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Category Archives: Rants
Protected: WARNING: My OpEd On Political Polarization
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Rant: Hands Free Law Goes Into Effect In Marietta, Georgia on 1 April
As has been reported locally, the city of Marietta, Georgia — where I work and where we routinely drive — adopted a new “hands-free” driving law back on 14 February that goes into effect on 1 April. The idea is … Continue reading
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Motorcycling: Dialing for Dollars / Cancelling an ESP
The motivation for this little entry came from making an attempt to find out how much “prorated value” remained on the Harley-Davidson Extended Service Plan (ESP) for our 2013 Road King CVO. You would think it wouldn’t be a difficult … Continue reading
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Harley & Me: It’s a Love – Hate Relationship
From a purely an emotional and spiritual perspective, our foray into the Harley-Davidson experience back in July 2011 has been one of the two best lifestyle decisions we’ve made, second only to our jump into tandem bicycle riding nearly 20 … Continue reading
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Feedback From The MoCo on My Observations
In my most recent journal entry I laid into Harley-Davidson for having an inaccurate description and photos of product offerings in both their on-line and print catalogs. I included a copy of the Email I sent to the Mothership expressing … Continue reading
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Footboard Follies: Harley-Davidson Please Get Your Act Together
Also as mentioned in my November 22nd update, I ordered a set of passenger footboards for the lovely Miss Debbie to try-out on Blue II. They were something I’d always thought about putting on Blue I, but Debbie really didn’t … Continue reading
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Settling the Total Loss on Blue & Moving On….
Well OK, I folded like an envelope and accepted State Farm’s pay-off offer on Blue; the juice of working through their challenging claims process any longer wasn’t worth the squeeze. I’ll be signing off on Blue’s ‘death certificate’ Monday, getting the pay-out check … Continue reading
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My Good Neighbor / Agent: Give Him An “A” For Effort…
It turns out that the internal workings of State Farm are about as disjointed and dysfunctional as they appeared. Our own State Farm agent for the past 25 years was never made aware the property damage claim for our motorcycle … Continue reading
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Like a Good Neighbor State Farm is Where?
Yeah, they’re cute commercials, but I’m not singing the State Farm jingle and expecting to see my agent pop up ready to help make everything better. Sorry, this has gotten in my craw and I can’t get it out. Here’s the … Continue reading
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BMW Motorrad USA Supply Chain: Strike 2
Yup, the second headlight that was ordered to replace the defective one I received back on 17 July arrived yesterday and sure enough, it’s also defective. I was going to title this, WTF BMW Motorrad USA? But, that’s hardly a … Continue reading
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HOG Membership Renewal…. Hmmm
Nearly 3 years ago I wrote a blog entry about the EXACT same decision process as both my BMW Owners Association (BMWOA) membership and my Harley Owners Group, or H.O.G. membership were both nearing their annual expiration / renewal point. I let … Continue reading
A Week Goes By & the BMW R1100S Remains In Limbo… WTH?
As mentioned in my little rant about customer service last week, I dropped off our BMW R1100S for service last Wednesday for a Thursday appointment that I made the previous Thursday: it was the first ‘opening’. Well, here we are … Continue reading
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