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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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Dead Calms and Doldrums
Read more: Dead Calms and DoldrumsThat certainly sounds like a recipe for the doldrums, and here I am. There are dishes to wash, counters to clean, and sometimes groceries to get or laundry to do. That is normally the side-work of living life, and is poor fodder for the central theme of anyone’s life. Surely, being back on the road will be a salve for…
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Perspectives: Backwards and Forwards in Time
Read more: Perspectives: Backwards and Forwards in TimeThe end of the year is a natural time to reflect. Usually I even write a blog post, looking at my previous year’s post and seeing if things turned out the way I planned, then writing a new one to forecast the coming year. Having done that several times, patterns become apparent. The main one is that I have a…
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Putting It All To Bed
Read more: Putting It All To BedDesert Adventures At The 40th Anniversary of The LA-Barstow-To-Vegas Ride Before The Long Trip To End The Year In Baja. And here we are. Mexico. The trip never really ends, but the chapter called “Road Trip 2023” is over for me. It was not without incident, but that’s what makes for memories I suppose. The biggest hurdle was the Barstow…
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That Time I Went Racing On My Street Bike
Read more: That Time I Went Racing On My Street BikeI was going through my portfolio and came across this piece from 2019 when I took an $800 beater motorcycle and rode it 450 miles to race it in a parking lot on the beach before turning around and riding it home. It just seemed like something fun to do, so I did it. Below is the article as it…
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Last Gasps Of Road-Trip 2023
Read more: Last Gasps Of Road-Trip 2023Mexico bound before returning to the US for racing action!
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The Tilly Orifice
Read more: The Tilly Orifice“The Tilly Orifice” might sound like a poorly named lesbian bar, but it was actually a crucial field modification for British fighter planes. See, in WW2 the famous Spitfire and it’s counterpart the Hawker Hurricane both used the renown Merlin engine. The Merlin was a wonderful design but the carburetor that fed it fuel would stop working if you flew…
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The Long, Straight Road
Read more: The Long, Straight RoadLeaving Bisbee was the beginning of a 2,000 mile loop, all of it centered around the normal errands people do around town. My town, however, was a helluva lot bigger: like half of the American Southwest kind of big. Since this was business and not pleasure though, it meant using the interstate, aka the superslab. I have written many times…
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When The Situation Dictates
Read more: When The Situation DictatesSo you need to leave San Gabriel and do the Silverwood lake stuff. Then hit up Bisbee, Stellar camp, SF, storage, and to Vegas. Lotta pictures, keep length down. So…many…miles. The last month has been a blur of bouncing around and taking care of different errands. While it’s hard to complain about being able to travel the US by motorcycle,…
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When Troubles Come…
Read more: When Troubles Come…Well I’ve got a bit more time now, so let’s do more than just dump some photos in here with little context. The short story is I decided to ride north to the Lost Coast, and area I’ve been by many times but never explored. Fate intervened again and I ended up in the Los Angeles instead. Such is fate.…
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Rolling With The Changes
Read more: Rolling With The ChangesWell now I’m in California. It wasn’t the plan to be here for several more weeks. I still had so much of Colorado to explore, but I got word that my cat was deathly sick, and I had to drop everything and go see for myself how bad things were. I still tried to make the best of things, so…
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