Ride to con: cold!

Ride home from con: warmer!

New gear: fantastic! Reviews Forthcoming.

RIP Dunlop D220's
0-6619 miles.

My bike now has a new set of Michelin Pilot Road 2 tires! Even with the mold-release compound, the tires already stick and feel orders of magnitude better than the stock Dunlops.

On the way back up from Orange County for tires and seeing khaiel_, icywolfy, zotcoon, among others, and almost getting taken out by a truck in Huntington ( Read more... )

Apparently, my SV has teeth and will bite.

http://icywolfy.livejournal.com/31716.html

I guess she only likes me working on her. ;)

With my new Zero-Gravity Double Bubble windscreen, I'm almost completely in the air bubble of my bike on the highway! That means when I get a new, shorter seat (so I can actually touch the ground at a stop), I'll be in the full bubble without tucking! Thank you for being so short. On the downside though...

1 thing I <3 about going on 20 minute ( Read more... )

I've done a lot of laps around the neighborhood terrorizing small dogs, moths, and people who dare to step off the sidewalk.

So far, bike is omgwtfbbq<3<3<3!!!!!1!11

Pics tomorrow!

(note to me: dead battery, fairings/bolts, parts, key, manual)

Tomorrow: Touring the physics department at Berkeley. Should be fun if I can find parking ( Read more... )

My brain feels violated against its will (but I giggled, so it's not rape), but the physics GRE is over with. I answered about 71 of the questions with only 8 intelligent guesses, which should put me very decently into at least the upper 50 percentile. But to get into Berkeley (#1 grad school right now), I need at least an 80 percentile, which I ( Read more... )

I love scoring the highest on an exam out of 50 students on what I thought was an easy exam; I've "ruined the curve" yet again! And now another exam tomorrow.

I now "have" a 2005 Suzuki SV650SF. I have to send an initial payment to the guy, and will pay the rest when I pick the bike up Nov 15th! :D

Now to go drink away the anxiety of all this. Liter of Spaten Optimator, plz!