Comments for The One and Only

Comment on Stupid Weather! by Joel M. Vaughn

Joel M. Vaughn — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:23:54 +0000

It happens. I would have loved to upgraded the tank to a composite fuel cell, but that costs a pretty coin, so I’m going with a plastic tank. I will be adding clip ons, oil cooler, rearsets. So some upgrading will come about since the items had to be replaced or were needed all along.

Comment on Stupid Weather! by Thomas

Thomas — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:21:19 +0000

sorry to hear about the bike. Any plans to change it up a bit on the rebuild?

Comment on Stupid Weather! by bd

bd — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:30:12 +0000

The bike looks great with the mods, though I do think a few trick carbon bits where the side panels used to be would look sharp.

sorry about the month delay in commenting, either WordPress (likely) or NNW/OSX messed up the feed url.

Comment on Springing Into Action… Slowly by Sam

Sam — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:18:38 +0000

Joel,

You’re attracting international attention now – sweet!

I’m hoping that I’ll be able to join you on the Athens roads sooner rather than later. Of course, with those racing “street legal” cans you’ll probably dust my poor 700cc Shadow.

This coming winter I’m planning on taking the bike apart and making some mods / general maintenance stuff. I’ll probably have to custom-build some parts (forward controls, maybe rake the front end a little bit, add custom highway bars) because Honda doesn’t make anything that will work. Any help you could give would be most appreciated.

Hope all is well, bud – talk with you soon.

Comment on Springing Into Action… Slowly by Joel M. Vaughn

Joel M. Vaughn — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:25:01 +0000

Roberto,

No need to apologize. Hopefully the Monster will be back together this weekend. I was trying to convert to a dry clutch. Once I was in the engine, I realized I’d need a new transmission shaft for it to be long enough to attach the clutch. Some day I’ll get another Ducati and it can have a dry clutch. :]

Anyhow, the rear brake is as large to make it more ‘Monsterish”. The front is for a Buell and is quite large, so I decided to make the rear large as well. I know the 620 isn’t a Superbike, but I wanted to make it my own.

It’s almost spring here, I bet Borgo Panigale is beautiful to ride around! :]

Comment on Springing Into Action… Slowly by Roberto 65 TL

Roberto 65 TL — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:04:27 +0000

Here in north Italy season is coming good in this days.
Bikers are the same in all over the world, during winter modifications and restiling waiting for the sun !
Nice your cans, you’ll hear what a wonderfull sound !
A question : whi do you hawe a so big rear brake disk ?

Best regards from Roberto (Borgo Panigale)

Sorry for my english

Comment on Springing Into Action… Slowly by bd

bd — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:18:19 +0000

Nice cans. I hope I can still keep up on the Dakar.

Comment on Patience in the Winter by barnes

barnes — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:42:16 +0000

Hey, man. Meaning to call you back after our brief chat a month ago. I hope you are well.

Comment on Primitive Coffee by Joel M. Vaughn

Joel M. Vaughn — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:29:54 +0000

Now in Mr. Cutts defense, some aficionados might prefer vacuum methods, or the spooning technique. For everyday coffee though it’s very good. I’ve never had vacuum coffee… someday maybe, but I imagine it being fairly similar to the press.

Sam, I’d like to hear more about your training. Maybe you could do a guest post or an “interview”. ; ]

Comment on Primitive Coffee by bd

bd — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:28:56 +0000

Once you start using a French press, it’s hard to go back to and/or get excited about coffee prepared any other way.