It’s an honest to god flying motorcycle with a 300 mile range. Hey, it’s not pretty right now, but geeze - if this guy can make one, how come Yamaha and Honda don’t have one out yet? At $37k, that’s about the same price as a new high-end Harley Davidson.


http://www.thebutterflyllc.com/sscycle/sscycle.htm

So, I haven’t actually ridden my bike for at least a month. I’ve been too busy to take it out on a weekend, and between HomeDepot trips and needing to look somewhat presentable at work, I just didn’t have the right alignment of needs and objectives.

Yesterday I thought about taking the bike in, but got distracted by the above items. But the weather was so sweet, I was determined I would ride in today.

I rode the bike to and from work today. Beautiful day, but I should have checked that I had my clear glasses with me before I left. Ended up driving home with the tinted ones, which made it a little difficult to see the road.

Would have done a half day, if I hadn’t missed two days already this week for jury duty.

Steph’s clutch went goofy on her over the weekend, so we had it towed to the mechanics and she took my car into work on monday.

That left me with limited choices of transportation - either take a cab or ride one of the motorcycles to work.

It was in the 50’s when I took off, which put it somewhere around freezing at travelling speed. I couldn’t feel my fingers by the time I got to work. But still - a ride is always good.

Her car was ready for pickup yesterday evening, so I had Shindog drop me off at the mechanics and I drove it home. Today I rode the back back home at lunchtime and had the neighbor give me a ride back to work.

Today’s ride home was awesome. Perfectly warm, bright sunny day, the bike was eager to go fast and hard, I wish I could have just taken off for the mountains.

Ah well, soon.

Well, it took them a week to get the pipes to the shipper, then another week for the shipper to deliver them, but they finally arrived last night. I installed the slip-ons in about ten minutes, and they look and sound great.

I really should have guessed that they’d suck when the webform I filled out to order some pipes was all screwed up. And then the contact email that I tried on their site spit back a “mailbox over quota” email.

Hurry up dude.

Almost a year ago, I initiated an attack upon my motorcycle’s muffler system. The operation was an eventual success once we engaged power tools and quit screwing around with manual manipulation (jabbing at the pipes with a broomstick).

I’ve been riding the motorcycle in to work the last couple days, and it amazes me the difference in perception that comes with the change in vehicles. Were I King, I’d make all physically capable people spend an hour a month on a bike.