October 2011

October 30, 2011

Updates On Saturday, October 22, I rode in the Discover Kern County rally, but had to drop out after a battery failure early on. On Sunday, October 23, I put in a new battery... Mileage was 71300. On Friday, October...

July 2011

July 17, 2011

New tires, front and rear My PR2's were getting a little long in the tooth, but I thought they had another 700-1000 miles left in them. When I got back from Kauai, the rubber valve stem on the rear had failed, so it was time...

May 2011

May 7, 2011

Throttle body sync I did a throttle body sync and gave the pig a long overdue wash today, at 69886 miles....

May 1, 2011

LC-11 Rally I rode down to Yuma on Friday for the LC-11 Rally. Bonus hunting rallies are like scavenger hunts - the rally master comes up with a bunch of bonus locations, and assigns a point value to each bonus. To claim...

April 2011

April 27, 2011

LowCal 250 I rode in the LowCal 250 rally last year in San Diego. It's a great introduction to bonus-hunting rallying, and I had a great time. The rules last year placed a hard limit of 250 miles, and I came in...

March 2011

March 13, 2011

Oil and coolant change This afternoon, I changed my oil and coolant, at 66860 miles....

February 2011

February 12, 2011

Oil change I did a somewhat overdue oil change today, at 66,767 miles. I used SkooterG's suggestion to use a Purolator filter....

December 2010

December 29, 2010

Because We Can 2010 I rode to Guadalupe for the 2010 edition of Because We Can. 26 riders met at the Far Western Tavern for lunch to celebrate the all-year riding weather in California....

December 21, 2010

Winter Solstice SS1K My buddy Doug and I rode the last of our four-ride set on a very rainy Winter Solstice....

September 2010

September 21, 2010

Fall Equinox SS1K Doug and I did the third of our four-ride set....

July 2010

July 27, 2010

BBG packet is here Back in May, I rode a Bun Burner Gold ride — 1530 miles in 23 hours. I submitted the required paperwork to the Iron Butt Association a few days later. The IBA packet arrived today - a nice certificate, a...

July 26, 2010

WFO-9 I left Wednesday for WFO-9 in Eureka. Justin rode with me on the 101 as far as Las Posas, and I kept going to CA-154 in Santa Barbara. Foxen Canyon was cool — as always — and I stopped at...

June 2010

June 21, 2010

Four Seasons - Summer Solstice Saddlesore 1000 Doug and I did the second of our Four Seasons rides today, a Saddlesore 1000 trip starting and ending in El Segundo, with stops in Mojave, Merced, Williams, Gilroy, and Santa Maria....

May 2010

May 21, 2010

FJR Forum Post on the BBG I've wanted to do a BBG for quite a while. Toecutter and I talked about an in-state California route many years ago, but something always came up. Maybe three years ago, I mapped out a route from Southern California, up...

May 18, 2010

Bun Burner Gold is in the books - 1,500 miles in 24 hours I was tired, riding west on the 210 through Monrovia, and looking forward to getting off the bike after 22 plus hours of riding, when another bike showed up on my six. Justin, on his ZZR, had come out to...

May 15, 2010

Oil change I did an oil and filter change this afternoon. Mileage is 57,865....

May 12, 2010

Solstice and Equinox dates and times for 2010 Here are the solstice and equinox dates and times for 2010, in the Pacific time zone: Event Date Time Vernal equinoxMarch 2009:32 Summer solsticeJune 2104:28 Autumnal equinoxSeptember 2220:09 Winter solsticeDecember 2115:38...

BBG Prep Preparations for my upcoming Bun Burner Gold ride are progressing nicely. Just before the LowCal 250, I asked Doug his opinion on the best day of the week to pass through Las Vegas late at night, and that started a...

April 2010

April 24, 2010

LowCal 250 On Saturday, April 24th, I rode in the LowCal 250 rally, an 8 hour bonus rally in San Diego County. A motorcycle bonus rally is kind of like a scavenger hunt. At the beginning of the rally, you get a...

April 9, 2010

Random fact of the day After the big RIF last year at work, I inherited responsibility for the soda machine - a vital caffeine lifeline to the software developers at my office. It doesn't take much time - about 5 minutes a week -...

April 8, 2010

Performance Vector Multi-Lens Eyewear It's not always easy to find good quality sun-glasses that fit comfortably under a full-face helmet. A few years ago, I stumbled on the Vector Multi-Lens Eyewear set at the local Performance Bike shop, and they quickly became my first...