Recent content by kgoess

With the rainy season starting, I'm ready to give up my experiment with these Heidenau K-60's. Having my back tire sliding around on wet pavement like that is too much excitement at my age. This TKC-80 has been sitting in my garage for a couple years, the date on the tire is 48-16, so late...

This has come up for me three times now, in the last three years of riding, so I have to ask about it. They're all almost exactly the same situation, but here's a good forinstance: I meet my wife after work for dinner at a nice neighborhood restaurant (Juanita and Maude!). I ride there...

After three years and 20,000 miles since I took up riding again, I have finally embraced the whole lanesplitting lifestyle. I mean, you really need to around here if you hope to get anywhere at all. But lately I've been sitting on my V-Strom DL650 which, even though it's nicknamed "Wee", is...

What's the best on-ramp to get on the Bay Bridge from the Financial District in the evenings? Most of the time I park at West Oakland BART and take the train the last two stops, just to skip this part, but today I'm in The City. I usually end up on 1st St., but the lanes are so compressed...

So every, what, 4,000 miles or something I take a Saturday morning and ride from Albany down to Hayward, East Bay Motorsports, and hang out with my laptop in the Hippies Brew Cafe down the street for a couple hours getting things done while they do the manufacturer's stuff on my V-Strom. But...

I've been using "Park the Bike" on my iphone for a while now, it's superbly handy for finding motorcycle parking. But the last time I tried to start it, Apple said it's no longer available. Apparently CurbNinja was an app that did the same thing, but it looks like it's also been removed from the...

I'm thinking of riding over New Idria from Coalinga Road to Panoche on Sunday. Anybody know if it's doable this time of year? Or is it too muddy? Darn it, I just recently took off my TCK-80 knobblies and put the stock Trailwings street tires back on. I'm thinking this is probably a bad idea...

I'm looking to do a two-week ride to Denver and back in the summer, see the southwest. I've already got aluminum panniers (Happy Trails), which are big enough to hold all the Important Stuff. I'm thinking of just getting a cheap soft top bag for clothes. Is the unlockable soft bag going to be a...

Late last fall I put TKC-80 knobblies on my V-Strom 650 and took the BlackSwan Moto off-road class out by Sacramento and had a blast, first time ever riding on the dirt. Now that the holidays and winter is past and the tires are due to be retired, I'm finally going to get out to the Carnegie...

I just passed a guy on a Honda (a black recent CB-something?) as the CHP pulled him over on the right shoulder coming off the carpool flyover going up to the carpool bypass on the I-80 toll plaza. Today is a bus day for me, but I often ride the shoulder in the single-lane carpool flyover, and...

I've been riding to West Oakland BART, parking there, and taking the train in the two stops to the Financial District, to save the stress of going over the bridge. Yesterday instead of going north home to Berkeley, I needed to go south to Castro Valley, so I asked Google Maps for advice, and...

SOLD. I got these boots the other day, I wear size 13 shoes so ordered the 47, but they're just a touch too small--my toes bump into the front of the boots when walking downhill. Unfortunately I didn't realize that until I wore them, just one day to work, and now revzilla doesn't want them...

I'm going to try to get myself up to Yosemite on the weekend of the 23rd, trying to get one more trip in before winter closes in. Been living here for twenty-five years and never checked out Yosemite. Going up for a couple nights so I can spend one day just riding around and exploring. Any...

I've been riding again for almost a year now, took the CMSP intermediate course last spring, and just signed up for the BlackSwanMoto offroad course weekend in Sacramento in November. Never done anything offroad before. Well, except a day riding around in the sandy trails by Lone Pine. I have...

I have a buddy in Phoenix, and we're talking about meeting in Bishop (since that's about half-way) around April 22 to spend a weekend riding around Nevada. Apparently the Sierra are full of something called "snow" right now. What are the odds I'm going to be able to get across the mountains on...