Welcome to the Jungle

 Kid Speed!

A four-year-old daredevil is tearing up the competition in Ukraine with his motorcycle skills. While most kids are just day-dreaming about riding a motorbike, Ukrainian Tima Kuleshov started riding a bicycle before he was two-years-old and graduated to a mini motorbike at just two and a half. 

Thank you Roy for sending this our way....
 

Kid Speed

Is it Time to Downsize?

What is the best style of bike to get as we age? Is it a trike, an adventure bike, a sport touring bike, or is a Goldwing the thing to get? In this video we take a look at that subject and hope to get you thinking about your riding future.

Motorcycle riders, as a group, are aging. The median age is now around 50 and the majority of motorcycle related deaths occur with riders over 40. As we age we lose strength, stamina and reaction time, so is it time to think about moving to a smaller bike
 

Older Riders

Announcing the 10th Annual NEW SWEDEN 450!​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

NS BMW Riders are back for our tenth anniversary year! and are excited to offer a new venue! The Inn at Starlight Lake, Starlight, Pa. Enjoy a 2 day ride filled with miles of great back roads in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Get together with your friends and fellow riders. Elect to ride in groups, with friends or solo. Registration fee includes GPS route with paid registration (when ready), as well as pastries and coffee during sign in. Saturday Dinner May18th and Breakfast Sunday May 19th are available for purchase. A special dinner menu will be offered. The Inn has a bar on premises. Festivities start at 6:30 PM and will include prizes, possible swag and a 50/50 drawing. Ride starts at VFW Post 7677, 317 Church Road Medford NJ and ends at PJ Whelihan's, 1854 Rt. 70 Cherry Hill NJ. Sign-in is from 8:30-10AM Sharp May 18th. Not everyone ends ride at PJ's. Some riders head directly home.

New Sweden 450

We came across this European video on how the Japanese Police make great u-turns.

More or less the same, but it always amazing to see how much control of your bike you can really have.

Enjoy!
 

Japanese U-Turns

Backroads Magazine Current Edition

NJ Food Truck Festival

We have all heard of the Mason-Dixon line, right? We’re pretty sure most of us have, but here’s what you may not know: even after four years of trying, Mason and Dixon failed to complete the line they set out intending to finish. Instead, they placed their last marker on Brown’s Hill in West Virginia, and another team finished the line more than a decade later.

Tucked away in Core, West Virginia along the Pennsylvania border hides a humble-looking little marker. But don't let appearances fool you, for it marks a significant point in the history of the nation.

 

Mason-Dixon Line

   Most Searched-for Word Definition in Every Country

Do you remember dictionaries? Great big weighty books or tiny, illegible pocket editions that went out of date every year as new slang words entered the lexicon? And you had to know the alphabet to use one?!

Just kidding. Dictionaries are brilliant — “[u]sing one feels like prying open an oyster rather than falling down a rabbit hole,” writes Rachel del Valle on the difference between paper and digital dictionaries. Quite aside from the sensual thrill of the heavy tome and its crisp, thin pages, an old-school dictionary is a place for chance discoveries of strange new-to-you words — or revelatory meanings of words you thought you knew.

But online dictionaries, or the snippet definitions that Google licenses and provides, are convenient. Your phone is a pocket dictionary that actually fits in your pocket. It’s fast, omni-lingual and yes — it leads you down rabbit holes, sometimes for worse but sometimes for better.
 

Most Searched-for Word

            A bit of out there - down here!

Since 1977, a stately sycamore has greeted visitors to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. It looks like any other sycamore, one tree among many on the quiet, leafy campus in suburban Maryland.

But what many passersby may not realize as they stand under its dappled shade or admire its changing foliage is that this tree came from the moon.

The Goddard sycamore is one of the dozens of so-called “moon trees” scattered around the country, grown from seeds that traveled with astronaut Stuart Roosa on the Apollo 14 mission in 1971. Roosa was the command module pilot, which means that he remained in lunar orbit while commander Alan Shephard and lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell visited the surface of the moon. During that time, Roosa had hundreds of seeds tucked inside his personal kit.
 

Moon Trees

Progressive

Bluebird of Bitterness

Chittenango Falls

Cazenovia, New York

If you’re looking for a state that’s full of natural wonders, then look no further than the Empire State. With an abundance of waterfalls, lakes, and mountains for you to explore, there’s so much scenic beauty sitting right at your fingertips when you’re here. Some of the most beautiful places in New York may be a bit difficult to get to, requiring a lengthy hike or hard-to-navigate trails, but there are some that are surprisingly sitting right along the roadside. If you’re looking for “waterfalls near me in New York” and you happen to live near Cazenovia, then see how you can practically drive right up to this one waterfall!

Nestled away on a winding road, all it takes is a scenic ride out to the small town of Cazenovia to experience Chittenango Falls.
 

Chittanago Falls

First Listen

Springsteen's Kitty's Back

We came across a bunch of videos from  oncouple Nick & Lex when these youngins' really listen to some songs that we all grew up with.

They seem very open, and sincere music lovers.

It is fun to watch them, and more fun when the preconceived notions on The Boss get melted.

Good for them on two points:

#1 - They are actively searching for great music.

#2 - They found The Wild, The Innocent & the East Street Shuffle.

Welcome to New Jersey kids!

But hold... You mean you read this drivel - we mean superb newsletter - every week and have never heard Kitty's Back? So F'n sad!

Well - we can fix that right?

 

First Listen Kitty's Back