If you are a regular reader / follower of any one of the three blogs I publish you may have noticed some changes over the past 24 hours. In summary:

The Tandem Geek’s Blog

• This blog remained unchanged for the most part and remains a blog I publish for folks who are tandem cycling enthusiasts. If you have been able to find and access its content, you will continue to be able to do so.
• Background:
  • Prior to 5 October 2011 when I created the blog “RidingTwoUp,” “The Tandem Geek’s Blog” began to contain a mix of tandem cycling, motorcycling and ‘life in general’ content.
  • I subsequently moved the motorcycling and ‘life in general’ content to “RidingTwoUp” so I could return “The Tandem Geek’s Blog” to purely tandem cycling related content.

RidingTwoUp

• The blog I created on 5 October 2011, is where most of the changes have taken place.
• Last evening I decided to move all of the Weekly Journal entries to a “Protected” status where a password is required. If anyone truly has an interest in reading the Weekly Journals you are welcome to send me a request for the password to the series.
• Background:
  • Early-on, “RidingTwoUp” was more-or-less a motorcycling version of “The Tandem Geek’s Blog” where I shared information I thought might be of interest to motorcycling enthusiasts, e.g., motorcycle modifications, maintenance, trips and the like.
  • However, by 2013 it began to take on a somewhat different purpose and, in October 2017, I began to publish a weekly summary, i.e., the “Weekly Journal” of our day-to-day activities as more-or-less a personal diary. It served two purposes:
    • (1) it provided me with a ready reference for looking-back in time to see things I’d fixed or acquired as well as what we’d done where and with whom, and
    • (2) I would print it out and mail a hardcopy to my non-tech savvy parents then in their mid-80’s, so they could keep abreast of what we were doing and see photos in far greater detail than we could cover in our weekly, 20-minute phone calls.
  • Regular readers may have noticed how, from time-to-time, I would make “RidingTwoUp” private, such that no-one could access it unless they requested it. This was done as I became somewhat more sensitive to potential misuse that can occur with having so much personal information sitting on the Internet without any control over who could access it.
  • However, in that there is still a lot of content in this blog that was intended for wider audiences, e.g., motorcycle modifications and maintenance that I linked to from discussion forums for the benefit of enthusiasts, it was not a one-size fits all solution.
  • Therefore, as a compromise and as noted, I’ve moved all of the Weekly Journal entries to a protected status where a common password can be used for anyone whom I share it with. Once applied to a single Weekly Journal, all of the Weekly Journals are then accessible during a session.

Mark & Debbie’s Travel Journal

• My third blog has only undergone a minor change which will most likely go unnoticed by the vast majority of anyone who has visited the blog and that has no impact on how the blog functions.
• Background:
  • Since COVID curtailed most of the travel that created the need to have more photo storage capacity than I had available on “RidingTwoUp” I decided to migrate several motorcycle trips to rallies in Florida to the site since that had become the extent of our COVID-period travels.
  • This past July I moved those entries to Private Status as they really weren’t in keeping with the purpose of the blog.
  • With the changes I’ve now made to “RidingTwoUp” I decided to migrate those motorcycle trip reports back to “RidingTwoUp” since that’s more in keeping with the purpose of that blog and accessible to anyone.