Geezer with a Grudge: One More Expensive Gocart

Jul 28, 2014

One More Expensive Gocart

I, honestly, do not get this market at all. I suppose I need to have one last late-life-crisis to understand why anyone would want a rear wheel drive three-wheeler. I don't see where a 5" ground clearance is a good thing. This and the CanAm thing are overpriced, under-featured convertibles with no storage space and no practical purpose. I'm sure the spoiled children of the idle rich will "have to have one, mommie," but I can't see the advantage. I'd love to play with one on a track for a day, but what else would you do with 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.