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Each year in December after that long nearly 15 hour flight from YVR to BNE with those effing sick kids aka rug rats with running noses on the aircraft sitting a row over from me. Down and out for 10 to 14 days after arrival with a temperature and one hell of a lingering cough. Other than...

As for these "mandatory tips", although it never happened to me where I was eating I have heard about them. And if it every does happen to me if the restaurant does not advertize it in big writing, I am walking right out without paying. You know, I spent big bucks getting my Private Pilot...

I look for value and I like eating where I pick up my food at the bar or cash when my buzzer lights up. This 18%, 20% and 25% tips that are on the charge card device, I mean are you effing serious for 2 minutes worth of work. Sorry, not going to happen! Why I liked Fat Freddy's Sports Bar and...

I still have 4 bikes. 1986 BMW R80 G/S PD, 1990 BMW R100 GS, 2003 Kawasaki KLR 650 and a 2016 R1200 GS Adventure. I'd bring the 1990 and the 2016 or maybe all four. All of them have range. I can't stand bikes that need filling all the time. As for flying, that can be a last resort, but I like...

I hired a "registered migrant agent", one of the countless ones listed on either the Department of Home Affairs or on my Immi Account. They were quite useless considering I initially gave them my background: retired and not a student or coming to work, coming with money, Canadian pension that...

Yeah, I left the Gold Coast on Monday, 5 days before Alfred hit them on Saturday. No worries though as the last time a cyclone hit the Gold Coast was 50 years ago making the Gold Coast a perfect location weather-wise. Nice and warm in the summer and comfortable in the winter. I was up in Cairns...

This summer when I installed a new front tire. When it comes to tools and shop equipment, I do no cheap out.

Exactly! Now let me tell you of a real on-the-road situation and no matter what you do, you could not avoid the following. Back some 20 years ago. Doing 100 kph on a straight back road with zero traffic, I see this bicyclist in the distance. As I get closer, I move to the center line to give...

I just don't need it in the 50 years as a licenced rider/driver. Still accident and insurance claim free. But whatever works for you though. By the way, threshhold braking has already proven to stop you faster than ABS. Of course not for the average rider/driver.

I'll tell you want save my life and it wasn't ABS. It was called skill and not freezing up. Oh and by the way, I have thousands of hours training pilots and some of them should take up basket weaving. This may be before your time, but I recall ABS coming out in the late 70s. The commercial on...

Actually it is where I have been riding. How about around a garbage can with a 15 or more percent grade and a top heavy motorcycle weighing in at 1000 ± 20 pounds with my passenger and luggage doing a few clicks in the hairpin. Not easy and I wish I had a trials bike for that. That was easier...

Some consumers are easily sucked into "high tech" without thinking how useful or practical it really is. I prefer real instrument gauges or analog gauges in a cluster. Those glass panels a-la-Next Generation Star Trek I have no use for on my motorcycle, cars or in aircraft. I sat in the...

It can be depending on the tire type and width and rim sections. I always used Melco Tire irons (the flat type) and 2" x 5" plastic strips I'd cut out of old windshield washer bottles to protect the rim. I did that for decades...since the mid-70s. I recently ordered a tire changer from...

I read about that but I never used that recommendation. I coat my KLIM Latitude jacket using Shout which is much cheaper than using those ultra-expensive "specialty" products and let it sit for a half hour. Then I soak it and agitate it in the laundry tub, rinse several times and spin it in the...

If local dealers sell for the same price as on-line, sure, but that is never the case. I get them at FortNine or Pete's Superbike, usually Pete's. I install them and balance them myself to avoid installation issues (gouges, scratches, etc).

Real easy. Find out what you plan to do with it and what features are ultra important to you. That is how I chose all my motorcycles since 1991 and incredibly they are all the same of the same type.

That kind of range would drive me nuts. Reminds me of the time I drove my 1986 Yamaha XT 350 to Oshkosh WI and I had to stop (aka worry) looking for gas stations. I then bought a BMW GS. I also added a KLR 650. No more worries. Anyway, there are gas stations on that road.

Get a Longacre digital gauge with the swivel chuck. Not cheap though. I paid about $135. Check out the specs. Longacre Digital Air Pressure Gauges

Been on a quite a few of those listed, but for longer rides, I wish there was a list of hotels and motels to stay at that are REASONABLY PRICED.

Why, what kind of range does your CBR650 have. Surely more than 250 kms. There are gas stations on that road. I last drove it back in 2003 from Blanc Sablon to Baie-Comeau.