The author reports on his livelong involvement with motorcycles. At
first and immediately after WWII in Germany, motorcycles and their
smaller cousins mopeds were necessary means of transportation. Beginning
in the late sixties and due to increasing living standards for many,
motorcycles gave way to small cars and the motorcycle industry almost
collapsed in the western world. Amazingly, with ever increasing living
standards, motorcycles experienced a revival as a sport and hobby for
increasing numbers of mechanically gifted enthusiasts. The author, now
living in Ohio picked up motorcycling in the seventies again. When he
retired in 2006, he purchased an old BMW-sidecar combination as a
retirement hobby, building on his experience with a rig he owned in the
early sixties.
Later he purchased a Honda touring bike to replace the
aging BMW rig. Over a six-year period, he explored Ohio’s lesser known
architectural and landscape beauties, just perfect for the touring
motorcycle connoisseur.
About the Author:
The author
immigrated from Germany in 1972. He pursued an academic career at the junction
of veterinary medicine with human medicine and engineering, and retired from
The Ohio State University in 2006. Throughout his career, he published
peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts and an edited handbook in his research
field of bio-materials. He also published with Pelican Publ. in 2002 a popular
literature book dealing with another of his hobbies: Hunting with Hounds in
North America.
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