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- Snow day February 13, 2024
- See what’s on the page February 1, 2024
- You’re good at this. See you in 90 days January 24, 2024
- The so-far 2024 blab of little to no consequence January 16, 2024
- A winter by the by December 12, 2023
- October? Inconceivable! October 25, 2023
- Five nights out September 11, 2023
- As it turns out… September 4, 2023
- BYO colorful expletive August 30, 2023
- One side left to side August 21, 2023
- John X August 1, 2023
- Back from soggy VT July 24, 2023
- The Sunday Phantom July 2, 2023
- Belatedly Yours July 1, 2023
- The Maritimes June 1, 2023
- Getting out of Dodge May 10, 2023
- Filed April 28, 2023
- An April summer in New England April 17, 2023
- All quiet on all fronts March 21, 2023
- Frosty Vermont, now with pine ceilings January 16, 2023
- Where we left the Phantom December 27, 2022
- About that winter storm December 21, 2022
- A few snow pics December 18, 2022
- A few photos from Vermont December 12, 2022
- The bug bugs out December 9, 2022
- A little December news December 1, 2022
- We’ve got the weekend off October 14, 2022
- How is it the weekend already? October 7, 2022
- Headed back north October 5, 2022
- The Death of the 21st Phantom October 3, 2022
- 4 men + 3 days = 1 building September 27, 2022
- RI to VT to RI to VT… September 19, 2022
- Getting around a bit more September 6, 2022
- Not in Montana or Sweden but carrying on here July 19, 2022
- A working weekend in Vermont June 22, 2022
- For the riders among us June 9, 2022
- Riding videos & the Phantom & Cape Cod &… June 8, 2022
- Limping home in the wee hours May 23, 2022
- A May Day this & that May 1, 2022
- Checking in with the everyday everyday April 20, 2022
- Went down with the Aircraft Carrier Langley February 27, 2022
- Phantom blab February 24, 2022
- February what, baby? February 14, 2022
- A bit of winter after all January 30, 2022
- Your highly anticipated report on next to nothing January 11, 2022
- So much for the short light of 2021 December 21, 2021
- Because Jessica Chastain October 19, 2021
- So you’re the kind of pain I’ve heard about October 10, 2021
- Vermont pics October 4, 2021
- The everyday yah dee yah September 25, 2021
- Back in the Green Mountains September 7, 2021
- So that was Vermont August 25, 2021
- Going upcountry August 18, 2021
- Back on Flanders Bay August 2, 2021
- Darling Betty July 5, 2021
- There goes the long light of 2021 June 21, 2021
- It followed me home all by itself, honest May 16, 2021
- A landmark day on two counts March 31, 2021
- Actual report just now March 28, 2021
- Half in the bag February 21, 2021
- Maiden voyage of the kids’ travel van January 27, 2021
- Lawyers, Guns and Money January 18, 2021
- What the hell kind of blogger are you? January 13, 2021
- Starting today December 22, 2020
- The trial run on low key December 3, 2020
- Sans windshield November 22, 2020
- GoPro 8 November 21, 2020
- So that was the summer of 2020 October 28, 2020
- The Dog Days in 2020 Houndsight July 27, 2020
- Roll with it June 28, 2020
- Been lax on the yakkety yak May 25, 2020
- A gray April morn in Little Rhody April 18, 2020
- Social distancing on the high plains April 12, 2020
- Results are in April 4, 2020
- Final lap March 18, 2020
- Nobody knows anything March 5, 2020
- The big boots of Round 4 February 18, 2020
- A bump in the road January 21, 2020
- Thank you sir may I have another? January 1, 2020
- Sneaking up on halfway December 9, 2019
- The thing about mainlining anti-nausea meds November 20, 2019
- Meanwhile, life goes on October 22, 2019
- The La Salette Report October 8, 2019
- Yeah, cancer, blah blah September 26, 2019
- The marshmallow slice and dice September 20, 2019
- More road people September 18, 2019
- Arctic odds & ends September 4, 2019
- So that was the Arctic August 10, 2019
- Two sleeps to Ontario August 4, 2019
- Homeward bound in the morning July 31, 2019
- The Game Boy Killers July 26, 2019
- Back home in Tete Jaune Cache, British Columbia July 23, 2019
- Glaciers and bears July 20, 2019
- The turn south July 18, 2019
- Back in the Yukon July 16, 2019
- Time to start wandering home July 10, 2019
- So that was the Dalton Highway July 6, 2019
- Deadhorse, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska July 1, 2019
- Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories June 25, 2019
- The Dempster Highway to Inuvik, Northwest Territories June 20, 2019
- Teslin Lake, the Yukon June 15, 2019
- Headed north in the morning June 10, 2019
- Up and over the Rockies June 7, 2019
- Saskatchewan to Alberta June 5, 2019
- Wisconsin to Saskatchewan June 3, 2019
- The rainy, windy week that was May 31, 2019
- Handlebars pointed west again May 20, 2019
- To the extent that Tolstoy rocks March 30, 2019
- The man in the ball February 12, 2019
- Revisiting a little Gunnplay February 10, 2019
- The hawk is out January 28, 2019
- Get Sofia Coppola on the line January 18, 2019
- Star-crossed South America January 12, 2019
- Solstice+7 December 28, 2018
- Ahoy from frozen knuckle country December 10, 2018
- One of the greats December 3, 2018
- Between holidays blab November 26, 2018
- Consider the infamous Nomad reckoned with! November 10, 2018
- Daughter #2 Marries in Maine October 17, 2018
- Home again (for now) October 7, 2018
- Piggybacking the iron piggy October 5, 2018
- Mail from H and M September 12, 2018
- Three naps later… September 9, 2018
- Closing in on Little Rhody September 7, 2018
- Dodging rain in Oklahoma September 4, 2018
- Champing at the bit September 2, 2018
- Colorado and New Mexico September 1, 2018
- Nevada and Utah August 30, 2018
- Rainy Foggy Frosty Idaho August 28, 2018
- Los hombres libre ride again! August 26, 2018
- Iron piggy smoke dance August 22, 2018
- Random pics from Lake Cushman August 19, 2018
- Back on Lake Cushman August 18, 2018
- CCjon and Nestor resurface August 15, 2018
- Back in the States August 14, 2018
- Leaving Valemount today August 12, 2018
- The road to Valemount August 9, 2018
- Lost and Found, Found and Lost August 6, 2018
- Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska August 2, 2018
- Dear Chicago… July 31, 2018
- Saddled up and looking west July 26, 2018
- The beautiful mystery goes on July 23, 2018
- On truth and cool April 20, 2018
- Finally getting our burros in gear April 4, 2018
- Mail bag March 25, 2018
- A woodcutter’s lucky day March 19, 2018
- No sign of that March lamb yet March 14, 2018
- On scribbling March 11, 2018
- Post-Nor’easter Rhode Island remains swell March 8, 2018
- The road report from God’s Waiting Room February 27, 2018
- I told you she was fast February 18, 2018
- Again I fail to follow instructions February 10, 2018
- This and That February 5, 2018
- A little motorhead blab on a snowy afternoon December 14, 2017
- All hail bugs in the beans December 12, 2017
- Happy Black Friday/Buy Nothing Day 2017! November 24, 2017
- Winter’s here all of a sudden November 12, 2017
- May the fleas of a thousand camels invade your shorts, Verizon November 7, 2017
- Windy! October 30, 2017
- Honey I blew up the iron piggy October 13, 2017
- Nuther bachelor weekend October 8, 2017
- So that was Vietnam episode 10 of 10 September 29, 2017
- Phantom’s not dead yet! September 26, 2017
- Ken Burns on Vietnam tonight September 17, 2017
- On the picket line September 10, 2017
- There goes the custody of the eyes September 8, 2017
- Well that was weird August 16, 2017
- CCjon and the Phantom, both in trouble August 6, 2017
- Texan spotted in Cranston August 2, 2017
- And a bruising time was had by all July 17, 2017
- That’s it for me and the Phantom May 31, 2017
- Greetings from Turkish Prison April 3, 2017
- Hacking away March 26, 2017
- Fresh eyes on the yarn February 26, 2017
- Keeping the home fires burning February 10, 2017
- So that’s good December 21, 2016
- On matters of nose v. grindstone March 31, 2016
- The Phantom is in good hands March 21, 2016
- Paul Ryan, R.I.P. March 7, 2016
- Home from NY February 17, 2016
- New York, New York, Helluva Town February 13, 2016
- Why are you so loud!? February 7, 2016
- It’s good to be home! December 22, 2015
- Bull Run, Virginia December 19, 2015
- Roosting in the rain December 17, 2015
- Night ride to DC December 15, 2015
- Confirmation loud & clear November 18, 2015
- Plan B, the Continental Divide November 15, 2015
- South America! October 19, 2015
- Thanks for everything, neighbor! October 16, 2015
- So that was Canada 2015 October 11, 2015
- On the sea and on the farm October 4, 2015
- Big Apple for breakfast September 29, 2015
- L’Anse aux Meadows to Channel-Port aux Basques September 20, 2015
- At the Labrador Sea, bound for Newfoundland September 13, 2015
- Quebec and Labrador September 8, 2015
- And then the piglet balked August 19, 2015
- Now or Never, Manicouagan August 2, 2015
- Long time no blab June 12, 2015
- Headed home tonight March 31, 2015
- Everybody running to the coconut tree March 27, 2015
- Iron piggy rides again! March 19, 2015
- Headed home in the morning March 11, 2015
- Enjoy the snow while it lasts March 7, 2015
- Gravity takes over February 15, 2015
- South to the Land of Fire in 2015 January 18, 2015
- New baby, new year January 4, 2015
- News of journeys December 14, 2014
- Where the advent of Winter finds us November 18, 2014
- This is this October 26, 2014
- That ain’t right October 8, 2014
- Return of the Bride & the news from Zurich September 29, 2014
- Autumn 2014 September 24, 2014
- This isn’t why I’m writing July 29, 2014
- The heat, the rain, and the GWB June 15, 2014
- Our last night on Tybee June 9, 2014
- Tybee Island, Georgia June 7, 2014
- Old friends in Levittown, PA May 31, 2014
- Bronx is up, Bowery down May 28, 2014
- South to Savannah May 26, 2014
- Do you see the light!? March 11, 2014
- Alaska! February 5, 2014
- Nothing to report January 6, 2014
- Christmas 2013 December 26, 2013
- Huzzah the light! December 13, 2013
- Orval completes his journey August 28, 2013
- Alaska Highway, Haines Highway August 23, 2013
- Home to Little Rhody August 8, 2013
- Limping east on worn-out skins August 3, 2013
- High Plains drifting July 29, 2013
- Goodbye to the Pacific July 15, 2013
- The days speed by at Lake Cushman July 8, 2013
- Lake Cushman, Washington June 30, 2013
- Back in the Lower 48 June 29, 2013
- The road to Alaska June 13, 2013
- Blizzard pics February 10, 2013
- Lighter days ahead! December 23, 2012
- A welcome milestone today November 19, 2012
- Up the hill one year later October 29, 2012
- The summer of 2012 September 23, 2012
- Iron Piggy rides again May 28, 2012
- Carlisle PA, 2012 May 21, 2012
- Mother’s Day 2012 May 13, 2012
- Reincarnation of the Iron Piggy, Take 2 May 12, 2012
- Iron Piggy came up the hill today May 11, 2012
- Smash Corporate Hegemony! May 8, 2012
- Close but no potato April 26, 2012
- The iron piggy is down off the lift March 13, 2012
- In the home stretch February 29, 2012
- Piggy’s got her drive back February 12, 2012
- The 1995-97 Restoration January 29, 2012
- Blessings duly counted January 3, 2012
- Last exit before 2012 December 9, 2011
- A successful flathead-ectomy November 12, 2011
- Making progress on the Ford November 5, 2011
- The old Ford workhorse comes apart again October 23, 2011
- Seattle and home to Rhode Island October 10, 2011
- Wee Wee Wee all the way home September 23, 2011
- West to Seattle, July 29 to August 6, 2011 August 12, 2011
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Category Archives: Wrenching on the bikes
Honey I blew up the iron piggy
HERE’S A quick & dirty motorhead pictorial, to document my effort to get the old hog in shape for winter. Best to do it now, before frozen-knuckle weather. It’s time for new tires. That’s always a good excuse to tend … Continue reading
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