Phil on January 10th, 2009

My old BMW F650 didn’t really present a lot of problems for me, tool-wise.  Everything required to work on it was easily obtainable from any old auto parts or hardware store.  Worst it ever did to me was the 30mm socket for the front drive sprocket.  Big, but not exactly rare.
In comes the FJR.  The [...]

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Phil on January 7th, 2009

I lent my car out this past weekend, so I got to enjoy the cold on the motorcycle.  I discovered that my front tire is now an interesting shape, kind of like this: \_/  .  They’re supposed to be less trapezoidal than that, ideally.
Fortunately, I have a new set of tires waiting in my garage [...]

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Phil on November 17th, 2008

I got some road time on the GPS this weekend – I think it’s a winner.  It got me to my friend’s house in Aurora, through the re-vamped I-25/I-225 interchange (stuff like that is THE reason to buy new map upgrades, IMO.  If I was a tourist trying to get through the Mousetrap with a [...]

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