There is cold, and there is cold on a motorcycle. Cold on a motorcycle is like being beaten with cold hammers while being kicked with cold boots, a bone bruising cold. The wind’s big hands squeeze the heat out of my body and whisk it away; caught in a cold October rain, the drops don’t [...]
Thanks to Harry Martin for putting together this calculator spreadsheet for Concours motorcycle maintenance. Local copy mirrored here: Harry’s Concours (C10) Motorcycle Maintenance Excel spreadsheet
On my quest to rid my ride of rust I found the contaminants on the backrest mounts to be unacceptable. Take a look: Sure it is not bad, but then again, it isn’t good, either. I did replace all of the rusty bolts, however, the powdercoating seems to be eaten away and what is left [...]
After posting this it got me thinking about a conversation I had with one of my friends. He argued that how a bike looks doesn’t really matter since you are in fact riding it and you will never see it 90% of the time. I agree; it is true. Keeping your bike fit and finished [...]
Due to scheduling difficulties (project deadlines, semester endings, family homecomings), I put off hooking up my battery to a trickle charger (which I’d yet to purchase). After letting her sit around in the teens and single-digits (in a garage) for the last month or so I was pleasantly surprised to find that my buddy had [...]
On one of the last ride-able Fall days this year, on a very beautiful day, we rode over to Madison to visit some friends. My buddy snapped this picture which shows off the new Connie and Stich pretty well. That was a really fun day.
While installing the power hookup for the Gerbings coat I managed to dislodge the battery drain hose by lifting up the battery (because I wanted to look at it). Brooke explained that: The battery vent/drain hose attaches on the right side (as you sit on the bike) and should go to the same place the [...]