Spurgeon Dunbar

For those of us who live in the northern portion of the country, we long for warm days while our motorcycles sit dormant on trickle chargers in the winter. You can have too much of a good thing, however, and when mild spring weather transitions to the Dog Days of summer, heat can make it difficult to enjoy motorcycle rides. Those of you in more southern climes are even more familiar with what I'm talking about. Exertion only makes it more important for riders to regulate their body temperature.

In Season Nine of our Highside/Lowside Motorcycle Podcast we spoke with lobbyist and rider Phil Stalboerger about establishing a lane-splitting law in his home state of Minnesota. The conversation around the impact one person could make to benefit motorcycling at large really resonated with me and I was left pondering whether I was doing enough to advocate for motorcycling.

My alarm woke me with a shriek at 5:30 a.m. I fumbled around the nightstand, desperate to silence my phone. I hit the “snooze” button and calm returned to my darkened hotel room. “It’s actually 6:30 a.m.,” I tried to convince myself. I had stopped for the night in Crossville, Tennessee, just shy of entering the Eastern time zone. A few miles into the last day of my trip I would lose an hour as my watch synched up with the clocks waiting for me at home in Pennsylvania for the first time in a week.