One rider’s sporadic thoughts on motorcycling and whatever else life throws at him.
Earlier this week I started thinking about a bike I rode back in high school. It was my second bike actually. My first one was a little white Honda 90 that I used to deliver newspapers on Pensacola Beach, Florida back in the Fall and Winter of 1965-66. I wanted desperately to drive something, and [...]
Not much time to post here this morning, but I must say I am so happy to see the warmer temps the last few days. I rode back from Florida yesterday in 60ish weather coming up through the central part of the panhandle near Tallahassee and Dothan, Alabama. By the time I hit the big [...]
I just got back home yesterday afternoon. I spent the whole week down in Atmore Alabama, hanging out with my 85 year old Dad and three of my brothers who all live down in that area. My Dad tends to tell the same jokes and stories over and over and I heard the routine ones [...]
I’ve been tossing it back and forth for some time…even before I got this new bike. Getting a custom seat built, that is. Back when I had the little F650GS Thumper I wanted to get one but just had a feeling I wouldn’t be keeping the bike so I opted to get a local upholsterer [...]
Since I have it “Run-In” as they say in the manual, there is a list of items that have to be checked along with the oil change. Coolant level is between “Min” and “Max” so its okay for now. Clutch cable free play took a little fiddling with to understand the adjustment and check properly [...]
I spent the afternoon Friday riding the extra 32 miles over to Rob’s house so he could look at my malfunctioning light switch on the Hella FF50s up front. He immediately found the problem and just put the correct terminals on the right tabs on the switch and it was good to go. The alternator [...]
Yeah, well, I have had some changes going on in my life the last few weeks and they necessitate moving things around a bit. My little N-Scale train layout table had to be moved out of its nesting place to accomodate space for art pieces and glass sheets. I’m getting the place set up to [...]
Yesterday I put 250 more miles on the new F658GS trying to break it in properly for the first 600 miles. I led a friend from Virginia around north Georgia on some roads as he headed back north toward NC and home. We got up pretty early and drank some coffee then headed out toward [...]
My friend Rob came over yesterday and together we got the accessory power strip wired in along with my wiring for the auxilliary lights. It took a lot of soldering connections and connectors, but Rob does it “right”! I was very lucky to have had his expertise doing this task. It would taken me several [...]
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