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It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted.  Much has happened since August which has distracted my attention from writing, and quite frankly, sleep…  On August 25th my wife and I brought our first child into the family.   As anyone that’s been through this before can tell you, it’s an exhausting joy!  I’ve been having a great time, but have been a lot more busy than usual.  Or, I guess I can say that I’m usually busy these days.

I’ve still been following racing.  It’s been fascinating and educational to follow MotoGP closer than I have in the past.  I’m getting some riding in as well.  Since I’m spending more time around the house, the stable of bikes is slowly converging on mechanically sound, well running, and (shudder) clean.  I’m even hatching plans to begin working on the Laverda and MotoGuzzi.  Perhaps have them both back on the road in the spring.  Spring may be a bit agressive for the Guzzi, but we’ll see what progress we can make over the winter.

Mechanically speaking electrics have been a consistent thread recently.  The R1100RS, SV650, and SM610 all developed issues with either turn signals or brake lights during the same week.  The fixes took some ingineuity, but I didn’t need to buy anything more than bulbs.  So that was good.

There’s more to report, but I’ll leave it to later posts.  Suffice to say I’m not dead or anything, just a bit preoccupied.