Have Bike, will travel.

[renaeden]

Was wondering where you have been, you have been buying a bike! And a nice one too.

[Scrapheap]

Oh, still don't have a video camera for my bike yet, but this is part of my commute to and from work every day. It's a stretch of road called Harris Grade. It used to be part of Highway 1 (Pacific Coast Highway). This is some dude on a 600 Ninja heading south from the Santa Maria side of the road.

It gets interesting at about 2:20. 

[Scrapheap]

Some pics of my Rifle Fairing and Napoleon style bar-end mirrors. 

EDIT:

the pictures are bitmaps and I can't remeber how to convert them to jpg!!!

['andersom']

right-click; "save as"; chose jpg/JPEG extension.

[Scrapheap]

right-click; "save as"; chose jpg/JPEG extension.

Doesn't work. It only lets me choose bitmap. I can't even type in JPG. I did it before, I just can't remember how I did it. 

['andersom']

Weird.

What are you using to look at the pics?

[Scrapheap]

Ah HA!!! I fingered out how to do it!!! You right click and then edit with Paint and save as a .jpg 

Here they are then.

My bike with the new Rifle Fairing and Napoleon-style bar-end mirrors. 

[Yuri Bezmenov]

I kinda miss this bike. 

[renaeden]

What happened to it?

[Yuri Bezmenov]

I had to sell it because I needed the money at the time.

I like my Suzuki V-Strom 650 but it doesn't have the same power (63hp V-twin vs 75hp inline 4).

[renaeden]

Someone I worked with used to do something sort of similar - he would buy a motorbike when the weather was good, then as soon as he started to dislike being rained on all the time (autumn/winter), he would sell the motorbike and buy a car. Repeat process. I did say to him, why not have both? But he couldn't afford it.

[Yuri Bezmenov]

That sounds like it would be self-defeating. He's throwing money away by having to always pay for new registration and insurance, not to mention depreciation every time he goes to sell.

In California, I could ride year round because I have rain gear. I owned this during the drought so we didn't have much rain to begin with.

Here in central Oregon, because we're on the dry side of the cascade mountains, I only have to park my bike when it snows. They do make snowmobile conversion kits for most dirt bikes but I can't justify spending $4k+ for one and I'm not even sure if they make them for my bike.