For grins and giggles I mounted my GoPro to the front of my bike this morning. Then cranked the speed up 400%. Stopped off for gas along the way. The battery ran out of juice about 1/3 of the way through the commute. The way the bike sounds like a pissed off bee makes me giggle.

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Sunday is good day to spend quality time in the garage with a bunch of tools taking care of long delayed projects, like installing portions of your bike's new suspension. Weirdly enough, that's exactly what I spent the afternoon doing ( Read more... )

Somewhere along the way I'd thought that maybe I'd take a little time during my break between gigs to ride my bike around California for a couple of days but I've punted on those plans. Entirely this is the result of continued problems getting the bike to turn over reliably. The notion of being caught out near Death Valley with a bike that refueses ( Read more... )

Feeling a little fuelish, I decided to run some mileage numbers for my Triumph based on my most recent excursion 'round the bay ( Read more... )

In honor of Ride To Work Day I slapped a GoPro HD to my lid for the ride home from this afternoon. On frame every 2 seconds, played back at 10 frames a second. Yeah, a little inane but...motorcycle.

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Absolutely fan-fucking-tastic ride to work this morning. Hitting the 85/87 interchange at 6:55 or so the sun had not yet started to crest over the mountains to the east yet the valley was still bathed in golden light. On 87 I couldn't help but grin at the train the to my right running up the center of the free way, the cars around around me and ( Read more... )

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During the round trip to Antheria my Tiger chewed through 18 gallons of gas while averaging 43mpg; total fuel cost for the trip was about $61. Those numbers actually kind of thrill me; I went from San Jose to Los Angeles [the long way] and back for less than a single tank of gas for the 370Z. If anything, this kind of makes me want to ride RMFC ( Read more... )

Why did I go to Antheria ( Read more... )

Wanna know what it's like to ride a motorcycle on Pacific Coast Highway from Santa Cruz to Los Angeles? Beautiful. Exciting. Stressful. Tiring. Totally worth it ( Read more... )