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
Bringing the K40 Laser Cutter to Life
Now that the 3D printer project is wrapped, I am onto designing parts, and upgrades for my K40 laser cutter/engraver (as well as some other design projects for other hobbies). Over the last few weeks I’ve been planning and doing … Continued