Forbes: Count Down The Minutes (Or Days) To Your Next Ride With An Icon Roland Sands Wristwatch

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day/Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.

For many motorcycle riders, including yours truly, it does feel as though we are trapped inside Pink Floyd’s timeless lyrical elegy about how relatively short our years are on this spinning blue ball, and how many of us burn our precious minutes on minutiae until confronted with brutal reminders – like the current coronavirus crisis – of the true scarcity of the ethereal resource we call time. It’s partly why I typically don’t wear a watch, and perhaps why I’m not very good at scheduling things, much to my partner’s dismay.

But self-quarantine at home these past weeks has brought the concept of time into sharper focus for myself and many other people, whether it be how to fill it, how we lose track of it, and how it can seem to be alternately passing both far too slowly or much too quickly. And, for riders, there’s the issue of when it might be a good time to saddle up our modern horses and go pass some time on the road, which for millions of motorcycle enthusiasts, is a very good use of our time.

So when I got the new Szanto Icon Roland Sands Signature Series wristwatch in the mail a few weeks ago, I decided to give the timepiece thing another go, especially since it was the model with the date feature, which was handy because like a lot of you, I was confusing the day and date much more often as the hours bled into days and the sameness of the days at home blended into weeks. What, it’s time to pay the mortgage again? Didn’t we just do that a week ago? And there’s how much in the checking account? Oh crap…