Hard To Write This

December 20, 2013
Since many of you are already Facebook friends this news is a repeat. For anyone else this will be the first you hear of it. My lovely Wife Sara has cancer. She had what she thought was a virus that had her aching in her abdomen and caused swelling in her stomach region. This past Monday we got the bad news that it looked like cancer and a trip to her Oncologist two days later confirmed it. It's a rare cancer that mimics ovarian cancer and Sara will be in for six months of weekly Chemotherapy treatments. Today she had the tumor biopsied and a Chemo port installed in her neck. Two liters of fluid were drained and she feels less tension in her mid region and is able to eat better. Keep her in your thoughts, we can use all the good wishes and prayers we can get.
No riding stories, too much snow and bad news.

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Winter Time

December 11, 2013
As I noted in my last post, the weather had granted us a one-day special. Of course we're paying it for it now. This past Monday we had a small amount of snow and ice and the temperatures plummeted back into the teens and twenties.Last night was even worse and a White Christmas is very possible. If I took last week's video and updated it in the same spot the ground would be covered in a thin layer of white and the thermometer would read "21" degrees. These are the days when you make a trip ou...
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December Ride

December 4, 2013
We're having a grand, one day special today! It's about forty-five degrees outside after a couple of weeks of January weather. It's so nice that I actually had to stand in the driveway for a few minutes and decide which scooter or bike to take. Lazarus, my 150cc scooter was the winner. The sun was shining for the first time in days and even though the wind chill at 45 mph is around zero, it didn't feel it. I only had to pick up a few things at the grocery store so it was a short trip. The goo...
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Happy Thanksgiving

November 27, 2013
My scooters and bikes are slumbering peacefully in the garage today and a holiday ride appears out of the question. The nasty upstate New York weather has decided to descend upon us and dumped a few inches of snow on the area. The driveway is shoveled so a future ride will be possible but the dark days of Winter are here. Any rides from now on will be short and sweet until Spring. Sigh.
The bright spot in all of this is that my daughter will be coming up for Thanksgiving Day festivities at our...
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A New Name

November 18, 2013
I've decided that it was time to give my Chinese 150cc scooter a name. We were calling it the "Blue Scooter", "The other scooter" and "the Original Scooter", to distinguish it from the big scooter, Galileo. I decided that Lazarus was appropriate after leaving the scooter for dead for almost a year with a cracked cylinder head on the engine. In July I finally got around to resurrecting it with a new cylinder head and associated bits and breathing new life into it.

It has now been returned to it...
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Another Milestone

November 7, 2013
The little 50cc bike just keeps on continuing to amaze me. Over the weekend I managed to kill the battery in a typical boneheaded maneuver and it still forgave me. I put the bike away on Friday morning with the key still on and after lighting the gear indicator LED for three days I finally discovered it with a battery that refused to spin the starter motor. I've spent the last three days push starting it to get it going and decided the only way to recharge the battery was to take a good long ...
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A Good Year

October 30, 2013
Yesterday I used the big scooter to commute to work for the 70th time. A quick trip to my calculator tells me that the scooter compiled 2,450 miles of use as a work traveler. That total is not so huge in the face of average automobile mileages of 12,000 miles but it bodes well in the arena of average motorcycle use. That average number is approximately 2,500 miles and says to me that I achieved that mileage through commuting alone. The actual use this season is much higher. At the moment the ...
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Slowing Down

October 26, 2013
Just when I thought it might be another mild winter Nature gave me a wake up call. This past week has been quite chilly and I've ridden in temperatures hovering in the mid-thirties. It only goes to show that seasons change and even wishful thinking won't change the weather. Tonight there were even wet snowflakes falling and, fortunately, I was able to observe it from the inside of a heated automobile. Scooter commuting might be coming to an end but as long as there isn't snow on the highway I...
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Riding Weather

October 16, 2013
I had the opportunity this past weekend to travel to Phoenix, Arizona. Sara's nephew got married to a lovely, young lady and we flew out to attend it. With the Summer like temperatures and clear skies all I could think of was "Where are my motorcycles. I need my bikes." Sadly they were 2,000 miles away resting in the garage. Riding there would have taken many days and is a little beyond my limits at this point in time. Of course I made up for it by doing a short ride to Binghamton (80 miles) ...
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Moving Right Along

October 5, 2013
If you were with us last time, I was waiting for scooter parts to be delivered to fix Wild Turkey damage. Sure enough the Post Office dropped off the needed parts to make the big scooter whole again. The good news was that the deflector replacement went like clockwork, the bad news was I broke the glass in the rear view mirror fighting to mount it. I ordered a new mirror-again-and repaired the scooter this past Wednesday when it arrived. Only this time I was much more careful and installed it...
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