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A Motorcycle Really Needs To Feel Right…

A neighbor recently thinned her bookshelves and deposited a plastic bag filled with paperbacks on my doorstep. Included in the discards that she thought I might enjoy was Robert Fulghum’s “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.”  In reading it, having missed its gentle wisdom when it was …

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TMZ Clueless When It Comes to Motorcycles

By Bud Wilkinson The gossip website TMZ is receiving guffaws from riders coast-to-coast after cluelessly labeling a motorcycle ridden by a Los Angeles police officer as a “chopper” in a story about a woman who apparently dodged ticket on Friday afternoon. The website reported: The LAPD is conducting a formal Internal Affairs …

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Two Attempts To Repeal Helmet Laws Fail

By Bud Wilkinson Michigan repealed its helmet law in 2012, allowing riders 21 and older to go lid-free, but similar efforts in other states since then have failed. Two attempts this year to wipe helmet laws from the book, including one in New England, failed. In the Vermont legislature, the …

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