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2008 Hyundai Tucson. Not a mark on it. Paid for, too. Then what must have been a blind driver T-boned us on the driver's side rear corner. One minute I'm just sat in the passenger seat then BANG! the next minute I'm hanging sideways in my safety strap looking down at my wife asking "Are you...

Spent a week in Victoria BC to celebrate our 30th wedding anniversary. Vancouver Island is about the only part of Canada that's OK for riding year round so lotsa bikes just being used for transport rather than just for fun. Victoria is just plain beautiful and our trip coinciding with a 1,700...

Which my British Nephew said is Britspeak for losing one's nerve. Last year I bought a 1967 100cc Yamaha Twinjet which my son fixed up to run perfectly so I could take it to this year's Handhills (AB) small bike rally. On arriving I rode the bike around the campsite and came to realize that...

Someone asked me to post photos of my Heritage Special/Spirit of America sidecar rig build once it was completed. Here's some walk-around shots of the rig in my driveway:-

My SPAM column used to be mostly from folks who claimed to have important messages from the USPS and the last Nigerian Prince who wanted help in moving his private fortune was months ago. These days the USPS must have realized that Saskatoon ain't in the USA because they've quit posting. But...

Yesterday me and my wife took the Flying Pumpkin on Saskatoon's Salvation Army Christmas toy run. Too soon? It used to be the first week of October but one year an early sleet storm motivated moving the event to September for a better hope of reasonable riding weather. I just about refrigerated...

The Hudson Bay Company, that is. http://www3.hbc.com/hbc/about-us/ On offer in today's Bay flier for Cdn$ 105.00 (plus taxes) Pure XS "fiery and untamed - - - " Alas, it ain't a bike, it's a bottle of perfume dammit!

I am no longer Saskatoon's worst bodger. I yield up the title to our new home's PO. My wife and I just moved into a modest bungalow because the 4 sets of stairs in our previous home were getting hard to cope with, one flight up from the kitchen/dining/lounge level to use the washroom or one...

My 2018 XS650 calendar arrived in the mailbox on January 5th. I have no problem with that date as I don't buy the calendars I send to others until they go on sale at 40% off which won't be until this weekend. And I have no problem with the XS650 calendar, I think it's just about perfect. But as...

It told me all about their new Boeing 737MAX aircraft. Showed all manner of details and a high-speed montage of the aircraft being assembled, mostly by robots. What it didn't answer were the three important questions that any Air Canada passenger will know they need to ask:- 1) Is there more leg...

I recently attended the CVMG's fall swapmeet in Red Deer Alberta where a vendor had this 1936 Norton International on display:- The photo speaks for itself and I'm with Gollum:- " I wants it ! " Purists will note the front brake upgrade and that some over-enthusiastic restorer has chromed the...

bought a 1956 Yamaha 100cc TwinJet that my son is rebuilding for me. New points and correct timing got it running kinda OK but not altogether reliable. Symptoms indicated bad crankshaft seals which means a complete engine teardown to replace them. All apart except we needed a puller to take the...

A few days back I was part of a discussion about the difference between a Standard and a Special XS650. Yes the frame got sturdier over the years and there are minor differences between passenger footpeg mount styles but those can be easily removed with a Sawzall & angle-grinder as part of a...

like the header sez, that's where the good news ends. It's still a Yamaha twin. A 1964 YL1 twin Jet 100. Rolling chassis & engine still together, with all the stripped off parts in boxes. My son & I jumper-wired a car battery to it's reassembled electrics, and it's OK for sparks. Then we did a...

It won't take you very far but it lets you get at your carb adjustments real easy.

I've always claimed that swapping an XS650's stock air filters for good pods (OK, Unipods, the rest, not so much) made no difference to how well the bike ran. Back in the spring of 2015 my XS650 reawakening involved a complete carb cleaning and putting the stock airboxes back on was such a...

https://www.facebook.com/Saskatoon-Cruise-Weekend-509144705782274/ If you can't make it to the Northern USA to see the full solar eclipse on August 21st (coincidentally my 80th birthday) but would like to see 2,000+ antique cars, hot rods, sports cars and the odd motorcycle on show on the roped...

Just had to share this photo. Fellow CVMG member Travis has turned a derelict Honda 500cc sideways V-twin into what he's called "The world's most uncomfortable café racer". One of the elegant touches is a chromed sidestand that used to be a box-end wrench.

I got an e-mail that said that today, May 15th, was National Lost Sock Day. Then it offered me all manner of bargains on replacement socks. Now, I USED to have a lost sock problem back when my daughters were of an age to need a babysitter. She'd show up wearing odd socks that she'd taken from...

Doug 79 posted that he couldn't put his '79 airbox photos here but could put them in the garage section. And I wondered why. So here's a photo that I posted in the garage to see what happens:- It's a totally worn out 17T sprocket off a VF750F.