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Today's podcast features Annick and the author, Stephen Seifridsberger. Annick visits Stephen's garage to discuss his life, his passion for motorcycles, and his book, "Throttle and Thoughts." Stephen, who recently made a significant career change from an executive position to working in the motorcycle industry with Max BMW, showcases his collection of bikes, including several BMW models and a Buell. He explains that his writing, which blends existential musings with motorcycle riding, serves as a form of therapy and is inspired by the solitude of the open road. The discussion also touches upon the personal and financial sacrifices required to pursue one's true passions.

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Transcript

Stephen Seifridsberger Interview and Garage Tour

Annick: Good morning, my beautiful Motorheads. It's Annick. Today we're gonna do something a little bit different and go visit Steven Seifridsberger, in person.

We're gonna go check out his garage, which we hear is absolutely lovely, and we are going to talk about his book, "Throttle and Thoughts", and of course all things motorcycle related. Now let's go because I have gotta drive ahead of me.

 * INTRO *

Stephen: Hello, beautiful. Motorheads. Welcome to my garage. 

Annick: Hey Steven. How's it going? 

Stephen: Good, how are you? 

Annick: Good. Wow. This place is amazing. 

Stephen: Thank you. It's been, uh, a lot of sweat and tears for the last few years, getting her buttoned up. She's still got a ways to go, but I'm really proud of her.

Annick: That's awesome. So you invited us up here, which we really appreciate, and, uh, maybe you could tell us a little bit about these motorcycles.

Stephen: Sure. Um, this is 1981 R 100. This is my first airhead. Uh, bought it from Max, from Max VMW down in Connecticut. It was in boxes and a good friend of mine, uh, and I put it back together a few winners ago and that really jumped, started my love of Airheads.

Stephen: Um, behind that we have a 1983 R 80 RT, uh, which is my birth year motorcycle, and that's how I justified with my wife. Why I need another, uh, why I need another, uh, another bike. She's been great to me this year. And you can read about her on, uh, RevZilla's comment tread. Oh yeah, that's 

Annick: right. You just did the article on it.

Stephen: Yeah. Okay, cool. 

Um, back there are some body panels for a project bike, which we'll talk about over there. This is my daily rider. It's a 2023 R 1250 GSA, uh, takes me all over the, uh, all over the East Coast. Goes to work everywhere. 

Annick: So this is, that's your daily commuter? 

Stephen: My daily commuter. Okay. Uh, in poor weather.

Otherwise, I'm on the R 80 most of the time. 

Annick: Okay. So, 

Stephen: yep. 

Annick: we should also say that you, uh, you ride all year round. 

Stephen: Yes. I ha My goal was to ride through January this year. Usually I have a lull during the snowier months, but, uh, I'm, uh, close enough to my, uh, my new place of employment that I can, uh, I think I can make it work so.

Come talk to me in February. We'll see if I stuck to it. So, 

Annick: oh, we will, 

Stephen: uh, so this is a, a 2003 Buell Ulysses. Uh, my uncle bought it new in 2003. Um. He passed away a few years ago and I was lucky enough to acquire it. So it's special to me for many reasons. It doesn't get a lot of miles, but I do absolutely love this machine.

And I have written about Buells a lot, so you can check out my substack and, uh, if you wanna read more about this bike and my uncle or any other Buell that I've had. 

Annick: Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. This place is giving like major man cave vibes. Like I wanna have a bourbon and, uh, smoke a cigar here. 

Stephen: It, it was very important to me to have, uh.

Uh, motorcycles and lounge space because this is, I draw a lot of inspirations from bikes, whether I'm riding or music or just vibing after a long day of work, I want to just hang out. And especially these cold months, like it's 10 degrees out right now while we're filming this. Uh, just to be with my bikes brings me peace.

So this is the nice little area that to, to allow that to happen. So 

Annick: I love it. 

Stephen: Yeah. 

Annick: And then over here you got a little bit of a work area. 

Stephen: Yep. So right now on the lift is a a a 1997 BMWR 1100 rt. Um, I was fortunate enough to acquire this in pieces for free all Facebook marketplace. Um, 

Annick: like all good projects.

Stephen: Yes. And it's always 

easy. You can, you can convince your wife to let you get a free motorcycle. It's easy. And now I have something to do in the wintertime, so. I'm putting a clutch on, struggling with it, and I'm not a mechanic by any means. So this has been very interesting, uh, project and a learning, uh, learning expedition, if you will.

So I'm excited. This is gonna be the winter bike. I don't think it's gonna be on the road till summer at this point, but we'll see what happens. 

Annick: That's awesome. 

Stephen: Yeah.

the last bike we have here, this is my, uh, my daughter's TTR 50, um, bought this for her when she was six or seven, and I had a Kawasaki three 10. I have a, a lot of acreage out back, so we would go riding, um. I don't know what's wrong with kids these days. She forgot she had the motorcycle and never rode it.

So now it's just a little ornamental piece for me to, to remember riding with my daughter when she was a, a little pip squeak.

Annick: So you're not riding that around? I think you should. 

Stephen: Uh, I do once in a while. My wife likes to ride it around. She has a lot of fun on it. Yeah, so it's, it's, it's pint size, so 

That's awesome.

Annick: I have found that like a lot of, uh, the next generation is not riding.

Stephen: They are, they are. I'm writing an, an article about that for the MOA, so really stay tuned for that. Okay, cool. Yeah.

The Chat:

So what made you blow up your life? That's a complicated question. Uh, I like to start with the good ones.

Yeah. No, I, I feel like it sort of like snowballed. Uh, you know, I spent. My early years, I was very into the arts. Um, I would, would write poetry, uh, sing in bands. Um, that was my original plan. I was gonna be a rock star and that didn't pan out. Uh, then, you know, that kind of took a backseat and kind of went full forward with the American dream and got a job and a career and a family and focused on that.

One day I woke up and realized I didn't want to do this anymore, and I wanted out, and I think it was a little bit more methodical and it, it took a little while, um, for me to blow up my life, so to speak. okay. So when all that was happening was like, you know, were you, were you at a point where like you were unhappy with your, with your job?

Or like what kind of precipitated this like, change, I think it was, or would you even call it a midlife crisis? I, I, I definitely call it a midlife crisis. Okay. Uh, for probably a, a bunch of different reasons, but I would say it was. You know, I had achieved more than I ever thought I would in my career. Um, and I was, you know, an executive level in, in an industry that I was passionate about.

Um, but that came a lot of stress and a lot of other things that I don't think that I had considered. Mm-hmm. And that was weighing on me as well as this nagging desire to want to be artistic again and, and, and put my art out in the world. Um, and at one point I realized I wanted to do something different.

I wanted out of the industry that I was in, and I didn't know where that would go. I didn't know who would hire me. I, um, so I started a plan to be in motorcycles, and that's where Motor Reveler came along was, Hey, if I build this website, um, I put my photography up there, I put my writing up there. Um, then I have some sort of legitimacy, I guess.

Mm-hmm. And, and, and maybe somebody in the motorcycle industry would wanna hire me. Um, and that was my plan, that that would be my exit strategy. If I could work around bikes and I could write and just be around the community that I fell in love with, I was gonna be happy again. That was my plan. So, so you started riding as a kid, right?

No, actually. So my, I've always been around motorcycles. My, my father rode, my grandfather rode. He was a big influence on me in my life. One of my fondest memories of my grandfather was he picked me up from school in his Harley Davidson ultra classic sidecar. Talk about being the coolest kid in the room when my grandpa pulls up and he had his like a little handlebar mustache.

Um, so motorcycles are always part of my life. My uncle rode, um. I always wanted a, a motorcycle. When I was younger, my grandfather told me to wait. He was just sort of like, you know, Christmas story, you'll shoot your eye out kid, just wait till you're older, you're gonna speed and get into an accident. And so I actually didn't start riding till I was about 25.

Um, I got my license and then a few years later I bought a bike and then it just started to, to snowball from there.

Wow. And when you were segueing into getting back into writing and riding, uh, why write about motorcycles? You know, I was, I was writing a lot about existentialism and Buddhism and trying to find meaning in life.

Um, I think that was part of the restlessness of my career and just growing and wanting to do something different. Um, motorcycles were always, uh, a vessel for me to have those feelings, to have those exploratory thoughts. So I think it was just natural for me to merge the two together. Um, and, and also it, it, it was part of that legitimizing me wanting to be in the motorcycle career so that if I write a little about, about the motorcycles, maybe I can, um, build a brand or, or find an audience that wants to hear my story and leave said previous industry and end up where I'm.

So when did you end up writing the book, throttle and Thoughts? So, throttle and Thoughts is a, a a a few years of essays on a collection that was on my substack. Um, I had been writing for a while. I didn't know what I was gonna do with all of it. Um, it had been a dream to publish, uh, a book. I I had, I had always thought it was just gonna be my poetry.

Um, and then it ended up being this, where I could showcase the, you know, the motorcycles I'm riding, the photography that I'm riding, and the idea was for it to be a, a coffee table book. And I, I completely understand, it's too small to be considered a coffee table book, but I'm still gonna call it that.

Well, I, one of the things I really appreciated about this, or there's, there's two things. One is that. The photographs. It's been a long time since I've read a book that included photographs and it really added to the stories that you wrote about, and it also put things into perspective. And I think that when we read something, we are envisioning what the authors viewpoint is, is like we embellish it into like our own thing.

And seeing the pictures to accompany it, it was like, oh, it really put into perspective like where you were coming from. And the other thing that I really appreciated is that the, I guess they're sort of like chapters or entries. They're pretty short. So like, this is as a coffee table "quote" coffee table book or bedside table book.

Like you can read a couple and then just put it down and like, you're not, you don't have to like lose your place or like get into, there's these like Absolutely, yeah. Little snippets, which I thought were really great.

I, I really enjoy books by Peter Egan or Lance Oliver. He has, they have books with just short stories.

Yeah, I have my morning coffee. I read one of their journeys. Yeah. And then I go about my day and get ready. And I really wanted to have that because it is a commitment to read books. Yeah. And you know, sometimes my writing is a little headier than other times, and I don't really wanna bog you down with some existential nonsense before you're going out to, to, to your day.

So just a little bite size of the existential, a little bite size of motorcycle and photos and. Um, embark on your journey for the day. So, yeah,

I, one of the things I thought about, like in, in reading this is that, uh, zen in the art of motorcycle maintenance. I am one of the few people that just don't like that book, and I've read it twice.

Once when I started riding and then when he passed away recently, in the past few years, and. I, I have a lot of issues with that book. Okay. But we know it's a cult classic and like I'm not bashing it. If you love it, that's great. Your book was actually what I wished his book had been, which is more these motorcycle musings that talk about like what it's like to ride or you, you have a really good way of describing, and I think a lot of people can relate to this, is.

When you're riding solo, all these thoughts go through your mind and you actually capture them. And it's like kind of nice to see that, like afterwards, you know, musing or rumination Yes. Or, uh, reveling. Yes. Yes. Uh, so I really appreciated that. I thought that that was, like, that was pretty cool. 

I feel like it's kind of overstated in our, in our space that, you know.

It is therapy. It's throttle therapy. Yeah. All, all those things. And there's a lot of truth to it. And, and for me, the solo riding early morning and just working through an issue that I'm dealing with in my personal life, or maybe it's my professional life, all of that comes out in that alone time. In my, in my, in my brain.

I have music playing in my headphones, whatever's going on, and I'm able to just come up with these thoughts and. The writing process is the, is the, the final, the final chapter of all that. To, to put it to bed and to, to close it up. 'cause I'm able to put all the words down, rearrange them, be like, okay, I found meaning and whatever that is, and now I can move on to the next thing.

So, um, as much as the bike is the therapy, it's the, the writing is the. Yeah, just as important for me. Uh, so

do you do the writing in here? 'cause this space seems pretty inspiring to me. I do, I do writing in here, uh, writing at a lot of coffee shops. Okay. Um, a lot of times I'll, I'll be writing, like riding around and I'm like, uh, I got this idea and I'll pull over and I'll just make notes then and my phone and then I go back, uh, next chance I get to work through the ideas.

And, uh, so a little bit of everywhere that. Yeah. That's cool. Yeah. 

When you're taking the photographs, is that just on your phone or is that like with a camera? Uh, a mixture of both In the book, it's a mixture of both. I, I was, um, experimenting with, had a Sony digital camera, uh, and I'm not as, as good at that as, as the cell phone makes everybody photographer.

Yeah. So I, I tread lightly saying that I'm a photographer. Um, but most of it is on my phone. Um, and as I'm out riding, I take the pictures and then somehow the riding, the writing and the riding pictures just kind of meshed together in a. A pretty special way that I didn't plan. I didn't go out, take this photo for this article.

As I'm writing, I'm like, oh yeah, that kind of works with that. Or, Hey, while I was thinking about that idea, these were the shots that came out of that trip that day. Maybe they can work together. And then they just sort of. Find their way. Mm-hmm. At the right time.

There's something nice about, you know, like to me this is an art project, right?

Yes. Like you're, you're putting together this collection in a time and space and it's volume one. So I'm assuming like there's gonna probably be like other Absolutely. Um, I'm always writing, so there's always gonna be other things to put out there. Yeah. And I've had some other ideas that maybe I could do. 

Volume two or three could be collaborative with other writers together. Yeah, I'm not really sure where the journey's going. Um, I'm excited to see where it ends up in a few years, but mm-hmm.

It, uh, it, I think it's good for people to see this 'cause it's like you. Like how do you capture a journey and like this is a really beautiful way of where you've captured this like moment in time in your life, which is like super fun.

Yeah. Yeah. 

So how did you get into, like the BMWs are prominent in here besides the Buell and the yamaha. So, so growing up my, my grandfather was a Harley guy. Harley, Indians, you know, American V- twin, like that was, that was what I was exposed to. Yeah. My uncles all had Japanese bikes. So those were the two, the juxtaposition that I had.

My, my father always rode Yamaha. Um, in my early twenties, I spent a lot of time in northern Vermont at a friend's house, and there was always GS riders. Six o'clock in the morning riding around. I'm like, man, I want one of those. And it just like, snowballed into my head. Snowballed into my head. As I started riding, I, you know, I rode Hondas and Kawasaki, and then I, my Kawasaki concourse looked like a knockoff K bike.

That was my entry into BMW. I was this close to buying a Ural with a sidecar, and last minute I said, no, I'm gonna buy, I'm gonna buy a gs. And that was it. The BMW's flat twin boxer is inspiration for me and I love everything. Everything that it brings, whether it's an airhead, it's a new one, it's a 1300.

That's inspiration. So as soon as I got on that first gs, there was no looking back. And BMWs have just followed me since. That's awesome. And you that, you know, I ask everybody this, like, how many motorcycles do you own? Yes. Are are they all in here? Yes. Okay. All the motorcycles. I am. So, currently we're at five.

Okay. Yeah. Uh, you wanna just list 'em off? We we're, I'm gonna show 'em, but let's just, uh, uh, so we have a 1981 R 100. Okay. Uh, 1983 R 80 RT, 2023 1250 GSA, 2003 Buell Lightning xB nine s, and uh, 1997 BMWR 1100 rt. And then my daughter's little TTR 50. If you wanna count that, you can count. I, I paid for it. Sorry. I count.

I think you can count that. 

Uh, you had talked about earlier that, you know, you were, you had segued from working in corporate in a career. You still have a career. Uh, but you decided to change course. So did you end up getting a job in the motorcycle industry?

I did, yeah. Um, so I, I was in, worked in logistics for almost 20 years in everything from operations to sales.

Um, I was a director of sales for a few different companies, director of operations. Uh. All while wanting to be in the motorcycle space. Um, I was fortunate enough to land a job with Max BMW um, in their New York location and it's been phenomenal. I've been there almost a year now. Um, and it just solidified the longing and the want to be in that community.

the customers are fantastic. Obviously the bikes are fantastic and, and, and my, my, my desk is surrounded by vintage and modern motorcycles. I mean, that's fantastic. So, um, yeah, so I did, I did essentially land the dream job that I was, was hoping to get. So,

and at a really good dealership because I, having been around, like, I haven't ever heard anyone talk badly about Max's BMW and you know, some people will gripe about dealerships, but they have an excellent reputation.

Absolutely. The, the first thing, when I bought my first Gs. I noticed when I walked in was the customer service was not like any other motorcycle dealer. Like, I'm like, oh, these guys treat me with respect. Like they, there's a level of passion for riding that I think is maybe not, um, tied exclusively to BMW, but, but there was something there that felt different from any of the other dealers that I'd been to.

Which also drew me to keep coming back and I would just stop in there on my days off and say hi to the guys. And you know, that snowballed a relationship with them. That eventually became, you know, where I'm working with all these guys that were an influence on me in many ways, um, when I was just getting into BMWs.

Yeah, I think that's a, you you raise a good point there in that, you know, when you, when we wanna make changes in life, like how do you. Like network into Yeah. Finding the avenue to like get your in. And it's funny that like, you know, this is a good example of like, you have, uh, a passion and you just followed it wherever your interest went and it landed you into talking to these guys.

Absolutely. Yeah. It, it, it, it's, I will say it's scary to essentially start over in middle of your life and be like, walk away from a career where essentially you have it all. People would've have longed for the position that I had and, and been where I was at. But at the end of the day, there was just this nagging feeling that I wanted to do something else and, and, and networking with people not even realizing I was networking with them was opened up this opportunity, um, to be where I'm at now.

So it's a more organic way of doing it? Yes. Yeah. And also. It seems insurmountable, like when you're in like a situation, you don't wanna be like, this is my personal experience. Like sometimes it's hard to see beyond like what you're immediately in unless you've got like something else going on or something around you.

Yes, absolutely. Yeah. I think my, my, you know, leading a sales team for many years. I, I, I had to, we had to work through these things. Oh, you do Get your door slammed in your face so many times when you're in sales and then reminding that like, Hey, I'm, I'm coaching the, my team on how to be successful in the closed deals.

Like all while I'm doing a lot of those things in my personal life and my passions and not even realizing that I am networking or that I am, you know, prospecting a new career. All, all while it was just organically happening in the background. Mm-hmm. There, uh, with sales, you get used to saying, hearing no.

Yes. I think a lot of people have not brought up that re resiliency because they're not taught to like, keep going if you said no. Yes. I, it's almost like, you know, as much as I didn't, didn't like sales for that reason. Yeah. Because it, it can be soul crushing if you Oh, totally. You have to separate yourself from, from the art of sales, but also being, being art an artist.

That rejection kind of just comes, you know, partly it's part of being an artist, but also I feel like that black sheep mentality is what drives a lot of artists to create, uh, 'cause they don't feel like they're, uh, you know, they're part of the masses, so to speak. So I think maybe that's why I ended up in sales or why I could handle sales the way that I did, or.

End up where I am now with a career change at my age. That's great. I think that it'll be really inspiring for a lot of people because again, it, it's hard to justify making a change when you have it so Good. And, uh, would you be open to like sharing like some of the downsides of like, making a change like that?

Yeah. Uh, there's, it, it doesn't go without sacrifices. That's, that's for sure. Um, financial sacrifices. Um, obviously is the big one that everyone wants to know about. Yeah. Right. And I, I'm, I have a supportive wife and family that were with me on the journey and they saw my mental health peak in, in valleys and, and what the job was doing to me.

Um, so when the opportunity came to make the change, it was a lot of pros, cons, lists. What sacrifices am I willing to make? Um, is it worth it? And I can say now in hindsight, it was worth it. Um, you know, am I gonna drive the newest fanciest car right now? No, maybe in five years. But it really put into perspective what was important and, and having positive mental health and not being stressed out and just coming home and not being able to move off the couch.

' cause I'm just so burnt out that feeling that I don't think that I even really could have imagined or, or, or visualized in the heat of the moment has paid for itself tenfold so far. And whatever sacrifices I'm making now doesn't feel like a sacrifice. I feel like I'm realigning what is important in my life so I can

have a sustainable life with motorcycles and happiness that my family will be able to reap the benefits from. Well, I have to imagine it probably impacted your relationships. Absolutely. You know, um, walking away from an industry that I built, you know, that I, that I worked with a lot of people and a lot of mentors.

That was hard for me just to be like, peace out. See ya. That was really hard for me because I value relationships. That's one reason I like the motorcycle community. 'cause it's all relationships. Oh yeah. Um, so I went through a lot mentally trying to get over feelings that were hurt. Uh, my feelings were hurt.

I hurt other people's feelings, you know, trying to, uh, reinvent myself. Um. Yeah. So it's not easy. It's a journey. That's what, you know, like it, it absolutely, you know, and if you lead with honesty, yeah. You can't go wrong. And I'm, I'm a, I'm honest to a fault and I wear my feelings on a sleeve. Um, you know, I'm a elder, millennial, emo kid.

It is what it is. Like there's no shame in any of that. And, and I feel like even, even some of the, the, people that I left behind, I, I can reconnect with now, and they can see, oh, Steve, you did this thing that you talked about and we didn't think was even possible. Yeah. And maybe I can give them a little hope that, Hey, I don't have to sit behind this desk forever, or I could pursue this passion project and hey, maybe it's not my career, but maybe, maybe I can make something happen that I didn't think

w was possible. So

yeah. I appreciate you sharing that. 'cause like it's, a lot of people don't wanna like talk about those things. Yeah. You know, like, it's all great, it's all great, but like, you know, it's life. Absolutely. Life is a lot of ups and downs and you know, even working with bikes, there's not always, there's bad days I have to take apart the oil head because I didn't put the clutch in properly and I thought I was ready and I'm not ready.

So now I gotta pull that back. Right. You know, and there's good and bad days at every job. It's all. Um, you know, relative to what you're doing and your level of passion will even out what's really bad or just, uh, inconvenience, I suppose. Yeah, yeah. you have a great sense of humor and in one of the, the stories that you, you wrote.

was about riding pillion and uh, I was just thinking about that. 'cause you know, like we're talking about like the good and the bad, but like then there's also like the humor of you know, motorcycles. Like just kind of put us lifewise into these like, funny situations. A Absolutely, yeah.

And especially like, you know, being, being a man. And ego and machismo all, there's a lot of that in the motorcycle space. Yeah. I'm fully aware of that. That's not who I am. And I try to steer clear of that. So just the fact that I, I was, when I bought my, uh, Buell Ulysses, I asked my friend, I was like, Hey, do you wanna go help me bring the bike?

He's like, yeah, sure. You wanna bring the trailer? I was like, no, no. Can I just ride on the back of your bike and you can drive me 250 miles to Connecticut in February? You're also, you're not a small guy. Yeah. So like this whole thought, like this whole visual to me was just like hilarious. It was, it was so funny.

I'm, I'm getting on the bike. He comes and picks me up. We got all of our heated gear on and he's like, I'm, I'm going straight there. We're not stopping. And, you know, talk about letting go. Yeah. It's like I've been a bit of a control freak, even in a car. I always want to be the one to drive because I'm not always the best passenger princess.

But really, he's sitting on the back of a bike. It's like, is he gonna stop? Oh, is he gonna shift? And then I see my, my feet are moving and I'm trying to stop and shift. And I was like, you just gotta, you gotta relax. And I realized, I'm like, wow. Everybody who's ever been a passenger on my bike has given me so much trust in me.

Yeah. To get there in a way that I, I never, never really thought about. And, uh, yeah, that was a funny, really eye-opening, uh, experience for me. 

So where do you see like all this going for, for you in like the next year? Like, we don't, we don't have to do like, the full future, you know? I think that, that, that, that's evolving. Okay. Um, as. What has kind of unfolded in the last year or two for me has kind of changed where I thought this was gonna take me.

Yeah. I really see a focus on the writing 'cause that brings me a lot of joy. Um, and so I really wanna focus writing, getting the, the writing out to Avenue, avenue News that I have, hoping to open new doors to other publishers, publications that would be interested in sharing that. and continuing doing what I'm doing and, and doing events with Moto Social or doing events with, with the, the Färht guys, like meeting people, having conversations, drawing new inspiration for writing and just.

You know, growing, I won't say it's a brand, but just growing the community that I'm, you know, I'm with and, and surrounded by.

Those in-person meetings are actually fantastic and shouldn't be overlooked. Like, that's how we met Absolutely. At one of the, uh, the Färht event. Oh, Moto Social first and then the, the Färht events.

Yep. Yeah, I think it's like, it's a. It's just great to see like what people are outside doing. It like it's very inspiring. It's so inspiring because the, the, the group that that we've we're really fortunate to have is like, there, there is no ego and everyone Yeah. I I The event that we met there, yeah. I saw the most unique motorcycle.

It was the seventies ha gold wing. That was like bobbed out And I'm like, what? Like, that was cool. That, that is amazing. It's not just all BMWs or all just Harleys or burnout guy. It's not, it's not that. It's like real people that you interact with every day that you probably didn't even realize rode motorcycles.

Mm-hmm. Like, it's, it's really inspiring. So I, I really looking forward to 2026 and what that's bringing. So that's cool. 

Where can people find you? Uh, you could find, I'm motor reveler is my, my moniker pretty much anywhere. So, uh, motoreveler.com. You can, from there, you can get to my blog. You can buy my book.

Um, you can, uh, I have a newsletter that goes out once a month. And that will just what's going on in my world, um, and what music I'm listening to, what I'm writing about, where you can see other work. Um, and then on Instagram @Moto_Reveler in, uh, Substack, Substack, uh, is actually called Berlin Reveler. Um, but that's all linked through my, uh, Instagram page and my website.

Okay, perfect. it. I appreciate you coming up to the garage and hanging out. It's awesome. Like I, you know, this is the first time for this show that like, we're doing an in-person, uh, visit and interview and, uh, it's awesome. Even like this, this garage is really inspiring and I really want my own space.

I, I love it. I, I, I rush to get it done. Um, for the. Uh, Daytona races last year for bike week, and I had Oh, did you, did you watch? Had a bunch of guys up. Oh, that's cool. It was, it was fantastic. And yeah, I didn't have the lift that my bike's on now. Yeah. Uh, I could lift that up and have a little buffet bar.

Maybe we'll do that this year. But, uh, can I get invited? Absolutely. Absolutely. This is how I work. I'm like, oh, can I come? Absolutely. Well, I really appreciate it and, uh, thank you so much and to everybody else. Ride smart, Ciao! 

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