It’s good Jason has two rear stands.  We prop up the SV and an old curtain is draped below. I’m a teeny tiny bit guilty of not doing chain maintenance.  There may be the slightest bit of rust on there. No grunge brush.  No kerosene.  Just a nice big paintbrush and Simple Green so I can [...]

The cable situation is pure madness.  Here the guys are burying the cable.  This is how the story goes: 1. cable is installed up in the air like a power line 2. during storm, branch falls and breaks the cable line up in the air 3. wait my 4 hour window and get the cable [...]

We start the party off with pizza and beer. The quote of the party about Hef and Poopie: the dog always wants in and the bird always wants out.  Even animals want what they can’t have. Poopie is always at odds with any upright beer can or bottle. We take a seat on the fancy [...]

Happy birthday babe!   Birthday count: Jason 1, me 2 Jason sets up and tests the pressure washer. I’m just here to document the occasion. What a great guy!  He’s washing my car. Then he sprays at me when I get in to move it. Jasons helping Jasons.  The mechanic is working on his time off. [...]

This is the last time it will look a mess.   Jason takes advantage of the pressure washer… an item on the Carolina Riders tool list. There goes the seat. Almost all clean! The SV’s are alive again!   Lesley hangs out with the SV crew.

Answer: Nothing except my Jeep is covered in Carolina decals and this blog.  The Jeep is salty and needs a good washing. Jason gets to work. Off it goes up the hill nice and clean. The supplies are refreshed. Next in line is the truck.  It gets a good bath. This is what the author [...]

My XT has left for winter vacation and my poor SV’s have died in the garage.  The street SV has a bad regulator / rectifier and the battery has been toast for a while but it will turn over if I keep it on the tender.  The track SV usually does pretty good but too [...]

Sometimes all it takes is a few phone calls on a lazy Sunday to start the day off right.  Here Jesse and Jason are clearly happy campers like me and Lesley. Now this is what I call some good eating! After a lazy start, we had to be productive so it’s off to change the [...]

We play a game called musical trailers where we have three bikes, two trailers, one tow vehicle, and one nasty dead rabbit.  Mark says let’s figure out the easiest way to do this and then make sure we don’t do it that way.  Where else can you laugh and carry on while the smell of [...]

I still remember my first trip to IKEA.  My friends and I had spent hours carefully canvassing the two floors of the gigantic store.  Just when we thought we were done, we leaned over the railing and realized that there was a whole third floor that we had missed.  Talk about squealing with excitement!  Lesley [...]

On my last dual sport ride, I managed to ride into a big pointy rock and shatter my headlight.  Fortunately, the plastic shroud survived minus the sticker getting torn up worse. Although I demolished the cover, the bulb stayed in tact.   I pulled the headlight off the carcass and popped it on the bike [...]