This website is run by WPL Publishing Company, publisher of books, magazines, newsletters, software and websites since 1980, primarily for the construction industry.  BoomerBiker.com was conceived in June 2002, as its editor spent hours, days, weeks and months with obsessive research on all things motorcycles. 

During this research, it became quickly evident that a substantial amount of publications and media attention is devoted to either the sportbike group, the young guns, racers and the performance-focused groups of rider, or to the purebred Harley crowd.  While nuggets of information can be gained here and there, information and repetitiveness became overwhelming and most often catered to the very experienced rider.  It was felt that a website that was narrowly focused on the needs of the boomer biker, especially those just getting started with motorcycles, would be both unifying and useful as a long-term forum to learn and share the similar experiences. 

We go through the various stages from first interest in motorcycles to learning how to dress, ride, wave, talk, purchase and accessorize our bikes, then move on to the various social and organizational aspects.   Motorcycles present an opportunity to ride with others, take trips and tours, join organizations and participate in charity events.  BoomerBiker.com hopes to serve the boomer generation biker to get the most out of their motorcycle adventure.

About the Editor

Paul Levin, editor, is a construction management type who's had various interests over the years; interests always accompanied by a bit of risk, but often rewarded by ample returns.  A stint as an SCCA race car driver, sailor and ski bum in the '70s, a business entrepreneur in the 80s and early 90s, and currently an annual Rocky Mountain black diamond skier provided the requisite risk/rewards over the years.

Having borrowed bikes for a couple hours during college, Paul had no real affinity or desire to be a rider at the time, probably because sports car were the more practical and prominent mode of interest of his younger years.  All of the sudden, at the age of 55, some spontaneous rerouting of nerve pathways to the brain put motorcycles full front on the area-of-interest radar.  Any motorcycle was cause to stop and look.  Bikes became objects of study, objects of art, objects of curiosity.  There was no explanation for this, the look, the urge to ride, the sound, became a whole new world waiting to be explored.

With that as background, Mr. Levin and contributing writers hope to educate, entertain, inform and convey all the ins and outs to make your motorcycle experience a memorable one.