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Gonna go ahead and get better at both yoga and motorcycling before I add that to my list.... :ROFLMAO:

In other news, there’s a turbo kit and a Yamaha Niken waiting for me in my garage when I get back. Self-quarantine is going to be very productive.

Yesterday morning at sunrise, the family laid Linda’s ashes to rest at Bean Point on Anna Maria Island in Florida. It was one of her favourite places. Pandemic be damned, we drove down from the Great White North. No ceremony. No words. Just the sunrise, the tears, the family and the complicated...

Gene, I’ll look up that book. Why didn’t you suggest it to me earlier? :ROFLMAO: My story is in another thread, but my life was certainly altered. Lost my wife, lost almost 3 years of my life (so far), 18 months in the hospital, 12 surgeries in 12 months and the entire left side of my body is...

Good advice. I'd add that where there are rivers, the roads tend to be fun as well. If you can find mountains and rivers, that's usually twisty gold.

TL / DR I bought a new bike, and you don't like it. Last year when on a trip down to the Dragon, I rode past a motorcycle rental outfit that had a Yamaha Niken. I had seen pictures of them and seen one at a motorcycle show, but had never seen one in the wild. The opportunity to rent one for a...

Hola folks. I don't have the right words to express my gratitude for folks looking for an update. It really means a lot. BED is right, I do appreciate it. I'm doing ok. My physical condition has stabilized, and yoga is helping. The pain is still a problem, but I'm managing it. It sucks, but I'm...

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Under the knife again this am. Hopefully my favourite blanky and pillow are waiting for me when I wake up!

Well last week was hellish. Spent a week in the hospital where I had a spectacular reaction to something, likely an antibiotic. And at the same time my gall bladder decided to explode. Not explode, per se. It wasn't gall stones, as it turns out, but gall sludge; yeah that's a thing. Basically...

Well, what do they say about the best laid plans? My flight to Miami for a much needed week in the sun was supposed to leave on Sunday morning. Wednesday and Thursday I wasn't feeling well, but chalked it up to exhaustion because of my workout schedule. Friday morning I get up, still not...

I have the Posi-Clamps. When you need them, you need them. I have a BMW GS, and one the one hand it makes things much, much easier. On the other hand, they are a real pain to clamp tight enough to actually hold the rim so it doesn't spin. If you have a bunch of different rims and tires to...

No-Mar Classic owner here. What the others said - it takes a couple of tires to figure out how to do things more easily, but once you have it down it works very well. It's well worth the money.

I love this idea. A couple of ideas from the ADV / sport touring camp...take them for what they're worth, if you're aiming at that market (and you should be). Someone mentioned in an earlier thread that Jesse bags are the standard - they absolutely are, though there are other good hard bags out...

My benchmark for "adventure" has risen considerably. I'd consider yours more of a "detour". :)

Well, I replaced all my riding gear. This was the first time I have bought gear online because usually I need to check the fit. But since I was replacing what I had with basically the same thing, I just ordered the same sizes. DualSport Plus sent me the first of many boxes. This was full of...

Me too!

This is contrary to your long-standing policy...

Crossposted from ADVrider: Well, I put a deposit down on a new GS. The boys at the dealership treated me well, so Hans and Frans are building it now. More or less fully optioned, I suppose. I went with the new TFT screen, despite the fact that it's probably not money well spent. It's blingy, I...

I paid a visit to BMW Toronto yesterday with the intention of just trying to swing a leg over a GS1200 to see if I could do it and how difficult it was going to be. I was greeted like a returning war hero by the Motorrad staff there; they know me well there. With some difficulty, I managed to...