A pickup truck (called a “ute” in these parts) is heading straight for me on “my” side of the road. For a long second I can’t work out what’s wrong with this picture. Instinct (the incorrect one) kicks in, and I push the Yamaha to my right, onto the shoulder. Simultaneously, the ute veers too, […]

If memory serves me, the main character in “The Six Million Dollar Man” hailed from Ojai, California. You remember him, Colonel Steve Austin, in that totally cool 70s series about a pilot “barely alive” after an airplane crash. Rebuilt from bionic parts by Dr. Rudy Wells, he was deemed to be “better, stronger, faster.” Go […]