Geezer with a Grudge: Memories on My Luggage

Jul 3, 2018

Memories on My Luggage

Turned out, the big thing I missed about my 12 year partner in travel, my 2004 DL650 V-Strom, was getting to see those place-marker stickers on the luggage and right side cover. The guy who bought the bike, Paul Purdes, generously took excellent pictures of the cases and stickers which my wife will make into a collage that I can hang on my office wall. In the meantime, I put his pictures and some of my favorite memories of that motorcycle into a video that I can enjoy right now. Hopefully, you find something entertaining in it also.

3 comments:

RichardM said...: Nice video. A lot of memories there...; 7/4/18, 1:01 AM
CarlH said...: Very nice...Were all your travels with stock seat? I left stock seat on my DL 650, but use air hawk for long trips. What a great motorcycle. I’m on my 2nd one!; 7/4/18, 10:17 AM
T.W. Day said...: I swapped out the stock seat in the first few months of owning my V-Strom. As part of a magazine review, I bought a Sargent seat and a friend went for the Saddlemen seat. Both were an improvement over stock, but the Sargent was perfect for me.; 7/6/18, 11:34 AM

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.