Geezer with a Grudge: Riders' Digest #168

Jul 10, 2012

Riders' Digest #168

The new edition (#168)of The Riders' Digest is out and I'm in it (check out page 57). As usual, the magazine with the best action motorcycle shots is full of great photography, unusual articles, and more variety than a three-ring circus. All delivered with those odd British words in place of proper English. (Sorry, Dave.)

RD is becoming my favorite "glossy" motorcycle magazine. Between "oldlongdog's" demented trip down memory's lanes and his hilarious take on humanity and Paul Browne's brilliant trip across the Americas, I can barely wait for each issue notice to pop into my email. I check the site 4-5 times a month to be sure it hasn't appeared when I wasn't looking.

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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.