British Columbia Magazine

Larry Pynn of Tsawwassen got his first motorcycle, a 50cc Suzuki street bike, when he was 15.

“I immediately proceeded to drive it straight into a barbed-wire fence.”  A little older, questionably wiser, the veteran journalist rode his Harley-Davidson Sportster in the 24-hour, 1,600-kilometre Vancouver Island trip he profiles in “The Iron Butt” in our Fall 2008 issue.

This was Pynn’s second official Iron Butt Motorcycling Association ride–though after the first in 2004, he swore he wouldn’t do another one. How did his posterior fare this time?

“I felt pretty good, he says, adding, “I may have two Iron Butts, but I’m still working on my ‘Buns of Steel’.”

If you would like to know more about Pynn, a long-time journalist with the Vancouver Sun newspaper, check out his new blog: http://vancouversun.com/gonewild

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