This post has only a tenuous connection with motorcycling but it certainly involves wheels. It does concern itself with one of my other passions, music. As you know I have been involved in music and … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2017
Victoria, the touring state
As I have noted many times before, I started touring seriously on a motorcycle around 1980. It was my trusty 500/4 that got me started and, in the intervening years, I have covered many thousands of … [Read more...]
Premature exultation
Yes, I know, but I couldn't resist it! I guess there must be a bit of OCD in me because little things that aren't quite right have the ability to really annoy me. So, when I mentioned my vibration … [Read more...]
Up the Creek
There is a very active discussion happening on social media right now about why the crowds are staying away from the Australian Superbike Championship rounds. Since I no longer attend them I have not … [Read more...]
A trying time..
I rarely post details about my family and my family life on social media for obvious reasons but I'm afraid I must do so here in order for me to explain why the updating of my blog has been so … [Read more...]
Shaking no more
In reference to my post of a couple of days ago, I believe that I have solved my fairing rattle problem, and with considerably less effort and mucking around than what I thought would be involved. … [Read more...]
Father’s Day
I note with equal measures of amusement and outrage that some members of the "sisterhood" in the USA are demanding the abolition of Father's Day. They won't get their way, of course as people with … [Read more...]
Shaking all over
I haven't done much riding lately, the variant of the flu that has laid me low for the last month or so has seen to that. However, I do appear to have inherited a problem that will require some … [Read more...]