Today marks 2 years and almost 40k miles riding my Honda VTX 1800 Retro. This is how she looked when I brought her home that first day. Two years later a lot has changed. Some things have changed, then changed again! All and all I’ve been very happy with the bike. The mill is what [...]
Sigma Cycle in Brownsburg, Indiana is having an open house on Saturday June 27,2009 to christen at their new location (in the same complex). When possible, support your local shop.
The guys at Hackleman got the trunk repainted and I was able to pick it up this morning. The up side is those pock marks are going to be much less likely to show up after sitting in the sun now that the glass has more or less gassed. Fingers crossed anyway. They even painted [...]
Looks like a new cycle shop in Brownsburg… look forward to checking them out…
So I dropped off the tour pak a week ago Monday, that’s 11 days. As of an hour ago they’d finished stripping it down again and were starting to re-paint it. Seems when they baked it it bubbled badly. He said it was air in the gel coat and I’ve also read the wrong reducer [...]
A few weeks ago now the last of the parts showed up to mount the tour pak on the VTX. Finally last weekend got around to mounting it up. All the major components… Oldy’s Tour Pak Nice trunk, needs some minor clean up from mold marks but nothing unreasonable. Fresh fiberglass smells bad… The hardware [...]
First 50 miles on two wheels. Hard to believe not much more than a week ago there was near a foot of snow on the ground. Then today 54 degrees makes for a very pleasant, and much needed ride. Last year I waited until April to start ordering parts for the season and some didn’t [...]
I have bought a lot of motorcycle parts from a lot of manufacturers and there are those that stand out and those who do not. One that does is Rivco who’s customer service is outstanding. If I need a part this is one of the first manufacturers I check.
I don’t often go out of my way to recommend vendors but today re-affirmed my sincere appreciation of Direct Line Parts not only as a primary sponsor of the VTX Owners Association but also as a customer centric business. As is their custom for holidays Direct Line offered the VTXOA members a 10% discount on [...]
So I finally get around to calling about ordering the Tsukayu Jumbo Strong hard bags for the VTX only to find out they are shipped from Japan and it takes 6 weeks go get them… I guess it’s not a terrible hardship having to wait until mid May to get them but I had hoped [...]
Pointman is a Hoosier who works in the IT industry, is an amateur photographer an avid motorcycle rider, shooter and firearms collector.
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The masthead graphic "Road to Oakalla" was taken during a motorcycle ride to the Oakalla covered bridge on 23 May, 2007 with a Canon A85 digital camera (F5.6, 1/125 sec exposure). Additional images from the visit are in the Oakalla bridge gallery.
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