Tag Archives: winter

VIDEO: Winter motorcycle camping gets better when it stops raining

The Fur Hat Society was out in full force at this years annual winter motorcycle camping trip in New Hampshire. From left are Keith, John and Pate.

I’d made up my mind. The next person who walked through the door, brushing sleet off their shoulders, motioning to my motorcycle parked outside and asking, “How’s the riding?” was going to get my small paper cup full of coffee in the face. I’m not normally a hostile person. I’ve waited out the rain in […]

VIDEO: Motorcycle camping in the blizzard

Thermos races between metal trash cans for some impromptu barrel racing on frozen Crystal Lake in Gilmanton, N.H. Friday afternoon Feb. 8, 2013 as the storm intensified. Members of the Soviet Steeds collective, who are all Russian motorcycle enthusiasts, gathered for a winter campout and rally over the weekend. (Bangor Daily News photo by Troy R. Bennett)

The roads leading west into New Hampshire were slick last Friday morning. The leading edge of the snowstorm the TV weather folks were calling the impending “Snowpocalypse” or “Deathstorm ’13” in their typically understated fashion, was already dumping snow on me. I was astride my Russian-made Ural sidecar rig headed from Portland to Fryeburg. It […]