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My New Project: Ride>Eat>Repeat
Read more: My New Project: Ride>Eat>RepeatViewing the human experience through the foods we share. I’ve been grappling with things for a long time now. Johnny Killmore as a “brand” isn’t really a brand. It’s job is to say “this is who I am and what I do, collaborate with me.” It does that job, but the identity isn’t the same as a brand. I’ve been…
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Biker B Movies: Masters of Menace
Read more: Biker B Movies: Masters of MenaceI want to start my own little column. Part movie review, part film history, and part stroll down memory lane. The “Chopper Opera” — a slang term for the straight-to-the-drive-in-movies that define the exploitation film genre — is probably my favorite sub-genre. While it is defined by hits like “The Wild One” and “Easy Rider,” there are literally hundreds of…
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Life Happens: Maintenance Struggles and Small Miracles
Read more: Life Happens: Maintenance Struggles and Small MiraclesUpdates on the last week of battle against the motorcycle maintenance gods, and a look forward at the next few weeks.
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First and Final Flights
Read more: First and Final FlightsOne quick note on December 17th. Back in 1903, this was the day Wilbur and Orville Wright made their first powered flights. They barely held the Wright Flyer of the ground and only managed about 120ft, using a sort of catapult that launched them into the wind. The Boeing 747 — itself over 50yrs old — is actually more…
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A Week of Frustrations
Read more: A Week of FrustrationsMostly just a rant this week, about fighting with a motorcycle to get major servicing done. I do divide it into sections though, so you can skip the rant and read the update part. If only motorcycle designers were so considerate when organizing things. #jkroams
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The Holiday Time Zone
Read more: The Holiday Time ZoneFixin’ bikes, plotting day rides, Thanksgiving feasts, and the preparation for a desert winter in the borderlands.
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Finding The Winter Groove Ain’t Easy
Read more: Finding The Winter Groove Ain’t EasyJust some musings about upcoming work on the bike, and some thoughts on possibly replacing it. Winter is coming, and the goals remain the same.
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Winter Horizons: daylight is not for saving
Read more: Winter Horizons: daylight is not for savingA little update, a introspective into intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and a look ahead at some ideas for me and this winter. #jkroams
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The Final Leg of 2024
Read more: The Final Leg of 2024This really was being on my last leg. Tires all worn out or leaking air, out of food and clean clothes, out of money, and nothing but miles of desert between me and the end of Road Trip: 2024.
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Shadowing The Sierras
Read more: Shadowing The SierrasA lot can happen in a week when you’re on the road. This time, the end came. The end to this chapter at least. I’m technically “off the road” for the winter, arriving near Bisbee, Arizona last night. My most recent post had me not even in California yet. The only thing to do is try for a Cliff Notes…
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Days Gone
Read more: Days GoneCentral Oregon is likely to always remain connected in my mind to a video game for Playstation called Days Gone. That’s because it was created by Bend Studios (located in Bend, Oregon) and uses actual locations in Oregon for the game map. Moreover, the main character in the game is a biker riding around a zombie filled, post apocalyptic Oregon,…
