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 […]

There’s a local forum that I browse because it’s a useful place to buy/sell motorcycle stuff. I tend to also lurk their photo section, and in there they have a Motorcycle Picture Game. In this game, a participant goes out and takes a picture of his/her bike with a selected subject… then provides a new […]

I hit the road yesterday morning at 4AM with a rather rough night’s sleep for a trackday with Pacific Track Time. Trying to go to bed at 7PM when your body is used to going to bed at 1AM doesn’t work so well. Regardless, I was much better prepared this time than my first time […]

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 […]

With my CBR600RR being illegal to ride on the street and all… I still needed something with 2 wheels to mess around with outside of trackdays. The most obvious choice for me was a Super Motard. Just by staring at them, they radiate notions of fun. I personally wanted a Husqvarna because they had more […]

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 […]

… must begin with a single step. I continued, today, the motif of doing various smaller tasks. Starting by taking out the stock brake pads and replacing them with a set of sintered metal Vesrah RJL pads (bottom). These are actually going into a pair of ’09 CBR1000RR monoblock calipers (more on those later). Next, […]