Motorcycle :: Flopsie
April 24, 2005 / Sunday
He Loves It!
Flopsie's new owner loves him (her? ... it!). Yay. :)
09:13 PM | Flopsie| Comments (2)
April 23, 2005 / Saturday
Goodbye Flopsie?
Took Flopsie (who has, to its credit, stopped flopping ;) out for what might have been our last ride together just now.
Tomorrow morning, someone's coming over with a GS500E (plus a bit o' moolah), and I might trade Flopsie away.
Of course, on today's little ride, I thought, hey, this bike's pretty easy to ride. It is, but it's all relative, and I'd love to have something even easier to ride.
So if I do get another bike, what should I name it?
Gyroscope.
03:25 PM | Flopsie:Weeble| Comments (2)
April 03, 2005 / Sunday
I Want A Lighter Bike
Spent a couple hours teaching one of Doug's friends how to ride today. She didn't want to ride her motorcycle in traffic to the practice lot, so she drove while I followed on her EX-500. I quite like that bike! It's waaay easier to handle than mine. Less powerful, but really, I don't need all that power. Don't don't don't need it. More handling, yes, I need it. Need need need need it.
Oh, and a tip for those of you who don't ride: if there's someone on a motorcycle following you and the light you're approaching turns yellow, go ahead and run it. They can most likely keep up, and if not, they can stop. Whatever you do, don't slam on your brakes. Pleeease.
That is all.
12:59 AM | Flopsie:Motorcycle| Comments (11)
March 17, 2005 / Thursday
Turn, Don't Flop!
Whenever I ride someone else's motorcycle I notice how much easier it is to turn than mine.
What's up with that?
09:18 AM | Flopsie| Comments (0)
October 09, 2004 / Saturday
I Suck
While trying to find a better garage parking configuration for my car and bike, I put a gimungous scratch in the car bumper with the bike exhaust pipe.
The scratch is actually worse than it looks in that picture. It's gouged all the way into the black bumper material.
Since my gut was occupied with other things, I didn't even really react. I calmly went for my camera, took a picture, and finished moving my bike into its spot.
Goddammit.
07:06 PM | Flopsie:GTI| Comments (2)
July 02, 2004 / Friday
I'm Only Half Sucky To My Bike
Today, after two weeks of forgetting, I finally remembered (after almost forgetting again) to lube the chain on my motorcycle. Hooray for me. Hooray for Flopsie, too.
For a brief moment, I wished I hadn't taken my centerstand off. Then I remembered that I removed it because I'm not strong enough to (1) put the bike up on the centerstand and (2) take the bike off the centerstand without flopping it over.
Sad, I know. Anyone want to trade me for something smaller?
04:55 PM | Flopsie| Comments (0)
April 04, 2004 / Sunday
Frankenbike
Flopsie is ridable once again! I replaced the rear set yesterday and also some of the partially pavement-stripped screws on the bodywork. I found screws that fit, but not of the same style and color. Well, I didn't buy this bike for looks. The screws are functional, and that's good enough for me.
Today, I fixed the munged exhaust clamp and remounted the right pipe. I also did some much needed chain maintenance. It was rusting up a storm just sitting there the last two weeks. I checked the forks to make sure they were straight. I forgot to check tire pressure, which has nothing to do with the flop, but I should have done it nonetheless.
So half of this stuff that I did, I didn't really do all by myself. I have Doug to thank for 1. having tools I can borrow and 2. helping me get my bike on the rear stand. I have enough trouble balancing my bike under normal circumstances, much less balance it with one hand while pushing with all my might to prop it up on a stand.
I've missed riding, but when I think about riding to work again, I realize I've been car spoiled these last couple of weeks. It's nice not having to suit up for every little trip during the day, and taking the bike is an absolute pain in the butt if I want to go to the gym because I have to carry extra stuff and go through another round of suiting up when I get there.
So about this Frankenbike thing, Flopsie has a few more scratches, a few more cracks, and a few more mismatched screws. A few more flops and I'm gonna turn this thing into a streetfighter. I'll rename it to, hrmm, E. Kawi. Hahaha, I made a video game motorcycle pun.
04:08 PM | Flopsie| Comments (0)
March 21, 2004 / Sunday
More On The Flopping Of Flopsie
I promised more later, and I still don't really feel motivated to write all that much about it. I should, though, or else I won't have anything to look back at later on.
So we were on Pinehurst, and I was 2nd rider after my friend John. I rounded a curve and saw John stopped on the shoulder. I pulled over and started to slow. He waved me on. I looked at his waving hand, probably turned back toward the road a little as I considered going on, decided to stop anyway, forgot that gravel likes to live on road shoulders, was braking too hard for gravel (and maybe not quite travelling straight anymore), felt the rear of my bike come out on the right, felt the front of the bike dig in, and the next thing I knew, I was rolling on pavement.
I'm told the rear wheel locked up and started sliding out, and then the front wheel locked up too. The front wheel bit and the bike just went sideways. Somewhere in that mix I came off the bike and tumbled a couple tumbles. My right hip hit the ground first, I had my right hand on the ground palm down, I rolled on my right shoulder (probably spraining my right pinky along the way), and then banged the side of my head as I rolled over. Woof.
Oh well. Newbie error. I'm okay for the most part and the bike needs only a bit of work. In the grand scheme of things, that's not so bad for a real life flopping lesson.
Does anyone out there have a spare rear set for a Zx-6e?
11:45 AM | Flopsie| Comments (0)
March 20, 2004 / Saturday
This Flopsie Thing Ain't So Funny Anymore
Doggammit, I flopped my bike over again. Brakes plus gravel, bad. Helmets and padding and somewhat pavement-resistant gear, good. Broken rear set, bad. Headache from hitting head on ground, bad. Sore shoulder, bad. Bruised hip, bad. Sprained right pinky, bad. Fortunately, I don't need my right pinky for hockey.
More later. Time for bed.
10:40 PM | Flopsie:Injuries| Comments (0)
March 02, 2004 / Tuesday
How To Get Free Motorcycle Maintenance
1. Flop your bike over and screw something up so it runs like crap.
2. Have your mechanically inclined boyfriend sell his one and only commute bike.
3. Be nice and let him ride your bike to work while he's bikeless.
4. He will discover that your bike runs like crap.
5. He will be annoyed that he has to commute on the crappy running bike.
6. He will take your bike apart and fix it.
7. Cool.
Actually, I would have liked to participate in the fixing, but I'm way too busy with moving and work these days. Maybe next time. Not that I plan to flop it over again. But then, I hadn't planned to flop it over the first time.
09:43 AM | Flopsie| Comments (0)
January 25, 2004 / Sunday
Both Of My Vehicles Are Sputtering!
It took me a good three or four tries to get my car started this morning.
Maybe I have bad vehicle starting karma.
Maybe my car is in cahoots with my motorcycle.
09:31 PM | Flopsie:GTI| Comments (0)
January 24, 2004 / Saturday
Vroom Sputter Sputter
My bike ain't runnin' so well. I think I got gunk in it when I flopped it over last month. Took about 10 starts before it would actually run, and it's definitely not running as smoothly as it should. Looks like I'll be grease monkeying again sometime soon.
10:05 PM | Flopsie| Comments (0)
Forks Straight!
Doug helped me check my bike's front end just now, and hooray, my forks are pretty much straight! We persuaded my slightly bent right handlebar back into its rightful place while we were at it, too.
Now I just have to get out and ride the thing!
02:33 PM | Flopsie| Comments (0)
January 06, 2004 / Tuesday
Ready To Vroom Once Again!
Finally, my bike's right exhaust is back on tight! I think the pipes are straighter now than they were before the flop! The watch is remounted, too. Now I just have to work on being around to ride it ...
In other news, my new work gloves kick ass! I finally found something that fits! Screw you, hardware and automotive stores who stock work gloves made for burly men with big hands, I got my gloves from Brookstone!
Yes, Brookstone. Who woulda thunk it?
09:01 PM | Flopsie| Comments (0)
December 29, 2003 / Monday
Flop Analysis
I've done a lot of thinking about my little incident that had the potential to be very big and nasty from last Friday. I fully intend to learn as much as I can from it, so I'm going to write down what I think happened and all the things I think I could have done differently. To those of you who ride and/or have friends who ride, if you can point out anything else, please do. I really really really do not want to do this again.
1. I should not should not should not have been lead rider. I said earlier in the day that I didn't want to lead because I needed someone in front of me to keep me in check. Why did I take the lead when the leader said he wanted to slow down half an hour later? I should have just slowed it down and stayed behind him. I should have known better.
2. I was being carried by my little ride high when I decided to take the lead, which overrode knowing better. If I set myself rules for the day I need to stick to them, unless I have a damned good reason to do otherwise.
3. I'd ridden Stage Road before but I definitely didn't know it well enough to know the turns, and at my current skill level I am not yet able to identify and react to surprise decreasing radius turns quickly enough. I should have slowed it down more.
4. Roads with no center line throw me off. I should have slowed the pace even more.
5. Turning harder instead of freaking out when I realized I was running wide was good. I think that's one thing I actually did correctly (but please correct me if I'm wrong on this one).
6. I think I made a bad decision when I started scraping my footpeg. The footpeg is spring loaded and I could have kept turning on it (I think). In retrospect, if I'd done that I probably could have stayed on the road.
7. In the moment, scraping the footpeg made me think, "Eeek, get off the footpeg." I think I came back up to get it off the ground, and that's when I realized I didn't have enough road to turn. I shouldn't have Eeeked. Then I could have followed through with #6.
8. After step #7, I saw hillside. In my mind I was sure I was going to hit it but I didn't want to hit it hard, so I braked. Braking = straightening more = zero chance of staying on the road. I scrubbed off enough speed to not do so much damage, but eventually reached the edge of the road, dug my front wheel into the gravelmud, and flopped my bike over. I suppose that's better than running into the hill going fast. Question for those of you who know better than I do: Given that at this point I've eliminated option #6 by coming back up from my lean, was braking to scrub speed the right thing to do?
9. I'd like to revisit #6. There was an uphill left turn coming up right after the right turn I flopped on. I knew I was in the opposite lane but I couldn't see if there were cars coming. Had I stuck with #6 I'd have run the risk of a head-on collision with cars coming down the hill and around the corner. That brings up another question: What's the thing to do here? Given a choice between definite hillside or possible head-on with a car, which would I want to take?
Is there anything I've left out? Anything I've gotten grossly wrong? Comments and answers to the above questions would be very much appreciated.
• • •
Even though I wasn't even trying to go fast, and even though this wasn't what happened, I'm reminded of the bumper sticker below. I do this kind of crap in my car. Makes me chuck a little chuckle.
02:00 PM | Flopsie| Comments (0)
December 26, 2003 / Friday
My Day After Christmas Ride Flop
The first fully sunny day in ages! I hadn't ridden in so long I'd forgotten how to start my bike. I flipped the switch to "Run", pushed the starter button, and thought the battery was dead. Turns out I'd forgotten to turn the ignition on. 
Once I figured out how to start my bike, I met up with fellow RSDers MGD and the Shaolin Monkey for a ride. The SM's cousin came, too, and rode on the back of MGD's bike.
Stopped at Alice's, which I believe is required on all Peninsula rides. Met some BARFers gathering for their 10 AM ride. They were a fairly cool group of people. I wonder if the Saturday group's like that too. I'd like to ride with them someday.
Our group headed off separately, since we had to get MGD back to Belmont in time for lunch. We put MGD in the lead because I needed someone in front of me to keep me in check. When we reached Pescadero Road, MGD declared the roads slippery (they were!) and I took the lead.
I was doing okay for a while. I don't think I went too ridiculously fast. There was a lot of debris on the road, in addition to the water, so I got lots of practice hanging off my bike. I'm getting better at it, I think. I can really tell the difference in lean angle. Yeah!
When we reached Pescadero we headed back toward Highway 1 on Stage Road. At this point I was still up front. 2 or 3 turns from Highway one, we came to a downhill hairpin right turn. I didn't realize this was a decreasing radius turn when I entered. Halfway through the turn I realized I was running wide. I turned harder, and started scraping my footpeg on the ground. At the time I thought that even leaned over that much I'd run myself off the road and into the hill (or was it muddy mountain face?) on the other side of the road. So, at this point, to reduce impact speed (I think), I braked. Off the road I went, the front tire hit gravelmud, and the bike flopped over sideways. I somehow wound up sitting on the road right next to my bike, and watched MGD and the SM as they came around the corner.
What a mess! There was mud all over the side of my bike. I was okay, though. Not a scratch! Hooray for good gear! We picked up my bike (thanks, you guys), let the spark plugs dry out a bit, started it up, and headed home.
The bike got a good washing and most of the reachable mud is off now. It's pretty scratched on the right side, but the plastics are intact. My exhaust pipe needs a little tightening and my watch needs to be remounted, but aside from that everything seems to be okay. Glad I dumped it in mud.
Actually, there's a lot I'm glad for. I'm glad there was no oncoming traffic when I went wide. I'm glad I didn't hit the side of the hill head-on. I'm glad I didn't injure myself. I'm glad my bike's not all that damaged.
I'm not at all upset, because it could have been much worse. I feel lucky, and I'm going to spend some time thinking about this and try to figure out what I did wrong, what I could have done differently, and what I should do in the future.
Flopsie really is an appropriate name for my bike, don't you think?
Yeah, I know, it only flops 'cause I do stupid things that cause it to flop.
I took lots of pictures, and will probably put them online at some point.
In other ride news, I came up to an R6 heading to SF on Skyline later on. In what seems to be SF sportbiker protocol, the guy on the bike said "Hello" with a wheelie. This one was much more impressive than the GSX-R wheelie from a month ago. Good thing I live in Belmont and ride an 'e' instead of an 'r', or I'd feel pressured to learn the SF sportbike greeting too.
Pookie: Ixnay on telling mom and dad, okay? I own a bike, but I never crash it, and there's no such thing as turning wide right into oncoming traffic.
02:39 PM | Flopsie| Comments (0)
November 18, 2003 / Tuesday
Another Happy Picture
The view from my desk at work:
The snow picture was nice, but it's far away and I'm sure the roads are clear now. The bike, however, I can look at ... and then go outside and ride! 
11:54 AM | Flopsie| Comments (0)
November 05, 2003 / Wednesday
My Mom Would Like My License Plate
I feel a bit silly and a bit fobby for being (now not-so-) secretly happy that the new license plate for my motorcycle says in superstitious Cantonese:
1. That I won't break down.
2. Hey!
3. That I won't die.
Yes, in that order. All numbers and characters accounted for, too!
11:15 PM | Flopsie| Comments (0)
Vroom?
I'm starting to suffer from motorcycle withdrawal. Haven't ridden since Sunday. It's wet today, and rain's expected tomorrow through Monday. That's 8 days off my bike! Will I still remember to ride when I finally get to take it out again?
In happier bike news, I stuck a watch on my steering stem nut so I can keep track of time while riding. It lights up blue, just like my car dash.
Single click for light-up closeup, double click to clear.
Unfortunately, this means I now want to replace all the instrument panel backlighting with blue. Is this the start of another expensive mod habit? I'm scared.
12:30 PM | Flopsie| Comments (0)
November 04, 2003 / Tuesday
Asymmetry
My Yosh pipes aren't 100% symmetrical. I think it's due to a combination of prying the crap out of the header pipes to get the centerstand off, the previous owner lowsiding on the left, and my dropping the bike three times on the right. It's not the end of the world, but it bugs me just a bit.
10:47 AM | Flopsie| Comments (0)
November 02, 2003 / Sunday
How To Remove The Centerstand From A Zx-6e
Make time. This will take a while.
Have patience. You'll need it. Lots of it.
Buy coolant (or WaterWetter). You'll need to drain the system. Yes, for the centerstand.
Prop bike up. No, not on the centerstand. It's being removed, remember?
Remove seat. Bend key in the process. Curse. Curse again.
Remove rear passenger handle bar (2 bolts).
Remove right rear panel (6 screws). Don't forget to disconnect the blinker light.
Remove decorative silverish plastic fairing piece that took you 30 minutes to figure out the first time (2 screws and one rubber grommet popout). Do this in 2 minutes this time. At least you have that going for you.
Remove lower fairing in one big piece instead of pulling it apart into 3 pieces like you did the last time. (2 screws and 2 bolts). Something else going for you. Whoo.
Remove side panels (2 screws per side). Curse because they still won't come off even after you've removed the screws and popped them out of their rubber grommet holder things. Pull, bend, curse. Repeat. Around iteration 5 they will come off.
Remove right middle fairing. Find that there's an extra bolt that the Haynes manual didn't tell you about. Spend 10 minutes trying to reach the bolt. Curse. Scrape hand trying to reach the bolt. Curse some more.
Attempt to remove center console plastic piece (2 screws).
Remove windscreen (6 screws, 4 of which are holding the center console plastic piece in place).
Remove center console plastic piece (pull).
Remove mirrors (4 nuts). The upper fairing is now free from the frame ... I think. I don't remember. Why? Because ...
Lose track of screws and bolts and nuts and stuff. Curse.
Remove upper fairing (probably a few more screws). Remember to disconnect wires to the headlight and turn signals.
Notice that there's a bolt missing from the headlight/upper fairing assembly. Curse. Find replacement bolt.
Remove left middle fairing. Notice that the ridiculously hard to reach bolt is very reachable when the upper fairing is off. If the damned Haynes manual had known that that bolt were there maybe it could have told you that. On the other hand, the damned Hayne manual claims that the centerstand is removable simply by pulling two bolts out (which is NOT true!), so never mind.
Okay! No more plastics up front!
Unmount oil cooler (3 bolts). That's about the easiest thing you're going to get to do. Take a breather and enjoy the moment.
Time to drain the coolant. Look for drain bolt on the wrong side of the bike. Curse 'cause you can't find it. Ask boyfriend for help. Get laughed at for looking on the wrong side of the bike. Dammit.
Drain coolant via now-located drain bolt. Remember to loosen the radiator cap so it can flow out.
Unhook radiator hoses (2 clamps).
Unplug fan wire. If you're good you'll be able to fish the connector out from under the tank. If you're not, remove the tank. Good thing we didn't have to remove the tank, or this post would run an extra half page.
Remove radiator from bike (2 bolts, I think). Spill coolant everywhere. Green puddle on the rug. Roops.
Drain remaining coolant from reservoir. Note that the reservior is dirty as hell. Resist urge to clean reservoir.
Remove mufflers from exhaust pipes (2 bolts and 2 clamps).
Loosen nuts at the head of the exhaust/header pipes (8 nuts).
Remove bolts in the middle span of the header pipes (2 bolts).
Notice that there's a missing bolt for the fairing mount near the header pipe bolts. Curse. Find replacement bolt.
Pull as hard as you can at the end of the header pipes so they move a fraction of an inch so you can unscrew and pull out the damned centerstand bolts. One person pull pipes with a big long steel rod, one person pull on a bolt with a pair of pliers. Pull more. Curse. Pull more. Curse. Goddammit!
Okay! Centerstand is off! Huzzah!
Now for reassembly ...
In Haynes manual fashion, "Assembly is the reverse of disassembly," which is almost accurate. Be sure to add the following:
Attempt to match up the screws and bolts you lost track of. Curse. Curse more.
Reinstall the upper fairing, mirrors, windscreen, center console plastic, and side panels before you notice that you didn't put the right middle fairing on yet, and curse for five minutes while you try to screw in the bolt that was ridiculously hard to get to because you were supposed to access it with all the upper bodywork removed. Curse more. Rarr.
Have your sweet boyfriend wiggle and jiggle the bike and work other coolant system magic to make sure all the air bubbles are out so your engine doesn't blow up. This implies that you've remembered to refill the coolant. I suppose it also implies that you have a sweet boyfriend, and if you don't, well, maybe a sweet someone else, and if not that either, then I hope that, unlike myself, you are able to wiggle and jiggle your bike without dropping it.
There! You're done! The good news is, you can substitute badass Yoshimura slip-ons in place of the stock mufflers upon reassembly. Your bike is not only 5 pounds lighter now, it sounds 5 times meaner. Cool, huh?
I'm told it'll be even more fun when I have to adjust my valves.
10:53 PM | Flopsie| Comments (0)
November 01, 2003 / Saturday
Wrench Wrench Goes The Grease Monkey
Having another grease monkey weekend. Was poking around my car earlier and noticed that the seal between my airbox and MAF sensor was loose. Loose! WTF?! Maybe the stealership people knocked it loose when I had my car in for the ignition coil recall. Bad bad bad. Don't want non-air particles getting into my engine. Anyway, tightened that up.
Swapped some bulbs out up front again. I swear, no more headlight work until I get myself a set of HIDs or angel eyes.
Checked my spare tire pressure. Pain in the ass but a small one and well worth it, so I was good and made sure it was happy.
On to the motorcycle. Doug helped me make a bracket for my new license plate. I'm finally legal! Very happy about that.
We're currently trying to pull the centerstand off. For some reason the exhaust pipes are in the way. Doug's trying to help me find a way around it. Originally I was going to pull the exhaust off, which requires draining the coolant and removing the radiator, which, in turn, requires removing every single freakin' piece of fairing. Anyway, I was working my way through the parts and I was looking at the Haynes guide diagrams and I was complaining about how the idiot who reassembled my bike had forgotten a part, and then Doug looked and pointed out that I was looking at the wrong part on the wrong side of the bike. Oops.
Hold up hands, thumbs out. 'L' means left.
Time for some soup. More bike wrenching afterward. More blogging after that. Hope you're all having a good Saturday. Roh!
03:20 PM | Flopsie:Grease Monkey| Comments (0)
October 26, 2003 / Sunday
Grease Monkey Garden Helper Viv
Played car today and finally did my 20,000 miles oil change. I feel better! I hope my car does, too. I somehow spazzed and forget to remove the oil filter cap drain before removing the oil filter cap and wound up with motor oil splattered everywhere. Made a pretty cool pattern on my shirt. Designer grease monkey clothes. Whoo.
Played motorcycle after playing car. I took the ridiculously hard to turn petcock apart and cleaned it out so now I can actually go from "On" to "Reserve' without having to pull over and get off my bike. After that, bled my brakes, and then cleaned out the front calipers.
I just realized that my motorcycle's front calipers have twice as many pistons as my entire car does. On the flip side, just one of my car's brake pads contain enough material to outfit several bikes. Interesting.
Cleaned up the motorcycle a bit and helped Doug out with some much needed gardening. Raked a lot. Felt like I was back home helping out my mom again. Got bitten by a bunch of mosquitoes. Again, felt like I was back home. Next thing you know there's gonna be a warm torrential downpour thunderstorm.
One of the mosquitoes bit my forehead. I whacked it right after I felt it, but it broke skin. I wonder what that's gonna look like tomorrow.
09:44 PM | Flopsie:Grease Monkey| Comments (0)
October 01, 2003 / Wednesday
This Thing Is Heavy!
It's kind of sad that when my bike is leaned over just a wee bit more than it is on flat ground I have a LOT of trouble getting it up off its kickstand, huh?
That and pushing it up small inclines, man, hard work!
Had some great food and some great conversation in the Castro, though.
Roh!
12:58 AM | Flopsie| Comments (0)
September 27, 2003 / Saturday
Isn't This Supposed To Be Easier?
Changing the oil on my bike is even more of a PITA than it is on my car.
06:16 PM | Flopsie| Comments (0)
September 26, 2003 / Friday
Registering The Motorcycle
Another visit to the DMV out of the way! That took only, oh, 4 hours. I managed to go to the gym, turn in my traffic school certificate, eat lunch at the mall, and study a couple chapters of German in that time. That, and my motorcycle is now (almost) registered! Whoo.
02:35 PM | Flopsie| Comments (0)
September 14, 2003 / Sunday
Loud Floppin'
Man, my new motorcycle is LOUD! Might have to switch back to stock pipes until I deem myself worthy of a head turn. Right now it's like, "Hey, watch me drop my bike!"
A motorcycle on its side is a very disturbing site.
10:08 PM | Flopsie| Comments (0)
Bike Bike Bike
As promised, a picture of my bike. Yes, I like red things with wheels.
And in case you're wondering, that's Doug's bike behind my bike and Doug's other other bike behind that.
07:16 PM | Flopsie| Comments (0)
Race Upgrades ... Kinda
In happier news, I finally have a cold air intake and cross-drilled rotors ... only they're on my bike, not my car.
11:13 AM | Flopsie| Comments (0)
Drop X 3
I dropped my bike a whopping three times yesterday. It's, uh, kinda heavy. It makes me feel little. Kinda like how co-ed hockey makes me feel little. The minute it gets a little off balance, I pull and I pull and it just keeps going. Going and going and then flop, it's on its side.
I should go take pictures before I scratch it up more, huh?
11:12 AM | Flopsie| Comments (0)
September 06, 2003 / Saturday
My Very Own Motorcycle!
I bought a motorcycle today. It cost me more than I was originally going to spend on a bike, but I also like this one more than some of the ones I was originally thinking of buying.
I also bought new sunglasses to replace the ones I broke last week. They're Spys. They cost me more than more than my last pair did, but I also like this pair more than my last pair.
I was going to by a Carbonio intake for my car today, too, but after the motorcycle and the sunglasses I was feeling too poor.
Could it be? Could my car budget start shrinking now that I have a bike?
Whoa.
