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“It’s Better in the Wind” or why I ride a motorcycle

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As mentioned in my last post my travels to Ecuador served to shift my priorities to Susegar, that wonderful state of taking it easy. Of course, it also has meant that I’ve hardly posted here at all.

To my considerable amazement this short fall has generated concern and irritation on the part of some of my readers, and who knew I had any of those at all? But writing is hard work and besides I’ve had more important things to do.  Like riding my motorbike:

Blue & White Triumph Scrambler, just like mine except

mine is more beat up than this nice new one.

Amazingly, we still have some beautiful weather around here, but an increasing chill is in the air.  Winter closes in.  My dog insists on walks and my motorbike insists on rides.  Time is short and cold dark days are coming.  Plenty of time to write blog entries then. If you ride this all likely makes sense to you.  If not, well maybe this will help:

It’s Better in the Wind

Even if you don’t care about motorcycles, it’s 15 and a half minutes well spent for the sound track alone.

(I have it playing as I write)

This short film was created by a young guy named Scott Toepfer and as much as anything I’ve seen it captures the sheer joy of motorbiking.  Doesn’t hurt that a couple of the bikes in it are Triumph Scramblers like mine.  Scott and his pals have good taste.

Here’s a still from his website as further proof of good taste

Watching it I realize that my motorbike is also a time machine.  Every moment on it I am again twenty-something and full of beans.

Update:

One more cool short film with a very odd song for the road.   It might grow on you.  It did on me.

  hey little motorcycle girl

Here’s another I just found.  Wicked cool riding on a Scrambler just like mine:

“From Track to Dirt to Date”

Starts slow but worth the short wait.  Check out the dismount about 3/4 of the way in.

And another:

milonga

It’s a bit more mellow.

And another not mellow at all:

mind party

Still another, courtesy of Vik in the comments below, on mid-life crisis and dirt riding. Makes me wish I was 50 again! Too funny!:

mid-life crisis philosophy & motorbike riding

Ok, ready?

First, we go to India and build a Royal Enfield:

Then we ride it up into the Himalayas:

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Comments

  1. M. Rempen says

    February 3, 2012 at 10:25 am

    This vid is great – it proves what Coppola was predicting ten years ago, that one day anyone can pick up a camera and make a movie about the things they love. Even if I’m not that into motorcycles, I can appreciate a filmmaker who knows their audience and pulls no punches to please them.

    Reply
  2. jlcollinsnh says

    February 3, 2012 at 10:29 am

    glad you enjoyed the ride, MR….

    ..how about a link to some of your films?

    Reply
  3. Mr. 1500 says

    February 9, 2014 at 9:39 pm

    Wow, I never would have guess you ride a bike! I love motorcycles too and funny enough, I was talling someone just this week that I want a Triumph. I dig the inline 3s.

    Reply
    • jlcollinsnh says

      February 9, 2014 at 11:46 pm

      Ha!

      I think I’m a little insulted. 😉

      Been riding Triumph now since 2007. An ’06 Bonnie for about three years and then the ’06 Scramble just because it fits me a bit better. Loved them both.

      Never have owned a triple, but those that do seem to swear by them.

      What do you ride now?

      Reply
  4. Maverick says

    February 10, 2014 at 5:25 am

    I’ve started riding in 83 when I bought my first bike…a Honda Nighthawk 650. Been riding ever since for pleasure (only in fair weather, never in rain, cold or to commute to work). Bought my brother’s 83 Sportster (highly modified engine) and then finally bought a 10 Fat Bob. Each one has a unique road feel. I still have all three, but only register the Fat Bob now. I could never sell them. They are like old friends you meet for lunch and get re-acquainted with from time to time. And just like an old friend, you need to be fully engaged in the “conversation” with the machine.

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    • jlcollinsnh says

      February 10, 2014 at 9:52 am

      Hi Maverick…

      Many of my riding buddies feel the same way, and their bike collections keep growing.

      I have the opposite issue: I don’t like owning stuff to begin with and owning anything that doesn’t get used eats at me. Not entirely rational, I know. But there it is. 🙂

      I will say that my motorbike is one of the very few *things* I’ve owned that has genuinely brought joy into my life. Every time I ride it, every time I just walk past and look at it…

      Reply
      • JBC says

        February 10, 2014 at 4:23 pm

        Man, motorcycles are fun – I’m just not willing further to risk paying for another driver’s mistake with my flesh. I stayed upright for 15yrs and then sold off – and have never lusted back. If I do anything on two wheels, it’s MMM style, where I’m the motor.

        Must be I have the go-fast gene – ’cause when it comes to motor driven machines – if I got “it”, I’m gonna use “it”, and use “it” all. I was also big into autoX/time trials/lapping sessions, and the silliness of dropping $$ to go a few tenths of seconds faster.

        So the cure was to quit sports cars altogether, coincidentally the same time as the motorcycle. Must’ve been changing priorities/sensibilities/maturity. Bought a used minivan (no kids, even) to serve as rolling toolbox for my start-up solo painting biz. Cheap to own/operate/insure. Ubiquitous and inconspicuous, the van(s) have proven virtually ticket-proof. Haven’t suffered my annual “armed tax collection” since. And I can still run at 7/10ths – practically racing everyone on the road – and no one even notices.

        As they say: it’s more fun to drive a slow car fast, than a fast car slow. And a helluvalot cheaper.

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  5. Vik says

    March 7, 2015 at 9:08 pm

    So glad to see this post. MMM got me really sad with his anti-motorcycle financial advice. 😉

    I’m happy to find some pro-moto financial blogging.

    safe riding,

    Vik

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    • jlcollinsnh says

      March 7, 2015 at 10:00 pm

      Thanks Vik…

      Glad you liked it. I love my motorbike! Makes me feel 20 again. 😉

      I know Mr. MM used to own a motorbike and sold it, but I don’t recall his “anti-motorcycle financial advice.” Can you link to that? I’d be curious to read it.

      What do you ride?

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      • Vik says

        March 8, 2015 at 5:14 pm

        I’m poking a bit of fun at MMM regarding the anti-moto stuff, but he and his CDN guest poster have both proclaimed the joy of selling their motorcycles and then gone on to crunch the numbers to show why that was Pers Fin Ninja move.

        http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/08/11/get-rich-with-craigslist/

        http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2013/07/06/man-sells-motorbike-experiences-bliss/

        I’ve got a KLR650 because I live on an island with thousands of KMs of logging roads.

        I’ve been tempted by a Triumph Scrambler and the new Ducati Scrambler. I’d like a more street oriented moto.

        Personally I’m working hard saving and investing just so I can ride my motorcycle more – especially longer trips like the Great Divide from Banff AB down to the Mexican border mostly on dirt roads.

        I also ride bicycles a lot and walk when I can. So I’m not strictly a fossil fool, but I have been riding motos since I was 17 and years before I got a car driver’s license. I can’t really imagine giving them up until I can no longer safely ride.

        Any ways great blog. I’m still mining away at it.

        My investments are at ~7.5% WR vs. my cost of living so I’ll keep trucking until I get down to 4% WR and then switch modes to a work-lite lifestyle.

        I appreciate all the free advice folks like you, MMM & ERE provide. It’s powerful life changing stuff.

        — Vik

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        • jlcollinsnh says

          March 8, 2015 at 6:32 pm

          Ah yeah…

          I remember that Craig’s List one now. I kinda liked his concept of “storing” his bike on CR. But good used Triumph Scramblers are too hard to come by for that. 🙂

          I’ve never ridden a KLR650 but have heard nothing but good things about them. Certainly more dirt capable than a Triumph Scrambler or, I’d guess, the new Ducati Scrambler.

          Here’s an interesting thread on off-roading a Scram: http://advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=141616

          Safe journeys!

          Reply
  6. Insourcelife says

    March 31, 2015 at 9:28 am

    I agree with Vik here that it’s unfortunate that prominent FI bloggers always seem to imply that motorcycles and frugal living and/or FI are mutually exclusive. I felt compelled to write a post about this very subject recently: http://insourcelife.com/motorcycling-doesnt-have-to-be-expensive. James, I hope you don’t mind me quoting you and linking to your blog from that article. If anything – you’re the living proof that you can do very well financially and still enjoy a hobby you love.

    Reply
    • Vik says

      March 31, 2015 at 10:40 am

      I read your post. The part that resonated for me is getting the folks who gave up their motos in a garage and speculating they’d miss their bikes.

      Thing is at least one of those guys is a multi-millionaire.

      I fully understand making sure your living costs align with your financial goals. If you need to take out a $30K loan at 8% to buy a new HD and you’ve got $10K credit card debt at 19% than I’d be telling you to forget about that bike. You’ve got other fish to fry.

      OTOH at some point in the FI journey when you are well on the way to FI isn’t it time to spend some of your vast resources on stuff you love?

      What may rationalize all this is that not everyone who has owned a motorcycle actually loved riding it. People get motorcycles for all the non-driving reasons people get status cars. It’s probably even more the case in the motorcycle world. Assuming for a second the bloggers you note fall into the category of folks who enjoyed their bikes, but didn’t love them or riding it frames the sacrifice vs. savings quite differently.

      I had a fancy DJ setup at home at one point. I liked fooling around with it, but eventually I realized I wasn’t going to be rocking nightclubs around the world with my beats. I sold the gear. Saved a bunch of money I would have spent pursuing that hobby and if I had a FI blog at the time I would have posted about it. Since it would be a good example of how to re-purpose several thousand dollars of my hard earned cash and stop the ongoing cash flow hit of buying new records/upgrading equipment. All replaced by a free Soundcloud account where I can listen to other DJs who are actually talented share their music with me anywhere I have wifi.

      If you were a passionate DJ reading that post you’d recoil in horror at the sacrifice. Even more so if you knew I had more than 1 million in investments and growing daily.

      The difference of course being that I had neither the raw talent nor the deep passionate for the activity I was involved in which made giving it up easy.

      — Vik

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    • jlcollinsnh says

      March 31, 2015 at 12:10 pm

      Hi IL…

      Don’t mind at all. It is always nice to get a link! Like Vik, I enjoyed your post.

      For me, the point of being frugal in most areas of my life is to free up the capital to spend on the important ones: Investments, travel and – ta-da! – motorbikes. 😉

      I think that’s true of most frugal-type bloggers, but they just have other priorities. I think Vik puts his finger on it: “…not everyone who has owned a motorcycle actually loved riding it.”

      Motorcycles are one of those things that have a very high “cool” factor that draws many in. But then reality hits:

      –It takes effort to develop the skills to do this safely.
      –Maybe they scare themselves early on and get gun-shy.
      –Too often they go out and buy an 800 lbs HD or a 200 hp sport bike because that’s what their buddies ride and find, surprise, it is harder to handle than they bargained for.

      The good news is that creates a steady flow of very lightly used bikes on the second-hand market.

      My first Bonneville, the bike I owned before this one, I bought a year old with 238 miles on it. The guy who sold it to me had bought it for his wife. At a stop it proved too heavy for her and slowly tipped over on her. And that, as they say, was that. 🙂

      Reply
  7. Vik says

    March 31, 2015 at 12:18 pm

    Here is a fun “Why I ride video?” for moto enthusiasts who like getting off paved roads.

    I have a good laugh every time I watch it.

    https://youtu.be/LRQyEBY5YjQ

    — Vik

    Reply
    • jlcollinsnh says

      March 31, 2015 at 12:51 pm

      Ha!

      That’s great! Makes me wish I was 50 again!

      I’ll put it up in the post and I just emailed it to my riding pals.

      Thanks!

      Reply
  8. Vik says

    April 1, 2015 at 6:33 pm

    I think we need an annual Money Matters Motorcycle Meetup in Moab Maybe?

    Good excuse for a road trip, lots of great street and dirt riding around Moab with reasonable camping/hotel accommodations in a fairly central location.

    Just say’n… 😉

    — Vik

    Reply
    • jlcollinsnh says

      April 2, 2015 at 2:44 pm

      I was out in Moab many, many years ago, but not on a bike. Gorgeous country. A bit over run now though, from what I hear. When we were there and visiting Arches, we were the only ones in the park.

      You volunteering to organize MMMMinMM?

      Reply
  9. Alpha Motorcycle Training says

    May 30, 2017 at 2:46 am

    It can be said as the garden of bikers. Really cool place to join.

    Love from Alpha motorcycle Training London https://www.alphamct.co.uk/
    (we provide motorcycle riding training to new learners and help them pass their cbt, DAS and motorcycle theory test for license)

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  10. Dave Mackie says

    June 8, 2018 at 9:51 pm

    Melissa Holbrook-Pierson wrote a wonderful book:
    The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles

    Like the video from Australia, it reminds us of why we ride

    Reply

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      • Stocks -- Part XXV: HSAs, more than just a way to pay your medical bills.
    • ► July (3)
      • Stocks -- Part XXIV: RMDs, the ugly surprise at the end of the tax-deferred rainbow
      • Summer travels, writing, reading and other amusements
      • Moto X, my new Republic Wireless Phone
    • ► June (1)
      • Stocks -- Part XXIII: Selecting your asset allocation
    • ► May (1)
      • Stocks -- Part XXII: Stepping away from REITs
    • ► April (3)
      • Q&A III: Vamos
      • Q&A II: Salamat
      • Q&A I: Gaijin Shogun
    • ► March (2)
      • Top 10 posts
      • Cafe No Se
    • ► February (4)
      • Chautauqua 2014 preview, closing up for travel and other random cool things that caught my eye of late.
      • Case Study #10: Should Josiah buy his parents a house?
      • Case Study #9: Lars -- maximizing some good fortune and considering "dollar cost averaging"
      • Case Study #8: Ron's mother - she's doin' all right!
    • ► January (4)
      • roundup: Some random cool things
      • Stocks — Part XXI: Investing with Vanguard for Europeans
      • Case Study #7: What it looks like when everything financial goes wrong
      • 1st Annual Louis Rukeyser Memorial Market Prediction Contest 2013 results, and my forecast for 2014
  • ► 2013 (41)
    • ► December (4)
      • Closing up for the Holidays, see you in 2014
      • Betterment: a simpler path to wealth
      • Case Study 6: Helping an ill and elderly parent
      • Stocks -- Part XX: Early Retirement Withdrawal Strategies and Roth Conversion Ladders from a Mad Fientist
    • ► November (3)
      • Death, Taxes, Estate Plans, Probate and Prob8
      • Case Study #5: Zero to 2.6 million in 25 years
      • Case Study #4: Using the 4% rule and asset allocations.
    • ► October (3)
      • Republic Wireless and my $19 per month phone plan
      • Case Study #3: Let's get Tom to Latin America!
      • The Stock Series gets its own page
    • ► September (2)
      • Case Study #2: Joe -- off to a fast start!
      • Chautauqua 2013: A Week of Dreams
    • ► August (1)
      • Closing up shop plus an opening at Chautauqua, my new podcast, phone, book and other random cool stuff
    • ► July (1)
      • They Will Kill You For Your Shoes!
    • ► June (4)
      • Stocks -- Part VIII-b: Should you avoid your company's 401k?
      • Shilpan's Seven Habits to Live More with Less
      • Stocks -- Part XIX: How to think about money
      • My path for my kid -- the first 10 years
    • ► May (5)
      • Why your house is a terrible investment
      • Stocks — Part XVIII: Investing in a raging bull
      • Dining with the Ghosts of Sarah Bernhardt and Alfons Mucha
      • How we finally got the house sold
      • Stocks — Part XVII: What if you can't buy VTSAX? Or even Vanguard?
    • ► April (4)
      • Greetings from Prague & a computer question
      • Swimming with Tigers, a 2nd chance on the Chautauqua, a financial article gets it wrong and I'm off to Prague
      • Storage, Moving and Movers
      • Homeless, and a bit on the strategy of dollar cost averaging
    • ► March (4)
      • Wild Turkeys, Motorcycles, Dining Room Sets & Greed
      • Roots v. Wings: considering home ownership
      • How about that stock market?!
      • The Blog has New Clothes
    • ► February (5)
      • Meet Mr. Money Mustache, JD Roth, Cheryl Reed & me for a Chautauqua in Ecuador
      • High School Poetry, Carnival, cool ads and random pictures that caught my eye
      • Consignment Shops: Best business model ever?
      • Cafes
      • Stocks -- Part XVI: Index Funds are really just for lazy people, right?
    • ► January (5)
      • Social Security: How secure and when to take it
      • Fighting giraffes, surreal landscapes, dancing with unicorns and restoring a Vanagon
      • My plan for 2013
      • VITA, income taxes and the IRS
      • How to be a stock market guru and get on MSNBC
  • ► 2012 (53)
    • ► December (6)
      • See you next year....until then: The Origin of Life, Life on Other Worlds, Mechanical Graveyards, Great Art, Alternative Lifestyles and Finding Freedom
      • Stocks -- Part XV: Target Retirement Funds, the simplest path to wealth of all
      • Stocks -- Part XIV: Deflation, the ugly escort of Depressions.
      • Stocks Part XIV: Deflation, the ugly escort of Depressions.
      • Stocks -- Part XIII: The 4% rule, withdrawal rates and how much can I spend anyway?
      • How I learned to stop worrying about the Fiscal Cliff and you can too.
    • ► November (2)
      • Rent v. owning: A couple of case studies in Ecuador
      • So, what does a month in Ecuador cost anyway?
    • ► October (4)
      • See you in December....
      • Meet me in Ecuador?
      • The Podcast: You can hear me now.
      • Stocks -- Part XII: Bonds
    • ► September (6)
      • Stocks -- Part XI: International Funds
      • The Smoother Path to Wealth
      • Case Study #I: Putting the Simple Path to Wealth into Action
      • Tales of Bolivia: Calle de las Brujas
      • Stocks -- Part X: What if Vanguard gets Nuked?
      • Travels in South America: It was the best of times....
    • ► August (1)
      • Home again
    • ► June (4)
      • Yellow Fever, closing up shop for the summer and heading to Peru y Bolivia
      • I could not have said it better myself...
      • Stocks -- Part IX: Why I don't like investment advisors
      • Happy Birthday, jlcollinsnh; and thanks for the gift Mr. MM!
    • ► May (6)
      • Stocks -- Part VIII: The 401K, 403b, TSP, IRA & Roth Buckets
      • Mr. Money Mustache
      • The College Conundrum
      • Stocks -- Part VII: Can everyone really retire a millionaire?
      • Stocks -- Part VI: Portfolio ideas to build and keep your wealth
      • Stocks -- Part V: Keeping it simple, considerations and tools
    • ► April (6)
      • Stocks -- Part IV: The Big Ugly Event, Deflation and a bit on Inflation
      • Stocks -- Part III: Most people lose money in the market.
      • Stocks -- Part II: The Market Always Goes Up
      • Stocks -- Part 1: There's a major market crash coming!!!! and Dr. Lo can't save you.
      • You can eat my Vindaloo, mega lottery, Blondie, Noa, Israel Kamakawiwo 'Ole, art, film and a ride on the Space Shuttle
      • Where in the world are you?
    • ► March (7)
      • How I lost money in real estate before it was fashionable, Part V: Sold! and the taxman cometh.
      • How I lost money in real estate before it was fashionable, Part IV: I become a Landlord.
      • How I lost money in real estate before it was fashionable, Part III: The Battle is Joined.
      • How I lost money in real estate before it was fashionable, Part II: The Limits of the Law.
      • How I lost money in real estate before it was fashionable, Part I: Impossibly Naive.
      • You, too, can be conned
      • Armageddon and the value of practical skills
    • ► February (6)
      • Rent v. Owning Your Home, opportunity cost and running some numbers
      • The Casanova Kid, a Shit Knife, a Good Book, Having No Regrets, Dark Matter and a bit of Magic
      • What Poker, Basketball and Mike Whitaker taught me about Luck
      • How to Give like a Billionaire
      • Go ahead, make my day
      • Muk Finds Success in Tahiti
    • ► January (5)
      • Travels with "Esperando un Camino"
      • Beanie Babies, Naked Barbie, American Pickers and Old Coots
      • Selling the House and Adventures in Staging
      • The bashing of Index Funds, Jack Bogle and a Jedi dog trick
      • Magic Beans
  • ► 2011 (22)
    • ► December (1)
      • Dividend Growth Investing
    • ► November (2)
      • The Mummy's head, Particle Physics and "Knocking on Heaven's Door"
      • "It's Better in the Wind" or why I ride a motorcycle
    • ► October (1)
      • Lazy Days and School Days
    • ► July (2)
      • The road to Zanzibar sometimes goes thru Ecuador...
      • Johnny wins the lotto and heads to Paris
    • ► June (16)
      • Chainsaws, Elm Trees and paying for College
      • Stuff I’ve failed at: the early years
      • Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Defeat
      • The. Worst. Used. Car. Ever.
      • Top Ten reasons your future is so bright it hurts my eyes to look at it
      • The Most Dangerous Words Your Customer Can Say
      • How not to drown in The Sea of Assholes
      • What we own and why we own it
      • The Ten Sales Commandments
      • My ever so formal and oh so dry CV
      • How I failed my daughter and a simple path to wealth
      • The Myth of Motivation
      • Why you need F-you money
      • My short attention span
      • Why I can’t pick winning stocks, and you can’t either
      • The Monk and the Minister

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