GOT MOTOCYCLE MUD? – PART 2

April 24th, 2012

It’s a little muddy so I am going to ride in the grass. Wait for me, my motorcycle won’t roll.  I’m stuck already and we just got started with our motorcycling day!

Young Motorcycle Santa had to laugh at young Motorcycle Brother Dale. Brother came home dragging his Yamaha 175 because so much mud and grass built up under his front fender it was stuck like a brick. We tried digging the mud out with a screw driver and gave up. The water hose was no good because the black clay and grass was getting dry.

Let’s take the front fender off, and so….we did. Problem solved and back to the trail brother went to find his buddies and ride some more. When you are a kid, you just don’t think …….. On a motorcycle with no front fender most everything you run over hit’s the rider in the chest or face.

Dirt Bike Dale

Motorcycle Brother Dale on his Dirt Bike

The next time Motorcycle Santa saw Brother that day he looked like mud man. The Yamaha Motorcycle and the Motorcycle Brother looked as if they were one object – ONE BIG, BROWN MUD CLOD. What kind of motorcycle is that? BROWN? What kind of motorcycle rider is that? BROWN. Ha Ha Ha, Ho Ho Ho!

Motorcycle Santa took the garden water hose and washed Yamaha and Brother all at the same time. We did all this wash job on the driveway in front of the door to our house, which did not make our mother very happy. As usual Motorcycle Dad said “boys will be boys”. As he laughed he said “Yamaha must make a good motorcycle to stand up to the two of you boys”.    Got Motorcycle Mud?

Motorcycle Santa is on the road in Texas, and can haul your bike anywhere, any time!  Check out Santa at Your Service for more info!   Ho Ho Ho!   Make your life a Happy Holiday all year long!

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Got Motorcycle Mud?

April 11th, 2012

I’m going to ride my Motorcycle right in the middle of that mud hole and come out the other side with no problem!  No mud on my clothes, no mud on my Motorcycle -  just mud on my tires.  Right?

Motorcycling a Mud Road

Stand back and watch me go……….. VAROOM – SPLASH – OH MAN – CAN YOU GUYS HELP ME HERE – I THOUGHT I COULD RIDE RIGHT THROUGH THAT MUD HOLE.

This is the sound of motorcycles and mud holes most of the time.

Motorcycle Santa knows the things that will make people gather around:   a coffee pot….. a camp fire…… a Christmas Tree….. a dinner table…… a new baby……. a chromed-out motorcycle……. and MUD.

Good Ole Mud Truck

Lots of good ole boys in Texas love mud.  Some of those good ole boys will drive cars round and around in it, race through the middle of it, and ooo la la……watch ladies wrestle in it.

Bikini Mud Wrestling - Ooo La La!

The thought of mudding up one of my sleighs makes my skin crawl.  No driving of cars, cages or motorcycles through the mud for Motorcycle Santa – he keeps his rides shiny and clean. Motorcycle chrome is just too darn cool to trash out with mud clods!

But hey, Motorcycle Santa does like to watch riders in the mud, and even better, watching lady riders try the mud.   Some ladies are excellent riders, and other are scared to death of bikes.  Santa thinks it is fantastic that the ladies are into the sport of motorcycling.

Motorcycling in the Mud

Back in the 1940’s, my Motorcycle Granny did a little motorcycling on her own, but never in the mud.  Back then, people rode street motorcycles for everything, be it on the street, off road or in the mud.   Check out this lady riding the mud.   What do you think about that?   Got Motorcycle Mud?

Motorcycle Santa is on the road in Texas, and can haul your bike anywhere, any time!  Check out Santa at Your Service for more info!   Ho Ho Ho!   Make your life a Happy Holiday all year long!

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Be Prepared – Motorcycle Emergency Preparedness

April 5th, 2012

If Motorcycle Santa is on riding his Motorcycle and can’t put it in his pocket – he doesn’t need it. As a young Motorcycle Santa, I always traveled light. Back then, for a road trip my bike was always packed with a blanket behind the seat and very few tools in the saddle bag. Things are a lot different now.

Being Prepared - Traveling Light in the Old Days

FACT: A person can go 3 minutes without air, 3 hours without shelter, 3 days without water and 3 weeks without food. Just to be prepared for any emergency, Motorcycle Santa made an Emergency Preparedness Kit for his motorcycle. After thinking more about being prepared, Motorcycle Santaliked the idea so well that the Claus family cages, aka cars, also got an Emergency Preparedness Kit, too.

Santa's Durango Has an Emergency Preparedness Kit!

If the unexpected happens be prepared, and here is what your Emergency Preparedness kit should have: 2 disposable lighters. A knife, possibly a Swiss Army Knife. Trash bags large enough to get inside like a sleeping bag – the trash bag can also be used as shelter from sun or rain, rain poncho or fill one with leaves for a bed. Duct tape and rope. Motorcycle Santa can build a house with Duct tape, “Ho Ho Ho”.

Parachute cord is strong and easy to pack and should be a part of any Emergency Preparedness Kit – parachute cord can be purchased at most any Army-Navy store. Put a Whistle in your kit so you can get the attention of a passer-by. Add in some water-purification tablets just in case. And always…..LET THEIR BE LIGHT, so a flashlight is a must for your kit. Don’t forget a compass. And you might as well throw in your kitchen sink – just kidding. Chap stick and tissues are also recommended.

Being Prepared - Packing the Kitchen Sink

Motorcycle Santa packed all of this Emergency Preparedness gear got all this equipment in a coffee can. Now think of the uses for a coffee can. A coffee can can: improvise digging tool, transfer gas from one motorcycle to another, carry water or be used as a cooking pot.

For more information on Emergency Preparedness in general visit the FEMA site.

Last but not least pack a FIRST AID KIT! Today, Motorcycle Santa’s motorcycle saddle bags contain my Emergency Preparedness coffee can one side, extra goggles and a rain suite on the other. And yes Motorcycle Santa also packs clean underwear and socks…..just in case. It never hurts to Be Prepared when you are Motorcycling!

First Aid Kit for Motorycles

Motorcycling First Aid Kit

Motorcycle Santa is on the road in Texas, and can haul your bike anywhere, any time!  Check out Santa at Your Service for more info!   Ho Ho Ho!   Make your life a Happy Holiday all year long!

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How Do You Pack Your Motorcycle?

March 22nd, 2012

This goes here, that goes there, and we’ll tie this to that…. or do we?  “Don’t worry, it won’t blow off.  Yes, I can still see over the handlebars.”  Is this how you pack your Motorcycle?

Packing for One - How MS Santa Used to Pack

Back in the day, Motorcycle Santa did not require as much equipment to be comfortable on a bike trip. We would ride off with gas money, a blanket and a few tools. Younger Motorcycle Santa was also a lot more tolerant to the weather.

Now I have my biker babe, Motorcycle Hot Momma, riding with me, and she tends to go prepared for anything. Our Motorcycle saddle bags overflowed on our first weekend trip, mostly because of her hair products alone. Sure it’s okay with me – I love her looking good, but if we are out very long, clean clothes are handy.

Hot Mamma

We found the perfect solution for us – we pull a trailer behind our Motorcycle. It’s like having a full size trunk and Motorcycle Mamma can pack all she wants! Inside the motorcycle trailer we can fit five days worth of clothes for two, two lawn chairs, an ice chest and lots of hair product. And of course a rock or two that Motorcycle Hot Momma always seems to find to take home for the garden. Try one when you go motorcycling.

Traveling with Motorcycle Trailers

When someone says to me, how do you pack your Motorcycle for an overnight trip, I say… “We bought a motorcycle trailer made by Quest from Renegade Cycles in Mesquite, Texas and we love it.” Motorcycle Santa has decided that the Motorcycle trailer pulls better with a little weight in it than when it’s empty. I don’t know that we have overloaded it yet, but we sure keep trying and we never travel far without it!

Motorcycle Santa is on the road in Texas, and can haul your bike anywhere, any time!  Check out Santa at Your Service for more info!   Ho Ho Ho!   Make your life a Happy Holiday all year long!

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Sandwiched Between Motorcycle Pawpaw and Motorcycle Granny

March 19th, 2012

“Come get on the bike with us, and we’ll go get some ice cream” my Motorcycle Pawpaw and Motorcycle Granny would say to young boy Motorcycle Santa in the 1950’s. “You will fit just fine.” So off the three of us would go with  Motorcycle Santa sandwiched between Motorcycle Pawpaw and Motorcycle Granny on Pawpaw’s Indian Motorcycle.

My Motorcycle Granny went on most every motorcycle ride with my Motorcycle Pawpaw, and as a small child, when  Motorcycle Santa was around, I went too! Motorcycle Santa’s place on the motorcycle was on the buddy seat between them. In the late 1940’s and early 1950’s, most motorcycles had a very large seat shaped like a seat on a bicycle. This was called a buddy seat and had just enough room for three.

Buddy Seat

At three and four years old  Motorcycle Santa loved to ride on the buddy seat sandwiched between Motorcycle Pawpaw and Motorcycle Granny, and would actually fall asleep nestled in between them sometimes. I loved being on the bike with them, wrapped in Motorcycle Granny’s arms and holding on tight to Motorcycle Pawpaw.

My Motorcycle Pawpaw and Granny always had a nice car, but they loved motorcycles more, especially the joy of the ride…… and so did I. We had loads of fun on our bike rides, and I was so lucky to have grandparents who were crazy about me, their first grandchild.  I was also crazy about them and stayed with them most every weekend as a small child.

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Motorcycle Granny

“Your grandmother took you on a real motorcycle ride?” my friends would ask. “Yes, almost every weekend” was my answer, and the kids were always amazed. “Really?” “Yes really!” Little Motorcycle Santa grew up in a family where everyone  rode bikes, but soon learned it was indeed unusual in the 1950’s to have motorcycle loving, biker grandparents.

Pawpaw was riding an Indian Motorcycle at the time and I will never forget our rides and  the sound of the motorcycle pipes, the smell of the exhaust and the taste of the good old fashioned Ashburn’s ice cream. Every child would be lucky to have such caring, loving biker grandparents.

Motorcycle Santa is on the road in Texas, and can haul your bike anywhere, any time!  Check out Santa at Your Service for more info!   Ho Ho Ho!   Make your life a Happy Holiday all year long!

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RAT ROD RESCUE

March 11th, 2012

It got away, so where did it go? Last time I saw it was headed for the creek. Why didn’t you stop it? I couldn’t catch it. Let’s rescue that Rat Rod. And so goes the story of Motorcycle Santa’s first and only Rat Rod.
Rat Rod
Motorcycle Santa and three of his friends, all about 12 years old, built a car…..way back when. We went to our local “auto dealership” more commonly referred to as the local scrap yard. We were in that scrap yard so much that we became friends with the junk yard dog, SATAN, and the owner John. When we were there, John would let us put around on a old motorcycle if we could get it to started, and that was Motorcycle Santa’s favorite thing in that junk yard! But we there were there for business – to purchase a car, and buy a car we did.

My buddies and I bought ourselves and a old Ford built in the 1940’s. We took to body off for speed and took the muffler off for the sound of speed. With a flat head V8, it didn’t take much to make it run with the help of John the scrap yard owner. This car was a real junk yard rescue. Noting like the souped up Rat Rod in this video.

A battery to start that old Ford cost more money than we had. So to start it we would hold the clutch in with one hand and push the car. When the car would sputter, we would hop in the seats, and then with a POW and a puff of smoke, we were on our way driving our new old Hot Rod car. The only safety equipment we had was sun shades, and that was only because it made us look like race car drivers. We drove that old jalopy round and round in a nearby open field every chance we had!

One day, Motorcycle Santa was doing his daily chores while my buddy Billy took our Rat Rod out for a spin. Billy but came running by screaming “IT GOT AWAY” . Billy didn’t hop in the car in time and it drove off without him. We found the car in a brush pile…..with more damage to the brush than the car. We made a Rat Rod rescue.

A few months later, a man we did not know saw our Rat Rod and was so impressed with our homemade rig that he offered us $50.00 cash. In the 1960’s $50.00 was a small fortune to three 12 year old boys, so we took the money and ran. After that, Motorcycle Santa went back to the scrap yard for that old motorcycle.

Pirate Rad Rod

A few days went by and Motorcycle Daddy told me he saw how fast we were driving in our Rat Rod. He was concerned about our safety, and so were my buddy’s parents. Rather than kill our mechanical prowess and take the care away from us, our parents got the $50.00 together and got that man to buy it from us. Good move Motorcycle Daddy!

Today I daydream about that old, ugly Rat Rod. It’s a funny thing that old cars like that are worth good money now. Those old cars, pieced back together in a haphazard and unfinished way are fondly called Rat Rods, even today. And today they go for much more than $50.00.

Motorcycle Santa is on the road in Texas, and can haul your bike anywhere, any time!  Check out Santa at Your Service for more info!   Ho Ho Ho!   Make your life a Happy Holiday all year long!

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STORM RIDING

March 6th, 2012

Are we are going to get wet? Looking at the awful cloud, Motorcycle Momma says…. “I definitely think we are going to get wet!” A cautiously optimistic Motorcycle Santa says… .“No, that is an awesome cloud and I think we can out run the storm” as he puts a foot to the peddle and speeds up to 80 MPH. “We gotta get moving ,…… hang on!” Zoom, zoom, zoom..

Motorcycle Santa and Motorcycle Momma cruise around central Texas for fun on weekends. For overnight trips, we pack light with essential personal care items in the saddle bags and leave the motorcycle trailer at home. Cruising down Highway 67, we see the dark clouds looming close in front of us….yes, it’s a Spring-time storm in Texas and it is getting way too close.

Motorcycle Stom riding

Motorcycling in a Storm

Santa thought the storm cloud formation was awesome, but Motorcycle Momma thought differently – storms are one of the few things that scare Mrs. Claus because she lived through a Tornado that hit her hometown of Wichita Falls, Texas when she was a little girl. She is always looking for wall clouds an twister tails any time we spot a storm.

Take a virtual ride in the rain, check out this video:

Best thing about getting caught in the rain on a motorcycle is the smell of fresh rain. Worst thing is wind gusts followed closely by lighting. Motorcycles a rain don’t mix very well, but high winds and lighting can make a ride down right scary! We rode into the rain and luckily this time, it was light rain with very little wind and no lightening.

Wet from riding our motorcycle “Plum Krazy” in the rain, we checked in at a nearby motel in Glen Rose, Texas in mid afternoon. Having to strip down and get out of our wet clothes was A-OK with Motorcycle Santa. What do you do when the only clothes you have are wet? Get naked! Too bad they dried in a few hours!

If you are caught in the rain on your Motorcycle, be really, really careful. And if severe storms and high winds are forecast, for your own safety, get in a cage an leave the bike at home. Never ever go motorcycling ride in lighting and high winds if you can keep from it. Storm riding is a recipe for disaster on a motorcycle even if you are extra careful!

Motorcycle Santa is on the road in Texas, and can haul your bike anywhere, any time!  Check out Santa at Your Service for more info!   Ho Ho Ho!   Make your life a Happy Holiday all year long!

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Up, Up and Away….A Motorcycle Hill Climb

March 4th, 2012

A Motorcycle Hill Climb is won by the daredevil rider who finished the fastest….if there is more than one who finishes. Most don’t.

Motorcycle Hill Climb

Motorcycle Hill Climb

Today’s Motorcycle Hill Climbers trailer their motorcycles up, up and away to the starting line of completion hills. They need every last ounce of power, rubber, fuel and energy to take on the huge risk of modern day Motorcycle Hill Climbs. To compete, Hill Climb riders use special paddle tires, stretched swing arms and super fuel – nitrous oxide. Hill climb bike swing arms are usually stretched so that the front wheel will not raise easily.

No rider wants to do a wheelie on a hill climb, but wheelies and worse happen even on today’s modern bikes geared for hill climbing!  Take a look at this 2007 video of hill climb completion where most attempts go bad and one works.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht3DMDx1spo

The Hill Climb rider of today has a chance to go faster, further and higher up, up and away than every before. Today’s completion Hill Climber test their skills on some very tricky, steep hills and to hedge the risk, technology and safety equipment is a must. If today’s hill climbers want to live to tell about the wicked hill climbs they try, often called “widow makers”, heavy duty Safety Equipment is not an option.

hill climb equip

Hill Climb Safety Equipment - Get Some

Check out the Motorcycle Superstore on Motorcycle Santa’s Shop Now page for a glance at the variety of motorcycle safety equipment available for today’s riders…like helmets, gloves, goggles, boots, leathers and more.

Motorcycle Santa thinks OLD SCHOOL Hill climb riders must have been some of the craziest daredevil Motorcycle riders ever. Hill climb competitions originated in the early 20th century.  Back then, there were not motorcycles geared for hill climbs like they are today. OLD SCHOOL Hill Climbers rode hills on the same motorcycle they road to work each day, same tires, same fuel, same, same, same. No trailering of bikes to the hill climbs back then either. Not only did these thrill seekers riders ride their motorcycle to the climb, but then they rode the hill as a contestant. And the Hill Climb safety equipment in the 1940s……you had to have shoes.

Indian Motorcycle Hill Cliimb

OLD SCHOOL Motorcycle Hill Climb

Motorcycle Santa is on the road in Texas, and can haul your bike anywhere, any time!  Check out Santa at Your Service for more info!   Ho Ho Ho!   Make your life a Happy Holiday all year long!

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KNIEVEL – THE KING OF DAREDEVIL MOTORCYCLE STUNTMEN

March 3rd, 2012

“Give me a big drink of juice (Wild Turkey) and I can jump the Snake Canyon on my motorcycle…… I think….. maybe….. I hope so…… what do you think?  Well, just strap my butt to a rocket and light the fuse.”

Evel Kneival's Canyon Rocket

Evel Kneival's Canyon Rocket

And off he went. Robert “Evel” Knieval, tried the daring Snake Canyon jump that no thrill seeking Motorcycle Stuntman had dared to before………

That 1974 Snake River Canyon jump flopped, but did not stop Evel Knievel from his calling as the King of Daredevil Motorcycle Stuntman in the 1960’2 and 1970’s. Motorcycle Santa loves motorcycle sports and followed Evel Knievel from the late sixties until his death on November 30, 2007 at age 69.

Knievel is arguably the most fame dare devil motorcycle rider of my generation, and he was damn good at promoting himself as a thrill seeking Motorcycle Stuntman. He made his first motorcycle jump for money on a Honda 350cc Motorcycle, jumping over two caged mountain lions and a crate of 100 live rattlesnakes. It was a 40 foot jump, and Knievel came up a little short, breaking the cage full of snakes open. As he left with his money, so did the snakes.

Motorcycle Stunt King Evel Knieval

Evel’s motorcycle of choice in the early days was a Norton. Knievel liked the Norton bikes because midair the Norton would hold a straight line whereas the Harley-Davidson motorcycle would try to role to the right due to the tork of the engine. Later, Evil rode Triumph T120 Bonneville and eventually a Harley-Davidson was a 650 cc after Harley became one of his Sponsors.

Knievel’s endured all the pain, relished fame and enjoyed the money he made when he wasn’t recuperating from injuries. He broke more than 35 bones and spent more than 36 months in the hospital as a result of falls during his dare devil days. Before his career ended, he had so much money, he had his own bank vault in the bank in his hometown of Butte, Montana. What a crazy good problem to have!

Robert "Evel" Kneival

Evil was lucky enough with his timing of his Motorcycle Stuntman sport. Motorcross was not popular when he was stunting. There was motorcycle flat track racing and some hill climbs, then, but Evel was the Motorcycle Stunt God in his day. Initially, Evel did not get TV sports coverage. His worst or greatest crash was not filmed by sports casters. The video of his infamous 1967 crash in front of Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas, NV was shot by TV star Linda Evans. That crash left him in a coma for 29 days, but launched his career as the king of dare devil motorcycle stuntmen.

Motorcycle Santa is on the road in Texas, and can haul your bike anywhere, any time!  Check out Santa at Your Service for more info!   Ho Ho Ho!   Make your life a Happy Holiday all year long!

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Motorcycle Santa’s Patch Club

February 25th, 2012

Motorcycle Santa is a member of a patch club….or …..maybe it’s a gang….or maybe it’s…..a some Lone Star Santa’s!  Check out the photo of this scary patch club gang!

Lone Star Santas do Dallas

Motorcycle Santa's Patch Club

Motoycle Santa is a Lone Star Santa

Lone Star Santa Patch

Motorcycle Santa is a member of The Lone Star Santa’s, a group of men and women that bring joy to others playing Santa and Mrs. Claus.  Being a professional Santa Claus or Mrs. Claus is a business and we are paid for the entertainment we bring. Most of us have charity jobs we do for the love of the people, but if we did them all for free we would not be able to make a living.

During the holiday season, if Santa works all day in his red winter suit, about mid day it is time to change to a dry suite. No one wants a soggy, sweaty Santa. Motorcycle Santa also has a dog suit, no not a dog costume, but a Santa suit for pictures with pets. Motorcycle Santa has the dog suite because the only hair Santa wants on his person is his real beard, especially when working a party.

When the holidays are done, Motorcycle Santa runs his own small business, a motorcycle and freight hauling company called Santa at Your Service.

Motorcycle Santa's Motorcycle Sleigh

Santa trades in the sleigh for a Motorcycle Trailer to haul big boy toys like Motorcycles, Four-wheelers, Scooters and a variety of freight and more during the “off season. Who would be more careful with your motorcycle or freight than good ole Santa?

While hauling motorcycles in the off season, Motorcycle Santa is frequently recognized as a Santa look-a-like. That lands Motorcycle Santa some Santa Claus bookings for  Christmas in July and advance holiday bookings.  What better way to surprise your friends and family to have a Christmas party when it’s not Christmas!

Summer Motorcycle Santa on Comet

For Summer Santa bookings, Motorcycle Santa can show up in his Summer Santa suite on a red scooter named Comet. Motorcycle Santa is way too big for the scooter and looks like a bird on a June bug, but people love it.

And if Motorcycle Santa is not available for a booking, he can always call on someone his patch club gang, Lone Star Santa’s, for help.

Motorcycle Santa is on the road in Texas, and can haul your bike anywhere, any time!  Check out Santa at Your Service for more info!   Ho Ho Ho!   Make your life a Happy Holiday all year long!

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