Geezer with a Grudge: The Scary Good Old Days

Feb 8, 2013

The Scary Good Old Days

Biker clubs then:

Crater Camp from Elrod Racing on Vimeo.
Back when biker "clubs" did riding stuff. (Looks like fun, until someone gets hurt.)

Biker clubs now:

Doing gangster and political stuff.

2 comments:

RichardM said...: You mean that isn't what bike clubs do now?; 2/8/13, 10:42 AM
Thomas Day said...: No, they're too busy pissing off the public with loud pipes, anti-helmet demonstrations, and pushing dope to bother with motorcycles.; 2/8/13, 4:12 PM

The Geezer Story

I stumbled upon this column name (Geezer with a Grudge) about 8 years ago, in 2000. The first Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly editor I worked with, in late 1999, complained that the magazine was getting no mail and the editors wanted to know if any readers were still out there. I fired off a sarcastic note, as a joke, intended to provide a little humor and some feedback. He published it as an article and later called me to say he'd received more mail on that letter than he'd received in the past year! I followed that with an offer to write a monthly column attempting to piss off a particular section of the magazine's readership to see if that tactic would generate some mail.

It did, probably more regularly than the magazine wants at times, and I've been doing the column ever since.

I plan to post an occasional old Geezer article into the blog, followed by short comments about the current status of my perspective on our activity/sport/vehicle of choice.