I’m not sure if I actually qualify as a fully-fledged motorcycle obsessive or not. I am, regrettably, too old for posters on the wall but I do have a few models of bikes I’ve either or want to own around my study. The same study also has several shelves filled with motorcycling related books from [...]

Having several bikes in the garage, I know exactly how this guy feels…

This is a follow on to part 1 (here)
After my unsuccessful brake bleed the other day, I talked to some friends about the problem. I was advsied to check the routing of the lines /etc but pretty much they all thought it was air in the lines at fault. As such, I went out and [...]

At dinner this evening, whilst joking around about how much fun I would have on my forthcoming European tour on my own, my son came out with something that chilled his mothers heart: “Can I come with you? I want to ride a bike”.
Now, this is not entirely unexpected. My son is 7 going on [...]

After the fun I had fixing the Daytona’s brakes and after a short ride around town to see just how bad they were – they were biting almost OK, but with two big a “soft spot” for me to be entirely comfortable – I decided to go out for a weekends riding around my cottage. [...]

If you’ve been following my blog posts I’m sure by now you’ve realized I am a complete coward when it comes to maintenance on my bike. While I don’t mind the odd minor job on my dirt bike (like changing the oil) anything more than that makes me cower at the back of the garage. [...]

Maybe it’s the time of year. Maybe it’s the oh-shit realization that global warning is real. Or maybe it’s just some wacky inventor that will undoubtedly be resigned to the history pages soon but in the spirit of the uno here’s another electric vehicle that some clearly mad inventors want you to throw your hard [...]

Lying here in a post-operative funk – I just had a septoplasty to correct a deviated septum – I naturally have little to do but browse the web and I found this video.
Now, I really need to get out and ride my dirt bike.

I just came across this web site
http://www.doesharleysuck.com/
I have to say I was surprised. I always thought that Harley was the paragon of quality and a showcase of just how great American engineering is. Then again, with the way their economy is going, perhaps this *is* showing how great their engineering really is… Enough with [...]