Posted in adventure on Jun 6th, 2010 No Comments »
Started pulling the bike apart for the 7500 mile maintenance. Access to the valve covers is pretty good on this particular bike (as it turns out), but there didn’t seem to be TDC indicator through the oil sight glass like other Ducati’s, so I have to figure out where the TDC reference is before I [...]
Posted in adventure on May 24th, 2010 9 Comments »
By the time we were at breakfast, Victoria and I were already late to the offroad thing, and we had the car not the Jeep. I kind of wanted to do something with her that wasn’t the same-old, so we drove up to Vancouver and I dropped in on some old friends of mine that [...]
Posted in adventure on May 16th, 2010 6 Comments »
I slabbed I-5 down to Eugene yesterday, and then cut across to Florence OR via Hwy-126 (which is a pretty ride). Florence has some nice beaches, and I got a cheap hotel room and sat on the beach until I got hungry and headed off into town for Dinner. BJ’s ice cream leads to the [...]
Posted in adventure on May 12th, 2010 5 Comments »
The Duc was grinding the rear brakes by Sunday, so I dropped it off at the shop and picked up some pads on Tuesday from east-side. Didn’t manage to get them in until tonight. The Brembo calipers are simple and well thought out, although I had to bang my pin out (yes I removed the [...]
Posted in adventure on May 2nd, 2010 No Comments »
I’ve been riding the S2R since I got it a couple months ago every day, rain or shine, but today it was time to love the Jeep. Finally picked up an air compressor this weekend (I have to stop moving and giving away/selling my compressors), and ran the pitman jesus bolt on. On a metric [...]
Posted in adventure on Apr 12th, 2010 3 Comments »
In some Lost tangent universe, I’m in a hospital or dead. I may or may not be the living receiver. Some woman in a bimbobox pulled out on me turning left onto Old Redmond Rd (into my direction of travel) while I was riding to work this morning. She saw me, and just stopped in [...]
Posted in adventure on Apr 9th, 2010 2 Comments »
A stand and some chain wax later, my chain is all sparkly again. I am not really a fan of ChainWax, they sold me a can with no spray nozzle nubby thing, so I had to improvise one from another can and it didn’t work well at all. That stuff is really nasty when it [...]
Posted in adventure on Apr 4th, 2010 1 Comment »
I turned 1000 miles since I’ve got the S2R a few weeks ago, on this cold and windy afternoon. At least the pavement was dry, it didn’t start raining until the evening. I headed up Duvall, spotted a good looking BBQ place I’ll have to checkout another time, and then up to Monroe and out [...]
Posted in adventure on Mar 17th, 2010 4 Comments »
Just turned 4k on the way to dinner. This means I’ve ridden about 300 miles since getting it. And for that matter, when is DOT going to stop requiring that 55mph be indicated on the speedometer. It’s been a long time since that was a speed limit that mattered anywhere.
Posted in adventure on Mar 10th, 2010 No Comments »
Finding a good example of a S2R proved to be a little bit of a waiting game, but after a few weeks a great one with three thousand some miles popped up on CL. I went and looked at it yesterday, just beautiful, and bought it. I should be picking it up tomorrow. 2007 with [...]