Mark Denovich

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New Pipe for the Triumph...

...or now I'm another asshole with loud a motorcycle. The stock pipe on the Daytona is crafted from equal parts of boat anchor and depleted uranium. That can be the only explanation for its…

New Gear(s) for the Triumph

The gearing on the Triumph Daytona is notoriously long... anything less than 20mph is a struggle. Wound out, 1st gear will take you well past 70mph. Seeing that I was at 12,000 miles with the…

Paragraph of the day

"Flyger devoted himself to studying squirrels because, as he explains it, they weigh less than a deer and don't bite like a polar bear. He used to smear a tree behind his Silver Spring home with…

We are going to need a montage

montage lyrics... I stumbled across an interesting use of the Google search API today... It's a montage generator, which uses the power of Google Image Search. It is interesting to see the…

Week in review

Sunday was our 6th wedding anniversary. The best decsion I've ever made was also one of the easiest. I think if I had any idea just how happy we were going to be together I would have been more…

The downside to human contact

I am currently the host for a nasty little virus. The little sniffle from Monday has transformed into a full blown cold. Zicam is keeping my nose in check... I can at least breath, but I now have a…

Happiness is... 955ccs

The Triumph Daytona has been described as the gentleman's sportbike by some... it is less hard edged, or single purposed as it's peers like the Yamaha R1, Suzuki GSXR1000, and Kawasaki…

Therapy

Spring finally made at least a brief appearance in Pittsburgh today, sunny with a high of 72F (thats 22 degrees in new money.) Unfortunately the HVAC system at work, which managed to freeze us all…

Congratulations and new related complications

Deb finally got her driver's license on Friday. I feel bad that it took this long for her to get her license, as she is really enjoying this expansion of her personal freedoms. While I…

Fisherman have longer rods

...or something. Kudos to the PA Fish Commission for their nifty online licensing page. I was able to buy a license online and print it out. Instant gratification for me, and a smart setup for the…