canyonrat
Veteran Knee Dragger
Hello BARFers. I've been silent from the forum for a while now, but not out of the riding world.
Please read on, there is a lot I have to say to help BARF and the riding community. Today marks the best day I have felt in 6 months, so I'm posting.
Jen and I moved to Sacramento last year for her job. We rented our Santa Rosa house to fire victims. Jen had to take an unexpected early retirement do to sleep issues. She retired Starting January 2019. I quit my job in October 2018 to handle our investments that I had put on hold for way over a year. And still am taking time off.
The job I chose when we got to Sacramento was to install stair case railings; I thought this would be great, out of the blasting hot Sacramento heat, light weight materials, and high-end finish carpentry. What I did not expect was that standing on stairs sideways would throw my hips out. Stairs are basically at a 35 degree angle. As you build rails your hips are angled and back strait. I'm just today feeling better after yesterday FINALLY getting epidural injections to my hip/tail bone area . God bless better living through pharmacology.
Onto the motorcycle stuff.
GEAR: I finally had to buy yet another suit for the 100+ heat. I found and bought a first generation Dainese Trickster. All white, kangaroo, FULLY perforated. The coolest suit ever made. Cool as in air flow and not “bad ass”, though both might be true. I have some other ideas I'll try out and post on BARF to make it even cooler. Then the winters. Sacramento is both hotter and colder then the bay area. My riding zone has been the foot hills. So I added yet a 4th suit, all black Dainese Sukhoi with no perforation. It warms on sunny days do to infrared sun light. Also I was told by a local rider to add a down hill ski suit as an under garment. It works great! Basically a 1mm wet suit, the problem is you need to get into it, all suited up and out of the house BEFORE you start sweating because it does not breath. I've discovered I can ride in 35 degree weather and not get cold. I'll go into the gear details in another post. But it is possible to wear sport bike gear in the cold and remain totally warm, for up to 3 hours. And when I get back to Santa Rosa, both suits will go up for sale. I like my Dainese Bora (summer) and Alpinestar SMX2 (winter). The SMX suits fall into the battle armor class of suits. Yet another upcoming post.
INTERNET STUFF: I've discovered the newest and fastest growing part of the motorcycle internet. INSTAGRAM. Our European riders have made sport bike riding super cool again, were as in the USA it is dwindling/fading do to the bubble wrap generation. INSTAGRAM is all about cool “bad ass” pics. But what they don't know, is the knowledge and history from BARF. BARF actually exchanges and passed on very powerful knowledge that helps riders be safer, faster, and creates teachers. BARF has done something that no other motorcycle website has ever done. I'd say BARF has saved many many riders lives and lessened many many riders injuries from catastrophic to just bad or just bruises.
I think BARF needs to make some changes to align with or compete with INSTAGRAM.
How INSTAGRAM works for the motorcycle world. Riders/users seem to go out and take a bunch of pics on a ride or a photo-shoot excursion, then slowly release them on INSTAGRAM. Often they have several photo-shoots and they mix up the releases. INSTAGRAM lets you post immediately or time your release of your posts. The more followers you get the wider your pics are distributed. SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? Develop a following with cool “bad ass” pics, the start adding bits of wisdom, or rider tips. It would be like taking this post of mine you are reading and spreading it over 10 INSTAGRAM posts. Also, for us OG (old guys) we have many photos that are dated but usable, but not as cool looking as the new pics being posted by the young 20 something year olds. But us OG's have money and can afford to hire photographers. Also I am very aware INSTAGRAM can be a “look at me” vanity photo website, but my Tantric training remains me to use any and every thing to further oneself to enlightenment (AKA wisdom).
I think the BARF community could develop this idea into something amazing. Some sort of BARF INSTAGRAM combo or even merging with them.
There is also a new web site starting out called TONIT (www.tonit.com) its an app. The name refers to the old saying of' “go for the ton”, “go for it”...the “TON” refers to 100MPH and it translates to “go for the 100MPH range”. This is many decades old, now all bikes do 150MPH or more. I think the web site is very poorly laid out but what it does is interesting. It is designed for riders to post the city they live in, their bike/s, and what styles of riding they like to do, and connect like minded riders. 10 years ago this was not needed because so many people rode, but today the numbers dwindle and it's difficult to find fellow riders. Over the last 6 years I would ride up to Skaggs and sit at the bridge for an hour on a weekend day around noon, and not a single sport bike would show up, not one. Before 2009 if I did that I would arrive to 30 bikers hanging out. This to is something that needs to be incorporated into BARF in some way, how to hook up with riding groups
So enough for now. Ill be writing a lot over the next few weeks!
Canyonrat
Please read on, there is a lot I have to say to help BARF and the riding community. Today marks the best day I have felt in 6 months, so I'm posting.
Jen and I moved to Sacramento last year for her job. We rented our Santa Rosa house to fire victims. Jen had to take an unexpected early retirement do to sleep issues. She retired Starting January 2019. I quit my job in October 2018 to handle our investments that I had put on hold for way over a year. And still am taking time off.
The job I chose when we got to Sacramento was to install stair case railings; I thought this would be great, out of the blasting hot Sacramento heat, light weight materials, and high-end finish carpentry. What I did not expect was that standing on stairs sideways would throw my hips out. Stairs are basically at a 35 degree angle. As you build rails your hips are angled and back strait. I'm just today feeling better after yesterday FINALLY getting epidural injections to my hip/tail bone area . God bless better living through pharmacology.
Onto the motorcycle stuff.
GEAR: I finally had to buy yet another suit for the 100+ heat. I found and bought a first generation Dainese Trickster. All white, kangaroo, FULLY perforated. The coolest suit ever made. Cool as in air flow and not “bad ass”, though both might be true. I have some other ideas I'll try out and post on BARF to make it even cooler. Then the winters. Sacramento is both hotter and colder then the bay area. My riding zone has been the foot hills. So I added yet a 4th suit, all black Dainese Sukhoi with no perforation. It warms on sunny days do to infrared sun light. Also I was told by a local rider to add a down hill ski suit as an under garment. It works great! Basically a 1mm wet suit, the problem is you need to get into it, all suited up and out of the house BEFORE you start sweating because it does not breath. I've discovered I can ride in 35 degree weather and not get cold. I'll go into the gear details in another post. But it is possible to wear sport bike gear in the cold and remain totally warm, for up to 3 hours. And when I get back to Santa Rosa, both suits will go up for sale. I like my Dainese Bora (summer) and Alpinestar SMX2 (winter). The SMX suits fall into the battle armor class of suits. Yet another upcoming post.
INTERNET STUFF: I've discovered the newest and fastest growing part of the motorcycle internet. INSTAGRAM. Our European riders have made sport bike riding super cool again, were as in the USA it is dwindling/fading do to the bubble wrap generation. INSTAGRAM is all about cool “bad ass” pics. But what they don't know, is the knowledge and history from BARF. BARF actually exchanges and passed on very powerful knowledge that helps riders be safer, faster, and creates teachers. BARF has done something that no other motorcycle website has ever done. I'd say BARF has saved many many riders lives and lessened many many riders injuries from catastrophic to just bad or just bruises.
I think BARF needs to make some changes to align with or compete with INSTAGRAM.
How INSTAGRAM works for the motorcycle world. Riders/users seem to go out and take a bunch of pics on a ride or a photo-shoot excursion, then slowly release them on INSTAGRAM. Often they have several photo-shoots and they mix up the releases. INSTAGRAM lets you post immediately or time your release of your posts. The more followers you get the wider your pics are distributed. SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? Develop a following with cool “bad ass” pics, the start adding bits of wisdom, or rider tips. It would be like taking this post of mine you are reading and spreading it over 10 INSTAGRAM posts. Also, for us OG (old guys) we have many photos that are dated but usable, but not as cool looking as the new pics being posted by the young 20 something year olds. But us OG's have money and can afford to hire photographers. Also I am very aware INSTAGRAM can be a “look at me” vanity photo website, but my Tantric training remains me to use any and every thing to further oneself to enlightenment (AKA wisdom).
I think the BARF community could develop this idea into something amazing. Some sort of BARF INSTAGRAM combo or even merging with them.
There is also a new web site starting out called TONIT (www.tonit.com) its an app. The name refers to the old saying of' “go for the ton”, “go for it”...the “TON” refers to 100MPH and it translates to “go for the 100MPH range”. This is many decades old, now all bikes do 150MPH or more. I think the web site is very poorly laid out but what it does is interesting. It is designed for riders to post the city they live in, their bike/s, and what styles of riding they like to do, and connect like minded riders. 10 years ago this was not needed because so many people rode, but today the numbers dwindle and it's difficult to find fellow riders. Over the last 6 years I would ride up to Skaggs and sit at the bridge for an hour on a weekend day around noon, and not a single sport bike would show up, not one. Before 2009 if I did that I would arrive to 30 bikers hanging out. This to is something that needs to be incorporated into BARF in some way, how to hook up with riding groups
So enough for now. Ill be writing a lot over the next few weeks!
Canyonrat
