Mutterings

The bike should get into Waco on Monday. Should I take a half-day off work and go get it?

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I just put a deposit down on a new 2007 Triumph Daytona 675 in Graphite. It looks like this:

I bought it from the dealer in Waco so I’m going to have to rent a truck and pick it up when it comes in 3-4 weeks from now. The Austin dealer has a waiting [...]

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I bought a used Thumpstar 125cc mini-motard last night. Thumpstar is a cheap Chinese knock off of the Honda mini-bikes and it shows: this thing is a basket-case. The throttle and clutch has tons of slack, the rear brake locks up when the bike gets hot, etc. I bought the bike at [...]

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Well, first the Z3 and now the SV. I sold my SV650 last night to one of the girls who works at Mozarts coffee house. Her and her friend recognized me when they pulled up - I guess I go to coffee shops occasionally? Anyhow it was a great bike [...]

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My garage might be completely different in the next few months. I’m selling my Speed Triple, SV650S and thinking about getting something a little more utilitarian to haul bike(s) around. I’m really interested in racing a mini-motard bike at Iron Rock Raceway here in town. This means riding on the track would [...]

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Well, this track day was a little more exciting than the usual track day. I reserved a U-Haul motorcycle trailer Saturday morning for pickup the next day. When I got there, the fellow checked the lights only to find that the right blinker did not work. 30 minutes of rewiring proved fruitless [...]

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I think Yamaha is crazy. They announced the new 2006 R6 last week with an MSRP of $9200. When I started riding 4 years ago, 600s cost about $8000 new. Triumph also recently announced a new model, the Daytona 675 which MSRPs for $9000 and even looks better than the R6 IMO. [...]

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I added some action shots of my recreation yesterday.

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I took yesterday off work to head up to Motorsport Ranch in Cresson for another track day. It was a pretty good day: Ben Spies, Suzuki Factory AMA Superbike racer, was there to get his CMRA racing license. I got my knee down for the first time three different times. And I [...]

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The pictures from the motorcycle races are now available. Check them out. I took about 135 pictures totalling 250MB with another 40 videos or so totalling 400MB.

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