Motorcycle Mojo Magazine

A LITTLE SOMETHING Extra

You know when you go into a motorcycle shop and they have a bunch of motorcycles, motorcycle parts and motorcycle gear, and you’re happy? That’s a good thing.

But what if there were motorcycle shops that had a bunch of motorcycles, motorcycle parts and motorcycle gear — but they also had a little somethin’ extra? Something beyond just the usual motorcycle stuff? Wouldn’t that be an even better thing? I believe I just heard you say “Yes!”

Well, in the general vicinity of Motorcycle Mojo’s Practically Secret West Coast Research and Development Laboratory (MMPSWCRDL, which just rolls off the tongue…) there are such shops. And the proprietors of such shops will actually allow me to enter the premises, and will occasionally talk to me. And so I’m going to write about them.

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