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Thanks, guys. Glad you enjoyed the little video clip. I find the chest-mount videos are a bit unnerving to watch, because it looks like I'm not making any head checks, and just pulling right out into traffic without looking. Another sunny day here. Now I just have to find the discipline...

Took a few hours off work this afternoon to go ride the Frankenbike along the coastal roads, under the cold but inviting November sunshine. I put my GoPro camera on the chest mount and took it along for the ride. Sure beats workin'! Here's some HD video footage... Fall Ride 2011 - YouTube...

For sure. I'm also lucky to live in a part of the world where most of my riding is spent on twisty and hilly two-lane coastal roads, instead of on the slab. If I was someone who rode mostly major highway miles, I probably would have thought twice about removing the fairing. Then again, if...

Thanks... I was determined to make it work with the stock wiring harness, to facilitate an easy reversal. Fortunately the 919 headlight has a lot of room inside the pot, so I could stuff about half the excess wiring inside there, and I didn't have to cut so much as one wire to reconnect...

Agreed...an ugly-tail-enterectomy will be my next weekend project. As for fairings and cold weather, I guess we all have slightly different tolerances, and I'm sure all kinds of factors like body type and weight, gear selection, etc, factor into that equation. I've been riding for about 35...

If you have the right gear for it, it doesn't really make much difference whether you have a screen and a faring or not, in my experience. Especially the stock quarter fairing and screen on the FZ1. It basically does little or nothing to protect you from cold weather. It's a myth. I was...

Thanks, guys. I was going for a kind of old Bandit 1200 look. Most streetfighters I've seen have twin headlights, so I figured I'd go for a different spin on the idea... The headlight and mirrors are from a Honda 919. I bought them cheap from my buddy. The light looks like a heavy old...

Said to heck with it and went naked and old school, just for fun...

Glad you enjoyed the clip, guys. The boom is roughly 20 inches long. I attached it to my right side passenger footpeg, so it sticks out about 15 inches beyond the exhauast can. I fabbed it up from a piece of chrome microphone stand, and adapted the GoPro mounting hardware to mount the camera...

We've had no snow at all this winter, so far, over here on the Northeast side of the Avalon Peninsula, but since the weather forecast suggests that's all about to change tomorrow, I figured I had better get in another scoot along the coastal roads on my FZ1. It was only 1 degree Celsius, but it...

I did? It may just be the way the 170 degree lens makes things look tighter than they really are. What was the time showing on the clip, at the spot where you thought I went a little wide? Now I'm curious.

A short video from the twisty back roads of the Island of Newfoundland... YouTube - TwoOneThousands.wmv

Yep... East Coast. Just outside the City of St. Johns.

It was a beautiful day on Saturday, so I went for a scoot along the coast to test my new GoPro HD helmet cam, on the FZ1... Be sure to select 720p HD or 1080p HD for best results, once the clip starts rolling... YouTube - FZ1.wmv

Keith, Lorenzo, Shannon, Mike, and myself ended up getting together on short notice for some high-speed trail riding, today. As Mike pointed out, riding the whoops at 80 kms/hr plus is all good practice for a budding rally racer. A Dakar Rally bike is not something you generally see on the...

I tried to make the best of the fine weather on Sunday, by riding every two-wheeled vehicle I own, while the sun was shining. I started off with a short scoot on my dirtbike, then a pedal down to Logy Bay on my mountain bike, but by far the most enjoyable part of the day was a run along the...

I guess there are lots of different kinds of perfect days on a bike, but for me today it was 400+ kms of coastal road carving aboard my Yamaha FZ1, with mild temperatures, not a cloud in the sky, and the coastal roads virtually to myself (since it was a Wednesday). I took a solo ride around the...

Thanks. I fluke into a good one, now and then.