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As some of you know, i rode about 400 miles last weekend. Apparently I was carry a few extra pounds of weight, not only on my body but also in my air filter.
A mouse had been camping in my bike for at least the past winter. I can’t wait to get out today [...]

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Song of the Sausage Creature
by Hunter S. Thompson
There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them – but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one. That is why they are dangerous.
Everybody has fast motorcycles these days. [...]

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They’re a little bit funny: “My boyfriend’s VFR is much sexier than your motorcycle” and my favorite “Your Bike Sucks”
http://www.cafepress.com/muddyh2o
(and cafe press couldn’t be easier to use. really. get your softball team t-shirts made there next year!)

They aren’t very good but it sure was fun taking them…
Not sure that I like flickr so much, but you should be able to see the geotagged photos on the map, so you can see exactly where i took them.

apparently (according to the natl register plaque) this diner (formerly the half-way diner) was the first in nys and the fourth in the nation on the historic register. now, it was placed there in 1986, so I can’t figure out if that means its the first place in nys to be added, or the [...]

no, not the one in brooklyn
i’m on my second tank of gas and have just sat down for a burger in red hook’s “historic” village diner.
I cruised up the west side of the hudson river through cornwall, which is an amazing ride and induced some significant vertigo. bad photos to follow.
after cruising up 9w, I [...]

So, Red Sonja, the temporary name for my new-to-me Honda VFR (see ‘She Arrives Tomorrow‘) showed up yesterday. (temporary until I get the rhino liner sprayed on). I pick up the plates today. And the weather for the next seven days?
Thunderstorms!
It has been heavenly of late in the dear old Hudson Valley. Truly spectacular. [...]

Tomorrow, my new-to-me 1999 Honda VFR800 Interceptor arrives. I haven’t owned a bike since my 1997 Triumph Trophy 900 was impounded in the UK back in 2004 (that’s a long story).
I’m very psyched. This is probably more bike than I need, but it’s likely the best all arounder out there. I looked [...]