Motorcycle travel and repair on a minimal budget. Lots of repairs.
Sometimes I don’t get my repairs done fast enough. We had a couple terrible wind and thunderstorms come through town and this is what happened after one of them. My Nighthawk got blown off of the Harbor Freight motorcycle wheel stand. It could have been a tragic situation where my bike was damaged in an…
Today while at work, I decided to take a trip up to Duluth. As soon as I got home, I packed up the bike. I’d be traveling lighter if I wasn’t planning on doing some work, too. I did a quick pre trip check and decided to tighten up the chain tensioner, since I haven’t…
With my last chain and sprocket change, I was using the stock size 14T front sprocket and the 30T rear sprocket, which isn’t the stock size. I’ve never used a stock rear sprocket on my bike, and I don’t know the last time that it had one on there, but most people talk about the…
I don’t have the stock setup on my 250 Rebel – I use the 30-tooth rear sprocket instead of the stock 33 tooth for better highway performance. When I bought the bike, that’s the setup it had, actually. I would have changed it if it didn’t have it. On the Honda Rebel Forums there’s a…
I'm doing everything I can to keep riding as much as possible. Beyond that, I play upright bass in a band called The River Valley Rangers.
For work I help manage a team of web content publishers at Launch Digital Marketing so I'm on the internet a lot. :)
