Winter Traction – The Bacon Tour

Winter Traction – The Bacon Tour

These videos are part of a series documenting the 2010 Bacon Tour see them all at Adventure Sidecar on Vimeo            We spent the weekend driving on ice in the mountains east of Hood River. Mr. Cob had a two wheel drive Ural with...

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Throwback Thursday: Beaver Creek Run Part 1

Throwback Thursday: Beaver Creek Run Part 1

Beaver Creek Run Part 1  Part 2 Part 3       Howard and I had spent all winter working on our bikes. They both had fresh paint and new tires. Howard installed a new magneto in his Triumph and hand fashioned stainless steel fender struts and a sissy bar. I...

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Too Hot

Too Hot

    A question which often comes up when talking about driving sidecars is: “What do I do if I get into a corner too hot?” If you have been on any of the chat forums discussing sidecars sooner or later you will come across a long thread discussing this...

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Serving My Corporate Masters

Serving My Corporate Masters

Originally published in Hack’d Magazine Volume 14, #3 Winter                In 1997 I was employed as a private contractor for Portamedic and several other companies which specialized in collecting data for big insurance companies.  I served my corporate masters by...

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Travails with Travois

Travails with Travois

5/2/16 Dear Robert, I trust you had a safe drive back to Salem and were rewarded with a warm welcome home. How are you feeling today? I woke up a little sore, mostly in the back and shoulders, but a half hour in the hot tub and a couple of aspirin put that right....

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Good Morning

Good Morning

    3/7/26 6:00 48F (8.8C) Overcast and dry. It is a gray,  windless morning. Walter is barking at an early dog walker. There is a squirrel  chattering full scold in the oaks. Robins and jay's flit about. A flock of small birds is eating the blossoms off the...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

    3/6/26 6:30 43F (6C) Cloudy with patches of blue.  No wind, no rain.   The sun tops Snakehead ridge, flaring golden-yellow through a crack in the clouds. I  hear turkeys calling from the tall trees up the canyon. Birds are singing, the rooster  is...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

    3/5/26 5:45 44F (6.66C) Breezy,  mostly cloudy, beginning to rain. Trees sway in the wind. The moon, waning gibbous behind the clouds, is setting. Birds are singing it to sleep in the dim grey blue of a morning not quite realized. Good morning.  ...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

    3/4/26 6:00 45F (7.2C) No wind.  Gray and wet. It is raining here. Apparently it is snowing on the mountain  with the  freezing level  just over 5,000'. That is good. Whether it is good  enough we will discover  come fire season. I expect a long summer...

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Good Morning

Good Morning

      3/3/26 40F (4.4C) 3:00 - 4:45 full moon eclipsed like  a round, pink, salmon egg. I slept through my alarm and almost missed the eclipse. It was a red ember when I got outside. Descending into the tops of the oaks, it went from a glowing red...

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