I'm working on a generic article about the Lake Superior Loop by motorcycle. If any of you have a favorite attraction, section of the loop, city to hang out in, or anything that you wouldn't mind being quoted about, I'd love the input.

Thomas Day (twday60@...)
Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly Magazine
http://www.motorbyte.com/mmm/
http://geezerwithagrudge.blogspot.com/

I'm playing with an idea for an early spring Geezer with A Grudge column. I need data; soft, hard, or totally bogus. The survey is at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7JK2TJP. I'd appreciate as many entries as possible.

thanks,
Tom

Thomas Day
Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly Magazine
http://www.motorbyte.com/mmm/
http://geezerwithagrudge.blogspot.com/
thomas@motorbyte.com

A friend at work, Charles Fletcher, has taken on the St. Paul Metermaid Society as a personal quest. We have a couple of unmarked parking spaces in front of the school where I work in downtown St. Paul and, for a couple of years, those space were exactly right for a pair of motorcycles per space. Since they were unmarked and unmetered, it made sense to park there. Eventually, the local metermaids decided to ticket bikes in those spaces with a different irrational penalty each time. Last year, Charles decided to fight them. So far (almost 20 tickets later), he's winning, but it's a solo battle and I suspect he will eventually lose.

With the crazy delusion that American motorcyclists might someday has balls as big as French motorcyclists (http://ukfrancebikers.com/2010/03/14/french-motorcyclists-more-angry-than-ever/ ), I wonder how we might add some fuel to Charle's fire? Ever since watching M Moore's Sicko (and hearing the expat American say "In France the government is afraid of the people; In the US you have exact opposite."), I've wanted to remind someone in government that they are our poorly performing employees. Maybe if a few risk-taking motorcyclists started this off it might turn into some kind of democratic movement. I know, what a freakin' daydream.