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So I was posting up a classified ad of my bike on Craigslist, which I've decided to sell. My writeup was fairly lengthy, discussing the general merits of the FZ6, some details around the mods I'd done, condition of the bike, some competitive analysis of what similar bikes people may consider, a...

Time to move on to other interests for me (as extensively documented here: http://www.600riders.com/forum/fz6-general-discussion/24939-advisability-occassional-riding.html), so my lovely FZ6 is on the block. It is in very good condition. No problems whatsoever. Has a minor scratch on the fairing...

Not dykes, dikes! As in the levees that hold back rivers. But it was pretty fun anyway. The are a series of rivers and dikes between the SF Bay and Sacramento that you can ride along. Narrow twisty roads are built on top of them. Its something of a strange feeling to ride them, because there is...

Recently, I've been doing some soul-searching on if the risk-reward ratio of motorcycling adds up for my lifestyle (weighing heavily on that is having a 5 and 7 yr old). I have this niggling concern that something awful is down the road if I keep logging too many miles. I've considered some...

We all know what the "-itis" suffix means when applied to a disease: inflamation of the previously mentioned condition. As in: appedicitis (inflamation of the appendix) and arthritis (inflamation of the arth...:eyebrow:). Well, I have a burning case of mod-itis, inflamation of the mod. My...

Today I had to go visit a customer in Santa Rosa, which is about 85 miles (taking the scenic route of course) from my home in Danville. The whole day was about 170 miles of riding, most of it through the wine country areas of Sonoma and Napa counties. It counted as a great day that I would have...

Admin, it would be handy if the page that lists the thread, thread starter, number of posts, and most recent poster also had this piece of information: date and time of when the thread was originally posted. Would make it easier to know if it's a new topic or resurrected from the dead.

A couple weeks back, I tucked in my first multi-day roadtrip, which was something I'd been wanting to do for a long time, but it took a fortuitious combination of forced time off at work and wife/children being out of town to pull it off. Starting from the East Bay, I headed over the Santa...

Today I had the nice combination of being off work thanks to a furlough and my wife/kids being out of town, so I took the opportunity to spend some quality time on practicing emergency braking. There's a huge parking lot at an old naval base in Alameda, CA, where the MSF classes are taught on...

Most of the freeways around here have been modifyed and re-modified so many times that there are often weird remnants of the previous modifications. Such as where the old pavement is connected to the new pavement, or lanes have been re-routed. Or in some cases there are some tire tracks I guess...

Riding up the 880N in the Bay Area the afternoon, up in front of me was a large white thing floating the air. It was a styrofoam-y sheet/shroud like is wrapped around new disassembled furniture so it doesn't get scratched while still in the box. About 8 ft long and 3 feet wide. When I see...

When I take the bike to meetings, I normally go south on 880 from the Hayward area to San Jose, sometime in the morning. Returning in the afternoon, I find the air more turbulent. Wind noise is greater, and the bike gets buffeted around a bit more. This is a pretty consistent phenomen. Has...

...at the price of looking butt fugly. This approach was pioneered by Clunk, and I replicated it. We both shared a desire to avoid the stress and strain from holding your head and body in an 80 mph wind flow, as well as a quieter ride. As has been discussed ad naseum here, wind noise and...

Had an unpaid "vacation" as a cost-savings thing at my company last week, so after endless house chores, I finally got out for my longest ride ever on Friday, 240 miles in all. Starting from Castro Valley, I went through San Francisco and took the obligatory picture in front of the Golden...

Bicycle, that is. Mt Diablo in the Bay Area is an excellent place for road bicycles. At about a 3000 foot climb, it is a good workout but it's spread over 11 miles, so it's not too steep. Coming down, it's just perfect for bikes. The road is smooth, and all the corners are just about the right...

Just saw Stop-Loss, about a soldier who completes his 4-year enlistment contract in Iraq, and decides not to sign up again after being involved in some heavy s**t there, losing faith in what he's doing there in the process. But he's is "stop-lossed" meaning that via some loophole his contract is...

I just installed the Shad SH46 and Shad rack (thanks to crazybiker and bcityroller for their detailed writeups, it went pretty smooth for me), and on my first ride after install the wind noise was really bad. I've been fighting wind noise for a while, some sort of interplay between my Shoei X-11...

Put this down in the only-in-Japan category: an exoskeleton you sit on that assists you in walking. Many only-in-Japan things have a habit of eventually propagating around the world, so look to see this in your local Walmart in a couple of years. It looks like it has the potential to give you a...

We have had some people post interesting art depicting motorcycles. Here is my entry: construction paper plus photoshopping a picture of a sculpture my wife gave me for my birthday. I've been wondering what bike that sculpture most represents, as a V-twin standard with dual under-seat...

Yesterday I took the Motorcycle Safety Foundation's Experienced Rider Course, which is a 4.5-hour track session in a big parking lot. I was surprised and a little disappointed to find that the entire session is identical to the second range day of the Beginner Riding Course. We went through all...