App Before You Wrench
Back in the day, when your bike wasn’t running right, you had to wrench to figure out why. Now, you can tap an app on your phone.
And know what needs wrenching......
When to Say When?
How many vehicles is too many vehicles?
I've got a working answer, based on experience: When you start having trouble keeping up with them.
The other day I was out in the shed...
1975 Kawasaki S1 Rebuild: Installment Twelve – Finished!
It is done!
At last, almost one year after the $50 hulk was hauled into the garage, the '75 Kawasaki S1C "triple" is fully armed and operational.(For the "before" pics, see here.)
If...
Pork Products
There but for the grace of Mike Valentine go I, I thought.
Yesterday was the first nice day we've had out here in The Woods in almost a week. So I took my...
Creative Resistance
About two years ago, I stopped renewing the registration for several of my bikes (I have five). Basically, all the ones that aren't antiques (which have one-time-fee "permanent" tags in my...
The Emergency Bike
I've written before about the soundness of owning - of getting if you don't already own - a motorcycle in order to remain mobile in the months and possibly years ahead....
Little Stinker Emerges!
Yesterday was one of the first warm/dry days we've had up here in The Woods of southwest Virginia, so I decided to step away from the keyboard and unshroud Little Stinker...
1975 Kawasaki S1 Rebuild: Installment Five
The old Kaw is starting to look like something again ... something good. At last!
This latest progress reports begins with a short story about a lucky find. I happened to...
Thinning The Herd
When you haven't got time anymore, it's time to let some of them go.
So - with lots of sadness - I recently sold one of my five bikes. The dual sport...
The One Year Wonder (And Why)
When it was new, the '83 Honda GL650 Silverwing Interstate seemed like a sure-bet winner. The basically identical GL500 had been successful for several years prior and before the GL, there...