I can't seem to resist updating the blog once a year or so.  Motorcycle-wise, the '05 Kawasaki Mean Streak sits in the garage, idle and for sale.  It's replacement is a '98 Honda Valkyrie, a truly wonderful motorcycle even at 20 years old.  I never really got to feeling at home on the big Kaw but the Valkyrie suited me immediately.  The big, glorious and shiny Honda flat 6 engine is a wonder ..read more

I stopped updating 40on2 back in 2014, ten years of rambling on here seemed like enough.  Never the less, the riding and bikes have continued so I thought I'd do a quick update.  The '74 BMW R90S is gone, sold to a collector in the eastern US.  The sporting riding position proved too much for my aging neck.  The replacement bike is a 2005 Kawasaki 1600 Mean Streak, my 50th motorcycle in 50 ..read more

Time for some maintenance.  The R90S, the blog, or me?  Probably all three.  We all have high miles and are in need of some rejuvenation ..read more

1974 BMW R90S in factory style "Silver Smoke" paint on the road, 1974 You guys that pay attention to my ramblings might recall I bought an R90S new in late '73 when they first came out.  House of Yamaha / BMW in Santa Monica, CA got in two of them, I bought one and Tommy Smothers of the Smothers Brothers comedy duo bought the other.  I was 22 years old, had a decent job working ..read more

Gold Wing Sunset Ten years ago today Forty Years On Two Wheels sprung to life from the flotsam and jetsam of motorcycle stories and thoughts rattling around in my head.   Something past 400 blog entries have been made, some of them good, and there are a handful of which I'm really proud.  I only rarely used anything but my own writing and photos; for good or ill I want the blog to be a ..read more

I spend too much time on-line but at least a lot of it is spent on motorcycle sites.  As I look at what's being done in the custom world these days with so-called bobbers, rat bikes, or even cafe bikes,  I get the feeling that a lot of what's being feted out there in publications and custom bike blogs was never intended to be ridden, or not ridden any further than from its trailer to the bike ..read more

A replica of Jim Bronson's bike. It's been pointed out to me by friends that I left an important movie off of my list of Motorcycle Movies You Should See.  That movie is Then Came Bronson. Then Came Bronson (TV movie) Then Came Bronson was a TV series from 1969-70.  The pilot was a made-for-TV movie by the same title.  The story revolved around "Jim Bronson," a newspaper reporter who ..read more

Above is the old Pinal County Court House, the main image from 1938, the Gold Wing image is my 2002 Gold Wing photographed there about 2008.   I've passed the court house countless times now and stopped periodically to photograph it alone or often with a bike in front of it.  It seemed like combining the pictures would be fun so I did.  I've seen it done around the 'net with various historic ..read more

This year was the 30th annual, more or less, and I've been going to them since they were a "vintage picnic" at a local park. It's been interesting to see the event grow, get too big and attract the wrong crowd, get small, then start to grow again only to be hit by the downturn in the economy. This year was interesting, there seemed to be fewer vintage bikes than ever but the biggest ..read more

I rarely recommend other blogs apart from the blog roll down below, there are too many that are equally good.  But a couple of smiling Brits have embarked on a long tour around the USA and after I followed a similar trip blog done by their fellow countryman Gary France a few years ago, I can't help but feel like the Blighty Boys,  John and Jon, will provide readers some good entertainment too.  ..read more