Why? I sold the BMW. I had a hard time letting go, but it has just been sitting in my shed the last couple of years. It really needed attention and never got around to giving it.

Overpasses. I just can’t help myself. Sorry. It was the first time ever that I used the BMW for commuting. I immediately smashed my previous record (45 minutes from home to work by car) by 20 minutes. Some more childish behavior might have occurred during that ride….

After many months (years…) of neglect I woke up the Beemer for a change of all fluids. It really is a bit of a spectacle to start it (turn on your speakers). I took it out for a short ride to get the oil up to temperature and changed it. Next is the gearbox oil   Read More …

Roel Scheffer’s extreme CX 500: More on that bike later this week. I am liking that copper stack… It is the same carb as on my Ariel. Maybe… just maybe… Not sure if this is practical, but it sure looked good: a 630 cc maxed out Enfield: Unfinished (the plans sounded great and involved wood):   Read More …

Riding the Ariel is relaxing, offroading on the Enfield is fun, but sometimes one needs to be reminded of how it is to ride a faster bike on the road. So I did.

Every once in a while I re-process old photo’s just to see what else I could have done with them. This still is one of my favorites.

It’s been really busy at work and the weather is horrendous, so only few posts lately… I did some work on the Ariel (made a new throttle cable, first time at trying to solder on a cable stop instead of using one of those screw-on stops. Much, much better). I did a 20-ish mile ride   Read More …