Monthly Archives: March 2004

Deb drinks the Kool-Aid.

*grins* Didn’t take Deb long to realize that she wanted to go further/faster than the Vino would allow. She can’t escape me forever. I will kidnap her eventually and go riding with her. Oh yes. It will be done.

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FLAM

Theatre Rhinoceros in San Francisco is doing a stage production of Erica Lopez’s Flaming Iguanas in April, and they asked me to come up and help out with the motorcycle scenes. [A brief interjection into the journalistic objectivity: WOO! It’s … Continue reading

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Spring Fever

I have my annual Spring Fever. It happens every year around this time — I look around at my life and my living space and my job and want to hop on the bike and go anywhere else. Last year, … Continue reading

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The result of a million years of evolution.

I pulled the Bandit carbs last night — I wanted to see if cleaning the main jets would solve the “farting brown smoke” problem. I got the carbs out, the float bowls disassembled, the jets cleaned, the carbs reassembled, and … Continue reading

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Good news and bad news.

good news. Alan at Redwood City Honda/Suzuki/Kawasaki/KTM/blah/blah just called me — the problem was a bad voltage regulator. Since I did the regulator tests in my troubleshooting book, and it seemed to be OK, I’m going to have Alan and … Continue reading

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