I recently crashed my motorcycle

First of all, I’m ok. I ended up with a broken collarbone and bad knee laceration. I’m on week three and feeling a lot better now. I wrote about the experience on the Hear Me Rev site, you can read the full article here: What is it like to crash your motorcycle?

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Hear Me Rev

Not just for boys! by hearmerev I ride motorcycles. I love to show off the fact that I’m a woman AND I ride a motorcycle. There’s an immediate bond with other women who ride, because we are rare, but not for long. More and more women are riding these days. So why is it so…

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A Motorcycle Ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles

Ok technically not Los Angeles, we stayed in Santa Monica (for those who would be offended). If you want to take this ride, click here to download my route cards for your tank bag. View Trip to Los Angeles, CA in a larger map Before this trip I had only been to LA two times:…

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Motorcycle Upgrade

Saturday I bought my new bike! I wasn’t planning on doing this until January, but a friend from work was interested in my 250, and Steve just got his new bike… so it all just fell into place. And now I have a blue Ninja 650 🙂 I fell in love with the 650 last…

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Lovely Lane Splitting

Traffic has been horrendous on the way to work for the past three days. I think it might have a little to do with school starting up again. Each day going to and from work I would sit, inching forward waiting for my turn to get through the light in order to sit, waiting again…

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Through Hell to MotoGP

MotoGP was in the U.S. this past weekend, in our back yard – well, actually in Salinas, which is about 1.5 hours away from our house. But it could be considered our back yard depending on your perspective. We rode our bikes down all three days, and I WAS BEAT!!! Aside from the long hard…

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Finally, I Present… My Motorcycle

I’ve been meaning to take some pictures for a very long time. And I suppose now is a good time because I’ve had my Ninja for a about a year now 🙂 I also took some pictures of Steve’s bike, a Honda VFR. Here’s the entire motorcycle photo set of both bikes.

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A Pug on the Road

Today I rode my motorcycle on the freeway for the second time. I crossed the San Mateo bridge – which for those who are not familiar with it, is a bridge that spans about 8 miles across the bay from Hayward to San Mateo (here’s how it looks on Google maps). I was pretty nervous…

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I Passed the MSF Course!

I took the two wheel safety training course and passed! First there was a 6 hour classroom session last Thursday night. I was a little disappointed with it, and felt like I hadn’t learned much more than what I read about in the little MSF book I got when I bought my motorcycle. Then there…

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