Helmet Mounted Flip Mino
I am a bit bashful or embarrassed as I test the waters of video-blogging. I am not fully comfortable with it. I seem to prefer to ramble on using a keyboard, where I can back up, delete, and rearrange. However, here is me explaining my efforts of mounting a Flip Mino to my helmet chin [...]
Raising the forks on a 2006 Yamaha FZ1
I have been wanting to adjust my suspension for a while now but haven’t made the time. Well, this week the wife and kid were out of town so I had some extra time. I did a fair amount of reading. My primary resource was a page on moto-racing.co.uk. That article walks through the setting [...]
FZ1 Rake and Trail
I want to do a complete suspension set up on my 2006 Yamaha FZ1. I need to get somebody to hold up my bike while I take measurements and make adjustments. I have been feeling like the bike doesn’t quite handle as easily as I would like it to. I started looking into trail and [...]
Album Review: Joe Pug – Messenger
The other day I heard Joe Pug on WUMB and was intrigued. The song was Speak Plainly, Diana. First let me step back and say, Yes, I was listening to the radio! Since my wife and I choose to subscribe to Rhapsody I am able to listen to Joe’s album without having to pay any [...]
Motorcycle Brand Complexity
I’ve been thinking about why Harley-Davidson had a significant negative Net Income for the year of 2009. My thinking led me to look at the number of models that H-D has. They seem to have very few engines and very many models per engine. This seemed like a slow moving and high cost product strategy. [...]
