Xenotropic Systems

The Beginning
The day started out with goodbyes, and the final views of Corvallis for a few months at least. I decided to push through to Sweet Home with the fuel I had on board, and that would give me a nice break before the stress of the mountains. Everything seemed to be performing okay [...]

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Today was the last day in Corvallis and there was lots of preparation to accomplish. I changed the oil on the bike on Saturday, and still had it opened up to do a few last minute things on it. The big pain about doing an oil change on the VFR is that the right side [...]

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It looks like the cash flow just won’t be enough to do the permanent on-bike APRS setup with the stuff from Byonics, so I’ll have to use my venerable Kenwood TH-D7A and Garmin GPS III. They worked well enough last time, except that I had to run the GPS on battery power. I remedied that [...]

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Here’s a set of goggle maps for the travel days of the trip. This should be the hops I’ll make across the country to make may way back to Massachusetts It’s a 9 day trip without layovers, but with the planned rest points, it adds another 7 days. The total 16 day [...]

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