Geezer with a Grudge: Spring, Spring at Last!

Apr 7, 2011

Spring, Spring at Last!

The temperature hit 60 today, for the first time in months. Snow is melting, the roads are clear, and all that's left is for the OHV parks to open the trails. I made a quick dash north to Carlos Avery this afternoon. The trails were closed, but the dirt roads on the way out and back were great. I am clearly out of shape. Only 100 miles and my butt is sore and my legs are stiff.

When I insured the WR250X, the agent asked me which of my 3 bikes would I consider my "primary motorcycle." At the moment, it's hard to imagine that being anything but the little supermoto. I will have to put the V-Strom on the road soon or I'll forget why I own it.

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The Geezer Story

I stumbled upon this column name (Geezer with a Grudge) almost 20 years ago, in 1999. The first Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly editor I worked with, in late 1999, complained that the magazine was getting no mail and the editors wanted to know if any readers were still out there. I fired off a sarcastic note, as a joke, intended to provide a little humor and some feedback. He published it as an article and later called me to say he'd received more mail on that letter than he'd received in the past year! I followed that with an offer to write a monthly column attempting to piss off a particular section of the magazine's readership to see if that tactic would generate some mail.

It did, probably more regularly than the magazine wanted at times, and I wrote a monthly column for MMM until the magazine died in 2018.

I plan to post an occasional old Geezer article into the blog, followed by short comments about the current status of my perspective on our activity/sport/vehicle of choice.