Category: Motorcycles

On Sunday, May 15th, 52-year-old Whitehorse resident Emile Aubichon was killed in a motorcycle crash on the North Klondike Highway (see the Yukon News article [archived by the Wayback Machine]). Last night a memorial ride was held to lay a wreath at the crash site. About 80 motorcycles turned...

I collect ads. I’ve been collecting ads for decades. Amongst all the advertising trash that bombards us day after day there really are some gems. Some are brilliant, some hilarious, some particularly artistic, and some just resonate with me. It’s the state of Wyoming’s ad in the May issue...

A pair of pictures is worth at least a thousand words so I won’t type any more 🙂...

I was going to entitle this post “Icy Fog Spells the End of Motorcycle Season”, but it’s more about the dam. It was -15°C when I woke up this morning, so when I went into town I took the car. The fog seen in this photo was sitting in...

Many businesses in the Yukon say that they don’t understand why there are so many people like me who do a lot of their shopping Outside. Here’s today’s example of why we do it. When I decided a few weeks ago to get a motorcycle, I expected to buy...

The cold, wet weather of Fall has arrived. As well as all the things that have to get done around the house to get ready for winter, things have gotten busy at the travel office as people start making plans to get warm for a week or two. All...

I’ve been saying for a few years that I’m semi-retired – although I have to work, I can pretty much do what I want, when I want to do it. I’ve just discovered, though, that to be truly semi-retired, a guy needs a toy or two. The motorcycle is...

I wonder if the cliche about men past “a certain age” buying a red convertible to regain their young (and perhaps adding a young blonde in the right seat) was ever true? In my world in the past couple of decades at least, the red convertible has been replaced...

Summer has arrived!! My kids are making me kinda nuts, though 🙂 When I was in Calgary 3 weeks ago I helped my daughter pick out a new Kawasaki Ninja motorcycle, and a few minutes ago my son pulled up on his new Kawasaki KLR650! 🙂 Whoohoo, Daddy needs...

Today was a fun day in town. We dropped the girls off at school and went shopping 🙂 There are a whole lot of things that Whitehorse does very well, but although shopping is a world better than it was a decade ago, it’s still pretty dismal. On our...