The author
reports on his livelong involvement with motorcycles. At first and immediately
after WWII in Germany, motorcycles and their smaller cousins mopeds were
necessary means of transportation. Beginning in the late sixties and due to
increasing living standards for many, motorcycles gave way to small cars and
the motorcycle industry almost collapsed in the western world. Amazingly, with
ever increasing living standards, motorcycles experienced a revival as a sport
and hobby for increasing numbers of mechanically gifted enthusiasts.
The author, now
living in Ohio picked up motorcycling in the seventies again. When he retired
in 2006, he purchased an old BMW-sidecar combination as a retirement hobby,
building on his experience with a rig he owned in the early sixties. Later he
purchased a Honda touring bike to replace the aging BMW rig. Over a six-year
period, he explored Ohio’s lesser known architectural and landscape beauties,
just perfect for the touring motorcycle connoisseur.
Andreas F. von Recum immigrated from Germany in 1972. He pursued an academic career at the junction
of veterinary medicine with human medicine and engineering, and retired from
The Ohio State University in 2006. Throughout his career, he published
peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts and an edited handbook in his research
field of biomaterials. He also published with Pelican Publ. in 2002 a popular
literature book dealing with another of his hobbies: Hunting with Hounds in
North America.
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