Tim’s Motorcycle Diaries – Mechanical Sympathy

Riding In the Desert On an Iron Horse with No Name… for reals this time

June 18, 2019 By Timothy King

I've been through the desert on a lousy rental car with no name,now I'll do it properly on two wheels!I landed a free trip to Arizona a couple of years ago for an educational conference. I'd never been to the desert before, it was a great trip but the cunning plan…

80/20 split

June 18, 2019 By Timothy King

2003: Faster, a good introductionto MotoGPFaster (2003) is a fast paced documentary with fantastic inside access to MotoGP. With long-form interviews with all the major names in the sport in the early 2000s, it offers you an accessible look at the sport.I've been a Formula One fan since the early…

Winter Maintenance: Triumph Tiger 955i Engine Guard Install and plasma cutting!

June 17, 2019 By Tim

How cold has the polar vortex been? So f#*%ing cold! Our garage is attached to the house and we're in and out of it quite often, so it benefits from a lot of residual heat. Even with this insulated garage with heating pipes in the attic and a lot of…

Pinterest A.I. Points Out Some Annoying Associations With Motorcycling

June 17, 2019 By Tim

I'm a visual animal to begin with, and Pinterest feeds my first language directly without any words; I'm usually a fan. As my collection of pins grow the feed starts to show things that the Pinterest A.I. thinks I'll be interested in. That impartial comparison revealed a number of interesting…

Trophy Wives, Velocoraptors and Riding North of the Wall

June 16, 2019 By Tim

Every once in a while events conspire to drop you out of the world's daily routine. As everyone else is scurrying to work with worry lines on their faces I was disappearing into the countryside on two wheels, unfortunately the Weathernetwork had gotten the forecast wrong and my day of…

Do bikers ignore reality?

June 16, 2019June 16, 2019 By Timothy King

I recently saw this on the Science Channel's Through The Wormhole with Morgan Freeman. I really enjoy the show, but I've gotta call you on this one Morgan.Let's look at some of the statistics given:For the UK: motorcycles make up less than 1% of motor vehicles on the road but…

Bike Van

June 14, 2019 By Tim

[caption id="attachment_2951" align="alignleft" width="238"] This lightly used well optioned Ram Promaster is going for only $33k![/caption] I've been stuck on the Ford Transit Van probably due to my Guy Martin fixation, but there are other choices for a motorcycle carrying vehicle. I'd been looking at the full sized, extended Transit…

March Break

June 14, 2019 By Tim

Snow storms and freezing temperatures, but I managed to squeeze a quick ride up and down the river on Sunday afternoon just before it was back to work time. I am here to steal Firefox! Snow in the gullies... That's a quality Ontario paved road Everything on here came off…

Two Wheel’s Mega-Edifice

June 14, 2019 By Timothy King

Two Wheel always had a Bartertown/Beyond the Thunderdome/post-apocalyptic kind of feel to it, but it's all gone now!My son Max and I went for one of those perfect rides today. We headed down to Guelph in sunny, room temperature air with no wind. It was glorious.After a few stops and…

Around The Bay: Part 2, an Informed ride

June 13, 2019 By Timothy King

Putting on the miles and building muscle memory.A couple of recent articles informed my circumnavigation of Georgian Bay.Bike magazine's resident lawyer had a great piece on the dangers of the over educated novice rider. He made the poignant observation that people who haven't had a lot of seat time but have over-thought riding…

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