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**xfiltrate** · #1 15 Jan 2012

Believe it or not motorcycles have their own academic journal.

Here is the web site to the "International Journal of Motorcycle Studies" - and the NJMS is calling for papers, speakers etc for the upcoming conference in Colorado Springs - June 2012.

http://ijms.nova.edu/

Next time you are on a university campus check for the Department of Motorcycle Studies, there may be one near you soon.

When tango was made an academic discipline in Buenos Aires, I was surprised and moved to Argentina. If motorcycles are made an academic discipline I will be thrilled and would consider returning to the academic...

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**Walkabout** · #2 15 Jan 2012

Nice one Exfiltrate and thanks for drawing attention to this development.
Just reading the front page of the website reminds me of "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance".

The first time I read the book I could not finish it and had little idea what the author was getting at; years later, older and hopefully a bit wiser, I returned to the book and it made a lot more sense (I always understood the paragraphs and chapters about riding, it was the philosophical stuff that was outside my range).

Nor did I realise that Tango is an area of academic study

**xfiltrate** · #3 15 Jan 2012

Some times the philosophical stuff is easier to digest read "inhale" with

a different kind of "papers."

I know what you mean, Immanuel Kant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kant couldn't and Alfred Korzybski - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

really had no sip at all. I am with you brother. My first moped was

traded for 3 1920s U S postage stamps in Tokyo, Japan at the tender age of

13, but not so tender as to not partake of the gin offered at the gin bars of

Shinjuku, Tokyo - Wikipedia, free encyclopedia (circa 1959) and the very

young kimono clad japanese hostesses.

I have ridden motorcycles to almost 50 countries and absorbed, by

experiencing, the realities of many cultures. Zen is a part. But, as

those who suffered through the Viet Nam war often say, "It just don't mean a

thing!" It really don't.

xfiltrate ride hard ride free

**Rory799** · #4 15 Jan 2012

After reading the first few lines of the link :confused1: . . . . . I think I'll sign up for the Tango classes

Rory

**oldbmw** · #5 15 Jan 2012

Not sure about the tango, but had my incredulity stretched by :=

solo synchronised swimming

and

indoor windsurfing.

but they do exist...

**xfiltrate** · #6 16 Jan 2012

Regarding the academic qualifications of tango.

A friend of mine noticed that tango was actually a walk set to music. He had been a NASA rocket scientist for 20 years and a practicing Zen Buddhist .

He loved traditional tango, quit his job at NASA and moved to Buenos Aires to study tango. After his research, he worked out a mathematical formula that described a wide variety of the steps that compose traditional tango and then worked out a walking Zen meditation utilizing that formula. He wrote a book entitled Tangozen, established workshops and instructors in 28 countries and is about to release a documentary that he, himself, wrote, produced and directed.

Perhaps the beauty, the academia, the fun is all in the eye of the beholder.

Perhaps a life, maybe....

ride hard, ride free xfiltrate