Recent content by Kestrel

I can't stop myself from being a secret agent and you can't make me and won't convince me otherwise. A lot of people are saying it's a really controversial thing to talk about, and it really pisses people off, but I don't mind posting this kind of thing. In fact, I'm not really interested in...

Yikes. https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881451/the-golden-gate-bridge-sounds-like-a-david-lynch-movie-now And they knew it would happen from modeling and small scale tests, but rolled with it anyway. Anyone heard this in person yet?

Honda quietly (hah) introduced some sort of working prototype electric powered CR at the Tokyo Motor Show yesterday. https://www.motorcycle.com/mini-features/honda-cr-electric-dirt-bike-prototype-revealed-in-tokyo.html They are coming...

Girlfriend's car was rear ended going through a right turn in an intersection by the guy behind her. Guy is claiming she slammed on the brakes (she did not)... We're waiting on the police report to come back, but in the mean time... Please talk to me about dash cams you've had good experience...

I was out sailing this past weekend... Did some maintenance Friday, and then 24 hours out on the water from Saturday AM to Sunday AM. The boat (Westsail 32) is kept right off the Intracoastal Waterway in Southport, NC. Doubled the dock lines, and secured everything as best we could...

Purchased this Helimot suit for my girlfriend second hand, but it ended up being a little bit too small :( From our estimation, it would be better for somebody 4'10 - 5'2, and around 100-105lbs. GF is 5'0 ~110lbs. The length was perfect, but she's a D cup, and there wasn't enough room up top...

Hi all - my XR80 front wheel arrive earlier this week. I've been using my DR350SM at the local kart track, but it's a little fat at around 300lbs, so I'd like to put our XR100 to work. I know the hot ticket for the XR's 16" wheels are the Bridgestone BT45s, but I'm finding it hard to justify...

Hey BARF - it's been the dream to do a huge western USA trip since I began riding long ago. Well... that time has come. In approximately two weeks, I'll be hitting the road, and heading west for the entire month of July. I'm still working on my PhD, and the summer has worked out such that...

...and now... I think I understand why people stop riding on the street. :afm199 So a long time ago, I sold my SV650 and picked up a Honda XR250L that I thought was in great shape. It wasn't, and that whole thing became a "learning experience"... I never got the chance to take it 'off road'...

Can't believe this is happening... Two longest running no-world-series-victories teams in all of baseball competing for the 'ship. It'll be a hard match for Cleveland, though we do have the home field advantage. Cubs are awesome this year, though the Tribe is playing really well right now...

Oh lord, less than a hundred miles away from me in Columbia, SC. http://columbia.craigslist.org/mcy/5716344860.html This has been *the* dream bike of mine since the very beginning. Outdated and outperformed by anything even remotely modern? No question... and yet there's still just...

Headed down to Kershaw, SC last weekend to attend a supermoto track day at Carolina Motorsports Park. I've run on the main track before (though it has certainly been a few years), but never on the kart track. Not to mention this was also only my second time riding this bike at any semblance of...

Below is a long winded bike report / ride report / first time on a supermoto report... ! (tl;dr? I have been freed from the mortal coil of an inferior motorcycling experience, and have ascended to a higher realm of existence. :cool) So as I hinted at in a few other posts, I've been...

Morning, BARF! Drove down to GA Friday night to spend a week at my father's house NW of Atlanta - will be building a new turbo motor for the Volvo wagon over the next week, and his shop is a great place to do that sort of work. Earlier in the week, I booked an intro to riding / dirt biking...

Question for machinists in the house... I am putting a GS500 wheel (rear wheel to follow later) on the front of my DR350, and have found the appropriate bearings from Suzuki that'll work with my later dirt forks, which have the 17mm axle. That's all good and dandy. That said, the inner...