Sue Carpenter, the Babydoll, and Tahoe!

Susan Carpenter is the Los Angeles Times moto journalist, and she’s one of our favorites.  You have to check out this super article she wrote about us in Saturday’s business section.   The story featured three bikes that are good for women riders, but you and I know there’s only one best choice!  Please make sure to see the video Sue and the Los Angeles Times put together, too…you can get to it by clicking on the screen below (you have to let it run through the ad first)…

This is pretty exciting stuff…being featured in the Los Angeles Times!

Yours truly in the Sierra Nevadas this weekend! My good buddy Carla King shot this photo!

I had to view the article on my i-Phone, because I was up in Lake Tahoe and the surrounding areas this weekend.   Can you believe it…I couldn’t find a print copy of the Los Angeles Times in Lake Tahoe, and I started looking at 5:00 in the morning on Saturday!

I thought the article looked good on my little i-Phone, but I really wanted to see the print version (I’m old-fashioned that way).  When I wheeled the KLR into my driveway late this afternoon, I made a beeline for the paper my wife saved for me.  And when I saw the print article, I was absolutely blown away!   There’s a photo in it that you don’t see in the online version…the photo shows all three bikes featured in Sue Carpenter’s article, but the Babydoll really stands out.   Just like it does in person!

Not being able to find the Los Angeles Times in Tahoe aside, it was a great weekend…I was invited up on a press junket to help spread the word about Lake Tahoe as a motorcycling destination.  My good buddy J organized it, and it was a hoot.   I put a little over a thousand miles on my KLR in the last three days, I met a whole bunch of great people, and I rode the northern Sierra Nevada mountain range!  The riding in and around Lake Tahoe is just awesome.  I used my new Midland video cam and I shot a lot of video, too.   Here’s a quick Midand camera minute showing some of the riding I enjoyed this weekend…

I’ll tell you more about the Tahoe weekend as this week unfolds…it’s busy, busy, busy here!   Like I said above, I just got back from Tahoe, and the ride back was spirited!  When I left Lake Tahoe at 5:30 this morning, it was 37 degrees!  And when I got down to the 395, it was even colder!  I rode about 100 miles at 7,000 feet elevation, and that was about the coldest riding I’ve ever done.  In June, no less!  I actually stopped and found a hill to walk up (there was no place to stop where I could go inside)…I needed to do that to warm up!  And then when I dropped down to around 3,000 feet in the Mojave Desert, it was in the 90’s!   I had to stop and peel off all the extra gear I put on to stay warm in the Sierra Nevadas!

That’s it for today, boys and girls.  It’s secret mission time again, and I’m off to the southern United States for CSC and a series of travel articles I’m doing for Motorcycle Classics magazine.  Then it’s up to Connecticut to talk about Mustangs (more on that later, too!).   It’s “wheels up” at 5:00 a.m. tomorrow morning, so I’m going to sign off!  Stay tuned, and as always, ride safe!