Recent content by PadrePoint

So… is a gathering going to happen this year? (I’m sitting here in Cherokee right now, enjoying a beer and thought I’d look up the event… I went by earlier an empty looking Kickstand Lodge… got me thinking.) Guess I’ll go with the thread’s heading: “Cancelled!”

I raised the front of my seat (seat slope “trick”), added a seat pad for another almost 2 inches (I’m 6’ 5”), used the lower position on the windshield, and finally added some rubber washers to the lower windshield mounts that pushed the bottom of the windshield forward to flatten the angle...

Great ride yesterday in southern Wisconsin. The first 50 miles was winding two-lane roads through hills, woods and farms. The second half was a fifty mile state trail that mostly followed along a couple rivers. (Can’t seem to successfully attach pictures.)

This is a Core Sound 15 by B&B Yachts: https://bandbyachtdesigns.com/core-sound-15-plans/ I purchased the full kit.

I took a beautiful sunset ride tonight: a 50+ mile loop of backroads north of my house with lots of woods, a few farms, lots of water, some twisties, gravel, and very little traffic. I’ve been working full time in the past three weeks building a 15 foot sailboat. Tonight was my first ride...

I think my NC is looking at me suspiciously as I am doing the first task in building a sailboat from the kit I brought home yesterday. “Hey, what is that THING doing in my spot in the garage?”

Replaced my rear tire... It’s a challenge for me, especially the step of extracting the rim... just couldn’t pull it out. So, out came the saws-all. I won.

This will be on my calendar, which now is rather open with my December retirement.

I tried a Madstad screen last year and decided I prefer not having a shield bigger than my original. I guess I kinda like the wind. With the shield in the lower position the turbulence begins at my chin and my helmet is mostly in “clean” air. Even so, the buffeting can be noisy (I always wear...

I haven’t ridden my NC very many times this year... not complaining, it’s just how the schedule has been this summer. On Saturday, I did a first for me by riding the ebike I bought last year in an organized 60 mile ride. Great route on nearby country roads. No traffic, few center lines...

American Family for my three cycles (plus three cars and a house.) $100,000/$300,000 for about $100/year on each cycle... with Property, uninsured, comp. and col.

Nice 140 round trip this morning for a VERY brief time at work (kind of using the office as my reason to ride.) Used some freeway and county roads to get there but then looked for new roads (without center lines) that wound about through woods and field on the way home. Took much longer on the...

The brain and ego keep wanting to say 35. My calendar reminds me of 65. Wisdom keeps lagging along somewhere in between.

This thread stopped about when I bought my first slightly used 2013 RED NC (manual). Then, some months later, it went to my son so that I could buy a new 2013 RED NC DCT... and so that I could get back (from my son) my 2013 RED CRF250L. This was when I gave my other son an outboard boat I built...

Went into the garage for something and walked by the bikes. Thought I’d see how the NC battery is doing during this Wisconsin cold snap. Started right up. Sigh...