YAMAHA R5

And so, it is with a heavy heart, that I finally sold the R5 today. The gentleman who purchased her had one of his own, same year and color,...

That's right, kids. It's a sad day, but I'm moving and losing the garage space I've enjoyed these past couple of years... ...

Alex wrote is with some questions: Awesome R5 you got! Where did you get your cafe racer handlebars and mirrors? Also, does your bike seep ...

It's been a long time coming. After two seasons off, the bike is going to be revived. Once again, it takes a birthday and awesome friend...

Unless they're fooling with me (it is the first of April after all), my bike has been crowned Bike of the Month for April 2008 on the n...

Finally got a nice Saturday with no real plans - except tackle the R5's nagging problems, of course! Drained the oil and transmission fl...

There is much progress across the pond (just look at all the innards there!) as Stephan Morris continues the renovation of his '72 R5C ....

I was challenged on Motortopia by a 1976 AMF Harley. We tied. It doesn't even run. Sheesh.

My R5 has recently been featured on the Bikes section of Motortopia (see previous post about the site). Here's their short writeup: Th...

Motortopia has launched - a cool, MySpace-like site for cars, bike, planes and boats. The site is really well-designed, and lets you upload...

After a few months of searching, I was finally able to locate a mount for the stock R5 right-hand mirror I picked up. It didn't quite fi...

Finally, here it is! The rearsets go on! I documented everything while doing it, getting the camera nice and oily in the process. I apologiz...

Last night I went over to my friend Brian's house (fellow rider and business partner in PRIMER ), where he graciously lent his vise, tor...

Finally got the right set of rearsets from Omar's . These were a gift for my 30th from my friends, just about all of whom ride. At first...

So after so much speculation as to what could possibly be wrong with my bike (condenser? points? coils?), it turns out that the battery was ...

For my Big-Three-Oh-Birthday-Bashtacular, my super-cool friends decided it would be best to mark my three centuries of non-stop-rocking this...

JD wrote in to ask a good question about the bar and grip setup on my R5: I noticed that you have bar end mirrors, do you also have stock gr...

I had bought bar-end mirrors for the R5 and installed them when I put on the clubman bars. While I love the clubmans, the mirrors really ...

One thing I remembered doing to my bike that I neglected to mention before was relocating the front turnsignal pods when putting on the afte...

This weekend, I had parked the R5 at Brian and Michelle's house, while Brian and I went to oogle Russ' new Mini. While we were there...