The snow melted away last week. The child is 8 1/2 months old, grandparents have agreed to watch him. Bikes are ready, oil changed, washed, and tired properly inflated. My wife gets to ride her bike for the first time since we found out she was pregnant and I get to shake the cobwebs off my winter doldrums.

Needless to say, I am excited to go out for a ride this weekend. What is everyone else planning for the weekend?

hom with the kids. polish a few fairings in between games of freeze tag in the basement.

I work the weekend crew so Saturday is actually my Monday at work. I got to ride all day Friday but with the pollen count being over 3,000 I'm feeling the effects of it this morning.

I hope everyone enjoys their weekend and that the weather will be as beautiful across the rest of the country as it has been here in the southeast.

3 motorcycle races and formula 1 season opener on speed channel! Oh, and the 1st bike ride of the season, if it doesn't rain.

Work.

Riding some where in Noth East Tassie.

Went to the ST. Drunkard's Day Parade in St.L. yesterday. Today is my B-day, so I'm going riding somewhere.

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Have a great day, danno!

3 motorcycle races and formula 1 season opener on speed channel! Oh, and the 1st bike ride of the season, if it doesn't rain.

Work.

Weekend A) Kids
Weekend B) Work

I need to sneak my riding in around work. Can't complain, I have a weekend in the middle of the week every 14 days too. Also works ok to get off of work at 2 PM. Also I am out in the Kettle Morraine. could prolly find a nice 3 hour route home through the twisties.

Finished up the Rostra electronic cruise control install on my Connie, and ran diagnostics, which is passed.

Installed two water-resistant powerlet sockets on my right top cover (ram air tube cover). Put connectors on the socket wires and the wires coming from the Dispatch 1 electronic fuse system, so it can be disconnected and the top cover removed from the bike.

Ready to make connection to battery for the Dispatch 1, but holding off for some extra battery ring terminals and such to arrive, so I can connect the 12 gauge red and black wires that are going to the front to run the Stebel at a full 20A, and to the back for the passenger's control pod with two powerlet sockets and Kustom Komfort controls, plus a 3rd Kustom Komfort control for the passenger's heated seat.

I won't be fabricating the control pod (have box, pcb boards, Kustom Komfort internals, copper sheet for heat sinks, and relays ready to go) until later on during a lull in riding season, so just running the 12 gauge wires back to where they need to be for when I do.

Learned that soldering butt connections of 12 gauge wire to 12 gauge wire or to terminals is not something you can do with a standard industrial grade soldering gun. So I'm getting a 1,000 degree gun, that will heat things up enough to draw the solder in and make a good joint.

Thanks, Rook. My riding buddy got me a red Alpinestars t-shirt with a sideways dirttracker on it and the wife and kids got me a DVD called "Bit by the Dragon" about Supermoto bikes at Deal's Gap. Rode down to my daughters to see my grandchildren and now I'm gonna lay back, have an adult beverage and watch this vid. When I was down there a couple of years ago, I talked to a guy riding a Supermoto and I remember thinking; "THAT is the bike to attack this road with."