Archive for the Hobbies Category

  • What Got Me Hooked… - January 12th, 2008

    • Some of you may remember my mentioning that Steve’s bike was the first I’d actually ridden on. Well, Steve put the following picture up on his flickr stream.

    That’s Steve, back in ‘85, on his little 250cc Suzuki.
    I rode on some other bikes after that — Jeff Wood’s 500cc Honda, and another fellow’s Harley [...]

  • Ear-cIcles - October 30th, 2007

    • When the temperature drops to below 45 or so, it’s a good idea to close the vents on your helmet to keep your ears from freezing…
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  • Prelude … - October 25th, 2007

    • Found on flickr. Click the image to see the animated version.
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  • First Ride! - October 18th, 2007

    • I took the bike to work today. You knew I would. And, I’m home now. Both the bike and I are in pretty much the same condition we were in when we left this morning!
    Before taking off across Columbia, though, I thought it might be a “good thing” to ride around the neighborhood a bit [...]

  • Bargain Basement Bike — Epilog - October 17th, 2007

    • Sounds like an episode of The FBI. Remember? That incredibly bad crime series from the sixties?
    Anyway, Bill from Clinton Cycles just called and asked, “Are you ready for me to deliver your bike tonight?”
    Dumb question. It should arrive around 8PM. I might even ride it to work tomorrow.
    8PM UPDATE: IT IS HERE!
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  • Bargain Basement Bike — Part V - October 17th, 2007

    • The saga continues …
    Today, I spoke with Jeff, the service manager at Clinton Cycles, since Steve is out today, and Bill wasn’t answering his page (he is the GM, so, he might actually have been doing something important. “According to the computer,” Jeff said, the gas new tank arrived sometime earlier today. However, it hadn’t [...]

  • Bargain Basement Bike — Part IV - October 11th, 2007

    • Late yesterday afternoon, and again, I had been on the phone with Steve at Clinton Cycles. Seems that the tank came back from being re-lined on Tuesday, and it wasn’t good enough to use. But that didn’t get communicated to anyone until yesterday. So, now they are having to order a new gas tank from Honda, which [...]

  • Bargain Basement Bike — Part III - October 9th, 2007

    • I just got off the phone with Steve at Clinton, and got a little more detail on what’s up with my “new” bike. It seems that on last Thursday when they were re-assembling the bike after cleaning the carburetors, they found some rust in the gas tank, and needed to send the tank out to [...]

  • Bargain Basement Bike - Part II - October 5th, 2007

    •  It now looks as if it will be late next week or early the following week before the bike makes it to me. Apparently, the shop found another task that needed to be completed as they were re-assembling the bike — something to do with re-spraying the tank liner? Anyway, it whatever it was takes [...]

  • Bargain Basement Bike - October 4th, 2007

    • I’m a big, bad biker now. Well, sorta. We went down to Clinton Cycles this evening to pay for my bargain eBay find 1994 Honda Shadow VLX 600. According to the guy who handles the internet sales, there were 35 “watchers,” a whole lot of questions, and one bid: Mine.
    Works for me. For just under [...]

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