I tried riding around with the Kuryakn floorboards but them to be constricting and less foot position movement in the vertical angles. I like to stretch my toe downward on long rides and the footpegs allow more ability to do this. I’ll proly sell the floorboards but keep the brake pedal as it does add a cosmetic improvement.
I’ll leave the floorboards to my HD Roadglide where the heel and toe shifting is more natural.
I’m now an owner of a 2007 GL1800 Crucible Orange Goldwing. This has a ton more features than my 2005 30 year anniversary edition. It has the comfort package, navigation package, premium audio package, CB setup.
The previous owner Mike took very good care of the bike and none of the typical wear is shown. I do need to get used to the floorboards and use of the heel toe shifter. The way it is currently setup you can’t switch gears up by inserting toe under the foot shift lever due to the boot clearance. This may be able to adjust later or I may try to get used to the floorboards.
I’ve been looking around the past few months at used GL1800 or commonly known as the Goldwing. This is Honda Corporatation luxury liner. The land yacht as I like to call it.
Wifey and I took a ride out to gold country to a place called Auburn to check out a 2007 Goldwing I spotted on Craigslist. The owner sounded like a nice fellow and willing to work with the asking price.
The color itself is probably the rarest of this particular year. I don’t see to many around for whatever reason.
got stuck this morning. Because of the traffic jam going South on I-5. It caused a traffic jam in the surrounding surface streets. It took me a half hour longer to get on the freeway which normally takes five minutes.
It’s Mothers Day and one of the presents for the wifey was to get her BMW 330ci detailed inside and out. The guy who did the work has 18 years experience and is very good. He spent about 5 hours getting it all done.
I also had work done on my Porsche for the finalizing “cut and buff” process. This is where all the swirls, scratches, bubbles etc. are removed. The photo below was taken today and processed through HDR software for the look I wanted.
I picked up a set of head screens for my Porsche 986. The guy I bought it from was a trip. He’s converting his Boxster 986 into an electric car. He had already gotten to the point where the electric motor is inside of the body and attached. It will be interesting to see how well he does if I keep in contact with him.
The set had some overspray from some paint job the previous owner must have been involved with. I went ahead and resprayed both to keep them consistent.
I’m still trying to figure out how to securely fasten the windscreens as the plastic tabs that normally support it doesn’t seem like it would hold when the wind catches.
saw this on my way in from work this morning. I would have pulled over but this particular stretch doesn’t have a safe shoulder to park. With the amount of 18 wheelers hauling down that stretch of the road I figured.. nah.
I tried the video time lapse feature of the GoPro 4 Silver. For starters I used the 0.5 second increment to give me more frames to work with if needed. The video was taken from Handlery Hotel located in the Union Square area San Francisco. Oddly enough the I shot this from the 6th floor, room “666”.
It took me awhile to figure out how to get the video play at a “faster” rate. I used GoPro Studio to produce the raw video and Final Cut X to add music by Yuck Nasty and lower 3rd credits.
I took a photograph using my iPhone 6 Plus of my still new to me Boxster paint job. Next weekend I’m taking it in to have the “cut and polish” work done to remove the swirls and dust particles that were embedded during the clear coat process.
Tonight is the huge fight between Manny Pacquio and Floyed Mayweather. It’s probably one of the most anticipated matches in the last few years.
Gonna bs good time at the spot tonight.