Take a look at this ride report from ADVrider.com

Mini Bike Ride Report . Very cool.

And here is a video they made of the RR:



And here is a video of a song that was running through my head on my 120 mile ride today.

My Brother was a Beach Bum....

I say was because he died 11 years ago.

Anyway, he was a very cool older Brother to have, even though as I got older, some of the coolness was exchanged with a little bit of corniness. But, to a 12 year old, a 22 year old Brother that moves to Panama City Beach every Summer is cool. Especially one that lets you spend a weekend with him.

Then I got older and he was even cooler cause he could buy beer. Not that he ever did, of course....

One Summer my Mom and I drove down to PC Beach to see my Brother and he asked if I wanted to stay. Well, duh. Of course I did! He even told Mom he'd drive back to Tallahassee to drop me off later in the week.

Back in the 70's and 80's, PC Beach was very cheesy, filled with lots of homey recreational type things. Game rooms, bars (my Brother was 6'6", so he was a bouncer at one time or other at most of them), air brush shops, Mom and Pop food stands, Putt Putt Golf, go kart tracks and even a Wax Museum. Outside the Museum, they would have someone dressed up as Frankenstein or some other character to wave at cars driving by. Well, again, my Brother was 6'6" so when he worked there, he was Frankenstein, but he didn't have to wear the platform shoes. And to a 12 year old, if your Brother is paid to dress up like Frankenstein, well, that's just cool.

Back to the go kart track. This place was awesome. After my Mom left, we made a bee line to the go kart track. We rode several of the tracks and then came to a tiny little track. It looked kind of boring. It was maybe 50' by 50' and all the track had was a long railroad tie in the middle of the track. So basically, you rode in a fairly small oblong circle

We watched the race that was ongoing and we realized this was the coolest track at the place. The track area was oiled down. So you basically drifted around the entire track.

We raced with about 8 other cars on this tiny track and it's a wonder no one died. All I remember was drifting almost the entire time, riding sideways around the entire miniloop around that railroad tie in the middle.

Sort of like how I was on the Bandit yesterday riding home from work!

No, I didn't crash or anything, but riding down the road and then rotating from straight to left then back the straight to almost 90 degrees to the right was a bit......disconcerting.

I've since had time to figure out some of the things I did wrong but will save that for tomorrow.

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Found this on a really cool site: Volksrat. Which has some really awesome shots of old air cooled VW's, bikes and NSFW women.

Can you imagine this show?

This shot was borrowed for the Sedgeyard, which is linked to the right. If you haven't checked it out yet, please do. It is a very cool site.

What an absolutely gorgeous day.....

It is generally understood that August in Tallahassee is going to suck. Heat. Humidity. More heat. Any time after 11am means either disgustingly hot temperatures or torrential downpours which end and turn into disgustingly humid and hot temperatures.

So I was amazed when I turned on the TV this morning to check the weather. The Weather Guy said temps were in the high 60's - low 70's. What? Really?

I couldn't wait to get out of the house and get on the bike for the ride to work.

Opening the door, I was met with a dry, cool car port. No sticky humidity. No fogging up eyeglasses.

Riding to work, I actually felt cool. It was awesome.

Riding to lunch was warm. Just warm. Didn't even break a sweat. At 1pm. In Florida. On August 16th!!!!

O(f course this means it will soon return to 150 degrees. But it sure was nice.

200th Post!

I was driving home last week from work and saw some of the coolest bikes. There were two sets of bikes and they were very cool. The first set looked like a husband and wife and they were both on ratty BMW's. I like ratbikes and a BMW ratbike is cool. They looked more or less like these two:

The next pair actually work where I do, but I haven't met them. They ride Triumphs, a Sprint and a Speed Triple. Very cool bikes and one of these days I'll meet those two riders. What's a three cylinder bike sound like, anyway?

But the coolest thing I saw on the way home that day was what looked like a homemade reverse scooter trike. I googled and searched for a picture that was even sort of similar to what I saw being driven down the road. No picture even came close.

This thing looked like the front of an old 70's VW kit car, very angular and it had a bench seat. But in the back was the single reartire of a scooter. And it was painted flat black. Like I said, very cool.

Which brings me to my next point. I am really thinking my Bandit would look good naked and painted olive drab or flat black.....

Last week sucked.

I woke up Monday morning, dragging, and thought it was just normal Monday drag. Got to work and started with the coughing. Not too bad but didn't feel too good. Went to lunch and when I got back, I felt worse. My Supervisor stopped by and told me I lookd pasty....

About an hour later she stopped by and told me to go home. Went home and crashed. Didn't get off the couch Tuesday, but made it to work Wednesday. Went in a few hours on my day off and rode the Bandit. Still felt bad and didn't stay all day. Made it to the weekend but still felt bad.

Finally feel sort of ok but still have some coughing.

Sorry for no updates but not much happened all week. So, enjoy some music: