Dad and I took a whirlwind motorcycle trip a couple months ago. I started writing it up… and didn’t finish.
It was unbelievable there, and looked more beautiful than anything can. The sky alone was perfect. Here’s an example as we approached the North rim:

This will be updated as time allows!
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I was in Chicago last week.
When I got back to SFO on Thursday, I got in the E30, and drove down to bottom of the parking structure. Since I had lost my ticket (clownish move) I had to park in the 15 minute spot, and talk to “the guy.” The guy was efficient. [...]

It wasn’t always this way. At one point I had a Subaru GL hatchback, and I didn’t know an alternator from alternative medicine. And then everything changed.
I bought a little red BMW. I had no idea it would lead to this. That BMW, a 1991 318is, should never have left my [...]

Updated with more in-process pics below – though still not current…
I have always had a knack for collecting stuff. Not useful stuff, mind you; things like baseball cards, comic books, vocational skills, and manners were never things I was interested in having. No, I collect things that are likely only valuable to me, [...]

The Incredibly Understanding Wife (IUW) is more “I” than ever before! Well, okay, she isn’t more incredibly. That makes no sense. She is more incrediBLE.
Why, you ask? (Do it, ask.)
Because she got on the back of the GS, and let me pilot her from La Honda out to the coast, down [...]

With Kevict’s new-to-him 1988 KLR 650 and my new R1150GS both screaming out to see some dirt, Kevict and I set out in the coastal mountians near my house in search of some unpaved pathways.
Seems that Gazo’s creek road turns dirty and leads to a secondary entrace to Butano state park. Nothing too challenging, [...]

2001 BMW R1150GS – 43,000 miles, 43,000 pounds, 43,000 times more fun than sportbikes
As I tend to do, I have recently become preoccupied by the idea of a new BMW. This time however, the manifestation of my longing has only two wheels instead of four. I don’t know how it happened, [...]

After 8 track days this year with Speed Research, and I have learned a ton. Primary amongst those lessons is, “Don’t open the throttle all the way when you are still fully leaned over.” My scratched fairing, broken shift lever, and scuffed leathers will remind me of that learning experience for some time.
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After swapping the stock fork from my 2006 SV1000s for a 2005 GSX-R 600 unit, I took the bike to the track and had it professionally set up by a track-side suspension expert. The spring rate and oil weight (described in the swap article linked above) were spot-on, and the shorter overall length of the [...]

2005 GSX-R 600 fork and caliper swap onto 2006 SV1000s
Installing an upside down fork and radial calipers on a 2006 SV1000s is something many owners are interested in doing. Having just completed this swap myself, I can say with complete assurance that the actual work is quite simple, providing you start with the correct [...]