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Some of you folks out there might know but last year I started ruminating (my big word of the post) on an idea to tour the US and attempt to get to as many new roadracing circuits as possible, with focus on the MotoAmerica stops.  My wife and I left on July 8th and got home last Wednesday...

This year is going to turn into my bucket list adventure.  As some of you may know, I've been spending a bit of time at the local racetracks here in the Bay Area of California for the last 6 years.  So in concert with my retirement last year, I've decided to hit the road and get to as many...

I've recently stepped away from a 20+ year career at Applied Materials, and something pretty cool has fallen into my lap. One of my track day buddies has a daughter working for a promotional company. In previous years they had done work for Ducati, but as of this year they are working with...

So piggybacking off of dcarver and fontanaman's lead, I've decided to put up a short ride report from last weekend. And like Don, I was able to enjoy some beautiful central California sunshine, scenery and great roads. The plan was to meet my parents and sisters in Morro Bay on Saturday, then...

Anybody tried the 30u yet? Very expensive but has that expanded group connect capability. Or maybe a 20S on closeout? Thoughts?

So I'm looking at my '08 with the hood up, and me procrastinating about digging into the AVCC to find out why its gone t**'s up. And out there are now a lot of used Gen 3 models for sale so I'm perusing Craigslist and others and have found these two bikes for sale in California and I'm curious...

The guy's done it many times before, but here's another from yesterday. He rides away from a full blown lowside crash like he's pulling out of the driveway to go to work! Not quite as spectacular as his save in '14 when he rides away from the crash and directly into a full-on power wheelie...

Thought someone might enjoy a quick clip of some action at Thunderhill Raceway this last weekend. It was a beautiful day - normally its 100+ degrees out there in Willows but last weekend it was about 80. Add that there were only 25 bikes or so in the group and it made for a great day. Only...

We had a long power outage on Wednesday night here in the sleepy NorCal suburb of Pleasanton. Power came back on in the middle of the night, but in the morning the refridgerator had not cooled down. By evening, both the freezer and fridge were over temp, freezer at about 30, and fridge at...

OK guys, its confession time then followed by an "advice needed". The FJR has been sitting in the garage for nearly 6 months and pretty much ignored. A month ago I observed some fluid on the garage floor underneath the left fork. Turns out that the fork seal was leaking so after reading all...

Some of you might know already, but a friend of mine convinced me to get out on the track this year. I've been riding little sportbikes since I was 19 but never went onto a closed course before this year. I've been trying to convince Bugnatr to join me since the track is only about an hour...

If anyone needs it, I've got a 10% discount code from motoryclegear.com that can be transferred. Please PM for the code which is good through August 4th. Please only ask if you're going to use it - I'd like to see it go to a good home :)

I was so excited by Bugnatr's move to a Hondapotamus that I decided to go the other direction. I've been thinking it was time to hit the track instead of pretending that Skaggs Springs was a reasonable alternative, so have been looking for a well appointed 600. I stumbled across this little...

I'm getting ready for the first valve check (~20k miles) and was wondering what other maintenance I should be preparing for once everything is opened up. I've got to ride about 20 miles to get to the dealer for the head cover gasket so wanted to get any other replacement parts in one shot...

So it was off for two weeks with Brodie on a tour planned to hit multiple National and state parks. In the end we ended up in 10 National Parks and untold forests and state parks to round it out. My odometer said we did 5480 miles on the trip, and here's a link to the Spotwalla track for the...

Brodie and I are in Walla Walla tonight and are headed to the coast via the Columbia River Gorge tomorrow morning. If any of the PNW crew wanted to suggest a lunch spot near Portland on Tuesday we'd love to meet up. Cheers

After a year of regret in not getting on the road for a long trip last summer, things are pretty solid that there will be a grand North-West tour starting on July 14th. Brodie and I have agreed that this will not be a whirlwind tour, trying to get as many miles logged as possible, but instead a...

I have posted a few times on the Sena SMH10 (which I think is awesome), but also posted a couple of times about the SR10 (not so awesome), but wanted to provide an update here. So far the firmware for both units is being updated relatively regularly. I've got version 4 on the SMH10, and...

So I missed last year's group buy from Clearwater, but I'm planning on a big trip to Wyoming and Montana in a couple of months so I spent some time lurking on the lighting threads and came up with the following plan: 1) 2 x 3200lm lights from Alex (realtimeindustries) - Linky 2) 1 set of...

I was on the road back to the Bay Area yesterday and stumbled across a Fisker Karma caravan. All of them had dealer plates so not sure what the story was - FOG rally perhaps? Anyways, thought it was cool seeing three of them together on the road. Those cars are BIG - I don't think you get the...