{"id":1254,"date":"2010-02-22T18:39:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T00:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2024-05-13T14:25:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T20:25:24","slug":"when-you-cant-get-enough-theres-rumbum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/when-you-cant-get-enough-theres-rumbum\/","title":{"rendered":"When You Can&#8217;t Get Enough, There&#8217;s RumBum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a little cross-fertilization here. If you read this blog regularly you know I also write for Examiner.com. What you may not know is that I also write, twice each week, for RumBum.com.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.motorcyclecolorado.com\/images2\/RumBumLogo.gif\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" alt=\"RumBum logo\" \/>I&#8217;d have to say that some of my best writing goes up on RumBum, for the simple reason that they pay me better than some of the others. In case you&#8217;re interested, here are some of the pieces I&#8217;ve done for them that I like the best.<\/p>\n<p>Heading Out On The Highway With The OFMC &#8211; One of the two pieces I do each week for RumBum is a personal column. As such, I write a lot about the trips I&#8217;ve made with our group, the OFMC. This piece introduces the guys and tells the history of the group.<\/p>\n<p>The Life of a Motorcycle Demo Rider &#8211; The behind the scenes skinny on what it&#8217;s like for those folks who manage demos rides for the manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p>Winging It &#8211; Tales of the good and bad things that come if you hit the road without a plan.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t Drop the Bike &#8211; Some stories of time we did, one or the other of us, drop the bike.<\/p>\n<p>Going Anywhere &#8211; Slowly &#8211; In a Ural &#8211; A profile on my friend, Dom, who rides a Ural sidecar rig. This is the guy I <a href=\"http:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/elephant-ride-was-great\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">went up Guanella Pass with<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>The Breaking Point &#8211; The story of my most despairing moment on my motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>Baja Dreams &#8211; The condensed version of the story I told at great length on Examiner about the J2 Racing team that ran in last year&#8217;s Baja 1000.<\/p>\n<p>They. Are. Here. &#8211; A look at electric motorcycles and what the future may hold.<\/p>\n<p>Are Motorcycles Greener than Cars? &#8211; Just scratching the surface on this surprisingly not-so-obvious question.<\/p>\n<p>You Only Live Once&#8230; &#8211; A biker&#8217;s bucket list.<\/p>\n<p>So there you go. With any luck something among those should sound interesting. And comments are always welcome. Suggestions, too. I&#8217;m always looking for new story ideas. Thanks.<\/p>\n<h3>Biker Quote for Today<\/h3>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to burnt skin, numb crotches, and bugs in your teeth. Ride on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a little cross-fertilization here. If you read this blog regularly you know I also write for Examiner.com. What you may not know is that I also write, twice each week, for RumBum.com. I&#8217;d have to say that some of my best writing goes up on RumBum, for the simple reason that they pay me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[262],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-rumbumcom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12154,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions\/12154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motorcyclecolorado.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}