You might be a motorcyclists if....

I rode my 86 Connie to the Starbucks nearest my house this morning to work.  I work at Starbucks some days but not for Starbucks, like many people do.  So when I finished up and was about to ride home to check for some mail, see who needed lunch and just generally take a break I decided to take advantage of another beautiful Southern California fall day.  Yep, nearly perfect weather, so instead of riding the 1.1 miles or so to the house I took my quick loop.  Out of Poway on Scripps-Poway Parkway, up 67 north to Poway Road, down the twisty portion of Poway grade then back around to the house.  Only about a 13 mile detour and especially nice today.  Air was crystal clear, I was the "lead vehicle" down Poway grade (yes!) and got to see the whole family at the house before lunch.

Two quick updates:

It's always going to be something keeping the 1986 on the road to 100K!  Now that the electrical gremlins have been found and chased off, the old petcock seems to be seeping a small amount of fuel.  Gonna fix that tonight-I've got a few extra petcocks sitting around and am low enough on gas that tilting the tank should allow me to fix it without too much mess.

The BikeBandit Daily Deal page seems to not be updating, but numerous sales continue on the site, especially helmets.  Follow a banner ad from this blog and I get a small cut as an affiliate marketer, and a portion of that will go to Movember.  Thanks!

It's Movember 2015! Time to get "mo-ing"!

Just a quick update.  I'm participating in Movember again this year.  I shaved this morning and for the rest of "Mo"vember I will be growing a mustache or "Mo" to raise awareness and funds for men's health issues.  Specifically, Movember raises awareness of prostrate cancer, testicular cancer and men's mental health.

I formed my team to honor Ed "Hoggy" Herrmann, a friend who lost his battle with prostrate cancer last December.  Here's a link to the team, please feel free to join the team or donate.

Thank you!

Movember/blog post every day/busy travel month ends with neither a bang nor a whimper

It's almost 11PM on November 30th.  So November ends, meaning three things are past:

1.  "Mo"vember, where Mo Bros grow mustaches in support of men's health.  I participated this year for the first time.
2. NaBloPoMo is ending, where you post a blog entry every day.  Counting tonight's post, I think I only missed two days, but I am too tired to count them up from two blogs.  Some posts are pretty lame-maybe three sentences, but I did reach a few milestones.  I also got 300-400 v@mp!re hits (fellow bloggers will know what I mean, and I don't want to spell it in case their crawlers picks it up).  I did decide to start a third blog reviving some writing I did a few years ago but saved it for later.
3.  A month where I spent three weeks (save two days after the first trip) on the road for work.  This really cut into my riding, but for the days I was home I averaged 30 miles per day, which is more than usual.  I also got some major preventative maintenance done to both bikes yesterday (which was Friday's and yesterday's NaBloPoMo posts!)

So tomorrow AM, I shave off the Mo, ride the Sportster to the San Diego Toy Run and start accumulating mileage for December.  Good night, blogosphere.

It's "Movember" so let's grow those mustaches

It's Movember!  For the first time, I'm participating in growing a mustache to raise money and awareness for men's health issues.

Why, you are likely asking, knowing of my failed facial hair attempts in the past.  Well, my friend and a CMA Chapter President Ed "Hoggy" Herrmann is fighting advanced prostrate cancer, one of the men's diseases Movember is against.  Oh, yeah, Ed also was a major league catcher for a few years and was an All-Star selection.  He's one of the toughest guys I've ever met, so talking up men's health awareness while growing a cheesy mustache is only a small thing to do to support him.  If you look at some of the photos from his playing days, or his days riding with us, you'll see he grows awesome mustaches and beards, and actually had a pretty killer fro when he played too!

So check out "our" team (hey, if you join it's "our") and throw some support Hoggy's way!  http://us.movember.com/team/1306625