First day of autumn The air a little crisper The shadows longer A chilly ride home on the motorcycle The apocalypse may be around the corner But a sundog watches us drive home And the earth falls once more around its star.
Berck got a new job. He started Monday and didn’t do much this week, so he doesn’t know yet if he likes it or not. It does pay more money though, so, of course, he had to buy a new motorcycle. It’s a brand new 2014 red Honda CB1100. It’s meant to look like a Honda from 40 years ago but with modern conveniences like fuel injection and anti-lock brakes. We picked it up yesterday after work.
One of Berck’s coworkers took us dirt biking today.  Here’s roughly the route we took out: And here’s the route we took back: Since this was my first time driving a motorcycle since (A) our motorcycle course (B) driving around the block after we got our bike, I thought I did really well.  I drove on both difficult trails and the highway for approximately 50 miles!   We got almost all the way to a road we were trying to get to in order to go home when we had to turn back because the road was closed ahead by…
I promised updates. What follows is the probably somewhat boring detail of my week wrenching on the motorcycle. On Wednesday I started out replacing the clutch cable, since this was the part that was most obviously in need of replacement. The manual I’ve got is absolutely awful. Some examples: “The circlip use to a set the clutch center is of a special dimension (25×1.5 mm) therefore exercise care that the standard circlip 25 mm is not to be used.” “Headlight is normally adjusted in the vertical directions so that the center of the beam intersects the ground at the point…