PNW Riders - Life's a Breeze: The Adventures and Projects of Mic

Life's a Breeze

Life’s a Breeze is about the Motorcycle Adventures of myself (Mic) and my Motorcycle Related Projects. I cover many topics from rides, rebuilds, as well as reviews and research into the latest items to own.

I came up with “Life’s a Breeze” by the thought of riding down the road, on the track, or off the beaten path on some old dirt road. Just like the wind whistling by, life does so as well.

I continue to post my blog exerts to this PNW Site Blog System even though I have moved my blog to my own site at http://mic.phrozen-phaze.com.

I hope you enjoy what you read.

Until Next Time,

Changes to Life’s a Breeze

Posted 01-24-2010 at 05:33 PM by Mic (Life's a Breeze: The Adventures and Projects of Mic)

<< - This is an original article from Life's A Breeze: The Motorcycle Adventures and Projects of Mic - >>

Today I went ahead and executed some changes with Life’s a Breeze.

As of today, the old URL of http://mic.phrozen-phaze.com has been retired. All of the old links however, will still continue to automatically return to the original articles that they had previously went to.

Phrozen-Phaze is an old Domain I’ve owned for several...

Mic

Retired

Posted in Uncategorized

Views 1193 Comments 1 Mic is offline

Crossing County Lines: Destination - A Day to Waste

Posted 01-18-2010 at 02:35 PM by Mic (Life's a Breeze: The Adventures and Projects of Mic)

A lazy day spent riding around the King County and Snohomish County area's in my first installment of "Crossing County Lines"

Saturday the 16th started off just like any other Saturday before. I woke up after sleeping in, made coffee, and sat down for my morning ritual of checking email, browsing the forums at pnwriders.com and advrider.com and checking the local news and weather.

A quick glance at the weather report showed that the day would be rather dry...

Mic

Retired

Posted in PNW Riders, The Life of Mic

Views 651 Comments 0 Mic is offline

Across the Sound – Destination: The 12th Annual New Years Day Ride

Posted 01-11-2010 at 02:56 PM by Mic (Life's a Breeze: The Adventures and Projects of Mic)

Another "Across the Sound - Destination", this time we meet up with Dragracer1951 for a New Years ride around the Hood Canal.

So it comes to my attention that it is now January 11th, of our new year of 2010. It’s going to take me awhile to get used to this whole “10″ thing. In fact the “O’s” rolled off the tongue so easily, I want to say O’Ten. Which, technically is acceptable since there is an “0″ preceding the 10 part, but I don’t think people will like that....

Mic

Retired

Posted in Uncategorized

Views 899 Comments 1 Mic is offline

My Old Friend: Part 10 - An XT Reborn

Posted 12-30-2009 at 12:46 AM by Mic (Life's a Breeze: The Adventures and Projects of Mic)

In the final days of December, I strap down, and finish a project I’ve worked over a year on. What started out as a tribute, became a long emotional path as I raced to completely rebuild a part of my past. Now, as this journey comes to an end, I set my sights for many more adventures with My Old Friend.

Quote:

I realize, as I write this, that this will be the last entry I write in this Project Journal.

Over the last couple weeks, I have watched what was once an old

...

Mic

Retired

Posted in Uncategorized

Views 540 Comments 0 Mic is offline

My Old Friend: The Rebirth of an XT - Reborn

Posted 12-27-2009 at 03:07 PM by Mic (Life's a Breeze: The Adventures and Projects of Mic)

Words cannot describe the feeling of having this project come to an end.

All the street legal bits got put on this morning, and with that, I set out on a nice little 80 mile inaugural ride around Hood River, Oregon and the Columbia River Gorge.

Here is a Youtube of a few of the stops I made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTPEzYc-LlI

Mic

Retired

Posted in The Life of Mic, The Projects of Mic, Saving an Old Friend - 1992 XT 225

Views 673 Comments 2 Mic is offline

My Old Friend: The Rebirth of an XT - Video!

Posted 12-23-2009 at 10:13 PM by Mic (Life's a Breeze: The Adventures and Projects of Mic)

Tags life's a breeze, rebuild, xt225

I finally got around to signing up for a YouTube account so that I could post some videos!

There are 3 new entries on this page, first video is of the bike running! Second of the bikes rats nest of wire, and the third is of the Acerbis Cyclops headlight installed and testing.

I need to go look for a couple things in town tomorrow. I need to get some 90 degree connectors for my fuse block that I am installing under the dash, and I need front brake pads. I have managed...

Mic

Retired

Posted in The Projects of Mic, Saving an Old Friend - 1992 XT 225

Views 506 Comments 0 Mic is offline

The Heart of a 9-Year Old: Restoring a Link to the Past

Posted 12-02-2009 at 03:40 PM by Mic (Life's a Breeze: The Adventures and Projects of Mic)

It amazes me, how there are certain times in your life, that you can remember almost photographically. I’m not talking about short moments in time, but full days of events.

One of those days for me, was sometime in December of 1989. I believe I remember this day, for a series of events that would transpire that would ultimately stick in my mind.

I don’t remember the exact date, but I do know it was December. My father and I jumped in the pickup truck that morning,...

Mic

Retired

Posted in The Life of Mic, The Projects of Mic, The Bikes of Mic

Views 831 Comments 3 Mic is offline

Across the Sound – Destination: Phinney Bay Machine Works

Posted 11-23-2009 at 08:40 AM by Mic (Life's a Breeze: The Adventures and Projects of Mic)

For the last year or so, their has been a gentleman on a local forum I frequent (Pacific Northwest Riders) that I have been meaning to take the time to go and see.

Jim Whipple, and his wife Tamara, own a small machine shop located in Bremerton, Washington by the name of Phinney Bay Machine Works. Across the Puget Sound from Seattle, this small Naval town is an hour ferry ride from the Main terminal in Seattle.

Continue Reading at: Life's a Breeze

Mic

Retired

Posted in The Life of Mic

Views 635 Comments 0 Mic is offline

Routing to the Unknown

Posted 11-17-2009 at 11:20 AM by Mic (Life's a Breeze: The Adventures and Projects of Mic)

As I continue to do my route planning, and research of exactly where and what I want to see, I continue to discover points of interest that jump out at me.

My route has evolved from what seemed like simple jaunts between major points of interest, usually little towns along the way, to even more little points of interest of natural and man made wonders.

I sat down one night, and first tried to define what I wanted out of this trip, and where I wanted to go. I do not...

Mic

Retired

Posted in The Life of Mic

Views 712 Comments 2 Mic is offline

Ingenuity in the Pacific Northwest

Posted 11-12-2009 at 06:23 AM by Mic (Life's a Breeze: The Adventures and Projects of Mic)

The Pacific Northwest is in my opinion, one of the greatest area’s of land mass in the world. Very few area’s in the world compare to the beauty of the Pacific Northwest, nor do they offer the diversity, nor environments that the Pacific Northwest does.

No matter where you live here, no matter where you go. There is always something magical near by.

Whether it be the Olympic Rain Forest of Western Washington, the Crater Lake of South Central Oregon, or the massive Hell’s...

Mic

Retired

Posted in Uncategorized

Views 600 Comments 0 Mic is offline

Page 1 of 3

Archive
< May 2013
Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31	1