Blog Trying something! During my first camping trip of 2023 I decided to use my tarp as a possible weather fly, not necessarily a rain fly. My thoughts are that I will not use my rain fly during warmer/hot temperatures but use the tarp to keep dew and debris off of the
Blog Dumb A$$ Drivers Its a nice day to commute to work. Its not hot. Its not cold. Its not breezy. Traffic is light. I take the back roads in order to try and avoid all the numb nut drivers. Not today! Here is a quick video of a driver with ZERO patience. As
Blog Hot Mess Bugers We have driven by this restaurant on our motorcycles countless times but never been able to get the timing right for trying their burgers. Well Saturday was a gorgeous day and I decided to go give them a try so I fired up the bike. Its about 20 minutes from
Blog Sunday Drive to the Beaver So it rained ALL day Friday. Weather broke and we went to the Meltdown on Saturday. It rained all night and at 1:30, the weather broke. Texted Kirk and we hit the road to head to the beaver. This is a great local bar in Plaza Midwood. We have
Blog The Meltdown Event On Saturday, the weather was nice (it rained all day Friday and will again Sunday) so we decided to ride up the Meltdown Vintage Motorcycle Show. The drive is a little over 2 hrs for us. So around 9:45, we headed up to Hendersonville, NC. Driving up it was
Blog No Bikes...Bummer No, nothing happened to our bikes. We had to take them in for their 12,000 mile service. This service is a pretty big one and it takes a few days. Also, it is a cold service which means drop them off and leave them. One of us also needs
Adventures Riding in Panama City Beach The ride down here was actually quite a lot of fun. We took nothing but back roads and road about 250-300 miles/day (it took us 2 days). The weather coming down was quite nice (cloudy) and the scenery was fantastic. We both love riding back roads! There is so
Dives Outlaws BBQ Love eating at Outlaws BBQ in Panama City Beach, FL. The owner Paul is really a great guy. I always look forward to heading over there (ok, it is literally across the street). No golf cart. No motorcycle. It takes 4 mins from front door to front door. The food
Dives Patches Pub & Grill Another great hang in Panama City Beach, FL is Patches Pub. Another biker friendly place that has great food, drinks, and service. They also have 31 beers on tap (including PBR). We mentioned Alibis in a previous post. This was another daily afternoon hangout. It is hard to beat when
Dives Alibis Beach Lounge and Grill If you are in Panama City Beach, FL, this is a must stop! This is a great place for food and drinks. Not to mention the great food, drinks, and service. We took Kirk here for lunch the day after we arrived and he fell in love with the place.
GearTalk Fix a flat! I walked by my bike and noticed that I had an aluminum nail in my new'ish rear tire. There is no telling when or where the puncture occurred and there was no indication of low tire pressure by the TPMS. The bike is in a garage and not
GearTalk New tires! Time for new tires after what I thought was a short life span! I'm running Mita E-07+ tires and after 7,000 miles they needed to be replaced. I'm very happy with the tires but just wasn't sure about the life span. I replaced
Adventures Panama City Beach Bound The day FINALLY arrived! We are all packed and itching to get on the road. We are splitting the ride into two days. We are headed from Charlotte to Sandersville, GA on the first day and from there, proceed to PCB. We have also opted to avoid the major highways.
Blog PCB Bound First big trip of the year. We are going to do a bit of house sitting in Panama City Beach, FL. Rough life. Beach front house. Going to enjoy a 2-3 week work-cation. We are going to get out on some of trail down there. We are not familiar with
Blog Watch out for buzzards! While heading out for an afternoon of trail riding on a drizzly day, I almost got clipped by a buzzard while driving down the highway.
GearTalk Givi Wind Shield After putting close to 10,000 miles on the bike, I finally decided to look into modifying the factory wind shield. There is nothing wrong with mine except I am too tall. I am over 6'4" and the wind shield is just a bit too short. What
How To Puig Headlight Protector The more riding we do, I have noticed quite a number of rocks being thrown my way. I think most it has to do with Kirk usually taking the lead (thanks Kirk). It got me thinking more about my headlamp. A few months back, I looked into a headlight protector
Dives Thirsty Beaver We have been wanting to head over to the Thirsty Beaver for a while now. This past Sunday, the weather was nice and we decided to make a trek over and see what this place was like. What a gem. Parking is tight. If you do not have a motorcycle,
GearTalk New Sargent Seat I (Scot) decided to break down and purchase a new seat for my bike. There was nothing wrong with the old one except that after about 60-90 minutes, I would have a couple of spots where it began to get painful on my rear. Not sure if it is because
GearTalk VSysto Dash Cam Kirk and I decided to invest in a "dash cam". Yes, I know. We really do not have a dashboard but could not think of a better name. Essentially, we now have a camera that comes on and records when ever the bike is started. Initially we mounted
Blog Another Close One..! This weekend the weather was fantastic. We both wanted to get out and ride. So on Saturday, we decided to do a long ride (about 300 miles). The main purpose of this trip was to give my seat (Scot) a trial run. I just bought a new seat from Sargent
GearTalk SHOEI GT-Air II I was a bit amazed to see that we have never posted anything about our helmets. Kirk uses a SHOEI Neotec II and I use the GT-Air II. So why a SHOEI and why the Air II? As explained in our write-ups about ourselves, I just got back into riding
GearTalk Sena SRL2 with SHOEI Before we get started, the Sena SRL2 Bluetooth communication system is only available for the SHOEI GT-Air II and Neotec II helmets. Scot uses the GT-Air II and Kirk uses the Neotec II. Sena does make other communication devices but we liked this setup since it is completely integrated. There
GearTalk ThunderBox I love it when we find a product that solves an issue for us. In this case, this little device is a god send. So what is a ThunderBox? As stated best from their site: The ThunderBox simplifies and safeguards the process of connecting aftermarket electronic accessories (such as extra
Dives O'Neills Bar and Restaurant We were in the area and decided to stop by for a quick bite. Inside is very clean and quite nice. Love the bar stools (very comfortable). The place did not have many folks there but we were able to start up a conversation with a few locals (so the
