In my continuing research for my trip planning I have focused on shelter. Now, I am by no means even slightly educated when it comes to tents. Anything camping really. So my research, criteria, and decisions were based on talking with more knowledgeable friends, taking note of their criteria, then picking out the most important features that appealed to me.

Shelter, along with food and water, is an important aspect of survival, so I figured I better spend some time researching tents....

There are so many thing that one needs to do a successful trip on 2 wheels. The most needed among those things, is well, the 2 wheels that will carry you, then everything else can be debated.

I’ve been spending a large amount of my free time with research. Research of pretty much everything one will need for an extended trip.

Being that this is my first true “Adventure” ride that I will take part in, I need a lot of supplies. And with needing supplies comes the age...

Decisions Decisions Decisions. It has all come down to Decisions. The bike is up on its own wheels, carb is in place, exhaust is in place, and the wire harness is somewhat in place. All the pieces needed to start her up, and I just let it set. More time spent thinking, planning, measuring than actual work took place in this update, so it is short, simple, full of babble and a couple pictures to compliment it.

"Any man who believes he controls the machine is in a state of...

Part 8: Published 10-26-09

Finally seeing the bike take shape, and getting caught up, we see what stood as a skeleton of bare metal, start to take form of a motorcycle, but not without a hiccup here and there.

"Boy! What a weekend!

I was originally going to name this issue of MOF “The exploady burny” issue, but decided against that… And more on that later. Right now, lets jump right into things!"

Continue Reading at Life's a Breeze: The Adventures and Projects of Mic

I see them. The gentle leaves falling to the ground, blotting out the once green neighborhoods in tones of yellow, orange and red.

Our sky's give in to the clouds. Slowly removing the blue from our sights, and replacing it with the dreary gray that has moved in, bringing with it, the pat pat pattering of rain gently striking the ground in rapid succession.

It's autumn in the Pacific Northwest. And while the people pack up their motorcycles, along with their lawn furniture...

As mentioned in Part 6, this blog has officially moved over to my own personal blog site in order to not have to post it and format it for multiple sites.


A wet weekend of more time spent driving than working proves that even a little progress is good progress.

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Do to the limitations of the blog software, I have moved my articles over to my own personal project site, where I will continue to update full articles.

This decision was made due to the increasing popularity of this project on multiple sites, and I wanted a single place to post to, and where linking was made easy. Because different forums have different mark up tags, this allows me to make 1 master copy, and then one stub to cut and paste to multiple forums without needing to change...

If you are just starting out reading this series, you can get caught up starting at "My Old Friend - Part 1: The Rebirth of an XT"

Well this is another point five update, which means it is mostly just things that have moved forward, but have not really made any progress.

Some major things that have moved forward.

First off, the Fuel Tank

Getting back into working on this, I started to spend more time again, researching what people...

If you are just starting out reading this series, you can get caught up starting at "My Old Friend - Part 1: The Rebirth of an XT"

Well it has been awhile since I've written in this blog for this series of updates on my XT.

Truth be told, it was a series of events that caused me to stop working on this bike.

But to bring everyone up to speed...

For the most part, all the parts are in for the bike. In fact, I have had everything...

It's not often I post up, write about, or even talk about the importance of gear. It would, for most parts, make me a hypocrite, as I enjoy a good sunny day ride around town with nothing but a helmet on for protection.

This may stem from my younger years, growing up on a farm, and riding bikes from such an early age. Most of the time, I went without any protection at all. Summers were just my work boots, pants, a sleeveless shirt, and sunglasses to keep the sun out of my eyes....