So when your bike's in the shop getting a new transmission, and you find yourself dwelling on the empty whitespace in the garage, you can do what this guy did, to get some use out of your leathers. I can't, though, I'm off to do chores, but I sure know the feeling.

Yesterday I rode from the bay area to southern Oregon with a couple of friends, a roughly ten-hour day that took us through what seemed like every type of weather we could find. I took far too few photos, but here's the tale anyway!

Hwy 36. (Gallery)

Ara, aka BeemerChef, and his dog Spirit, have a wonderful site called "The Oasis of my Soul", a motorcycle travel journal with heavy doses of photography and food thrown in. I've been enjoying it for some time now, so I'm adding his feed to the new site here.

My K12S came with a beautiful Hepco & Becker tail rack installed. After a little research into the brand, I found that they have some topcases designed to mount to the rack. I found precious little info or pics on the web specific to the K1200S, so I thought I'd post this.

The rack itself it is extremely sturdy, and mounts to the subframe, replacing the OEM grab handles. It's shaped so that IMHO it looks really good on the bike, not out of place at all. I can't comment on ease of installation, since the previous owner did it.

MRA makes a "spoilerscreen" windshield for the K1200S, but I couldn't find any good pics of it other than the one stock photo at twisted throttle. I went ahead and ordered one, and thought I'd post something for the next person looking for info on it.

Drupal comes with the excellent Garland theme, which is a fluid-width theme, and additionally a theme called Minnelli, which is fixed-width version of the same theme.

The Image

Fortunately, it's wonderfully easy to create a custom header image for Minnelli:

Click image for actual-size JPEG. Download the example in PSD format

Well it feels like it's time: My family blog and my personal 'hobby' blog are diverging. The content and readership of each is so orthogonal, that it just makes sense to split them up.