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Low tech
One of the things I enjoy about working on old bikes is that you can (and often have to) do the work the low tech way.Having free labour and not being under the gun to meet performance targets means...
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I spent the bulk of my career in private industry, selling and delivering professional services and computer systems to a global customer base. No market was too small if there was the slightest chance...
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Sometimes it takes a disaster
If you have been following the news at all you will be aware of the disaster unfolding in northern Alberta. Wildfires themselves aren’t that exceptional in the north, but this one is a monster that is...
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For want of the right part…
Still lots of small parts on order but I had enough of the major components to start doing some reassembly.Uh, not so fast.The kick start shaft, for which I had waited 4 weeks for delivery, turned out...
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PMS
As every rider knows that acronym has nothing to do with female biology but rather represents the emotional impact of not being able to ride for an extended period of time for any reason. Up in this...
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Winning the lottery
What? Me? Win the lottery? I wish.The running joke in this household is every time I express an interest in some new toy, a bike upgrade, a new truck, or any other frivolous (as determined by the...
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We’re from the government and we’re here to help.
Really?It’s time for the missus and me to renew our passports so off we went to get the required photos – eyeglasses off, no smiling, just look like you’re a really pissed off terrorist in waiting and...
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There are idiots, and then there are IDIOTS!
First a legal disclaimer. Charges have not yet been proven in court; innocent until proven guilty, blah, blah, blah.And now to our story.Last week our protagonist decided to go for a ride. No story...
View ArticleIt’s all about security dontcha know?
We recently had an opportunity to attend Toruk, a Cirque du Soleil show, at the Canadian Tire Centre, our local NHL arena, home of the Ottawa Senators. What promised to be a fun night got off to a bad...
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“For the want of a nail”
I thought of Benjamin Franklin’s thoughts on weak links as I was reassembling the S65 engine today. Ol’ Benjie put it much more eloquently than I ever could when he said:“For the want of a nail the...
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A thing of beauty
Back when I was still a spring chicken I was a huge fan of anything car-related. I subscribed to all the current hot rod and racing magazines, followed Formula 1 faithfully, and my greatest desire was...
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Does this ever happen to you?
I had a free afternoon the other day. A friend had dropped off an ATV for me to work on, but there was no urgency and it could wait a day or two. The missus was out golfing with the ladies, so the...
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Random observations in an ER
Due to a serious car accident (don’t worry, everyone is fine – the car, not so much) I got to spend several hours hanging around an emergency room observation area on Friday. When you have nothing but...
View ArticleAll politicians lie
How else would they get elected? Every election campaign I have ever followed consists of candidates promising the moon to their constituency even when ‘the moon’ is any or all of impossible, idiotic,...
View ArticleGuilty pleasures
When it comes to what we watch on TV we all have our guilty pleasures – those shows that we watch faithfully but sort of cringe when we have to admit to watching them. And with the explosion of reality...
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Race of the Century – a review
1908 – 108 years ago – the US was not crisscrossed by an interstate highway system like it is today. In fact, outside of the major population and commercial centres in the northeast, actual roads were...
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Motorcycle math
We’ve all seen variations of this meme:Well, in keeping with the theme of today’s post, N will soon equal N + 1 as I am about to acquire yet another project bike (imagine the missus’ eyes rolling...
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The eagle has landed
Well maybe not an eagle exactly, more like an ugly duckling. And landed? Let’s just say arrived. But “The ugly duckling has arrived” doesn’t have quite the same cachet. So sue me.It was definitely...
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