RedBaroness http://www.red-baroness.net/blog Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:46:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Wrenching and fixer-upping http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2011/05/24/wrenching-and-fixer-upping/ http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2011/05/24/wrenching-and-fixer-upping/#comments Tue, 24 May 2011 20:50:35 +0000 redbaroness http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/?p=2239 Since I shouldn’t be all doom and gloom and remember all the work I’ve put into getting my bikes running, here’s a somewhat positive post about all the fixing and maintenance I managed to do over the past month or two (with major thanks to Mark Price without whom I might have dragged this out [...]]]> http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2011/05/24/wrenching-and-fixer-upping/feed/ 3 XT225 fuel problems… http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2011/05/24/xt-fuel-problems/ http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2011/05/24/xt-fuel-problems/#comments Tue, 24 May 2011 19:43:35 +0000 redbaroness http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/?p=2234 Today was supposed to be the “first day I rode to work” this year (I wish I was kidding – first major gap in riding in the past 5 years). I had fixed up both bikes last weekend and got them running, so I was pretty confident. All geared up, I decided to ride the [...]]]> http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2011/05/24/xt-fuel-problems/feed/ 2 AMA Online http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2011/05/09/ama-online/ http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2011/05/09/ama-online/#comments Mon, 09 May 2011 17:12:23 +0000 redbaroness http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/?p=2220 The May issue of American Motorcyclist is finally available online. Unfortunately, you do need to be an AMA member to be able to view it. Here‘s a direct link.

]]> http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2011/05/09/ama-online/feed/ 1 Dolomites image on MatadorNetwork… http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2011/04/22/dolomites-image-on-matadornetwork/ http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2011/04/22/dolomites-image-on-matadornetwork/#comments Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:03:46 +0000 redbaroness http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/?p=2205 One of the images I took in my cross-Europe ride in August is featured as the headlining photo in a MatadorNetwork photo gallery today about “What Have You Seen Outside Your Window While Traveling?”: http://matadornetwork.com/trips/photo-gallery-what-have-you-seen-outside-your-window-while-traveling. I had originally posted about it here.

When I saw a request for photos under this theme, this seemed like the [...]]]> http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2011/04/22/dolomites-image-on-matadornetwork/feed/ 4 I made the American Motorcyclist May 2011 issue cover… http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2011/04/05/i-made-the-american-motorcyclist-may-2011-issue-cover/ http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2011/04/05/i-made-the-american-motorcyclist-may-2011-issue-cover/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:02:36 +0000 redbaroness http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2011/04/05/i-made-the-american-motorcyclist-may-2011-issue-cover/ …. and practically the centerfold too. :P

The good folks at the AMA contacted me a couple of months ago asking if I would write a 700 word piece for them about how to plan and execute a successful road trip. Since I know a couple of things about the topic, I agreed and sent in [...]]]> http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2011/04/05/i-made-the-american-motorcyclist-may-2011-issue-cover/feed/ 10 Strange, unknown rider, who are you? http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2011/03/30/strange-unknown-rider-who-are-you/ http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2011/03/30/strange-unknown-rider-who-are-you/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:46:12 +0000 redbaroness http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/?p=2169 There are still mysteries in this world. A rider from work posted this a little while ago to the riders DL:

I met this gal in Baja out in the middle of nowhere. She was from Japan had been travelling the world for 5 years. This was her second bike, she wore out her first bike [...]]]> http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2011/03/30/strange-unknown-rider-who-are-you/feed/ 0 Austin Vince at the Georgetown Stables… http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2011/03/30/austin-vince-at-the-georgetown-stables/ http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2011/03/30/austin-vince-at-the-georgetown-stables/#comments Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:54:49 +0000 redbaroness http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/?p=2106 I watched Mondo Enduro a couple of years ago and was of course immediately won over by that ragtag group of men who rode their motorcycles around the world back in 1995. So when I heard that both Lois Pryce and Austin Vince were going to speak at two separate locations in Seattle in the [...]]]> http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2011/03/30/austin-vince-at-the-georgetown-stables/feed/ 8 An evening with Lois Pryce http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2011/03/30/an-evening-with-lois-pryce/ http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2011/03/30/an-evening-with-lois-pryce/#comments Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:12:44 +0000 redbaroness http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/?p=2104

Two Saturdays ago, Shubbu, Mark and I drove down to Southsound BMW in Fife to go see Lois Pryce talk. The one and only Lois Pryce who rode her motorcycle across the Americas alone! I was super stoked and excited about it, but I managed to curb my enthusiasm enough to get us there in [...]]]> http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2011/03/30/an-evening-with-lois-pryce/feed/ 5 Laura’s ride through South America http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2010/11/29/lauras-ride-through-south-america/ http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2010/11/29/lauras-ride-through-south-america/#comments Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:26:19 +0000 redbaroness http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2010/11/29/lauras-ride-through-south-america/ My friend Laura Seaver is on a motorcycle trip through South America and she has been posting some fantastic photos that make me feel restless all over again. Read all about her adventures on her blog.

I mean, *look* at this!

]]> http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2010/11/29/lauras-ride-through-south-america/feed/ 0 No riding for a while… http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2010/11/24/no-riding-for-a-while/ http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2010/11/24/no-riding-for-a-while/#comments Wed, 24 Nov 2010 15:32:35 +0000 redbaroness http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2010/11/24/no-riding-for-a-while/ Have you seen a sadder sight? :(

 

Seattle was hit by a storm two days ago which brought loads of snow and heavy winds. The temperature dropped to well below freezing leading to ice on the roads (and pretty much everywhere). We don’t salt or sand our roads since this sort of weather is most unusual [...]]]> http://www.red-baroness.net/blog/2010/11/24/no-riding-for-a-while/feed/ 4