Posted in adventure on Apr 25th, 2010 1 Comment »
I neglected the Italian car drive-in to finish my bike today. It seems ridable – but the real proof will be in the morning to see if there is a puddle of oil under it or not. Highlights: Best – sliding the transmission into place on the first try. That was nice. Worst – all [...]
Posted in adventure on Apr 25th, 2010 No Comments »
Today I cleaned up the Maserati QP and headed out to the All-Italian Car Show at Triple XXX Drive-In. As expected, there were a lot of Ferrari’s, Lamborghini’s, and Fiats. Sadly, the Maserati’s were under-represented with only 3 coupes in attendance. The only QP’s to be found were ours and another guy who showed up [...]
Posted in adventure on Apr 25th, 2010 No Comments »
My “mysterious Austrian friend” saw my Ducati pictures and the next thing I knew, was shopping around for a new bike. He looked at the S2R and didn’t like it so much (the only one he could find was way-overpriced), and finally settled on a speed four. I love the color, what a gorgeous bike. [...]
Posted in adventure on Apr 25th, 2010 3 Comments »
Early yesterday, Michael and I loaded up in his Jeep and headed to the Olympic Peninsula for the Olympus Rally Event. We met up with J.P., Gwyn, Newel, and Colton in Aberdeen and caught a quick lunch at Duffy’s. While I did not have it, I heard that the Razor Clam was worth a try. [...]
Posted in adventure on Apr 24th, 2010 No Comments »
I read this book recently that my mother had gotten me for a present, “The Corner of Bitter and Sweet”. Apparently it’s a big best-seller so if you are in any sort of book club, you may have run across it. The plot was very predictable but that didn’t stop me from connecting with Jamie [...]
Posted in adventure on Apr 24th, 2010 1 Comment »
Didn’t end up staying too long after realizing the total lunacy of wheeling alone (a little body damage drove this point home pretty quickly) but I did manage to take some pics.
Posted in adventure on Apr 21st, 2010 No Comments »
It’s all true. Some absolutely wonderful machines… Not much to say, so checkout the photos.
Posted in adventure on Apr 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Where I’ll be tonight:
Posted in adventure on Apr 21st, 2010 2 Comments »
The transmission has a worn input bearing causing a bad drive gear engagement. $27 in bearings, and $525 in clutch bits and I will be underway again. Now, I just have to figure out how to do all this.
Posted in adventure on Apr 20th, 2010 3 Comments »
The k bike has a stomachs ache, so I am ripping all it’s guts out. By the way I am really bad at metaphors.