Geezer with a Grudge: Retro All Over again?

Mar 6, 2014

Retro All Over again?

This is one of the dumbest "ads" I've ever seen. However, the new for 2014 SR400 is a kick-starting retro motorcycle that is pretty much exactly what a lot of kids who want a cheap (MSRP of $5990 sort of misses cheap), easily modified/customized bike with the convenience of fuel-injection. Look out Suzuki (TU250X) there is a new kid on the block.

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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.