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I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, which is often, to the chagrin of a friend of mine in Cincinnati, is bright and sunny and can get down to a horrifyingly intimidating 45 degrees during the daytime in winter. So why is it that my friend in Cincinnati gets out riding and I sit sulking indoors? Probably not only because he has a heated vest and handgrips, but
because he sees any sunny winter day when there's no snow on the ground
as a good riding day.
I, on the other hand, suffer from the dreaded
Parked Motorcycle Syndrome (PMS) here in sunny California because I
don't have the heated gear and I just know tomorrow the temperature is
going to rise to around 70.
 But then, today is one of those days, so
why am I not out riding? Because my bike is dirty, the battery's dead,
the tires are under-inflated, and my gear is buried somewhere in a bag
of ski gear in the dark recesses of my closet. (The drought means that
there's precious little snow in Tahoe.) Tomorrow it's supposed to rain,
so that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. But it doesn't keep me from
feeling like a total weenie when that Cincinnati friend tells me about
his breakfast ride on Sunday.
Meantime, at least I get to write about motorcycles and gear. Even
though I've published a lot, I always love to see a new article all
spiffed up and put out there in print or on the Internet. I reviewed
Suzuki's 2009 Boulevard M90 1462cc "muscle-cruiser" for Women Riders
Now last fall and the review just went up yesterday. I really did like
that bike--even though I didn't think I would the first hour or so I
was on it. Here's the article. Bryan Harley of Motorcycle USA also wrote a (very technical) review, and so did Gabe Ets-Hokin of Rider and Pete Brissette of Motorcycle.com. I won't tell you which one was popping the wheelies.
I hope that this kind of reading is keeping you happy through the
winter, and that you're not experiencing the kind of PMS that I am this
season.
But then, now that I've said it, maybe it's the cure.
My name
is Carla King and I'm suffering from Parked Motorcycle Syndrome . . .
There!
- Carla
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