With the increase in fuel prices, I ride my motorcycle whenever I need to make a trip that doesn't necessitate using a car. My motorcycle gets close to fifty miles to the gallon. My 2005 Camry http://www.toyota.com/gets about 28 mpg.
It only makes sense to use my Suzuki Boulevard http://www.suzukicycles.com/ whenever I can. For example, I received a Barnes and Noble Gift Card http://www.barnesandnoble.com/for Father's Day. Remember that Father's Day came two days after Tim Russert died. I decided to purchase his book Big Russ and Me, the story of his relationship with his father. The book store had to order it. It took two weeks and when I received an email that the book was in, I chose to use the Suzuki to travel to the book store. The store is in West Dundee Illinois, approximately ten miles one way from my house. The trip was easy and it was a delightful day with a high temperature of 70 degrees. After I picked the book up, I traveled north on route 31 into Algonquin Illinois. I proceeded east and refueled at a Phillips 66 gas station. After refueling I rode through Barrington, IL. and headed home.
Actually I have been using the motorcycle once a week to travel to Weight Watchers http://www.weightwatchers.com/plan/apr/index.aspx. Last week I tried something that I hadn't done before, I rode with shorts on. I don't recommend this, I was OK, but the possibility of catching a stone on your legs or burning a leg on an exhaust pipe always exists. You also look like a dork when you enter the meeting with shorts on and high top steel toed boots. The picture isn't pretty. I enjoy the shock value though. People see a bald headed sixty-one year old man enter with an armored jacket carrying gloves wearing shorts and high top steel toed boots, you can read their thoughts, who's this geek! Funny, they never forget to take my money. Well anyway motorcycling sure is fun!