Last month I spent a terrific weekend attending the West Coast Moto Jam at Sears Point raceway. (Slideshow | Gallery)

I attended another lovely tech day at A&S BMW last weekend. Saw a lot of great folks and "supervised" a lot of wrenching. Photos in the gallery.

Here are a few samples:

In a moving journal entry from Texas, Ara reflects on Christmas and wealth, and makes some simple, hearty bread. Wonderful stuff.

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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.