2022-01-01Northern California has been getting a lot of precipitation and at home we’ve been hosting a lot of family over the holidays and we got one clear and sunny day between storm systems so I took off for a ride on the big BMW R1250 GS today. I planned a ~4 hour route with minimal …
As mentioned in an earlier post, I traded in my 2018 Triumph Street Triple 765 RS on a new Aprilia Tuono V4 Factory in late October. This is the model that has the Ohlins semi-active suspension, which is particularly of interest to me since my back road surfaces are so varied and it gives me …
It’s been nearly 2 months since my last track day and my family hasn’t kicked me out of the house yet so I must be doing okay. I did have to make a trip to Montana to help my Mom with some things and I occupied much of my thoughts and garage energy with getting …
One of my big goals for 2023 is to work on my brake pressure at turn-in (tying back to 100mm of suspension travel at turn-in). I was recently watching WSBK FP2 on 11/11/2022 in Indonesia. I love that the cameras spent so much time looking at the front end of the bikes in heavy braking …
I dropped off my 2020 Triumph Daytona 765 with my suspension/tuning technician in early November 2022. My Daytona has now covered ~5,300 track miles since I purchased it in April 2020 (the first 1,100 miles were street, following Triumph’s break-in procedures as closely as possible), I did ~2,200 track miles on it this season. Before …