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A BSA Barn Find
A BSA Barn FindI’ll admit it: I was vulnerable. I was in a weakened condition. In a rare fit of fiscal responsibility, I had sold my ’71 Triumph...
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Carter Edman
01 April 2013
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Bakcroad Revival, a poem
Bakcroad Revival, a poemIn addition to working as an architect, writer and teacher, it seems as if resident intellectual Carter Edman is a bit of a...
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Carter Edman
26 March 2013
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Indian, Beethoven and Seinfeld
Indian, Beethoven and SeinfeldI’m not a cruiser-hater. I had a Springer Softail, and it was magnificent. I felt like a bastard son of Zeus on that...
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Carter Edman
25 February 2013
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International Motorcycle Shows
Moto Sapiens at the Bike Show
Carter Edman visits the Cleveland round of the International Motorcycle Show armed with a flask of whiskey and a rudimentary knowledge of David Bowie lyrics.
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Carter Edman
28 January 2013
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We are Moto Sapiens
We are Moto SapiensWelcome. We are Moto sapiens. A creature separate and entire, midway between the worm and the angel. We make sacrifices to the...
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Carter Edman
03 January 2013
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An architect's take on the new Sturgis Museum and Hall of Fame
An architect's take on the new Sturgis Museum and Hall of FameI’m sorry. I am truly, painfully, cringefully sorry. As an architect, I would like to...
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Carter Edman
02 December 2012
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Mid-Ohio's Vintage Motorcycle Days
Every year, Vintage Motorcycle Days at Mid-Ohio Race Course has a different theme. This year is was Rockers and Mods. I think that's because lately the theme of everything is Rockers and Mods. They had Rockers and Mods day at our local animal shelter last week (the hamsters were the Mods). Of course, at these things, nobody really wants to be a Mod, so it's usually Rockers and Other Rockers. But ...
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Carter Edman
21 August 2012
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Inside The Gas Box
In an old modernist firehouse in North Olmsted, Ohio, is The Gas Box, a custom shop that's starting to get a lot of attention. There you'll find Jesse Bassett, the easy-going, easy-laughing mad genius; his girlfriend and business partner Kris Hinkel; customer-turned-partner Crazy Brett Scully; and their mechanical magi Marcus Ellis, Tim Fiorucci, and Jeffrey Wolfson. Photos: Carter Edman
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Carter Edman
07 August 2012
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An XS650 love story
Some of the commenters from my last article asked, where's the love? That's a fair enough question. It's great to be cynical and sarcastic, but that's not really why we're here. We're here — on HFL, on the road, in our garages — because of something we love. This is a story about that. Take a look at this picture. That's my brother on the Yamaha, circa 1982. I'm in the background playing catc...
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Carter Edman
08 July 2012
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Danger: BABi on Board
WARNING! There is a menace on the streets, Mr. and Mrs. America! A two-wheeled peril prowling your very neighborhoods. These marauders of menace bring a new meaning to TERROR ON THE TARMAC. What is this new threat? Young hooligans and their high-spirited hijinks? Pistol-packing gangs with a devil-may-care attitude? No, these are the new horror of the highway. These are the BABis: the Born-Again ...
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Carter Edman
26 June 2012
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Notes from the Lost Tribe: the 2012 International Motorcycle Studies Conference
It seems there is no tract of jungle so dense it hasn't been mapped, no tribe so remote they haven't been the subject of three dissertations and two documentaries. Reclusive Yanomami in the Amazon have Pepsi t-shirts. Nomadic herdsmen in Outer Mongolia are tweeting about their favorite fermented horse milk. Likewise, every single possible American subculture seems to have been dissected, investi...
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Carter Edman
18 June 2012
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HFL
An Open Letter To Every Person I Meet Who Finds Out I Ride a Motorcycle
I already know that motorcycles are "dangerous." This is an open letter to everyone who finds out I ride a motorcycle.
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Carter Edman
06 June 2012
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