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Happy New Year! With the end of 2020, and the cold months rolling around there isn’t much to do other than watch TV and fret about what 2021 is going to bring. With that I am trying to fix and … Continued
A Pandemic Adventure – The Video of the 2020 Trip.
I finished my project of compiling all the video from the trip into a nice video of the trip. Its been 5+ years since I last did a ride like this or a video project, so I was a bit … Continued
Working on a little project
I wrapped up my motorcycle adventures for the season successfully, no matter how much 2020 and mother nature tried to screw me over. Reason for no recap posted yet? Well I am working on a video project about it 🙂 … Continued
Well, Lets Finish This Thing…
If you’ve been following this, you know I planned a trip, and had it end in a sudden manner about 2/3 through it. Well at that point the trip was ~ 1300 miles in on a ~2000 mile goal. After … Continued
Final repairs, and a fun 150mi ride.
Last night I finished getting the SW-Motec sump guard installed (it installed much better than the Ebay knockoff I was running), and its clear the Actual SW-Motec part is FAR superior to the Ebay one I had… night and day … Continued
Surviving being stranded : Lessons from the desert.
I wanted to catalog the various lessons, and thoughts I’ve had after the last trip. This includes preparation and readiness for stuff to not go as you planned during a pandemic, pushing the edges of safety, and what to do … Continued
The bike is repaired!
I ordered the replacement pan/gasket while I was still in Rio Rancho and they were delivered as a birthday present to me on the 23rd! What better way to celebrate turning 42 (the meaning of life after all… ) with … Continued
A Motorcycle Trip Cut Short : 2020 Strikes again.
About a week ago I left on a motorcycle trip/adventure as I talked about in previous posts (Post 1 – Planning, Post 2 – Packing) on this blog. The trip started as good and as weird as any travel during … Continued
Final Plans and Packing the bike
In the last week or so I’ve been doing more passive planning than anything mainly because the weather / drama of 2020 is unending. Last week we had record heat, 101F in September, hottest day recorded in Colorado in Sept … Continued
Motorcycle Trip – Pandemic Edition
Well, 2020 is what it is… it conclusively sucks. Camping is a crap shoot as everyone else is out doing that, staying at home is getting very old, wild fires all over the west making the air so bad in … Continued
Designing a Custom Phone Mount for the Motorcycle
UPDATE: I am selling this mount as a finished product @ JK3D.us! Click Here to Purchase! Vibrating a camera to death Late last week I was reading about a weird phenomena people were seeing with modern/high end phones having the … Continued
Motorcycle Page updated, and some other news
I went through and updated the “Motorcycle” portion of the site to clean up some old info. I am posting in some other motorcycle forums about some custom design work and wanted the blog to be updated for that. The … Continued