So, when you are 74 years of age will you be up to the riding rigors that Ardys “Queenie” Kellerman faces each year? In 2006 she rode more than 80,000 miles to win the BMW Motorcycle Owners of America womens mileage contest! Guess she just doesn’t like to stay home. :-) She started 35 years ago with a little Yamaha, moved up to a Honda CB360. Since then BMW has been her motorcycle of choice. Queenie has completed 4 Iron Butt rallies (11,000 miles in 11 days) and innumberable Saddlesores (1,000 miles in 24 hours). Thousand mile days are routine for her. Read more about this remarkable woman in the BMWOA article.

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Bloomberg columist Mark Gilbert has wrtten a column about touring Vietnam by motorcycle—the best way to see the country in his estimation. It’s a short read and worth your time even if you have no intention of going to Vietnam.

Motorcycle-USA.com does occasional articles about memorable motorcycles. This month they write about BSA’s $40 million dollar flop—the 1966 BSA Titanium.

“It was the same era in which the BSA group had the most modern motorcycle factory in the world, and when confidence amounting to crass arrogance filled every room in the Armoury Road complex.”

“I remember sitting eating lunch with a group of BSA middle management who spent an hour and a half laughing at Honda because they didn’t have a bike bigger than 450cc and dismissing all Yamahas as foul-handling, smoky two-strokes. And this was at the same time that BSA’s own bikes were dogged with some of the most gross unreliability ever seen in production engineering. Did the Japanese steal the British motorcycle industry? Not in the slightest degree - they were given it on a solid gold plate!”

“So, it is against this backdrop of power, self-confidence and, to be fair, technological know-how second to none, mixed with a breathtaking arrogance that one of the most interesting stories in motocross develops.” Read the article.

An interesting article in the Portland Tribune about the Sang-Froid Riding Club which is comprised of a small number of local riders. Though I do wish the Trib used an easier on the eyes font for their web articles.