Ain't No Pillion

Had a crazy project to finish last week so didn’t get a chance to get on the bike AT ALL. Sad. Yesterday, a friend of mine in Arlington put together a cookout, so I rode the bike up to Dom’s in Malden (an extremely kick-ass butcher that has some of the most awesome meat known [...]

Remember how I mentioned earlier in the week that I’m a freelancer and I can make my own schedule, so I have a bit more flexibility to fit in rides to build experience/practice, etc.? Wrong. Not this week, anyhow. Picked up a new project on Mon that had to be done on Fri, plus I [...]

For a complete motorcycle newb, I’m getting into the guts of my bike far more than I’d expected. When I dropped off the bike at the shop, I forgot to tell them to change the oil. So when I got it back, Masukomi asked if I’d had them change the oil, and I hadn’t. She’s [...]

I got the call yesterday that my bike is all ready, and I picked it up from the shop at lunchtime! I’m so excited to have it back! Final total: $781 and change. I got new brake pads, front and back. They replaced the front brake master cylinder. They replaced the turn signals (and it [...]

It’s been five weeks ago today that I crashed my bike, and it’s still not rideable. This makes me sad. I dropped the bike off at the shop a week ago yesterday, and I called yesterday to find out the status of the bike and apparently they were waiting for new turn signals to come [...]