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About the Author |
Pat Hahn is a motorcycle enthusiast and debaucheryball affectionado. When he’s not writing, he’s usually riding or slinging bocce balls. He’s an amateur roadracer and Timing and Scoring Chief for the CRA, proud member of Team Poop and Team Blonde, and graduate of Concordia University in St. Paul. Once a year he holds a motorcycle cornering seminar, Hedonistic Enthusiasm, to teach riders how to have fun and stay safe on two wheels. |
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Pat
has worked for the State of Minnesota as a part-time rider coach since
1996 and full time on their motorcycle
safety project since 1999, educating motorcyclists to the best of
his ability and inadvertently becoming a burr in the saddle of some alarmist
motorcycle rights enthusiasts from ABATE of Minnesota and St. Croix Valley
Riders. They think he's the devil himself, and Pat's understanably perplexed,
but flattered anyhow. |
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favorite quote is from Jonathan Swift: “When a true genius appears
in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in
confederacy against him.” Pat, humbly, doesn’t consider himself
a genius because there only seems to be one dunce truly out to get him
(a hypocrite conspiracy theorist with a righteous ponytail and, presumably,
and under-whelming endowment) but he does fancy the mental image of an
army of fashion lemmings, all running about, wringing their hands, and
sewing patches on each other’s vests. |
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| Pat is a freelance editor for Motorbooks International, author of Ride Hard, Ride Smart, How to Ride A Motorcycle, and co-author of Motorcycle Track Day Handbook. He is a quasi-regular contributor to Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly. |  Favor avo
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| Favorite
Unpublishable Book:
Photos of the crap people stick to their fridges Favorite Liquid: Gasoline Favorite Solid: Beer Favorite Gas: Exhaust |
Favorite
Mischief Maker:
Frank Kelly Rich Favorite Rants: Black Echo Favorite Unpublishable Book #2: Photos of the people at Walgreens who buy two items (and the items they bought) |
| Originally from Chicago and now firmly planted in south Minneapolis, Pat lives with his wife Kristin and two furrier family members: Belligerent Bubby Supersize (Jake) and Fussypants Mingitty Cleopatra (Cleo). | Dad Jim and mom Jackie live in Rosemount, Minnesota, sister Celia lives in Eagan, Minnesota, and brother Chris also lives in south Minneapolis. |
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| Pat
and Kristin on vacation in Belize |
The
whole fam (and then some), Chris at far right |
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| Mom
and Dad |
The
lovely Celia |
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| Jake's
watering hole |
The
other alpha female |
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Nobody's
chair but his |
Cleo |
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You can e-mail Pat at ridesmart <at> gmail <dot> com |
Samples of Pat’s Writing |
Minnesota Motorcycle Monthly (off-site links) |
Primitive
Prose Meanderings and General Male Angst (Mostly Unedited, Read at Your
Own Risk) |
| © 2006 Pat Hahn | Last Updated November 2006 |