Click on image for the Aerostich link Andy Goldfine is the founder and sole proprietor of Aerostich Design & Manufacturing Company, based in Duluth, MN, of all places. If you've been involved in this sport for long enough then you're familiar with their signature product, the Roadcrafter riding suit. But there's much more in the Aerostich catalog and it's worth a browse, whether or not you think you're in the market for, well, just about anything for our varied motorcycling genres.
Andy is also a quintessential motorcycling ambassador, serving on the AMA Board and awarded their Lifetime Achievement Award, named "Motorcyclist of the Year" by Motorcyclist magazine and founder of the annual Ride to Work nonprofit. He's a free thinker and embodies the Midwestern values so lacking in 21st century America. And he has a blog….
His latest entry is entitled, "Neither 'Right' nor 'Wrong,'" an essay on the natural human diversity of our sport and the bonds that tie us all together — here's an excerpt:
"There are as many ways to enjoy motorcycling as there are riders. Motorcycling works on us in ways that cut so deeply into our neurology, our psychology and our ‘souls’ that it’s truly a universal activity, experience and technology. If you ride a motorcycle – any motorcycle – down a quiet suburban street anywhere in the world, and there happens to be a three-year-old child on an adjacent sidewalk...when you pass, that child’s eyes will follow you, and his face will break into a grin. He or she ‘gets it’ in a way at that age they don’t get cars. Any cars. Exactly this same thing will happen alongside a remote dirt two track anywhere in the most impoverished parts of our planet.
Motorcycling is good for you, good for society, and good, period. And though lots of people do not get this, it’s still as good. Doesn’t matter why, or how. Motorcycles are simply a very good kind of thing. You and I are lucky to have them in our lives regardless of specifics related to model, make, or type. We are the fortunate ones, simply because we get to have the ordinary experiences of riding and taking care of and looking at motorcycles."
Well said. Consider subscribing to Andy's blog.
Andy is also a quintessential motorcycling ambassador, serving on the AMA Board and awarded their Lifetime Achievement Award, named "Motorcyclist of the Year" by Motorcyclist magazine and founder of the annual Ride to Work nonprofit. He's a free thinker and embodies the Midwestern values so lacking in 21st century America. And he has a blog….
His latest entry is entitled, "Neither 'Right' nor 'Wrong,'" an essay on the natural human diversity of our sport and the bonds that tie us all together — here's an excerpt:
"There are as many ways to enjoy motorcycling as there are riders. Motorcycling works on us in ways that cut so deeply into our neurology, our psychology and our ‘souls’ that it’s truly a universal activity, experience and technology. If you ride a motorcycle – any motorcycle – down a quiet suburban street anywhere in the world, and there happens to be a three-year-old child on an adjacent sidewalk...when you pass, that child’s eyes will follow you, and his face will break into a grin. He or she ‘gets it’ in a way at that age they don’t get cars. Any cars. Exactly this same thing will happen alongside a remote dirt two track anywhere in the most impoverished parts of our planet.
Motorcycling is good for you, good for society, and good, period. And though lots of people do not get this, it’s still as good. Doesn’t matter why, or how. Motorcycles are simply a very good kind of thing. You and I are lucky to have them in our lives regardless of specifics related to model, make, or type. We are the fortunate ones, simply because we get to have the ordinary experiences of riding and taking care of and looking at motorcycles."
Well said. Consider subscribing to Andy's blog.
While perusing the Aerostich home page, scrolling downward, I was surprised to come across this photo promoting the Ride More Guarantee, Aerostich's generous refund policy. The picture features a virtual friend of V4 Dreams, Gamble Anderson, posing proudly in an Aerostich suit alongside his '86 VFR700F Interceptor.
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