Tag: Kawasaki Ninja 300

  • All Engines Great and Small

    All Engines Great and Small

    You Always Want What You Don’t Have I spend all of my riding time on small bore bikes, by US standards. My Ninja 300 at 296cc and the CSC TT250 weighing in at 229cc. The Ninja will – realistically – pull to about 75mph easily, above which there’s a tardy roll-on to about a top…

  • A Place, A Time

    A Place, A Time

    Kiski Junction Railroad, Pennsylvania, June 26th 2016. I’d taken my family to ride this little railroad just the week before. On the road down I’d noted the last few miles would make a good bike ride, and so one week later I took my Ninja 300 there. It was a boiling hot day, but a…

  • Here's Johnny.

    December 12th, 2016. Last year, we were blessed with winter staying almost entirely within bounds; a late December to February even, most severe in late January. This year the lake-effect weather system, resulting low temperatures (10F!!!) and snow started early. I also got the seasonal man-cold a couple of weeks ago. Any medical professional recognises…

  • As If Right On Cue…

    The weather has started it’s Autumnal swings. 36°F this morning. 36 is an interesting temperature for this rider, as last year I realised that is about the lowest I can tolerate without heated gloves. I don’t get numbness, just very sharp pain that I’m guessing precedes the numbness. First frost of the year. Of course,…

  • …And Winter Is Coming.

    Predictably on the tails of my last entry, and because I am British, I’m going to moan about Winter. I live in Western Pennsylvania, and while it’s hardly Minnesota, it’s a somewhat harsher experience than my British homeland. The average January high for Pittsburgh is 37°F(US Climate Data, 2016); that is the average low temperature…