The Nightowl is a 2015 BMW K1600GTL. Six cylinders of smooth effortless power coupled with all the electronic safety and comfort features you could want on a mile-devouring sport-tourer. Yeah, baby!
My iPad browser crashed in the middle of composing this post and ate at least 30 minutes of work. Tomorrow’s a big day so I’m not going to type it all in again. Consequently, highlights only for today.
Continue reading Yellowstone Cruise: Day 1After a fun day at the MOA Rally, Karen and I pack up and start to mosey our way back home. Continue reading 2019 BMW MOA Rally – Days 3 and 4
We had a nice sunny (and lucky) day for our ride to Lebanon, TN for the MOA Rally.
Continue reading 2019 BMW MOA Rally – Day 2This year I finally got around to visiting a few BMW MOA events, including the national Rally. Continue reading 2019 BMW MOA Rally – Day 1
If I could limp the crippled Nightowl to to Charlottesville, I’d have four days attending the Haystack conference to fix its dead fuel pump before I had to continue to the Fontana Getaway.
Continue reading 2019 Haystack Conference and Fuel Pump Saga – Day 2This year I rode the Nightowl down to the 2019 Haystack conference on search relevance. I rode the entire way there with a dead fuel pump. Strange, but true.
Continue reading 2019 Haystack Conference and Fuel Pump Saga – Day 1I ended last year’s riding season just short of the mileage due for the 18k miles service interval. Consequently, I needed to get this most demanding of the scheduled service tasks out of the way before the start of the busy 2019 riding season. Continue reading Nightowl 18k Service (early 2019)
During the trip home from the west coast last year, I noticed some strange behavior in the fuel gauge on the Nightowl. It would suddenly show empty and then gradually return to its previous position. This post describes how to fix this problem.
Continue reading Cleaning the K1600 Fuel SenderBy diverting into Canada for the ride home, I was able to revisit some of the roads from the old Run to the Sun rides we did in the late 1990s. Continue reading Wandering Home from the ParTay – Part Two
With another righteous (and likely last) ParTay gathering in the books, it was time to point the Nightowl east towards home. Just how to get there, however, is a more complicated matter. Continue reading Wandering Home from the ParTay – Part One
