Archives: Advice
These rants, raves, reviews, and tricks of the trade keep my adventure moving in the right direction. If you find the advice helpful, please help me by making your purchases through the links like this one. Thank you!
As a rider who is inexperienced at riding the simplest of off-road conditions, I find a lot of comfort in the Continental TKC80’s aggressive tread. These tires grip like crampons on a glacier, and they surely help me handle the bike more confidently in gravel, sand, and soft dirt where a more street-oriented tire like […]
I’m absolutely killing my list this week, though it is still impossibly long given that I roll out of Houston in ten days! One of the big items on the list is to waterproof my motorcycle gear–for cheap. Some of the gear was waterproof to begin with but has lost this important feature through the […]
I’m contemplating this question for a few reasons, the first of which being the low voltage seen at startup in the video. This battery came with the bike; both are 39,000 miles and five years old now. They’ve seen hundreds of starts, charges, and discharges. And while the battery still starts the bike, it doesn’t […]
You know about those little annoyances that go on untreated forever? A dripping faucet is an excellent example. The faucet drips, and when it drips in the most annoying way possible, we do anything we can to put off actually repairing the drip. Bilge pump can’t keep up with that leak? Install a bigger pump. […]
This idea of charging the battery on my motorbike with a solar panel is one that comes and goes. Because idling the GS and going nowhere is an insensible use of fossil fuel and a terrible strain on an air-cooled engine, the solar panel idea comes about most strongly while I’m stationary for a few […]