Shiny Side Up

About the Author v 1 How to Change Your Oil 1
2 How to Lose Friends and Influence
Absolutely No One 9
3 Bathing in the Road 13
4 What's Your Sign? 17
5 The Tie that Binds 25
6 To Every Time There Is a Motorcycle 31
7 A Measure of a Motorcyclist 37
8 The Happy Camper 43
9 Looking Both Ways 47
10 The Extraction 51
11 We Are What We Speak 55
12 A Long, Strange Trip 63
13 Chick Bike 69
14 Head Check 75
15 How to Buy a House 79
16 City Life 83
17 It's Us or Them 87
18 Pushing the Envelope 91
19 Sunday Paper Run 97
20 Running the Mindoro Cut 101
21 The Deer Dilemma 105
22 Nothing Slimey or Cruddy about
the Slimey Crud Run! 109
23 How to Read a Motorcycle Magazine 113
24 The Chinese Connection 119
25 "The Disease" 123
26 Trailer Trauma 127
27 Welcome To My Nightmare: The Parking Lot 131
28 No Worries 135
29 My Affair with "The Poor Sister" 139
30 The Weakest Link 145
31 So You Want to Ride a Motorcycle 149
32 Motorcycli-fisher-ist 153
33 Rehab 157
34 Rehab, Revisited 161
35 Where the Light Is 165
36 Just Saying No . . . To Winter! 169
37 Mayday Moments 173
38 The Barest Essentials 177
39 The Barest Essentials, Part Deux 181
40 "Rally Virgin" 185
41 Re-Discovering the Heart of the Driftless Area 189
42 On the Trail of "The Grand Adventure" 201
43 Think Small 207
44 On Any Monday 213
45 World Wide Wonder 217
46 A Perfectly Good Motorcycle 223
47 In the Beginning . . . 229
Acknowledgements 233