Archive for November 2009
Winter wonder land
Winter is a wonder. Wonder why there’s winter. It isn’t much good for riding, being as you have to wear a fullface helmet — something I do any way — and even with the maximum protection the wind freezes your chin and neck and throat.
So you wear a scarf or a balacava or baklava or [...]
Transporter ready: Energize!
It’s not easy getting those little nuts in that little hole and the little bolt through the leads into the little hole and into the little nut.
Putting a new battery in the bike is not as simple as it seems.  Sure going down to Central Battery on Preston Avenue made sure I had the right [...]
Best Buell never made
Buell Barracuda
RoadRacerX.com printed this picture of a proto-bike riding Wisconsin streets earlier this year and postulated that it was a 2010 or so Buell.
http://www.roadracerx.com/features/road-racerhead/honda-road-racerhead-46/
Sources close to Buell Motor Company posted on badweatherbikers.com that it,¬† in fact, was a Buell based on the 1125 family but “new from front to back.”
The bike ran a chain drive [...]
RIP Bat. R. Rey
It’s a sad time.¬† I went out to start the little Blastard to do my morning constitutional¬† and ride to work and the saddest sound in the world — even sadder than reaching the bottom of a glass of Nestle Quik — rose up from beneath my seat.
Urgh, it said. Urrrrrrrghhhhh-tttttttttttttcckkkkkkk.
Mr. Bat R. Rey, 7, [...]
SOB ’til death do them part
Bob Parsons, CEO and founder of GoDaddy.com, took his love of the ride all the way to the altar — or at least the wedding reception¬† in Keswick Hall on Oct. 24 with a groom’s cake shaped like a Ducati Monster.
Did I mention it was a life-size Duc cake complete with ignition, key-start, horns, lights, [...]
It’s all over but the shouting
I’ve completed all of the mourning rituals associated with the closing of Buell Motorcycle Company, the creator of my baby bike.
I rendered, with great weeping and gnashing of teeth, a Harley-Davidson T-shirt into a several strips and tied them to the back of a Honda Shadow to be dragged ceremoniously down the highway.
The Shadow even [...]
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