Motorcycle travel and repair on a minimal budget. Lots of repairs.
After I get home from work, I’ve been pounding on my Nighthawk’s wheel bearing, trying to get the stupid thing to budge. I’ve spent… $25 on jack stands, $15 on lubricants, $60 on the puller from Harbor Freight, $5 to replace the 12mm socket I lost, and $15 on a propane torch. I would most…
Upgrading the lighting on your bike is one of the ways to help yourself be more visible to other traffic. Doing a brake light / tail light upgrade doesn’t require anything special like it would if I was going to do LED blinkers (that’s for another time). You could even do this in the parking…
I usually like to write after I’ve fixed something. In this instance, however, I’m genuinely stumped. On the 5th, I rode my motorcycle from Flint, Michigan down here to Chicagoland. Google Maps generally puts the drive at around four to five hours. It took me ten, though, because I couldn’t go faster than 55mph, due…
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. :)
