One rider’s sporadic thoughts on motorcycling and whatever else life throws at him.
I’m not talking about football either.
This BMW Roadster I have has two sets of valves on each cylinder and in addition to setting valve lash periodically one is supposed to check and adjust the rocker arm end play which can lead to lots of noise if there is a lot of play in them.
My bike [...]
We’ve been trying to get over to Cyclerob and Ann’s house for dinner ever since he came over that time and did the TimeSert on my bike. They’ve invited us over several times and something has happened each time.
Well this past Sunday Jupiter aligned with Mars, or something like it, and we drove over after [...]
Better late than never! A few weeks ago a small group of us took off on a cool stormy Saturday morning to ride up to north Alabama to visit the Little River Canyon and camp over at Horse Pens 40 in Steele. We started out as six!
After riding for some time the sky darkened [...]
I took a 320 mile ride down to my Dad’s place in south Alabama on Monday afternoon. It wasn’t a happy occasion. My cousin Eddie’s funeral was to be Tuesday morning and I took the opportunity to get some saddle time while fulfilling my family responsibility.
Eddie passed away suddenly on Friday and the arrangements were [...]
We started this last year and it seemed so popular that we did it again this year. Only about half the previous number showed up today. Maybe the cloudy weather dampened their enthusiasm for hot meat.
About 30 bikes were there and that included a guest who had camped in the park from South Carolina. The [...]
I have been so disappointed with my pictures that I’ve been taking the last couple of years that I have just about stopped taking pictures. So I have decided to sell this:
And buy me one of these soon…
It’s an Olympus E-410 digital SLR with many sweet wheels and bistles. Interchangeable lenses, the works. It costs [...]
All this talk about entering a black-n-white art show in Atmore has me considering the arts and crafts show circuit…and looking at these again.
More research is needed, but its an idea for retirement years. It would involve art, traveling, motorcycle touring, making money. All those things interest me.
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