Tim's Motorcycle Diaries

Tim's Motorcycle Diaries is a blog about motorcycle travel, photography and mechanics written by former millwright & IT technician who's now a technology teacher. This is not your typical motorcycle blog. If you're looking for cruisers and biker life, this ain't that. If you're into thinking about motorbikes in technical, dynamic and creative ways, Tim's Motorcycle Diaries will take you there. If you like a post, please do share it on social media.

Sunday, 30 August 2015

Midnight Thoughts

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What we have here is a Yamaha XS1100 'Midnight Special' .  It looks like it needs some love and is for sale for $500 along with so...
Saturday, 29 August 2015

A Change of Pace

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I just spent a week on a houseboat .  Houseboats are to boating what uHaul truck rentals are to driving, so it wouldn't be fair to judge...

Shop Class as Soulcraft Deep Thoughts

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I'm a big fan of Matt Crawford's fantastic book on the value of skilled labour, Shop Class as Soul Craft .  If you get a chance, it...
Sunday, 23 August 2015

A McLaren P1 or Motorcycle Nirvana?

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I recently ruminated on super cars vs. super bikes .  The McLaren P1 (if you can find one) costs about $1.5 million Canadian... or about wha...
Saturday, 22 August 2015

Kawasaki KLX250 Suspension Adjustment

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I can pick the thing up, so lifting up the wheels isn't the ordeal it is on the massive Concours. To get both wheels up I used a woode...

I've Become Reasonable In My Old Age

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Someone had a similar shirt at the Indy MotoGP , and it got a lot of smiles from the uncaged crowd- Zazzle let me recreate it There was...
Friday, 21 August 2015

Zazzle Madness

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Beware the Zazzle, it's addictive!  After I started monkeying around with t-shirt designs I couldn't stop. I wanted to make a ...
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Timothy King
An art student in college, I dropped out to apprentice as a millwright and then an I.T. technician before going back to school for English and philosophy degrees. Now a published writer, award winning educator, relentlessly curious digital explorer and avid (though atypical) motorbike rider.
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