At my previous job I rarely took vacations outside of the typical holidays. I was always ‘too busy’.
When I quit - one thing I vowed to do was take more vacations! This weekend I went motorcycle camping in the North Carolina mountains with a local group of the DoD - a group of [...]
Category Archives: Motorcycling
Importance Of Down Time
June 25, 2007 – 9:47 am
Saturday Ride
May 12, 2007 – 1:46 pm
Last night I put on a new rear Dunlop D607 and was itching to try it out today. Woke up and it was raining. But around 11 it looked like there was going to be a gap in the showers so I suited up and headed out. I took it easy [...]
My Odometer
March 28, 2007 – 3:50 pm
Today I was riding into work - glanced down and noticed my odometer. I hastily pulled off onto a side road and puttered along until it clicked over and then pulled over and took a blurry pic with my phone cam.
Zen, Tools and Web Development
January 25, 2007 – 9:46 pm
My new years resolution was to blog more so now that it is almost February I thought I should get started!
A few weeks ago I was out in the garage working on my motorcycle. I had it up on the lift, my tool chest was out and the KLR was in pieces (I was replacing [...]
KLR Oil Screen
December 1, 2006 – 10:19 am
Over the weekend I finished up doing some much needed maintenance on the KLR.
Changed oil and filter
Replaced the doohickey
Flushed and replaced my coolant
Cleaned the oil screen
On my previous KLRs I had never taken the time to check the oil screen but many have reported it is often clogged - so I decided I’d check it [...]
4 Days & 954 Miles Later
August 5, 2006 – 5:06 pm
Just rolled back into town after a short mountain vacation with Tom.  We headed out of town Wednesday afternoon and headed west. We stayed in West Jefferson, NC which was a great base for our trip - close to lots of great roads. Route 16 and 58 were both highly recommended on the Concours list [...]
Feasting on Asphalt
July 31, 2006 – 6:38 pm
Feasting on Asphalt is a new show on the Food Network. The host John Alton (and his crew) are going cross country on motorcycles - stopping at all the greasy spoons and out of the way places in search of good roadside food.