I entered the world of motorcycling as the unwitting victim of what, in retrospect, was a kind of scam. Decades ago, in the fourth-floor hallway of Copley Hall, my dorm at Georgetown University, a casual friend a couple years ahead of me was graduating and needed to unload his Honda Passport (aka Super Cub). Easily…
I can be stingy. (Economical, my friends would say.) I also like to try to make everything I do fun, including my dull 20-mile commute to work at the newspaper. The solution I came up with: I’m gonna get a motorcycle! I can save fuel and have an exhilarating commute. (Who ever thought those two…
My first two-wheeler taught me that the slow and sideways and out-of-the-way route is way more interesting. But then, life started moving too quickly and I wouldn’t crank another motorcycle for decades.
50 stories to celebrate 50 years of MSF
2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the Motorcycle Safety Foundation. This is a significant milestone reflecting generations of thoughtful and dedicated work by the MSF community.