So, I seem to be neglecting this website again. Story of my life. Been wrestling with a sore leg and what now turns out to be a blood clot. Kind of sucks the enthusiasm out of me.

Harley Davidson income is down 58 percent over last quarter.  They're doing some massive cutbacks in an effort to save the company.
UPDATE 2-Harley profit tumbles; plans closures, layoffs | Industries | Consumer Goods & Retail | Reuters

And I miss him a lot.  He died January 4th 2008.  I'm writing some stuff here http://dpotts.com/kirby   Maybe one day I'll do something more with this website.. maybe not.  I somehow don't have the desire for it right now. 

It appears that the SV650 I rebuilt is a rare maching indeed.  2wheeljunkie apparently no longer exists.  So this fairing http://pegmonkey.com/gallery/howto/sv650_crash/DSC_0030.JPG.html is one rare unit now.  Unless somebody knows what happened to 2wheeljunies that is and can show me who makes their fairings.  I hate to see a good product hit the dust.. now I feel like being more careful with the SV.  I don't like to have nostalgia dictate my riding style.. sigh.

I've been busy most of the summer tending to my sick puppy Kirby. He can't use his back legs, but he's too nice of a dog to put down and doesn't seem to be in any pain. It takes a lot of time watching him and I seem to forgo other activities such as cycling to tend to him. You can read a bit about his progress at dpotts.com. It doesn't look like Kirby is getting any better and in fact is slowly getting worse. I'll just keep making him as comfortable as i can until it seems he's had enough.

Yeah.. it's been awhile since I've written or reviewed anything for the monkey on my back. I feel like I've been really swamped and pulled in so many directions. I've only ridden like 4 times this summer.

Yeah.. it's been awhile since I've written or reviewed anything for the monkey on my back. I feel like I've been really swamped and pulled in so many directions. I've only ridden like 4 times this summer.

I had a motherboard croak and then a raid array suffer a catastrophic failure.. I have everything backed up, but it's taking time to reassemble everything.

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So I got these really cool polarized shades. They block out a lot of the reflected surfaces. However, when I wear them under my helmet, they change things into all sorts of weird chromatic colors. You can see stuff on the road that you couldn't see before..

I'm getting excited. I had to take a break from painting and figured I'd let you all know that the SV that Mr. Enigma used to perforate the scenery will soon live again. It'll feel like a completely new beast and I'll have a complete write up of it in the howto section. I wonder if I should be wearing a paint mask..

Motorcyclists stick together, right? RIGHT? Well, I was sure they did. After wasting some time on the web browsing various motorcycle centric web sites I've observed some startling things. I've seen cyclists bitterly arguing amongst themselves over some pretty silly things. Then I though.. "Hey, that never would've been an issue 10 or 15 years ago." For example. Mufflers on bikes seem to be a huge issue. A decade ago, cyclists would have just let each other run whatever pipes they wanted. But now it seems that the anti noise crowd is really pissed at the noise crowd. Also, stunt riders are pissed at cruiser folks, and vice versa. There are other issues too. But the disturbing part of all this seems to be that motorcyclist don't have that cohesive feel we once had. It seems there's division in the ranks, and that's rarely a good thing for the group.

<!--extended-->Watch for it. Speed limits used to save fuel.. then they saved lives.. now wait, they're saving fuel again. And here's the clincher, it's now considered unpatriotic to speed. You're just downright un-american if you speed and waste fuel and cause the cost of gas to increase.

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I have a hard time making decisions. I had two bottles of water in front me. One tastes better than the other. Yeah, I know, it's just water.. but.. I was trying to decide which one to drink first. Then, I thought about Kirby.