07-21-2026, 08:17 PM (This post was last modified: 07-21-2026, 08:19 PM by Gone in 60.)
(07-21-2026, 09:04 AM)pdedse Wrote:
(07-21-2026, 08:43 AM)Gone in 60 Wrote: Very pretty! Sounds like a good mental cleansing. Do you use your phone for those pics?
So often when I'm on the CB1100, I see the mountains in the distance and I begin to explore but quickly run into roads the CB isn't really designed for. The DR650 and the KLX300 allow me to explore for hours places that are relatively close to home. Over the years I've explored a substantial percent of local paved options on street bikes...day rides; and I've explored a fair amount of central and eastern OR as well on multi-day rides; but I've actually left a good deal of non-paved options that are cose by. So yes, it's very refreshing to be in the forests and at elevation...it can be hot in Gresham but cool in the mountains, and I'm out and back in 3 hours--the same amount of time I ride to central OR just to get there. Eastern OR is 5-7 hours away.
Most of my photos--including the latest--are taken with an I-phone...it's just an SE 2020 edition. I forgot you asked about the photos from the hand-glider spot in La Jolla; I believe they were taken with a Canon SX740 HS with a 40x zoom. I use that from time to time, but mostly the I-phone.
Nice! I knew those glider shots were too good to be from a phone! Great pics as always. And, as always, jealous of that scenery.
Got one more BMW seat cover out of my ten dollar swath of upholstry-grade vinyl. That's four total, along with 2/3 of a box of staples.
I'd say it looks good enough, and I admonished the boss, as always, to just not look underneath at the staple job.
Gone, you may have found your retirement gig - the "No more sticky-seats guy."
There's a difference in riding a naked bike and riding a bike naked.
Won't make that mistake again.
2013 Honda CB1100 Standard. Gone, but not forgotten.
You know, that's not a bad side gig... I can't be the only person dealing with ageing BMW seats that are turning sticky...
I would have to invest in an upholstry-grade pneumatic stapler.. and a compressor to run it...
Today I felt like Eli Wallach's Tuco from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
Remember that scene where he needs a pistol? He has a shop keeper take all of the guns out of the display case, and he takes them all apart, checks each barrel, cylinder, etc, and makes a pistol out of the best parts from each of them.
We're going to a medical trade show next week with a very small booth, and will have one of our delivery bikes front and center as the main display. So I went to the boss' house today and took the newest bike in the fleet and gave it the best looking pair of side cases from one bike, the best looking transport container from another bike, and the seat that I just recovered yesterday from a third bike.
I told everyone to leave me alone in the garage for the next couple of days to detail it, sand and repaint the crash bars, touch it up, and rig up jumper wires to the flashing lights to run them on a power supply at the show.
07-25-2026, 07:17 PM (This post was last modified: 07-25-2026, 07:23 PM by Gone in 60.)
Wow, so pretty! Must be very interesting to look down on planes taking off and landing!
Did a 12-hour marathon detail session on the bike we'll be taking to the show on Monday.
Removed all four of the crash bars, filed smooth, sanded and repainted. Did the same for the scraped right side cylinder cover - had to paint both so they'd match since I used a sorta close shade of grey engine paint.
Compounded six years of brake dust off of the wheels, sanded and repainted the scraped mirrors. I find that if you hold the paint can back a ways and sort of fog the paint on, you can replicate a grained plastic finish.
Reshot the rusty side and center stands. Made a metal repair tab for a broken faring attachment. Did a ton of polishing and touch up.
Now if I can make the six-mile ride to the convention center on Monday morning without hitting a puddle or letting a bird poop on it, she'll be all set.
