on CBC Radio on December 22 by Giacomo Panico for "All in a Day", the local weekly current events program. This was essentially a de-brief coversation following the Patagonia Rally for Rangers ride.
Horsepower and Medicine
When I turned 40, I finally put some effort into learning to play guitar. A year or two later I sold my Yamaha motorcycle and bought a Yamaha Guitar. I didn't stop riding dirt-bikes, I just reduced my seat-time. I did manage to learn to play guitar well enough to have fun around a campfire and it...
Patagonia Day 9 - The final destination
Our final day on motorcycles. We rode from El Calafate to Los Glaciares National Park and gave the motorcycles away at a ceremony beside the Perito Moreno glacier. The day started with nobody in a hurry, except for Jeff, our mechanic. Jeff had 13 motorcycles that had taken 10 days of hard riding...
Patagonia Day 8 -Two amazing places
Day 8 riding and it was another long day on the bike but the scenery was beyond my expectations. Nine days in Patagonia and you might think you had seen the best there is by now, but the best was yet to come.