In hearing peoples’ responses to the post about my new motorcycle, I feel the need to make a clarifying post to show that this new machine is so much more than a little toy. Here’s a picture of my 227 pound self sitting atop the 788 pound monster.

Yes, it’s big.
You can’t tell from the picture, but I have an ear-to-ear grin (like I always do when I’m riding it.)

FYI - I just realized that the aLinks plugin (version 1.0rc1) is broken after upgrading to Wordpress 2.6. The public side of the blog works fine, but all of the admin/posting pages are dog slow. Disabling the plugin lets everything work fine.
I can’t even get to the plugin site to see if they have an updated version (due to its slowness, I’m betting they don’t yet.)

I just stumbled across this. It’s a search box inside one of the search results. I’m not sure who’s privileged enough to get these, but it’s an interesting usability idea.

For years, I’ve been telling my wife, “I should get a motorcycle.” Every time, her response has been, “I think you should.” But I never could quite justify it. Current gas prices have changed my mind, I was able to finally convince myself it was worthwhile.
In May, I took the MSF Basic Rider Course. It was worth every penny and I highly recommend it (unless for some reason I don’t like you.)
Monday, I drove this beauty home.

I’m still in the break-in phase, so I haven’t really pushed her too hard, but I am sure having fun riding her around. I now take a long detour (8+ miles) on my way into my office. In reality, I’m taking the long way anywhere. I’m itching to get past the first 500 miles of break-in, so I can see how she does on the freeway.
I’ve also found a great online community of people that ride KLR650s.

We just got back from a 5 day trip to Oregon. We went over to Depoe Bay, up to Portland, down to Salem for a BYU soccer game, back to Portland and then back home. The girls did a great job dealing with all the time in the car.
Trip stats:
2167.5 miles
40 hours, 20 min in-car time
54.1 MPH average speed
23.8 MPG average
24% of oil life used