You don't need more than 5 horse power.

This is what we all try to recapture on our bikes now.



So completely true...

Everything I need to know about riding, I learned at ADVrider.com

From this thread at ADVrider.com :

This picture was posted on a 400 plus page thread of Killboy.com 'fail' photos, mostly showing really bad riding form, crashes and squids.

At first glance, looks like the poor guy had a minor crash and was still riding. No gear except the helmet but the bike still looks ok so maybe it was a slow speed get off or something.

Then someone else posted this thread. 

The guy crashed, but before that, it looks like he was purposely dragging his knee....wearing only jeans.

Ever wonder what they are saying?

I saw this on some sport bike forum and it made me laugh.

Thursday Night Ska!!!

I love Bad Manners.

We got back from Gainesville Sunday. Jen's good and doing better every day but it's going to be a while before she's completely back to normal. She's up and about, but gets tired quickly and sleeps a lot, which is exactly what she needs.

My Mom was over today and I had to take a form for my Dr. to sign so I took the Bandit. I hadn't ridden since New Year's Day.

It was only 26 miles but did it feel good. What's that? Yeah, the Doctor's office is only about 4 miles away, I took the long way home.

Sanity Ride...

Took a little ride today, you can read it here:

Sanity Ride....



And here is a good song that played on my mp3 player on the ride:

Got a new camera for Christmas...

It's nice and a big upgrade over my old Samsung Digi Cam. Expect to see more pictures soon...maybe even some from this Friday's The Last Ride Of The Year Ride To Eat. What's a RTE? Well, it's an even where motorcyclists ride a sizable distance to meet up for lunch....It sounds cool and is 250 miles away.

So, dork that I am, I am actually planning on leaving home at 5-5:30 in the morning to make it to the Stagecoach Cafe in time to see all the bikes. Past TLROTY's have had over 800 bikes, so that will be cool to see.

Crazy? Maybe, but it sounds like fun to me. Plus, I've been wanting to ride to Alabama for a while and this may get me motivated enough to do it.

This is what I want for Christmas.....

Dan Moto exhausts sound good and are priced a lot lower than name brand exhausts. Good reviews, too....

Toys for Tots Ride

Got up this morning and decided to make the Toys for Tots run this morning, even though it was cold and there was a chance of rain. That wasn't the biggest thing on my mind, that made me question whether I wanted to leave the house.

Not to get too depressing but my wife became ill at work and I took her to the emergency room Wednesday and they found a 2.5 inch brain tumor.... They are 99% sure it's benign but surgery is a must. An MRI is scheduled so we are waiting on the results to have a better idea of what we are looking at. But, to say the last few days have been a bit weird is a bit of an understatement.

So, anyway, my wife asked if I was still going and to be honest, I was already talking myself out of it because I'm just worried. But she said to go and enjoy myself and she'd be fine and I may not be able to ride too much for a little while. I told her I may go and went to bed still talking myself out of going. But then I realized that I needed to go and if I stayed she would probably  be upset with herself that this was keeping me from having fun. So, I decided to go.
I got on the road only slightly behind time and made a stop at WalMart for the present.



Riders from two local forums had decided separately to meet up at the Home Depot near Capital City Harley Davidson, where the Run started. One of the forums is Tallahassee Motorcycles, a local forum I started.

So I pulled in a few minutes before 9am and saw no other bikes there.



There is a thread on Maximum Suzuki talking about bushwhack camping and someone mentioned that two forum members took a cross country trip and would stop at Lowes or Home Depots and sleep in the sheds in the parking lot. I thought that was really kind of cool so I took a look at the sheds and could see that could be done.

I also like to kid my wife and tell her once the kids are grown we are downsizing to one of those micro houses, or the North Florida equivalent, one of these. But hey, that two story shed has plenty of room......She's still not buying it, though.

We ended up with two Tallahassee Sportbikers forum members, four Tallahassee motorcycle forum members, two Chrome Divas and four or five sportbike mc group all at the parking lot. So, four different groups picked the same spot to meet up and ride in.



One of the Chrome Diva's rode this Ninja. One day I will own a Ninja 250, 500 and a 650. Don't know why but those are some nice looking bikes to me.



Supercool VW powered trike.



Not quite as cool (but still pretty cool) Suzuki Burgman powered trike.



Not too sure what bike this is but it looks good. Is it a Honda Rune?



This dog was cool. He was also a ham and when anyone pointed a camera at him, he would pose, one ear up, one ear down. Note the doggy windshield.



Nice old Goldwing.



There were two Buells there and yeah, they still grab my attention from across the parking lot.



I need one of these. Badly. Very cool.




This Jawa was parked next to the Ural. So they win the coolest bike duo at the Toys for Tots.

My buddy rides one of these...

Actually, that is his bike and that Vance and Hines pipe sounds amazing. This 83 Honda CB 100F is a cool bike.

Got the lights up.....

I am embarassed to admit this....

but Glee made me realize how frickin' awesome this video still is....

Standardized!

2012 Versys 1000

Wow. I want. 

The Bandit is going through some mods....

Someone at the Maximum Suzuki forums wanted to go from the naked to faired look and posted saying he'd trade a really clean naked set up for a non pristine faired set up. I emailed the guy and he's serious so he's sending me the headlight, turn signals, brackets and some other stuff like a tank bra and some handlebars, all for my rashed and cracked fairing and fairing stay.

I'm psyched, to say the least. I had been kicking the idea around for a few months but hadn't done anything on it. The other day when I took the fairing off to get to the light bulb on the oil pressure light, I really liked the view from sitting on the bike without the hugh fairing on the front and side of the bike.

I can't wait to get the box and get the headlight on the bike.

And here's some grunge for you:

I was looking for threads for bed liner paint jobs...

And ran across this thread. Maybe I won't paint my bike. Or hootus.

Did a bit of maintenance today....

I got around to replacing the turn signal bulb that's been out as long as I have had the bike and also replaced the oil pressure light. Too bad that didn't fix the problem so it looks like my oil pressure sensor is bad. Off to ebay I go.

I got the fairings off without too much trouble. Putting it back together took an extra hand but it looks good and I didn't have any left over parts, so that's good.

Looking at the Max-Zuke forum there are some really interesting looking Bandits with cut down fairings. Very cool looking. Wonder if my neighbor has a Dremel.....

Got some plans this weekend....

I turned over 45,000 miles this morning on the commute. I think I'll do some maintenance on the Bandit this weekend.

I have a turn signal that's out, my oil light bulb may be bad, might as well change the oil and filter and maybe I'll even take the fairing off and see if I can put on the new head lights I bought.

Pictures to follow......

Took the Bandit off road today...

Ok, not true but wow, that is some intense riding, huh?

Ratbikes...

I like them. Here's a  thread from ADVrider with some cool ones.