Monthly Archives: August 2016

WTF Guys?

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OK. Polaris owns both the Victory and Indian marques. That’s pretty well known. Kinda like GM owns both the Buick and Chevrolet marques.

Victory or Indian

Is it A Victory or an Indian?

So Polaris make this Pikes Peak bike and splatters the Victory logo on everything but the damn tires. Only one problem! Victory bikes are air cooled and that thing sure looks like a water cooled Indian engine.  It’s like GM calling their latest ‘race’ car a Buick but when you pop the hood up you see a Chevy orange V8 stuffed in there.

Like gender and race now days. I guess you can be what ever you want to be. Forget the obvious.

My Mechanical Sweethearts

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1978 Yamaha SR500E. Single cylinder, simple to maintain with screw tappets and she’s just lovely.
A resto mod I guess. Engine is bone stock but she has a few suspension mods as well as intake and exhaust goodies. Every one of them is period correct and nothing is a copy. All of her and her goodies are the real 35 year old plus deal.

1978 yamaha sr500e

My only other lady at the moment is also a single. Easier to maintain than the SR even though she has twice the valves. In just over two years I’ve put nearly 19,000 miles on this 2013 Honda XR650L. The most fun bike I think I’ve ever owned. Toured the southeast on her as many times as I could. Hoping we can do it a few more times as time permits.
Supertrapp pipe, carb kit, Acerbis tank and a few other goodies. All purely for function. She’ll do just over 260 miles to a tank getting roughly 40 mpg on the highway. Local boppin around she gets an additional 6 mpg or so. Handles like a dream in the twisty stuff and has no problem getting away from humans and taking me for jaunts in the woods.

2013 honda xr650l

When You’re Really Tired

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you can sleep just like this. It’s a lot better when your bike has a center stand though. Sleeping on a bed that’s angled leads to some pretty traumatic wake ups.

Slept like this many times. Usually forced into it by pushing just a little too hard. For me it’s the hallucinations I get while riding tired. After the first one or two it’s bedtime.

riding tired

Good night Irene

Oh What a Feeling… Toyota

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So there I am, sitting at a red light waiting for it to change to a prettier green when two guys in a white Toyota pickemup start saying come on old man. Let’s race.

Now it’s pretty clear that neither my XR or myself is a race duo and his Toyota surely isn’t a track truck but who cares when a challenge comes up right? haha

So light turns green and I turn the wick up to about 70 percent and let him lead long enough to think he’s winning. Passenger makes hand signals to the effect of “come on man, we’re dusting your ass”. That was about the time I proceeded to turn up the remaining 30 percent.

At 30 ish he had me by just shy of 2 car lengths… at 80 I had him by nearly 3… full tuck, one handed as my left hand was waving him to try and catch me.

It was a fun half mile it was. =)

honda xr650l

The winner!

Some People

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… I’m damn fortunate to know. On two different occasions this evening two different people went out of there way to say the word friend to me.

For that I’m very grateful. It came at a time I really needed it.

Don’t think words have power? I’m here to prove you wrong.