Motorcycle – Page 11 – Not Your Average Engineer

March 20, 2011

Stormy coast ride with Katie

On Saturday I went to the coast to take Katie for a ride. We rode down to Stoney Beach State Park and back. The weather was pretty wild with rain, wind, and sun being thrown at us from nearly every direction. On the ride back north, we hit pockets of absolute calm when I put the speedometer at about 60 mph.

The pass over the coast range had snow on the road making for interesting riding. I prefer to stay away from slick spots on my bike.

I’ve been doing many rides that I haven’t been logging. It’s a classic issue of not enough time to both ride and log.

January 29, 2011July 1, 2020

Back roads ride with Carl while Jesi and Brent chase behind

A few months back Carl and I went for a motorcycle road along some of the back roads of the Oregon Coast Range. Jesi and Brent followed in Brent’s sports car. Jesi served as photographer for the expedition. It took me a while to get these photos up but finally… here they are!

Carl rolling over the top of the hill with me out of sight around the corner.

Gliding around the corners.

Trying to look around the narrow one-lane trestle underpass to see if it’s all-clear for us to proceed.

A Honda and a Harley can get along after all!

Into the primeval forests of the coast range.

Down a mud road toward Siletz.

This feels like something out of The Road or maybe some post-apocalyptic view of the world. Just two gray riders surrounded by a gray landscape. I’m thinking about getting a print of this made and framing it.

Into the darkened woods and the unknown.

January 28, 2011

Do I have a squirrel infestation?

I found this in the trunk of my PC800 yesterday when I was getting ready to go for a ride. Last fall I found a couple similar pieces of dog food and I thought “oh one of my friends must have had some on the bottom of their bag…”

Well this time I found about a cup worth. The bike had been sitting for about two weeks due to bad weather and school. I know there wasn’t all of this in there before I parked it. How in the world could an animal be getting into the trunk to put all this in there? I hope they aren’t chewing on any wires or hoses!