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bmadson
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   Posted 2/1/2008 8:42 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
On top of sampling the pavement scenery of the Islands of Japan, Dr. G tries to solve the riddle of a Japanese toilet in this month's edition of Dr. Frazier Rides. Check out Dr. Frazier Rides the Roads of Japan.
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   Posted 2/1/2008 9:35 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Good grief, that reads like a 12 year old's composition of "What I did over summer".
You know it's in trouble when the first couple of paragraphs are devoted to going to the toilet.
zzzzzzz.


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   Posted 2/1/2008 1:25 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Man, for a muppet chef you sure are critical of Dr. G.
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   Posted 2/1/2008 4:06 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Seriously, did you get any real flavour for the area? An actual feel for what the riding environment and roads were like? All I got was an account of the wacky toilets, and his penchance for taking photos of women motorcyclists abroad.
I'll ask you directly bmadson. Do you think that this article would get printed in its current form anywhere else?


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   Posted 2/3/2008 4:32 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Great story, I love reading about foreign travels and other peoples experiences.
Keep them coming.
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   Posted 2/3/2008 11:42 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
If this board ever gets back to not cancelling our post.  THEN I would like to make a comment on the trip/ride. 


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   Posted 2/4/2008 11:40 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.

So the good old board is back to par, but still a bit on the slow side.  Thank you whoever corrected it.

Actually I liked the write-up for even though I do not travel out of Cdn I am still interested in the culture of different countries, to things being different is a MUST, to the less costly places one might be able to stay, where you put your boots, to the basic line of bikes being in the large metic cruisers,  which happens to be so in this centeral part of the Cdn Rockie Mtns, when it is ideal for sportbikes.

Mind you the cost of food & especally beef is pretty darn steep.  Fish, fortunately is not, but no mention of chickens or other firms of fowl so I wondered.

Sure he dwelled on the toilets, but it was a bit of an eye-opener as there are some good public washrooms in the middle of some streets in other parts of Europe & in Vancouver, B.C., Cdn., they are experimenting on an exposed one of the males, believe the mass is three at the time but could be four, doing their bit of watering this tree with the back of the boots, legs, to shoulders & heads exposed.  Now the females want something the same & as a male I can see this as being-----so different since women have to haul down their slack to undies or up their skirts/dresses (to some with a slip) to haul down said undies & face the public(????) as women would.  Interesting point I feel, for Jpn has a somewhat better set-up.

I can remember, way, way back when some American chaps on HD irons travelled across to China & so many other places to even up from the bottom of South Africa  to the north Africa, into Europe & what they had to go through like bribes to the guards (in Africa & middle east), to suggestions from the guards that they had best have their hair cut & beards shaved when comming to the next country.  I believe it took 3 or four parts in an American m/c mag & all of us felt it was intersting to educational.



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   Posted 2/6/2008 9:32 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Given all the cool places he rides, it's too bad Dr. G doesn't work harder at making his stories interesting. It's like he doesn't bother to transcribe his notes into a real story. I'll echo my comment from his last piece, "Is there an editor in the house?" shakehead
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   Posted 2/6/2008 10:55 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Exactly! He goes to all these really great places but makes them seem so very dull.
Bart never responded to my query whether he thinks that these articles would see the light of day anywhere else. I guess that says it all.


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   Posted 2/6/2008 11:08 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
It's because I'm not really sure what to say. Frazier is printed elsewhere, has written multiples books and articles for years now. We wouldn't stick it on our site if we didnt think it was up to publishing standards. I guess I'm not sure what you two are expecting, but it must be some pretty amazing stuff.
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   Posted 2/6/2008 1:21 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
That's the thing. Those other items that Frazier has in print are great, but this series really seems different. Like no effort whatsoever was put into it.
Take this as a compliment, but I get far more enjoyment reading the articles that mo-usa puts out where you guys describe the local roads/scenery/colour. A perfect example would be your big dual sport shoot out where you guys went to Arizona.
Maybe you just spoiled me...


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   Posted 2/6/2008 2:12 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Well, agree to disagree I guess. Hopefully future installments will tickle your fancy.
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   Posted 4/6/2008 9:49 AM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I liked this one as well. Not as much as the others so far but the fact that these are 1-2 page quick snapshots i'm not expecting extreme detail but instead a quick summary put in way that paints a unique perspective.

Good Riding, Q
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   Posted 6/20/2009 8:40 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Yeah I liked this article, gave me a feel of what to expect and the riders feelings based on what they experienced. Found this blog about riding in Japan thats looks good "Motorcycle Japan Blog", htpp://ww.bikejapan.blogspot.com.

I would love to go and check it out for my self, has anyone else ridden in Japan?
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   Posted 6/23/2009 6:26 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Some of you guys are just too critical, of Frazier's writing, and I like his pictures of the ladys and the bikes, that's the best senery anyway.


 
     

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   Posted 6/24/2009 10:25 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Amazing how opposite it is to riding in Korea, yet the bathrooms are so similar.


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   Posted 6/25/2009 4:20 PM (GMT -8)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I went on the Aerostich Tour last year--neither the pillion law nor the bike pick-up rule ever came up in conversation and were news to me. Poor guy should have ridden in Shikoku and and Kyushu; there were plenty of motorcycles there and absolutely incredible roads.  Every rider needs to put riding there on their Things to Do Before I Die list--and that didn't seem conveyed in the article or boring chauvenist-founded photos at all.

As for the toilets, they didn't strike me as any weirder than paying some guy $1US to unlock a stall door and three squares of paper as I did in eastern Europe.


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