About

Sometimes your muse takes you in weird directions.

While I was thinking about what story I wanted to tell for my thesis,I had the idea of a retelling of the Scotting ballad Tam Lin - but with motorcycles! It would be cool and exciting with a chase scene at the climax. However, there was one problem. I had no idea how to draw a motorcycle. Motorcycles reside atop the pantheon of hard-to-draw-subject, right next to horses (how do their legs work???). I also knew very little about motorcycles in general - I had never ridden one or done any research into them. Did I choose a new idea though? NO, I was already emotionally invested in this story, so my new goal began to learn a whole bunch about motorcycles. This site is a collection of my studies in my attempts to demystify these metal steeds.