tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8108967547524205902012-02-26T01:58:08.147-06:00With more women motorcycle riders around and some trying to understand the woman's place among male bikers, I hope to provide information on what it's like to be an ol' lady, as well as a lady rider.Chris "Kickstart" Beasonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08318521094229620927noreply@blogger.comBlogger271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-810896754752420590.post-19081449940481334872011-08-24T09:01:00.001-05:002011-08-24T09:01:39.670-05:00

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Straight Talk for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. I know you've seen those commercials on TV talking about the "I feel richer effect" by cutting your cell phone bill in half when you switch to Straight Talk. Really, it seems like a reasonable deal. You get everything you need, unlimited calling, text messaging and web

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Ginger, Sherri, Heather, Leigh Ann and Mariae are the "Boot Girls." After reading the book Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell, they were inspired to do something for the soldiers that do so much for us. The Boot Campaign was the product of that inspiration. They sell boots like our soldiers wear and give $25.00 for every pair sold to charities that provide programs for active duty and combat

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Sunday we went to a Hot Rod Hangout. I say "a Hot Rod Hangout" because if it was "the Hot Rod Hangout" it would be a place right? Well, apparently it's an event that gets hosted at different locations and it happened to be   at Howlin' Custom Cycles in Little Rock. I didn't ask alot of questions. My husband said, "do you want to go?" and I said, "heck yeah!" A pretty day, a really long ride and

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Found this on KT Did's blog and thought it would be fun to do! Maybe you would like to join in with this.....  A Bloggers Centerline Day, or ABCD, will take place on Sunday 1st May 2011. The plan is to inspire as many bloggers as possible to go outside and take a photograph of themselves on this day, wherever they are in the world. The photo can be creative, arty, contain more than one person

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This post brought to you by Hiltons of Branson. All opinions are 100% mine. Down here in the south, Branson seems to be a really popular spot to go for a weekend trip. I'm betting the weekend of May 13th, it's going to be even more popular.  The Village People, Maxine Nightingale and Janice-Marie will be performing at the Hilton Branson Convention Center Hotel.  After the show

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So I finally got to take the Sportster for a ride! Last summer or the summer before that, my husband and I rode out to Hot Springs and went looking for a place he remembered going when he was a teenager. Well, we never found it, but I remember having fun riding around looking for it!  Anyway, he was looking on Google Earth the other night and came across it. We had been so close to it, but now we

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And my tins are almost finished! All that's left to be done is sanding and buffing and that will be done tomorrow.

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This post brought to you by TABASCO® Original Red. All opinions are 100% mine.   I don't know what it's doing where you are, but here it's snowing. Normally we don't get much snow here in Arkansas. So far this winter it's snowed four times! Since I haven't been doing much riding, I haven't really had anything motorcycle related to talk about. Right now my tins are in

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Before we purchased my first motorcycle, my husband told me that he thought it might be a good idea if I took a motorcycle safety course to teach me how to ride. I'm going to say this and by all means take it however you want. Yeah, that was a really good idea, but when you're counting your pennies to buy a bike, it doesn't really leave enough to pay for a safety course. I figured I had plenty of

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Ever wonder how to get a bunch of bikers up early? All I have to do is tell them when the biscuits and gravy will be ready. This is the real deal. Of course, my husband didn't want his food to be the product of a photo shoot, but hey it made a good picture. Here's my recipe for the best ever Biscuits and Sausage Gravy: 2 cups of self-rising flour2 teaspoons of sugar1 stick of butter (the real

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We're now an all Harley family.  Last night we traded in my 2007 Suzuki Boulevard M50 for a 2005 Harley Davidson Softail. A few months ago I told my husband that by next riding season I wanted to have the Sportster and him to have a bigger bike for the times when we want to ride together. Somehow "just looking" turned into me being on the phone with the insurance company getting the bike

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In order to follow the progress of the ride and Lily's surgery, I've started a new blog called 1,000 Miles For Lily.Here's my first ever video blog. It's a learning experience so hopefully the next video blog I do will be better!1,000 Miles For Lily: This Is Lily...

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This morning I logged onto facebook and saw a post from a friend of mine. Hey guys im gonna be doing a ride called the iron butt run. I will be riding 1000 mi in 24 hrs. I am going to be looking for sponsors or fellow riders to help raise money. if you ride you need to get your own sponsors. All donations will go towards Lily's surgery and help us get to houston. If we raise more than enough

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The first time I heard my husband call me his ol' lady I didn't like the sound of it.  I used to associate the term with being low class or white trash. One of the things I realize now is that if you try to classify people as high class, low class, white trash, etc., you're probably assuming something you don't really know and you're missing out on getting to know some really great people. I

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It's camping weather!  Sometimes going to a motorcycle rally means we're going camping. Bikes, Blues & BBQ in Fayetteville, Arkansas is next weekend and it's too far for us to be just a day trip.  I'm excited about spending time with good friends and some of my sisters that I haven't seen in what seems like forever. And thank goodness it's not going to feel like I'm sleeping in an oven!  Another

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And this is the rest of the story! Buzz Kanter, from American Iron Magazine, is not only writing and podcasting along the way, he's also riding a 1915 Harley-Davidson. His story about the ride will be in an upcoming edition of the magazine, but you can read about it now at  http://www.caimag.com/. I didn't realize it until today when I saw the update posted on the Motorcycle Cannonball website,

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And now for the next part of the story... This is the million dollar motorcycle.  Well, actually if it wasn't a replica it would definitely be worth that much, but as it is it's probably pretty close or something like that.  Anyway, it doesn't matter because I got to sit on this beautiful 1915 Harley Davidson owned and ridden by David Fusiak. David said that he's burned several pairs of

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I knew I wouldn't have as much time as I wanted to get this posted so I decided to split it up into two parts.  It'll be worth coming back to see part two so request me on facebook or click "follow" over there on the side and I'll make sure you know when  I've posted Cannonball Run: Part Two. A couple of weeks ago my ol' man told me about the Antique Motorcycles Cannonball Run and said that they

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It's been a while since it's been 60 degrees in the morning.  We had planned on leaving an hour earlier, but it was even cooler then. Instead we left out about 9:00 a.m. and decided we'd get some breakfast first. By the time we finished eating the temperature was in the 70's which made it perfect riding weather. With our gas tanks and our bellies full, we pulled out of the Waffle House parking

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I read a blog post yesterday morning on KT Did about her thoughts on a bill being passed that makes it a crime, yes, a crime to ride a motorcycle in California that has loud pipes.  It's not even happening in my state and I don't know KT from Adam.  I've been sitting here asking myself why I even care when it's not happening to me and I finally figured out why. When my husband first started

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Friday night the Hippie Holler band threw a benefit for Gene Stone.  He is a long-time friend of some of my husband's club members and a few months ago he was diagnosed with cancer and given about a year and a half to live. The benefit started at 6:00 p.m., but I didn't get off work until 8:00 p.m.  So after I got off, I ran home, changed clothes and jumped on my bike and headed out to meet the

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Yesterday I was called a geek.  One of my co-workers said, "well, that can't be all that bad, she does ride a bike."  Actually, based on my research (on urbandictionary.com), being a geek isn't so bad. It is a lot better than being a nerd.  Not only do geeks have technical smarts, they also have the social smarts that nerds lack. It's also kind of like being a biker.  In my normal clothes, no one

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When I started my blog, one of the things I hoped to do was shed a little light on what bikers are really like. I thought this would come through in a series of several posts in a somewhat subtle way.  What was I thinking?  I'm a biker right? I just say and do whatever the hell I want and don't give a damn about anyone else.  That may be the opinion of someone else, because that's not quite right

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If you haven't already heard, which if you're as big a fan as I am I'm sure you have, Sons of Anarchy Season 3 premiers Tuesday, September 7 at 9:00 p.m. CST on FX. When the first season came out I never missed an episode. Last year I was working nights and didn't even get to see one episode.  Season 2 comes out on DVD August 31st so I'm debating on pre-ordering or taking my chances trying to buy

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Most bikers have a nickname they earned in one way or another.  I actually felt more like a biker when I earned mine. Some people try to give themselves nicknames, but those are the ones that usually don't stick. There is a funny story about a friend of ours that tried to give himself a nickname, but the one he earned was the one that stuck.  Nevermind about that story though, this one is about

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Usually the decision whether or not to ride is not a hard one. I ask myself is it going to rain? You might think if it's going to rain then the decision is made, but it's not quite that easy. The next question is when is it going to rain? Then I can make decide whether or not to chance getting wet! Saturday, despite the heat, I rode my bike to work. I had an unfortunate accident that involved a

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Last night I was on my way to the grocery store and my cell phone rang. "Hello?" It's my oldest daughter ...        "Hey Mom. What are you doing?" "Going to the grocery store. What are you doing?"        "Going to the lake. Are you in town?" "Yeah I'm in Malvern."        "No. Are you in Hot Springs?" "Ummmm no. I'm going to the grocery store in Malvern."        "Ooooh ok. Well, I'm on my way to

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