My patience and tolerance for radio music is nearly nonexistent. What makes listening to the radio even worse, aside from having to listen to it in the first place, are all the commercials. I decided losing my sanity behind the wheel of a moving vehicle would not be conducive to my health, and set out to rectify […]

When I bought the 600RR, it came with a set of no-cut frame sliders installed. The design of such sliders is inherently faulty. Given the track focus of Woodcraft products, I’ve decided to go with their sliders, which yield a number of advantages: Solid puck, rather than hollow (48% more sliding area) Low profile puck 2-Piece […]

Several months ago in June, I met up with a photographer for a Modified Magazine feature. After the photoshoot was over, the buzz around the whole deal died off. Then recently, out of the blue, the editor for the magazine contacted me again to finalize on a few details. The first word I received on […]

On a rainy Christmas Day with not a whole lot to do, I decided to throw on a pair of case covers I had laying around. I started by taking off the lower fairing, as well as draining the oil. The oil I ran before was slightly too thick, this time around I’m going to […]

It’s been a while since I’ve done anything in the garage. With Winter in effect, there are a few things I can take care of on the 600RR before the next season. After the last trackday, the brake feel turned into a sloppy mess. Upon inspection, there was a strange clicking sound as the lever […]

It rained most of the morning today. As I went into my garage to bleed the brakes on the CBR for the third time, I noticed the sun came out and I was in the mood to try out my camera, so I rolled out the Motard. After bleeding the CBR’s front brakes twice, the […]

I stuck on a temporary foam pad as a seat for the CBR. I wasn’t comfortable in cutting and shaping the pad to an acceptable level, so I’m going to wait for a precut seat. I also bled the front brakes again. The lever feel of the brakes are a bit too soft for my […]

This post will be slightly lengthy because I will be condensing over a week’s worth of work into it. I also didn’t take many pictures of the progress, mainly because I was too occupied this time with wrenching and figuring things out. And so the work continues… I spent hours and hours alone scrubbing down […]

With the CBR more or less settled in, it was time to turn my attention to the Husqvarna. Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t remain content unless I put in some work… At first I was going to keep things low key and just do some cleaning and maintenance, but I’m usually not the […]

Long awaited and overdue – the work on the CBR is finally at the end. I was at this stage a few weeks ago, actually, but just been slow to update on it. One day I picked up all the SharkSkinz fairings from the paint shop. The color is a super white with a subtle […]

It’s been a long journey, and although not over, the remaining important bits are finally seeing closure. Namely, the exhaust. I’ve been waiting out to buy a used one from someone who said he was out of town, but would be back soon to remove and ship it to me. That ended up just being […]

Continued progress on the CBR today. The main item on the list was getting the Woodcraft clip ons, Renthal grips, and CRG levers situated. In the scheme of things, this somehow took all day to do. I wasn’t particularly looking forward to the clip on install, because there’s so many different things to adjust…  forward […]