There's my Bandit and my buddy's Moto Guzzi at Lake Seminole. We rode up there a few Sundays ago, but there's no way I could trace our route except to say that it was full of curves, tight curves, long swooping curves, uphill and down hill curves and then a few more curves, just to make sure.

I also found out that that Moto Guzzi is a curve maniac. George would hit the curve and just....disappear.

Anyone needing a visual for why ATGATT is a good idea.....

That's not me, I know nothing of the rider, but I hope he is ok. Good thing is, he was wearing a full face helmet. Bad news is he didn't land on just his head.

I'll remember this whenever I think about not wearing my jacket and gloves.

I passed my MSF class!

So I'm off to ride. Well, tomorrow, after I register my bike and get my endorsement.

Expect more stuff here, soon, with pictures!

Can someone explain this to me?

I was coming home from work yesterday on Capital Circle, otherwise known as the Tallahassee Speedway, and saw a guy on a bike. He caught up to me, not really speeding, but going a little faster than me and I see he's on a cruiser....a big one. Not a harley, I think it was a Star.

What I can't understand is what he's wearing. No helmet, flip flops, baggy shoters, t-shirt. Nothing really too strange there for our location, it is HOT. 95 degrees, at least 95% humidity. No arguments about what he was wearing, I believe in ATGATT (most every time, I mean it!) so that is not anything unusual to see.

What still puzzles me is that in addition to his outfit, he was also wearing a black leather vest...... Now, I guess I could understand that if he had a patch or something, maybe, but that vest was spotless, no patch anywhere.

Strange.

Wow, I guess this is the second coolest thing ever. EVER.

Video - Descente de cote en BuggyRollin

This is the coolest thing ever. Ever. EVER.

24 Hours of Lemons!

About the spring cleaning...

My friend and I finally had some time so we did some maintenance on the Bandit. Well, he did it and I watched and learned. Anyway, the tank came off with no problems but we found that the back fairings have a small tab that is bolted onto the frame under the tank. Who ever took the tank off before us didn't think enough to take the bolts off, so he just snapped the fairings at the tabs....not a good sign for mechanical competance. is it? I started to get a little worried, I was hoping whoever did that hadn't gone too far into the engine.

We checked the plugs, NGK, and they were fine. We took a look at the air filter, and I was happy to see the K&N Sticker on the outside of the box. This means I get 10 extra horsepower, right?

We moved on and got the carbs off without any trouble. They had never been touched, apparently. We inspected them and the number one carb has a huge speck of sand in it. The second carb had a little gunk and we got that out, as well. Three and four carbs were clean.

So we got everything back together and I took it for a ride. It seemed to run a little better, a little smoother and maybe a little better acceleration. But honestly, it might have just been the psychological 'We worked on the bike so it must run better'.

Either way, it's nice to find out that the $200 bike is in good shape.