The real experts…

We sure are having fun reading about ourselves and your next motorcycle in the recent ADVPulse and ADVMoto articles….

Great photography and great writing by Paul H. Smith of ADVMoto (he’s the guy carving Angeles Crest Highway canyons in the photo on the left) and Rob Dabney of ADVPulse (he’s the guy putting the Cyclone through its paces in Sheep Canyon in the photo on the right).    There will be many more articles on this fine motorcycle, and we’ll keep you posted on all of them right here!

We’ve got lots of rain here in So Cal.   It started on our Sunday ride and except for brief periods, it just hasn’t let up.  It’s been steady all day.   It gave me a chance to evaluate my new Tourmaster jacket, and I’m happy to report that it worked well.   I stayed dry and warm all day long on the Sunday excursion, even in a pretty serious downpour.

I’m in the shop today (had a great Mexican lunch with Steve a short while ago), and I’m headed out to  the University in a bit.   I only have one class today, but it’s a good one in the Manufacturing Engineering department.  I love that stuff.

I’m really looking forward to visiting Zongshen later this month.   Their manufacturing techniques and process management are among the best in the world, and I always pick up a few new practices I can share with my engineering students when I visit Chongqing.  It’s pretty funny reading some of the comments on the various Internet forums in which the armchair generals criticize Chinese quality…these guys just don’t know of what they speak.  If willingness to wax eloquent without knowledge could be converted to cash, some of the haters posting negative comments would be rich.

That’s it for now.   More stuff to do related to the RX-3.   Later, my friends…