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That Time I Went Racing On My Street Bike
Read more: That Time I Went Racing On My Street BikeI was going through my portfolio and came across this piece from 2019 when I took an $800 beater motorcycle and rode it 450 miles to race it in a parking lot on the beach before turning around and riding it home. It just seemed like something fun to do, so I did it. Below is the article as it…
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Last Gasps Of Road-Trip 2023
Read more: Last Gasps Of Road-Trip 2023Mexico bound before returning to the US for racing action!
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The Tilly Orifice
Read more: The Tilly Orifice“The Tilly Orifice” might sound like a poorly named lesbian bar, but it was actually a crucial field modification for British fighter planes. See, in WW2 the famous Spitfire and it’s counterpart the Hawker Hurricane both used the renown Merlin engine. The Merlin was a wonderful design but the carburetor that fed it fuel would stop working if you flew…
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The Long, Straight Road
Read more: The Long, Straight RoadLeaving Bisbee was the beginning of a 2,000 mile loop, all of it centered around the normal errands people do around town. My town, however, was a helluva lot bigger: like half of the American Southwest kind of big. Since this was business and not pleasure though, it meant using the interstate, aka the superslab. I have written many times…
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When The Situation Dictates
Read more: When The Situation DictatesSo you need to leave San Gabriel and do the Silverwood lake stuff. Then hit up Bisbee, Stellar camp, SF, storage, and to Vegas. Lotta pictures, keep length down. So…many…miles. The last month has been a blur of bouncing around and taking care of different errands. While it’s hard to complain about being able to travel the US by motorcycle,…
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When Troubles Come…
Read more: When Troubles Come…Well I’ve got a bit more time now, so let’s do more than just dump some photos in here with little context. The short story is I decided to ride north to the Lost Coast, and area I’ve been by many times but never explored. Fate intervened again and I ended up in the Los Angeles instead. Such is fate.…
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Rolling With The Changes
Read more: Rolling With The ChangesWell now I’m in California. It wasn’t the plan to be here for several more weeks. I still had so much of Colorado to explore, but I got word that my cat was deathly sick, and I had to drop everything and go see for myself how bad things were. I still tried to make the best of things, so…
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Pictures Will Have To Do
Read more: Pictures Will Have To DoWordPress has managed to make things difficult yet again. Now that it has rearranged pictures out of order instead of doing a cut/paste, here we are. We’ll just make this a random photo dump of the last month or so. This random site is the grave of a US soldier who died in 1880. His remains were found in 1980…
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Ups and Downs: Riding The Passes of Colorado
Read more: Ups and Downs: Riding The Passes of ColoradoIt seems like I’ve been right in saying Colorado needs to be its own trip. Every time I turn a corner or crest a hill there is another insanely beautiful vista. I see so many views in a day you’d think I would be desensitized after nearly a month, but I have to stop and soak it in over and…
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On The Road Again
Read more: On The Road AgainWell, I’m getting far behind on all my writing, so I’ll make this far more brief than it should be. I’ve been back on the road since Memorial Day Weekend. This time I’m focusing my travels on Colorado solely. It is a state that truly deserves its own trip. I’m also switching bikes since there’s a tremendous amount of rough…
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