There’s nothing quite like the feeling of twisting a throttle on a crisp Oklahoma Sunday morning and knowing the whole family is right there with you… The road didn’t care that our original plan fell through. It just kept offering up pieces of Oklahoma history and a whole lot of family time.
While the world cheered Tommy “Tombo” Bolton—the King of Cali who became the first African American to push a motorcycle over 200 mph and stacked 25 national championships—few ever saw the man behind the roar. In the quiet bays of his Oklahoma City shop, Tombo was the King of Kindness: quietly hiring ex-inmates, mentoring at-risk kids, giving a homeless motorcycle fan rides to work, and saving broken lives. One wrench, one conversation, one second chance at a time—this is the true Tombo Way.
The sun dipped low on the horizon, casting a golden glow over the wheat fields of southern Kansas. It was a late June Saturday night at Mid-American Dragway near Arkansas City, and the air buzzed […]
In February 2008, Kay and I escaped the cold of an American winter for a three-week vacation in Australia, where summer was in full swing. We landed in Sydney, picked up a rental car, and […]
There’s something reassuring about machinery that’s older than your favorite leather jacket yet still stubbornly refuses to retire gracefully to museum quietude. Take, for example, my recent adventure: I loaded up my vintage Mamiya RB67—a […]