Hooray for New Bike Day! My new Scrambler has finally come home, after a 3+ month wait, and I couldn’t be happier. It’s so lightweight compared to my BMW! I’e already added in frame sliders and some aftermarket Acerbis handguards with LED auxiliary lights, since I do plan on splitting my commuting time between this […]
Gear Review: Shoei GT-Air
Gear Review Time! TL:DR – If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up. I’ve had my new Shoei GT-Air Wanderer for about a month and a half or so now, and I figured it’s about time for me to write up my thoughts on my new lid. Weight – this is a […]
No Car…No Worries!
We’ve officially been carless now for three weeks. And it has been three weeks of awesome. I do still occasionally look out my window and think for a split-second that someone has stolen our car, but then I remember. Wheeling the motorbikes out of the garage is so much easier now that I don’t have […]
Adventures in Carlessness, Day 1
We sold our GTI today! So exciting to be officially carless. Granted, we are substituting our motorbikes for cars, but it still requires a small shift in doing things. Like grabbing a Car2Go if we want to go downtown for sushi and think we might want a beer with dinner. Or being more strategic with […]
I’d Love Some Fireworks!
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75s-yVAN7Jk) I don’t think I need to tell anyone that I’d love to ride my Scrambler through a bunch of fireworks when I get to pick it up later this summer! (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
I’ve Mended It!
I am not mechanically inclined. This is a known truth. Today, I impressed myself by successfully re-installing the base plate for my top box on my BMW all by myself. Figuring out the right tools, putting it in the right place on my tail rack, and even doing the tricky ‘hold-the-nut-still-with-one hand-while-tightening-the-screw-with-the-other’ part for all four […]
Old and New
Old and new Scramblers at the Portland Art Museum for the Italian Style exhibit!
Gearing Up To Go Carless
We’ve grown weary of paying for repairs on our GTI. We love the car itself, and if it never needed to be fixed, we’d keep it forever, but it’s getting long in the mileage tooth so repairs are expensive…time to cut the car and stick with our motorbikes. Much to my glee, this is opening […]
A Fond Farewell to Il Mostro
All good things must come to an end, especially if that end will make way for better things. Today, I dropped off my Monster at our local Ducati dealer to trade it in for a Scrambler. I’m sad to see il mostro go, but it’s a little small and I can’t ride it for long […]
First Look: Ducati Scrambler
So I got to check out the 2015 lineup of new Ducatis last weekend at MotoCorsa. That Scrambler is a hot little number! I don’t ride my Monster much any more – it’s just not quite as comfortable to ride, even though it’s a beautiful machine. I’m thinking that I might just trade it in […]