Geezer with a Grudge: Simply Depressing

Apr 15, 2012

Simply Depressing

Date: 2012-04-13, 8:15PM CDT
Reply to: jr78q-2952917998@sale.craigslist.org ^{[Errors when replying to ads?]}

2006 ktm smr 450 street legal supermoto very nice shape, fmf or stock pipe, no turn signals,kickstart only, very fun bike! Just wanna move to a cruiser, $4900 or trade for sportster or other harley..no junk! Can come up with more $ for the right bike...320 469 2155

2 comments:

Erik R said...: If he has any riding skill at all, he will come to regret that move. I did the cruiser thing long ago. Never again!; 4/15/12, 8:28 AM
T.W. Day said...: That's a positive outlook. It sometimes seems to me that Harley ownership is like the Apple computer fandom; a kind of Kool-Aid that people never recover from. I hope you're right. It's sad to think of someone who got it so right, once, going so wrong from then out.; 4/15/12, 4:56 PM

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.