tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164874096778415414.post1467478400057529438..comments2024-02-22T09:07:33.321-07:00Comments on OddBike: Editorial - RenewalOddBikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14058888630705128092noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164874096778415414.post-21613379043191644302017-02-12T11:43:55.006-07:002017-02-12T11:43:55.006-07:00It's wonderful work you have done with Oddbike...It's wonderful work you have done with Oddbike Jason, I've been catching up on your site over the last several months and reading the stories. Your writing, observations, spirit and wit are top shelf. Easily motorcycle mag industry quality. Please continue the site, your travels and your stories.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164874096778415414.post-39379578548342854172014-10-17T16:48:40.022-06:002014-10-17T16:48:40.022-06:00I've been working in a motorcycle dealership s...I've been working in a motorcycle dealership since the late '90s. One reason for that is that I've always had this intense desire to write for British motorcycle magazines (or Cycle World) and I figured that this was at least better than not having anything at all to do with the motorcycle industry. I make decent money and I work around motorcycles, with the obliging duty of riding new bikes once in a while is the Reddi Whip on top of the Chubby Hubby ice cream. I know it could be worse, even though that every day I'm damned cognitive that I've missed out on my opportunity to make it in the motojournalism world, especially after the economic disaster of 2008. That industry has been hammered.<br /><br />What you've done with Oddbike is quite awesome, Jason. I've enjoyed your writing, so you're quite equipped with the talent to write for print, should the opportunity or desire come about. You've taken this thing and made it a nice little empire. Please, continue to run with it. It's a beautiful little niche in the industry and nobody else is doing it. I can see it a column in Bike Magazine one day...<br /><br />I'm like you, touring on my Ducati 748 and enjoying every second of it (even when I'm in pain). I plan on riding from Baltimore to LA very soon only to hand the editor my resume (in paper) in person, along with the story of getting there to hand him my resume in the flesh instead of simply hitting SEND. <br /><br />See, that's the most wonderful thing about this whole motorcycling thing we have, it's the odd bike out there, unloved by only a minority, and the long tour on the most ridiculous of bikes meant for 30 miles at a clip. I really wish you luck with making your own way, Jason, whatever that means. Good luck at the new shop, and the best of luck with Oddbike for the next anniversary...Elton A.R. Alwinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12096567239518920548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164874096778415414.post-70738438344261676202014-07-12T01:01:53.166-06:002014-07-12T01:01:53.166-06:00As a fellow soulsearcher, romatic and profound duc...As a fellow soulsearcher, romatic and profound ducati nut (I own and ride a 916SPS, 888, 996 and 999s) I salute you, keep on riding and writing!<br /><br />Peter<br />Peternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164874096778415414.post-22103059047169954042014-04-09T06:10:28.362-06:002014-04-09T06:10:28.362-06:00Thanks for your literate blogging skills-----your ...Thanks for your literate blogging skills-----your writing when waxing philosophical is very stream-of-consciousness. That's good and I'll explain why. It has to do with the freedom of the mind to roam even when we are locked in to our own little circles of reality------our feet itch for movement but sometimes we don't even know the direction they'd like to take. Don't overlook Walter Mitty---he wasn't a doer but he definitely was a thinker and dreamer. All he needed was a loophole to escape from and the courage to do what his mind had conceived. I believe you have that courage so follow your own dream m8. It's so easy to get stuck in a pedestrian lifestyle of safety, security and BOREDOM. Your safe bunker becomes a rut then a ditch then it starts to feel like a gutter where your zest for life is gone and the quick passage of time makes you wake up one day in a Rip Van Winkle-esque daze asking yourself---where the hell did it go---what the hell have I accomplished.<br /> LOL----well--that was a kind of personal testimony to my present headspace but I'm 61 now and reflection isn't always pretty. I'm just getting back into motorcycling after about 20 years of satisfying everyone but me. I was big on Ducati singles and also had a 750 GT that was pretty sweet.<br />I wish you well in your new location and hope you continue to keep writing. I just read about the only Brough Superior single----very interesting story there and may be an ODDBIKE possibility.<br />Keep going.<br />BillAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164874096778415414.post-38178245237661138432014-03-26T23:52:53.741-06:002014-03-26T23:52:53.741-06:00I do love me some Laverdas, but honestly they are ...I do love me some Laverdas, but honestly they are too big and cumbersome for me, as I'm 5'7" and 140lbs on a good day.<br /><br />A Zane twin might suit me, but are nonexistent in Canada (also virtually no parts support so good luck if it breaks).<br /><br />I've always had a soft spot for big Guzzis, particularly the V11. Moto Guzzi just doesn't produce anything like that anymore, as far as I'm concerned it's the last of the proper Guzzis before Piaggio went and spoiled the party with their unwelcome profit-driven rationalism. <br /><br />(Sorry it took me a while to publish your comment, it was in my spam box for some reason)OddBikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14058888630705128092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164874096778415414.post-27080033290162907282014-03-06T16:28:17.124-07:002014-03-06T16:28:17.124-07:00The Guzzi will be mine!The Guzzi will be mine!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164874096778415414.post-91912191796994643812014-03-05T19:17:37.644-07:002014-03-05T19:17:37.644-07:00well done yet again. I wish you the best of luck i...well done yet again. I wish you the best of luck in your travels....but it certainly looks desolate out there.<br />As far as the Guzzi goes - you are definitely more of a Laverda person.Chris Mattoonhttp://www.berkshirewoodenboat.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164874096778415414.post-91032637233227580512014-03-05T08:49:26.224-07:002014-03-05T08:49:26.224-07:00Your admittance of being something akin to Walter ...Your admittance of being something akin to Walter Mitty amuses and strikes a certain chord of symptomatic identity with me. Though not as well talented with writing to chronicle my own life's journey with steel passion braced between my knees, it would be a great pleasure to meet you in person and add my own delusions and pursuit of the goals that have led me to find and extend my personal limits to your store of stories.<br /><br />I am an OddBiker, my calling card is AlwaysOnTwo, and in making more than one journey to freedom such as your own the only dissimilarity is that I have done it, well, always on two. And not without cost. I have lost my right foot to the steel door of a Chevy making an illegal left turn, my right shoulder and wrist crushed and pinned from being t-boned by a red light runner, and not too long ago lost my left eye to low flying pigeon crashing into my goggles just under triple digits on the speedo.<br /><br />My recovery times and expenses from these passion inflicted injuries have cost me jobs, friends, and even a wife. But today I will ride, as I do everyday, because to not ride would also take away from me a mark of my own established identity. Not to a breed or marque or style, but to everything I am to myself. Your search for freedom and experience is, and will become more, of your own true mark more encompassing than just the love of a silly machine from another land.<br /><br />And they are all, regardless of origin, silly machines.<br /><br />Courage, fortitude and good fortune are my wishes for you and your journeys. Keep to the selfish integrity of writing what you learn to be factual truths and not recitals of mainstream "professionals". Continue to fill your own life with the truths and knowledge that no matter how hard you try...you will never be able to fully justify or pass on to others.<br /><br />And trade that gawd-awful Civic for whatever meager beans you can and strike a deal to own that Guzzi! One is but an ordinary convenience, the other a rare opportunity to enhance your life.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07439119830534338249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164874096778415414.post-24667966521637923382014-03-04T23:07:59.558-07:002014-03-04T23:07:59.558-07:00Pretty stoked to hit your site to find the latest ...Pretty stoked to hit your site to find the latest instalment to your wonderful blog. I read your USA tour end to end last sunday and could not close the laptop until it was done. Great stuff. I'm 51, have recently thrown a g note to the wind in the form of a down payment on a 2000 VFR 800 located in New Orleans with a loose plan of flying down and riding it home (I live in the Yukon Territory) in early June. I'm fortunate in a way that my dream bike of many years can be had for 3 to 5 thousand bucks I guess....it ain't exotic but it speaks to me in tones of buttery half promises of no regrets interspersed with bolts of anxiety when contemplating climbing on a strange mount with 30,000 on the clock and heading home. Time will tell the tale....<br /><br />Your shit is great....keep it up! Good luck in cowtown....B. Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00538058584116455926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164874096778415414.post-17176720405592453182014-03-04T16:39:15.085-07:002014-03-04T16:39:15.085-07:00Outstanding writing IMHO. I look forward to readi...Outstanding writing IMHO. I look forward to reading your every post, and not just for the detailed research of these obscure bikes, but for your honest rapier wit as well. Keep up the excellent work, and congratulations on the passing of your first anniversary! Fred Smithhttp://www.infowars.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164874096778415414.post-36787909613421833462014-03-03T11:31:58.339-07:002014-03-03T11:31:58.339-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Jeanne Fontaine Cormierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17752491091055008145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164874096778415414.post-79292318763240025922014-03-03T10:36:33.087-07:002014-03-03T10:36:33.087-07:00Send me an email at jasonevariste (at) gmail (dot)...Send me an email at jasonevariste (at) gmail (dot) com and I'll tell you where I'm working...OddBikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14058888630705128092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2164874096778415414.post-86724267912985672062014-03-03T08:52:31.128-07:002014-03-03T08:52:31.128-07:00Welcome to Calgary - love the site and look forwar...Welcome to Calgary - love the site and look forward to meeting you some day. I am a fellow New Brunswicker and 916 owner.<br /><br />BrentAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478545559904951129noreply@blogger.com