A Bloggin' Biker is Born

Biker. Bureaucrat. Board member. Buxom broad. I am complex and every year I get to know me better. Now you'll get to know me better because I've just become a blogger, too.

My blog is about biking – the kind of biking that includes a motor and pipes. Yes – motorcycling.

These posts won't come from the "pen" of any pretentious bloke. It's just me – Les Bednar. Am I a biker chick? Very doubtful – but I'll let you be the judge. All I can tell you is there's no better place than out on the road with a motorcycle underneath you.

I'll be covering lots of topics like road trips with good diners, special bike events, cager criticism, etc. Your input will also contribute to our conversation here - so I hope you post a comment but please – no slammin' any kind of bike or any identified person.

Posts may be time sensitive due to event dates or important news so visit often. Some posts shall surely become gloriously popular, shared, reread, blogged about in their own right. Well – maybe. For now – here's a snapshot of me – the new blogger:

• I am Leslie Lynn Bednar from Chardon, Ohio – currently on Chardon City Council, working for United Way Services of Geauga County and sitting on a few committees and boards.
• Born July 18 in a year long ago (and part of public record if you need to know), raised in Streetsboro, educated by life and an Associate of Science degree from Lakeland Community College (BTW – LCC is a great school – and the site of motorcycle classes!).
• I'm mostly brunette, blue-eyed, stubborn, opinionated, kind, irksome, overweight - yet my honey says I still look hot in chaps. Sweet delusion man.
• My family is made of four adult children, two of which love significant others, one grandson, a dog and a cat.
• I like to go fast, think fast, talk fast, and watch fast NBA players.
• I appreciate change, collaboration, new ideas and best practices.
• I esteem order, respect, honesty, duty and those who fulfill their duty.
• I believe in looking cashiers in the eye and meaning it when I say "how are you?"
• I'm devoted to truthfulness, fairness, contributing to society and caring about others.
• I cannot stand micromanagers, braggarts, egotists, ignorant a$$e$ or power mongers.
• I ride behind Bob Bednar – my husband, and we're celebrating 30 years of marriage this June.
• Our ride is a 2004 Honda VTX 1300 Retro. Black. It's your classic cruiser and the new pipes crack!

Bob has been a biker all his driving days. And me? Well - excluding my minibike adventures back in 1974 - I was set free about two years ago.

And I'm never going back.