It’s kind of amazing how life and business sometimes play out. A chance meeting here, an impromptu Facetime call there, followed by a half-joking/half-serious: “Hey, do you reckon we could do that?” brainstorming session … and boom! Before you know it, I’m booking an airfare to San Francisco to go help some ADV riding brothers out with their new machines.
I’ve long toyed with the idea that MotorcycleBiz has been growing so constantly that I’d one day have to open up a second workshop to handle the load — I just didn’t think I’d be doing it in the sleepy hamlet of Colfax, located high in the mountains of northern California!
Welcome to The Professor’s Workshop: USA Edition, which will be playing out in the next two issues of AAB magazine. I had a month in California with the boys late last year, and this issue details all the good stuff we got up to in the first couple of weeks of the trip. Then next issue I’ll be detailing my ride in the annual LA Barstow to Vegas dual-sport event through the California and Nevada deserts, so let’s get into it!
HEY GRINGO
The last time I was in California was at the very start of 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic pulled a handbrake on the world. It was an awesome trip spent hanging out with a bunch of Amercian mates at the
