motorcycle riding Archives - Scooter in the Sticks Exploring life on a Vespa Scooter and Royal Enfield Himalayan motorcycle. Thu, 13 Apr 2017 04:41:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 71084491 Restorative Powers of Scooter Riding – or Motorcycles https://scooterinthesticks.com/2017/04/restorative-powers-of-scooter-riding-or-motorcycles/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2017/04/restorative-powers-of-scooter-riding-or-motorcycles/#comments Thu, 13 Apr 2017 04:41:22 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=7435 Riding Reflections This will be a short post.  It’s premise and conclusions obvious to many who already ride a scooter or motorcycle.  To others, and perhaps most of those men and women who are thinking about riding, the idea that riding has any sort of powers or rewards beyond transportation or recreation may not even […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2017/04/restorative-powers-of-scooter-riding-or-motorcycles/feed/ 54 7435 3:12 a.m. https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/11/312-a-m/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/11/312-a-m/#comments Sun, 27 Nov 2016 09:04:53 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=6978 How does illness influence your thinking in the middle of the night? Medical Choices Standing before a stack of pre-heart attack cold medications in the bathroom I realize how much has changed in the past eighteen months.  Not so long ago I would down any number of cold remedies without hesitation to relieve any symptom […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/11/312-a-m/feed/ 27 6978 Ride to Work 2016 https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/06/ride-work-2016/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/06/ride-work-2016/#comments Tue, 21 Jun 2016 05:12:33 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=6565 On the Ride to Work It was pure coincidence that I rode to work on Ride to Work Day.  After two weeks off I left early enough for a leisurely commute and stopped to make one photograph during a small rustic detour.  At 7:30am the temperature was already above seventy degrees.  It was a near […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/06/ride-work-2016/feed/ 18 6565 Vespa Meditation https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/06/vespa-meditation/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/06/vespa-meditation/#comments Sun, 19 Jun 2016 04:57:30 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=6550 Strange Reminder of a Vespa Meditation I saw this Buddha statue in the hollow of a tree toward the end of a ride. It highlighted what I was experiencing on the scooter — a deliberate and ongoing rumination of thoughts and questions that cloud my mind along with a more and more focused recognition of […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/06/vespa-meditation/feed/ 5 6550 An Experience of the Senses https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/06/an-experience-of-the-senses/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/06/an-experience-of-the-senses/#comments Sat, 11 Jun 2016 16:31:03 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=6457 Why do I ride? To feel alive. An Experience of the Senses Reading reviews of new motorcycles and scooters I often feel the writers are missing the point as they focus on machinery, specifications and performance metrics, reducing riding to a quantitative assessment of engineering. Perhaps marketing research and reader testing has revealed that’s what […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/06/an-experience-of-the-senses/feed/ 21 6457 Vespa on the Road to Memory https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/06/vespa-on-the-road-to-memory/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/06/vespa-on-the-road-to-memory/#comments Sat, 04 Jun 2016 16:21:35 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=6438 For anyone who rides a scooter or motorcycle there’s probably nothing here you don’t already know.  So turn off the computer, get up, and go for a ride.  But if you’re new to the riding life, or in that luscious world of dreams and fantasy filled with two-wheeled lies and adventure, then maybe you might […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/06/vespa-on-the-road-to-memory/feed/ 28 6438 Riding Kaleidoscope https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/05/riding-kaleidoscope/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/05/riding-kaleidoscope/#comments Mon, 30 May 2016 04:05:33 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=6420 Are your weekends on your scooter or motorcycle a riding kaleidoscope? Winding Roads Some days, I swear I see better than others.  Objects seem to leap out toward my eyes and landscapes become small cinematic experiences.  It’s like a riding kaleidoscope where there’s a constant change of pattern, texture and form. Or maybe it’s just […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/05/riding-kaleidoscope/feed/ 16 6420 My Seven Types of Riding Weather https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/02/my-six-types-of-riding-weather/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/02/my-six-types-of-riding-weather/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2016 05:15:38 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=5864 Considering the Weather Weather is a constant consideration when riding though the precise nature of the weather affects how much attention I give it.  Even during the warm months the local weather can change dramatically during the day.  More than once I’ve been caught without adequate protection when a hot day turned remarkably cool after […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/02/my-six-types-of-riding-weather/feed/ 25 5864 Introduction to Vespa Riding: Coffee Shops https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/01/introduction-to-vespa-riding-coffee-shops/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/01/introduction-to-vespa-riding-coffee-shops/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2016 07:04:42 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=5743 Solitary Experience Riding a scooter or motorcycle, by nature, leans toward a solitary experience.  A passenger can be included or machines can congregate in groups and technology can be added to provide communication but rider and machine make up the critical whole.  People, and riders, like many forms of animal life, tend to congregate in flocks, herds, […]

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]]> https://scooterinthesticks.com/2016/01/introduction-to-vespa-riding-coffee-shops/feed/ 33 5743 Riding a BMW R nineT Motorcycle https://scooterinthesticks.com/2015/06/riding-a-bmw-r-ninet-motorcycle/ https://scooterinthesticks.com/2015/06/riding-a-bmw-r-ninet-motorcycle/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2015 02:02:55 +0000 https://scooterinthesticks.com/?p=4835 I swear, I love my Vespa scooter.  Regardless of what I write from this point on remember that. The details aren’t important other than Kissell Motorsports put me in a position to be riding a BMW RnineT motorcycle.  I don’t follow the motorcycling world closely so I missed the unveiling of this bike as a […]

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